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Blockchain

Bitcoin price plunges following Senate hearing into Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

By Duncan Riley Jul 16, 2019

The price of bitcoin plummeted Tuesday after a Senate hearing that questioned a Facebook Inc. executive on Libra, the company’s proposed cryptocurrency. Bitcoin fell 12% today to a 24-hour low of $9,266.56 as of…

Security

8M lines of hotel-related code exposed in latest Elasticsearch database configuration failure

By Duncan Riley Jul 16, 2019

Another day, another misconfigured cloud instance exposing data, and the latest comes from AavGo, a cloud-based software provider for the hotel industry. The latest case involves a misconfigured Elasticsearch database revealed today by security researcher Daniel Brown. The…

Emerging Tech

Alphabet’s Wing launches new app to assist drone air traffic control

By Duncan Riley Jul 16, 2019

Alphabet Inc.’s drone subsidiary Wing Aviation LLC has unveiled a new app designed to help manage air traffic control for drones. Called OpenSky, the app, available for both iOS and Android, has first launched…

Security

Sprint customer data hacked through Samsung website

By Duncan Riley Jul 16, 2019

U.S. telecommunications company Sprint Corp. has been hacked with an unknown number of accounts compromised, but in a twist, the company is blaming Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for the data breach. Affected customers were…

AI

Uber unveils a conversational AI platform called Plato

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

Uber Technology Inc. has open-sourced a conversational artificial intelligence engine called the Plato Research Dialog System that’s set to compete with similar offerings such as Google LLC’s Dialogflow, Microsoft Corp.’s Bot Framework, and Amazon.com…

Infra

Arm lets startups try before they buy with new Flexible Access IP licensing

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

British semiconductor design firm Arm Ltd. today pitched a new licensing option without any upfront costs for startups and other smaller companies that want to build central processing units and systems-on-a-chip using its chip blueprints. Intellectual…

Emerging Tech

FogHorn partners with Porsche to bring facial recognition to connected cars

By Maria Deutscher Jul 16, 2019

Autonomous driving dominates the discussion around artificial intelligence in the auto sector, but it’s just one of several applications carmakers are exploring for the technology. FogHorn Systems Inc. and Porsche AG have come up…

Cloud

IBM inks multibillion-dollar cloud computing deal with AT&T

By Maria Deutscher Jul 16, 2019

IBM Corp. has landed a multiyear cloud computing deal with AT&T Inc. that will see the carrier move a large number of internal workloads to the IBM Cloud. The companies didn’t divulge the exact…

Cloud

MSPs make unlikely friends with public-cloud fat cats

By R. Danes Jul 16, 2019

Today’s information-technology market is turning out to be an unlikely friend to smaller, managed service providers. Not only did public cloud not kill them as some foresaw, it actually paved the way for expansion. And…

Cloud

With new application service, Pivotal lets developers go ‘all-in’ on Kubernetes

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2019

Pivotal Software Inc. is doubling down on the popular Kubernetes container orchestration service with the alpha release today of a new version of its Pivotal Application Service. Pivotal Application Service is a software application…

the latest

Bitcoin price plunges following Senate hearing into Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Alphabet’s Wing launches new app to assist drone air traffic control

Sprint customer data hacked through Samsung website

Uber unveils a conversational AI platform called Plato

Arm lets startups try before they buy with new Flexible Access IP licensing

FogHorn partners with Porsche to bring facial recognition to connected cars

MSPs make unlikely friends with public-cloud fat cats

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