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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 ...
Altaeros grabs $7.5M from SoftBank to deliver broadband networks to remote areas
Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group just can’t stop spending money. The company, which has created a $100 billion “Vision Fund” to invest in tech startups, has just plowed $7.5 million into a company that wants to beat out Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. in the race to deliver Internet connectivity to the world’s most remote ...
HPE now supports Big Switch’s software-defined network products
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is teaming up with Big Switch Networks Inc. in an effort to fight back against so-called “white box” network switch manufacturers. The company said yesterday it’s making Big Switch Network’s network virtualization products available on its family of Altoline open networking Ethernet switches. The partnership will see HPE resell Big Switch ...
Tableau Software acquires ClearGraph for its natural language processing smarts
Tableau Software Inc. said it’s planning to build natural language querying capabilities into its data visualization products after announcing the acquisition today of a startup called ClearGraph. Based in Palo Alto, California, ClearGraph has built technology that enables “smart data discovery” and analysis via spoken commands. Tableau said it bought the company in order to ...
NIST outlines framework for cybersecurity training
A U.S. government agency is working on new cybersecurity initiative aimed at better countering evolving information technology security threats. In a statement Monday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology said it’s planning to upgrade a federal initiative on cybersecurity education and workforce training. NIST, which is responsible for developing a range of computer and ...
US trade commission will probe Apple over Qualcomm’s patent infringement claims
The U.S. International Trade Commission Tuesday announced it’s launching an official investigation into claims that some of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad devices infringe on technology patents held by Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The ITC said it has begun what’s called a Section 337 investigation into Apple, to determine whether or not it should ban the ...
IBM sues former cloud CIO to prevent his joining Amazon Web Services
IBM Corp. is taking one of its former executives to court in a bid to stop him from starting a new job at its cloud rival Amazon Web Services. Big Blue last week filed a lawsuit against Jeff S. Smith (pictured), the former chief information officer of its cloud computing business, alleging that he has ...