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What you missed in the Smart World: Amazon Alexa gains new rivals, more support

By Mellisa Tolentino May 16, 2016

Home automation is seeing rival companies vie for consumer attention, while homeowners are reaping the benefits of a new, digitized services market. Every week we round up the latest developments in the Smart World,…

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Dell says its new AI-powered antivirus can block 99 percent of malware

By Maria Deutscher May 16, 2016

Dell Inc. usually isn’t the first vendor that comes up when security is discussed, but it boasts a broad arsenal of endpoint protection tools that are widely used in the enterprise. And now the…

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What you missed in Big Data: Enter Parsey McParseface

By Maria Deutscher May 16, 2016

There’s still a long way to go before complex human traits like humor can be properly emulated by artificial intelligence, but Alphabet Inc. is already starting to inject wit into the research effort. The…

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What you missed in Cloud: The competition reaches new frontiers

By Maria Deutscher May 16, 2016

The fight for cloud dominance went global last week when Microsoft Corp. announced that it’s launching four new data centers in Canada and South Korea to better serve local Azure users. Redmond is targeting…

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AtScale raises $11M from Comcast and friends for its Hadoop BI platform

By Maria Deutscher May 16, 2016

During funding negotiations, the ball is usually in the court of the startup at the receiving end of the transaction. But in the case of AtScale Inc.’s latest financing round, it was investors who…

How to send documents on WhatsApp for desktop

By Collen Kriel May 16, 2016

Last week, Facebook-owned WhatsApp released a desktop app version of their popular messaging service for both Windows and Mac users. The WhatsApp desktop app has now also received the functionality to share files, a…

How to configure Amazon’s programmable Dash Button for IoT: Order a cab, control Netflix, more

By Collen Kriel May 16, 2016

It has been over a year since Amazon released the Dash Button, a single button device that allows customers to order their favorite, most-used products with the simple press of the button. When it…

Report: Chinese ridesharing startup Didi Chuxing may go public in 2017

By Duncan Riley May 16, 2016

Chinese ridesharing startup Didi Chuxing (formerly Didi Kuaidi) is planning on going public as soon as next year, according to a report Sunday. According to “people familiar with the matter” spoken to by Blooberg,…

What’s coming at Google I/O: cloud, VR and a lot of Android

By Robert Hof May 16, 2016

Android, virtual reality, 3-D sensing and cloud technology will be featured at this week's annual Google I/O developer conference.

Survey: 45% of households refrain from certain activities online due to security and privacy concerns

By Duncan Riley May 15, 2016

The risks of security and privacy breaches are deterring Americans from using certain internet services, a new survey has found. According to the survey of 41,000 people undertaken by the National Telecommunications and Information…