Just a few years ago, asking your phone a question to find information on the internet was, well, pretty much out of the question because computers weren’t all that great at understanding phrases outside a narrow few. Now, thanks to advances in machine learning, we think nothing of Google or Siri answering our queries with ...

Artificial intelligence researchers at the Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. today released details of a new deep learning algorithm that they claim can help pathologist identify tumors more accurately. Research scientists Yi Li and Wei Ping from Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab said the new algorithm, which they call a neural conditional random field or ...

Big-data management firm Hortonworks Inc. today announced the third version of its core Hortonworks Data Platform along with expanded partnerships with cloud computing leaders, including Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. The announcement of HDP 3.0 at the opening of the company’s DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, essentially enables enterprises to run data-intensive ...

Updated: Newly public Pivotal Software Inc. today reported strong results in its first quarter peeking out of the nest of majority owner Dell Technologies Inc. The company, which makes software for building cloud computing applications, reported a net loss in its fiscal 2019 first quarter of $32.5 million, or 31 cents a share, down from ...

Google Inc. has decided not to renew a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to use artificial intelligence technology to improve the targeting of drone strikes. The news came out of a morning meeting today with employees, where Google Cloud Chief Executive Diane Greene (pictured) announced the decision not to renew the contract, known ...

Hoping to maintain the high ground in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, Nvidia Corp. late Tuesday debuted a new computing architecture that it claims will unify both fast-growing areas of the industry. The announcement of the HGX-2 cloud-server platform (pictured), made by Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang at its GPU Technology Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, is aimed ...

Cloud content management firm Box Inc. early today debuted the ability for its customers to store the same data in multiple “zones” around the world while users can collaborate on the files across those zones. The capability builds on Box’s 2016 introduction of Zones, which enabled customers to store their data in one of now ...

Extraterrestrial commerce is coming, the era of data oligarchs is ending, and software could do away with fake news and videos. Those are some of the hottest trends coming in technology in the next five years, according to five venture capitalists on a panel Tuesday night in Silicon Valley. They made the predictions at the ...

Cisco Systems Inc. may finally be turning the corner, but not fast enough for its investors. The networking giant today reported its fiscal third-quarter revenue rose 4 percent from a year ago, to $12.5 billion, the second consecutive quarter of growth for a company that has been trying to transform its business for the cloud computing ...

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. had a lot to live up to today when it reported its first-quarter earnings, after its stock hit another in a string of recent all-time highs. Bottom line: It didn’t. But the results still easily beat expectations, if not as much as some of those investors may have hoped. Thanks to ...