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Microsoft expands Blob Storage file limits in its Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp. has announced a massive increase in the maximum file size limit on its Azure Blob Storage service, rising from 195 gigabytes to 4.77 terabytes. The increase is designed to accommodate the scientific research community and other users who sometimes have enormous cloud storage needs for workloads, explained Michael Hauss, a program manager with ...
Predictions 2017: No driverless cars, but drone deliveries and bitcoin take flight
As if 2016 weren’t volatile enough for the technology industry, the coming year is likely to be even more interesting, thanks to everything from a very unpredictable new U.S. president to a confluence of trends ranging from artificial intelligence to virtual reality to the continued rise of the cloud. This is the latest in a ...
Robotics are poised to dominate Asia’s startup scene in 2017
The Asian startup scene is set to be dominated by robotics and consumer banking in 2017, according to a new survey by Norwegian telecommunications firm Telenor Group. The robotics industry was cited by 45 percent of respondents, who were asked which sectors were set to become Asia’s hottest startup scenes in 2017. An additional 20 percent ...
Facebook fooled by fake news report of explosion in Bangkok
Facebook Inc. has been plagued by fake news appearing in people’s news feeds for quite some time, but on Tuesday the company itself was fooled by false reports of a bomb attack in Bangkok, Thailand. The fake news report tricked Facebook’s algorithms into activating its Safety Check feature, and thousands of users in Bangkok marked ...
Strong encryption critical to digital economy, says congressional report
The United States government risks undermining the digital economy if it doesn’t embrace strong encryption, according to a bipartisan congressional report released last week. The Encryption Working Group’s Year-End Report comes after a year long investigation by the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee. The report comes to the conclusion that ...
Microsoft will be the first tech firm to hit a $1 trillion valuation, analyst says
Following its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp., Microsoft Corp. could become the first technology company to see its market value hit $1 trillion. That prediction comes from respected financial analyst Michael Markowski, who was previously named by Fortune as one of its “top 50 greatest investors” and correctly predicted the bankruptcy of investment firm Lehman Brothers Holdings ...
Mimecast heads up Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving
Gartner Inc.’s latest Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving shows that Mimecast Ltd. is way out in front of a market that looks to be increasingly dominated by specialists in the field. It’s actually quite a competitive space too, with companies including Microsoft Corp., Proofpoint Inc., Global Relay Communications Inc., Veritas Technologies LLC and Smarsh ...
ClusterHQ, creator of the Flocker software container manager, shuts down
ClusterHQ Inc., the startup that developed the popular open-source software container manager Flocker, today said it’s shutting down operations immediately. The move comes as something of a surprise, since the company had raised $18 million in venture capital funding to propel its vision of stateful container data management technology. In an interview on SiliconANGLE’s mobile live ...
Google researchers develop a test for machine learning bias
A team of researchers at Google Inc. has developed a method for testing whether or not machine learning algorithms inject bias, such as gender or racial bias, into their decision-making processes. For some time, concerns have been raised about the possibility that machine learning algorithms are injecting bias into applications such as advertising, credit, education, ...
White House report mostly optimistic on economic impact of AI and automation
Artificial intelligence and automation have the potential to boost living standards and lead to an increase in people’s leisure hours, but could also lead to increased economic inequality, the White House said in a new report. The report, titled “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy,” is a followup to an October report, “Preparing for the ...