Oracle Corp. may still be the biggest provider of databases, one of the foundations of today’s data-driven businesses, but Amazon.com Inc. wants the world to know there’s more to databases than the venerable giant’s brand. In a blog post today, Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels made a detailed case that the half-dozen kinds of ...

Updated: Intel Corp. Chief Executive Brian Krzanich today resigned after the revelation that he had a “past consensual relationship” with an employee. Krzanich (pictured), who had been CEO since May 2013, was replaced by Chief Financial Officer Bob Swan, who is now interim CEO. Intel said it was recently informed of the relationship, and an ...

Google LLC today signaled that its Flutter mobile app software development is nearly ready to take flight, offering up its first “preview” release. Flutter enables software developers to create “native” mobile apps for Apple Inc.’s iOS and Google’s own Android — in particular the user interfaces for the apps — faster than they can on ...

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 ...