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Mark Cuban backs company developing a blockchain-based messaging platform

By Duncan Riley Aug 27, 2017

Billionaire tech investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing a company developing an Ethereum blockchain-based platform that claims to be the future of online communications. Called the “Mercury Protocol,” the blockchain platform uses…

Apps

Crowdfunded earbud startup Kanoa shuts down without delivering a product

By Duncan Riley Aug 27, 2017

Kanoa Inc., a San Francisco-based company that promised to sell wireless earbuds that competed with Apple Inc.’s AirPods, has shut down without filling customer orders despite having raised approximately $150,000 in a crowdfunding campaign. The…

Emerging Tech

Artificially intelligent drones will start patrolling for sharks in Australia

By Duncan Riley Aug 27, 2017

Drones using artificial intelligence will be deployed off beaches in New South Wales, Australia, to detect sharks and warn swimmers. The new drones will patrol beaches and use artificial intelligence to detect sharks in the…

Emerging Tech

Can new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi fix the company’s culture?

By Duncan Riley Aug 27, 2017

Five weeks after Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick resigned from the company following ongoing sexual harassment scandals, Expedia Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi has been named the ride-hailing giant’s new CEO, according to reports published…

Wikibon

Serverless computing: It’s all about functional stateless microservices

By Dave Vellante Aug 27, 2017

In between meeting with customers, crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the research team at Wikibon, owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE, finds time to meet and discuss trends and topics regarding digital business…

Infra

What to look for at VMworld 2017 this week: the rise of the true private cloud

By Peter Burris Aug 27, 2017

Every August, infrastructure professionals make a pilgrimage to VMworld – temporarily in Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay because of construction in its usual venue in San Francisco – to hear what the leaders of VMware…

Emerging Tech

Why initial coin offerings are exploding – and how companies can avoid the landmines

By Robert Hof Aug 25, 2017

Every other day, it seems, a new startup is raising millions of dollars by selling cryptocurrency coins or tokens to raise money — lots of money, really fast. In May, for instance, Web browser…

Cloud

Fillr proposes a cloud-based solution to the plague of abandoned shopping carts

By Paul Gillin Aug 25, 2017

Autofill is one of the most ordinary applications most of us ever use. Every browser has a function that can automatically populate web forms. So do most password managers and dozens of plug-ins and…

Emerging Tech

Google open-sources speech command dataset for TensorFlow

By Eric David Aug 25, 2017

Alphabet Inc.’s TensorFlow machine learning framework and AIY do-it-yourself artificial intelligence teams have released a dataset of more than 65,000 utterances of 30 different speech commands, giving developers a powerful toolset to implement their own simple…

Big Data

Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal

By Paul Gillin Aug 25, 2017

Apache Kafka has a reputation as a lightweight, fast and highly scalable message broker, which passes data between applications. But one feature has frustrated users over the five years since the platform graduated from its…

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Mark Cuban backs company developing a blockchain-based messaging platform

Crowdfunded earbud startup Kanoa shuts down without delivering a product

Artificially intelligent drones will start patrolling for sharks in Australia

Can new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi fix the company’s culture?

Why initial coin offerings are exploding – and how companies can avoid the landmines

Fillr proposes a cloud-based solution to the plague of abandoned shopping carts

Google open-sources speech command dataset for TensorFlow

Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal

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