Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

Miss those moonshots? Google develops algorithm to accelerate nuclear fusion research

By Mike Wheatley Jul 25, 2017

Google Inc. may have cut back on its moonshots, but it’s not done with them just yet. The tech giant said Tuesday that its scientific researchers are working with nuclear power company Tri Alpha Energy…

Emerging Tech

Vending machine company will implant microchips in employees’ hands

By Mike Wheatley Jul 25, 2017

A Wisconsin-based vending machine company next week will become the first in the U.S. to offer its employees embedded biochip technology. Three Square Market, known as 32M for short, said it will offer the…

Cloud

Windows 10 business adoption growing slowly but surpasses Windows XP

By Mike Wheatley Jul 24, 2017

Although Microsoft Corp. probably deserves high marks the efforts it has made to make Windows 10 more friendly for large enterprises, it turns out that the operating system is only slightly more popular than…

Apps

Facebook buys digital rights management startup Source3 to protect content creators

By Mike Wheatley Jul 24, 2017

Facebook Inc. Monday acquired an intellectual property startup called Source3 so it can use the company’s technology to identify pirated content shared on its social network. The acquisition was revealed by Source3 on its…

Emerging Tech

China launches grand plan to become world leader in AI by 2030

By Mike Wheatley Jul 23, 2017

China’s chief administrative authority is pushing for the country to become a world leader in artificial intelligence technology in less than 15 years. The State Council of the People’s Republic of China laid out…

Infra

Intel sides with Apple in its legal spat with Qualcomm

By Mike Wheatley Jul 23, 2017

Intel Corp. is siding with Apple Inc. in the iPhone maker’s ongoing legal battle with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. over patent royalties, saying that the rival chip maker has weaved together an “interlocking web of…

Cloud

Rackspace announces new managed services partnerships with Google and Pivotal

By Mike Wheatley Jul 21, 2017

Cloud services provider Rackspace Inc. is teaming up with Google Inc. and Pivotal Software Inc. in two separate partnerships aimed at delivering new multicloud capabilities. With regard to Pivotal, Rackspace said Tuesday it now supports…

Big Data

Report: Amazon secretly acquired search engine startup Graphiq to boost Alexa

By Mike Wheatley Jul 20, 2017

Amazon.com Inc. made a significant acquisition earlier this year in order to “improve” its voice-powered Alexa digital assistant, according to reports. Amazon splashed out “tens of millions of dollars” to acquire Santa Barbara, California-based…

Emerging Tech

IBM Watson now understands if you’re happy, sad or angry from the tone of your voice

By Mike Wheatley Jul 20, 2017

Natural language processing has come a long way in the last few years, as digital assistants such as Apple Inc.’s Siri being able to listen to human speech and understand exactly what was said.…

Emerging Tech

Report: Intel shuts down its wearable-technology business unit

By Mike Wheatley Jul 20, 2017

Intel Corp. has finally given up its ambitions of dominating the wearable device market, despite having once had high hopes for the segment. CNBC news cited people familiar with the matter as saying that…

Mike Wheatley

Miss those moonshots? Google develops algorithm to accelerate nuclear fusion research

Vending machine company will implant microchips in employees’ hands

Windows 10 business adoption growing slowly but surpasses Windows XP

Facebook buys digital rights management startup Source3 to protect content creators

China launches grand plan to become world leader in AI by 2030

Intel sides with Apple in its legal spat with Qualcomm

Report: Amazon secretly acquired search engine startup Graphiq to boost Alexa

IBM Watson now understands if you’re happy, sad or angry from the tone of your voice

Report: Intel shuts down its wearable-technology business unit

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