Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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Box expands Skills beta with more AI and machine learning technologies

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Box Inc. today expanded a beta test program for its Skills software framework that uses machine learning to make video, audio, image and other files more useful on its content management service. Introduced last year, Box Skills opened up the ability to …

Google Cloud goes Hollywood with new region and file services

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Google LLC is priming its cloud computing services for a star turn in Hollywood with a new Los Angeles region and storage services announced today. The search giant had already announced it would be opening a region, or physical location, for its …

AI all the way: US supercomputer is now the world’s fastest

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

There’s a new No. 1 supercomputer in the world, as the United States has captured the lead from China for the first time in more than five years. The Summit supercomputer (pictured), built by IBM Corp. at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory …

Amazon CTO: Our cloud offers any database you need

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns after ‘past consensual relationship’ with employee

INFRA By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

With new release, Google’s Flutter app builder moves closer to 1.0

APPS By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

Salesforce unveils a big advance in natural language processing

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

Baidu AI researchers create new cancer detection algorithm

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

Hortonworks extends cloud support with new data platform

BIG DATA By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

Pivotal Software shares rocket 26% on strong earnings in its first post-IPO quarter

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

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 …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Box expands Skills beta with more AI and machine learning technologies

AI all the way: US supercomputer is now the world’s fastest

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns after ‘past consensual relationship’ with employee

With new release, Google’s Flutter app builder moves closer to 1.0

Salesforce unveils a big advance in natural language processing

Baidu AI researchers create new cancer detection algorithm

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