In a sign that virtual reality is finally poised to enter the mainstream, Facebook Inc. today revealed plans for a $199 standalone VR headset called Oculus Go that will be on the market early next year. Oculus, which Facebook bought for $2 billion in 2014, revealed the Go (pictured) and other hardware and software advances ...

Box Inc. wants its customers to do more with all the files they’re storing on its content management service. Today, it announced a couple of new tools powered in part by machine learning technology to give customers more ways to extract value from the data — and more reasons to pay Box for extra services. ...

In a sign that deep learning neural networks are going mainstream, computing and software giants IBM Corp. and SAP SE today announced separate initiatives aimed at making it easier for large enterprises to use deep learning in their operations. Deep learning neural networks attempt to emulate how the brain learns, allowing computers to learn partly ...

As most people have flocked in recent years to view websites and videos on their smartphones and tablets rather than on computers, many sites now get upwards of 90 percent of their traffic from mobile. That includes the social magazine app Flipboard, prompting it to announce two related programs today to help publishers reach more ...

Pretty much as expected, Google LLC unveiled a wide array of new phones, smart speakers, earbuds, a tiny camera and more in yet another bid to become a premium supplier of consumer devices. Underlying the sharp new designs and cutting-edge hardware, however, Google sought to set itself apart from veteran competitors such as Apple Inc. and ...

Latching onto the key threat facing companies today, Oracle Corp. founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison announced a new cloud cybersecurity service that he promises will mostly automate the process of detecting and quashing data thefts. Ellison (pictured), speaking at the database and business software giant’s annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, said the ...

Hoping to claw a path into leadership in cloud computing, Oracle Corp. today announced a raft of upgrades to its infrastructure-as-a-service offering, spanning computing, storage and networking. The goal is to provide better cloud performance for the largest enterprises, many of which still haven’t moved most of their operations out of their own data centers ...

Former Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini, the first non-engineer to run the chip making giant, died in his sleep Monday at age 66. Otellini began at the company in 1974 in its finance department, moving to the new microprocessor group in the late 1970s as personal computers were taking off, later becoming chief of the ...

In another attempt to make its cloud service relevant versus much larger rivals, Google LLC today introduced a new cloud database for software developers to store all the data used in their mobile and web apps. The Cloud Firestore is a so-called NoSQL database, a kind of database that handles less structured data than that ...

Business information technology spending isn’t really growing, and there’s little prospect for that to change, Oracle Chief Executive Mark Hurd told customers at the database and business software giant’s OpenWorld conference today in San Francisco. Of course, cloud computing itself may have a role in that lack of growth. Among the many appeals of moving ...