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Microsoft submits patent for Phone Dock compatible with Apple’s iPhone
Microsoft Corp. could be about to target the iPhone accessories market after submitting a patent application for a new peripheral device that’s intended to make phone calls easier for personal computer users. The MS PowerUser website says the patent was filed back in October 2016 and publicly announced last week. The filing describes the new ...
Germany’s strict new social media hate speech law goes into effect
Starting today, Germany plans to enforce a new law that compels social media companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to remove posts containing “hate speech” within a specific time frame or face fines of up to €50 million (around $58 million). The Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz law (NetzDG for short) went into effect in October, but ...
Alibaba Cloud uses AI to combat congestion at Beijing’s busy international airport
While most American tech firms are shutting down for Christmas, it’s business as usual in China, where Alibaba Cloud, the public cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is unveiling new artificial intelligence technology aimed at curbing delays in Beijing’s international airport. Alibaba lifted the lid off its ET Aviation Brain at the Beijing ...
Twitter adds a new enterprise software link for chatbots and customer service
Twitter Inc. on Tuesday announced it’s making an enterprise version of its Account Activity application programming interface available to software developers. The new API will allow developers to build more sophisticated applications for businesses that want to engage with customers through chatbots, direct messages and other methods. More specifically, the enterprise Account Activity API is for ...
DocuSign acquires Appuri for its machine learning expertise
E-signature and digital transaction company DocuSign Inc. today agreed a deal to buy the technology assets and hire most of the staff from a machine learning startup called Appuri Inc. The terms of the deal, which will see DocuSign obtain rights to Appuri’s source code, were not disclosed. The company had raised a total of $6.5 ...
Google has built a machine learning model that can decide if images are pleasing to the human eye
Researchers at Google LLC are taking image recognition to the next level with an experimental machine learning model that can rank photos according to their aesthetic appeal. The new model, called Neural Image Assessment, is designed to assess which images humans are most likely to find aesthetically pleasing. This is quite different to existing models, ...
HyTrust touts new data discovery tool to secure virtualized environments
Cloud computing security firm HyTrust Inc. is bolstering its portfolio with a new offering that enables enterprises to identify their most sensitive data and put safeguards in place to ensure it’s protected. The company said its new CloudAdvisor product is designed to “proactively identify risks to sensitive data” and also protect it from “inadvertent exposure, ...
Maana lands $28M funding to go after industrial data analytics
Maana Inc. today said it has raised a $28 million late-stage funding round to expand its effort to win the data analytics market for the oil and gas industry. New investors China International Capital Corp., Eight Square Capital, Accenture Ventures and Sino Capital led the round, which also saw participation from existing investors Intel Capital, GE ...
Amazon Web Services opens its first cloud region in France
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. is wrapping up a busy end of year with the opening of a new region in France. The AWS EU (Paris) Region is the company’s fourth region in Europe, alongside existing regions in Germany, Ireland and the U.K. The decision to open a French region was taken in ...
Bloomberg open-sources PowerfulSeal, a new tool for testing Kubernetes clusters
Bloomberg L.P. is best known for the technology it reports on, but recent innovations in enterprise information technology have prompted the financial software and media organization to get its hands dirty, so to speak. The company has open-sourced a new tool that allows system engineers to test and monitor their Kubernetes container orchestration systems. Bloomberg described ...