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Rackspace rolls out new service for coming European data protection rules
Managed cloud services provider Rackspace Inc. is rolling out a new service that aims to help companies ensure they comply with European regulations governing sensitive data set to take effect next May. The company’s new Privacy and Data Protection service is built atop of the Vormetric Transparent Data Encryption platform offered by security software maker Thales ...
Report: Open-source database firm MongoDB submits confidential IPO filing
Open-source database company MongoDB Inc. is getting ready to launch its initial public offering, almost 10 years after it was founded. The company, which develops enterprise-grade, open-source software including its namesake MongoDB NoSQL database, submitted an S-1 filing in the last few weeks, TechCrunch reported. The S-1 filing is the first official step companies take ...
Apple’s Tim Cook joins the Trump pile-on, donating $2M to anti-hate groups
Updated Thursday Just hours after the white-supremacist blog the Daily Stormer was booted off GoDaddy Inc.’s domain-name registrar, Google Inc. followed up in a similar fashion, canceling its new registration for violating its terms of service. The decision meant that the Daily Stormer was once again searching for a new home after it posted a blog ...
Google updates Cloud Speech API with support for long-form audio clips
Google Inc.’s Cloud Speech Application Programming Interface has been updated with more features for developers who wish to integrate speech recognition capabilities into their Android applications. The update increases the number of languages for which speech recognition is available, and also adds support for “long-form” audio clips. The idea is to provide more functionality and ...
Microsoft adds major updates to Visual Studio and .NET Core
Microsoft Corp. is hoping to woo developers this week with major updates to its Visual Studio and .NET Core development platforms that promise greater performance and more accessibility. First up is the release of Visual Studio 15.3, where the main focus has been on making the platform more functional and accessible, Microsoft said in a ...
Splunk intros new monitoring tool for AWS cloud users
Operational intelligence company Splunk Inc. is boosting its cloud analytics capabilities with the launch of a new Splunk Insights for AWS Cloud Monitoring service. Splunk is betting on enterprises’ need for sophisticated monitoring tools to help them more easily facilitate their move to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud. It points out that its new service ...
Elon Musk’s AI bots crush the world’s best Dota 2 game players
Artificial Intelligence has already defeated the world’s best Chess and Go players, and now it has just followed up by beating the world’s top Dota 2 video game players as well. The latest win for AI was notched up during Valve Corp.’s “The International 7,” a Dota 2 eSports tournament with a prize pool of ...
Apple hit by complaint from Chinese developers over its App Store policies
Apple Inc. could soon be embroiled in a new legal fight in China, as a group of application developers from the country are accusing it of monopolistic behavior. The developers have reported the iPhone maker to Chinese authorities over its alleged unfair practices, the Wall Street Journal reported. The report said a group of 28 Chinese ...
Google launches site to showcase readiness for Europe’s data rules
Google Inc. wants to let its customers and partners know what it’s doing about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which is due to come into effect next year. To that end, the web giant has created a new website explaining how its products and services now comply with the new requirements, which require ...
As Internet of Things attack threat grows, smaller businesses get better prepared
The explosive growth of Internet of Things devices means that businesses are more vulnerable to cybersecurity risks than ever before, claim a couple of new studies on IoT security. F5 Networks Inc., a U.S. company that sells application threat intelligence tools for enterprises, said in its new global IoT threat report released today that attacks on ...