Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile. Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach. Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

Facebook open-sources LASER encoder tech for natural language processing

Facebook Inc. has made another key contribution in its quest to accelerate the transfer of natural language processing applications to more languages. The social media giant today open-sourced a new PyTorch tool called LASER, which stands for Language-Agnostic Sentence Representations. With LASER, Facebook is trying to create a kind of mathematical representation that can encapsulate and ...

Google led record-breaking tech industry lobbying blitz in 2018

Five of the biggest technology giants in the U.S. spent a combined $64.3 million on lobbying government officials in 2018, in a year that was notable for numerous congressional hearings, accusations of Russian interference in elections and the increased pressure heaped on the companies over issues such as privacy. Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC was the ...

Serverless intelligence startup Lumigo exits stealth with $8M seed funding

Israeli startup Lumigo is exiting stealth mode today backed by $8 million in seed funding for its intelligent serverless application monitoring and troubleshooting tool. Grove Ventures and Pitango Venture Capital led the round, which will be used to further Lumigo’s research and development efforts ahead of its future product launch. Serverless computing is a popular ...

Varada lands $7.5M to make data lakes more easily accessible

Israel-based startup Varada has scooped up $7.5 million in a seed funding round that it plans to use to make big data more accessible to enterprises. The company is touting a big-data inline indexing tool that allows information stored in cloud-based data lakes to be analyzed without preparing or modeling it first. Data lakes are ...

StackRox shores up Kubernetes container security

Container security company StackRox Inc. is updating its threat-detection platform with new capabilities designed to safeguard Kubernetes deployments. StackRox has gotten some serious attention in recent months thanks to its cloud-based platform that provides continuous advanced threat detection for technologies such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, which are used to manage software containers. The platform ...

IBM’s stock jumps 8.5% despite another decline in revenue

Updated: IBM Corp. got a boost from investors today after posting fourth-quarter results and 2019 guidance that beat analysts’ expectations and helped gloss over a second successive decline in its quarterly revenue. The information technology giant reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $4.87 per share on revenue of $21.8 billion. That’s down 3 ...

GitHub Enterprise streamlines developer experience, adds more admin tools

The popular Microsoft-owned software development platform GitHub is revamping the premium version of its offering with what it calls new experience updates and streamlined administrative capabilities. GitHub is a web-based version-control and collaboration platform for software developers. It’s used to store the source code for different projects and track the complete history of all changes to ...

Canonical updates Ubuntu Core OS for IoT devices

Linux software company Canonical Ltd. today announced the release of its new Ubuntu Core 18 operating system for “internet of things” systems and devices. Ubuntu Core, a superslim version of the popular Ubuntu Linux OS that weighs in at just 260 megabytes, is designed to run on all kinds of embedded devices. It’s suitable for ...

Enterprise adoption of AI has tripled in the last year, Gartner says

The adoption of artificial intelligence-based technologies by large enterprises has jumped by more than 270 percent in the last four years, according to a new Gartner Inc. survey. Gartner added that in the last year alone, AI adoption has more than tripled. It says about 37 percent of enterprises have now implemented AI in one ...

Rackspace launches managed services offering for Amazon databases

Cloud computing company Rackspace Inc. is stepping up its managed services offerings for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company, which in recent years has transitioned from being a competitor of the cloud giant to a partner in its capacity as a professional services provider, today announced a new managed database service for AWS. The ...