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Big Data

Fantasy sports startup takes calculated risk, bets big on data

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Jun 20, 2019

Gentlemen and ladies … place your bets! Easily accessible from your personal phone and plenty fun to play, the online fantasy sports market is riding an all-time high. Whatever your favorite sport, there’s a fantasy…

AI

Facebook debuts PyRobot, an open-source framework for controlling robots

By Mike Wheatley Jun 20, 2019

Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today open-sourced a new robotics framework called PyRobot. Developed alongside researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, PyRobot is meant to help AI researchers and students integrate deep learning models created…

Apps

Apple issues recall of mid-2015 15-inch MacBook Pros for battery fire risk

By Duncan Riley Jun 20, 2019

Apple Inc. has issued a voluntary recall and replacement program for 15-inch MacBook Pro computers sold between September 2015 and February 2017 because a battery issue raises the risk of their catching fire. The recall…

Apps

Microsoft doubles down on its educational tools for teachers and students

By Mike Wheatley Jun 20, 2019

Microsoft Corp. today announced some updates to its educational tools ahead of the ISTE EdTech conference in Philadelphia next week. The updated products include Microsoft’s Immersive Reader tool and Teams for Education, which is a…

Cloud

Cloud providers, app developers power new era of ‘multiplied innovation’

By Mark Albertson Jun 20, 2019

We have crossed over from the age of “experimentation” to a time of “multiplied innovation,” where key technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and the “internet of things” will scale rapidly inside the enterprise world.…

Infra

Red Hat earnings should have future parent IBM smiling

By Paul Gillin Jun 20, 2019

It appears that Red Hat Inc. is going out in style. In what may be the company’s last earnings report as an independent entity, the open-source software vendor beat expectations on both revenue and…

Apps

Facebook contributes open-source tech to boost web browser performance

By Mike Wheatley Jun 20, 2019

Facebook Inc. wants to improve the performance of web-based applications, and it’s doing so by open-sourcing several new technologies it hopes that mainstream internet browsers will adopt. During a presentation at the company’s invite-only Performance @Scale…

Emerging Tech

Waymo teams up with Renault, Nissan for global driverless transportation push

By Maria Deutscher Jun 20, 2019

Waymo LLC has found itself two powerful new allies in the auto industry. The Alphabet Inc. subsidiary, Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. today announced a collaboration to explore the launch of autonomous…

Cloud

Actifio’s latest recovery tools sharpen its focus on public cloud

By Mark Albertson Jun 20, 2019

Earlier this week, Actifio Inc. released its Multi-Cloud Mobility and Automation solution with a focus on disaster-recovery tailored for public cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure. The latest release highlighted…

Security

Why is SecOps buried in tools? It’s called the ‘visibility border’

By R. Danes Jun 20, 2019

As information-technology environments disperse and hybridize, visibility is becoming a greater challenge. Monitoring different cloud environments across vast networks requires sophisticated data-analyzing tools. In the security space, the situation is even hairier; companies keep…

explore news

Fantasy sports startup takes calculated risk, bets big on data

Facebook debuts PyRobot, an open-source framework for controlling robots

Apple issues recall of mid-2015 15-inch MacBook Pros for battery fire risk

Microsoft doubles down on its educational tools for teachers and students

Cloud providers, app developers power new era of ‘multiplied innovation’

Facebook contributes open-source tech to boost web browser performance

Waymo teams up with Renault, Nissan for global driverless transportation push

Actifio’s latest recovery tools sharpen its focus on public cloud

Why is SecOps buried in tools? It’s called the ‘visibility border’

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