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Google launches new APIs that understand human language
Building on a raft of machine learning-related announcements it made earlier in the year, Google has just launched two new machine learning APIs into beta. The most exciting of the two looks to be the new Google Cloud Natural Language API, which is aimed at helping developers build applications that understand human language. The API ...
Windows 10 sees rapid adoption in the enterprise
Microsoft released Windows 10 one year ago, and immediately began an aggressive campaign to boost adoption as fast as it could. That campaign has proven to be a tad controversial, with Microsoft being accused of using deceptive tactics to foist the OS on scores of unsuspecting consumers. But despite the controversy Windows 10 has actually ...
MapR leverages Big Data analytics in fight against financial fraud
Hadoop purveyor MapR Technologies Inc. is throwing its weight behind the fight against fraud, cybercrime, and regulatory non-compliance with a new risk management solution for financial companies. The idea behind MapR’s new Risk Management Quick Start Solution for Financial Services is that by making more data available to companies, they can better use MapR’s Converged ...
Google Transparency Report: Government data demands rise again
Google once again saw an increased number of data requests from global law enforcement agencies during the second half of 2015. For the first time, the total number of requests in a six month period surpassed 40,000. That’s up from the 35,365 requests Google received in the first half of 2015, and the 30,140 it ...
IBM & CSC boost ties with expanded mainframe cloud deal
IBM and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) are to expand an existing partnership by making the former’s mainframe capabilities and cloud infrastructure available to CSC and its customers. The deal will see IBM deliver its Cloud Managed Services offering for its z Systems mainframe platform – called IBM Cloud for z – to CSC’s customers. Under ...
LinkedIn unveils Open19 data center standard
Recent Microsoft acquisition LinkedIn Corp. is causing a little confusion with its data center strategy, by announcing a new open design standard for servers and racks that it hopes will be adopted industry-wide. What’s confusing is that its soon-to-be-parent company Microsoft has already gone all-in with the Open Compute Project (OCP), a Facebook-led open-source data ...
Google announces pricing for Stackdriver, its upcoming cloud monitoring tool
Google’s Stackdriver cloud monitoring tool is nearing general availability, and although it’s expected to remain in testing for a couple of months, pricing details have already been published. For those who don’t know Stackdriver, Google describes it as a unified monitoring, logging and diagnostics service for managing workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon ...
Ford bets on 3D mapping startup Civil Maps to guide its self-driving cars
Ford Motor Co. is stepping up its push into autonomous cars by investing seed money into a 3D maps startup called Civil Maps. Motus Ventures led the seed round, and was joined by Ford, as well as Wicklow Capital, StartX Stanford, and AME Cloud Ventures, which is run by Yahoo! Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang. The ...
Monsanto & Microsoft investment cash to seed Brazil’s agribusiness sector
Microsoft is teaming up with the controversial agricultural biotech firm and GM foods proponent Monsanto Co., to invest in agribusiness startups in Brazil. Monsanto said it’s to invest an undisclosed amount of cash into Microsoft’s Brazilian startups fund, Reuters reported. Reuters added that one source said the biotech firm’s total investment could add up to ...
Google intros new tool for U.S. voters
Google is providing a helping hand to those who wish to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential elections. It’s just introduced a new tool that helps citizens to register for the vote, all they need to do is search for “register to vote” or some similar term, and Google will provide detailed information on the ...