As any science fiction fan knows, it’s always a bad sign when a robot has dreams or visions of its own. Think Isaac Asimov’s short story collection “Robot Dreams,” Alex Proyas’ 2006 dystopian whodunit “I, Robot” or Kike Maíllo’s 2011 thriller “Eva.“ But for artificial intelligence researchers, the whole notion is anything but a nightmare scenario. In ...

Instart Logic Inc., a startup that’s challenging content delivery network giant Akamai Technologies Inc., has an additional $30 million in the bank with which to make its case. The investment was led by ST Telemedia, an arm of Singapore’s Temasek national wealth fund. It joins the already formidable lineup of investors that back Instart, which ...

This is a sponsored post commissioned by Hitachi Vantara Corp. Sponsored posts are paid content that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. For pricing and inquiries, email sponsor@siliconangle.com. Today’s automobiles have more processing power than a 1990-era mainframe. Teletrac Navman US Ltd. finds innovative new ways to put that data to work for companies ...

This is a sponsored post commissioned by Hitachi Vantara Corp. Sponsored posts are paid content that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. For pricing and inquiries, email sponsor@siliconangle.com. There’s a quiet revolution going on in the personal computer gaming industry, and it’s being driven by big-data analytics. The $18.4 billion market has ...

Oracle Corp. Sunday announced the next generation of its database, which founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said will be able to handle key tasks such as critical software patches automatically. Ellison (pictured) also said that the autonomous database will help on another product to be introduced in detail Tuesday: new cybersecurity technology that ...

Where has NASA’s sense of adventure gone? That’s what Internet pioneer and Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf says he’s wondering these days. And you can hardly blame him. NASA support for his pet Interplanetary Internet project has been as spotty as Jupiter. The set of extraterrestrial network protocols Cerf developed with NASA and its Jet ...

Just five years ago, artificial intelligence-enabled computers could barely recognize images fed to them, much less analyze them anything like people can. Suddenly, they’ve turned the tables. “In 2011 their error rate was 26 percent,” says Jeff Dean, chief of the Google Brain project, which along with other tech giants has helped lead a recent ...

By Thomas Singer By 2030, the global middle class will grow from 2.4 billion to 5.4 billion people. That surge not only threatens the health of the environment, but also the health of businesses, through resource shortages disrupting supply chains and spiking the cost of raw materials. Metals, minerals, water – the list goes on. Despite the ...

This guest post by Jerry Chen, a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, originally appeared on Greylock’s blog, reproduced here by permission. Chen has frequently appeared on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s mobile video studio. To build a sustainable and profitable business, you need strong defensive moats around your company. This rings especially true ...

This is a sponsored post commissioned by Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company. Sponsor Posts are paid posts that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. For pricing and inquiries, email sponsor@siliconangle.com. Fewer than two out of every three Americans who enter a four-year college program graduate within six years. Thirty percent don’t even ...