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Here’s what to expect from Bixby, Samsung’s AI assistant due out next month

By Collen Kriel Feb 9, 2017

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s 2017 flagship smartphone – the Galaxy S8 – is set to be unveiled next month, if the rumors are to be believed. In addition to a rumored increase in RAM…

Emerging Tech

Virtual and augmented reality plunge into the trough of disillusionment

By Robert Hof Feb 9, 2017

In Gartner Inc.’s well-known Hype Cycle for tracking the commercial progress of a technology, the “trough of disillusionment” is the point at which “interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver.” That about…

Emerging Tech

Google Brain ‘hallucinates’ to make blurry images clearer

By James Farrell Feb 8, 2017

Google Inc.’s deep learning research arm, Google Brain, has just made a whole bunch of science fiction and crime procedural shows from Star Trek to CSI come true — at least the parts where…

Apps

French philanderer sues Uber for $48M over app bug that led to divorce

By Duncan Riley Feb 8, 2017

A French man is suing Uber Technologies Inc. for about $48 million over a fault in its mobile app that allowed his wife to find out he was cheating on him, ultimately leading to a…

Apps

Windows 10 Creators Update is now complete, with Compact Overlay, Dynamic Lock and more

By Collen Kriel Feb 8, 2017

Microsoft Corp. has released its latest Windows 10 Preview Build for Insiders in the Fast ring. Build 15031 includes a new Compact Overlay feature, similar to Apple Inc.’s and Android’s picture-in-picture mode. Other features…

Apps

IRS warns employers to be on the lookout for new W-2 phishing scam

By Duncan Riley Feb 8, 2017

As the tax season looms, the Internal Revenue Service is warning employers to be on the lookout for an evolved W-2 email phishing scam that is targeting companies as well as school districts, tribal organizations and…

Infra

Sophos snaps up endpoint security startup Invincea for $100M+

By Duncan Riley Feb 8, 2017

Security firm Sophos Group plc has acquired Invincea Inc., an endpoint security solutions startup that uses virtual application containers to protect against advanced malware and other threats. The price of the acquisition came in at…

Infra

Security firm Exabeam raises $30M round from Lightspeed and Cisco

By Duncan Riley Feb 8, 2017

Security firm Exabeam Inc. has raised $30 million in a late-stage funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Cisco Investments. The Series C round also included existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, Icon Ventures and Shlomo…

Big Data

Arrested development: Spark’s immaturity shows in end-to-end IoT, say analysts | #SparkSummit

By R. Danes Feb 8, 2017

Batch, continuous and interactive: Those are the three data ingredients needed to power tomorrow’s analytic and Internet of Things applications. But getting them to harmonize in an end-to-end model is taking Spark and other…

Big Data

The challenges of securing data on the move | #SparkSummit

By Nelson Williams Feb 8, 2017

Securing data at rest is already a challenge. So what about data on the move? Without such protections, events like this Steam security flaw can happen to any business. “Security is always a difficult topic. It…

explore news

Here’s what to expect from Bixby, Samsung’s AI assistant due out next month

Virtual and augmented reality plunge into the trough of disillusionment

Google Brain ‘hallucinates’ to make blurry images clearer

French philanderer sues Uber for $48M over app bug that led to divorce

Windows 10 Creators Update is now complete, with Compact Overlay, Dynamic Lock and more

IRS warns employers to be on the lookout for new W-2 phishing scam

Sophos snaps up endpoint security startup Invincea for $100M+

Security firm Exabeam raises $30M round from Lightspeed and Cisco

Arrested development: Spark’s immaturity shows in end-to-end IoT, say analysts | #SparkSummit

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