Pat Gelsinger denies rumors he’s about to quit VMware
VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger has taken it upon himself to deny rumors that he’s set to leave the company once Dell Inc. takes over its parent firm EMC Corp. in a $67 billion deal…
LOL: Zuckerberg responds to trending topics scandal by claiming Facebook doesn’t censor different views
By Duncan Riley
Facebook Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has spoken publicly for the first time about the scandal surrounding a report that the social networking site’s Trending Topics list was being manipulated with a…
Apple unexpectedly invests $1b in Chinese ridesharing service Didi Chuxing
By Duncan Riley
In an unexpected move, tech giant Apple, Inc. has invested $1 billion in Chinese ridesharing service and Uber, Inc. rival Didi Chuxing (formerly Didi Kuaidi). Apple said they had made the investment in part…
Google launches Gboard for iOS: Combines Google Search with a keyboard
By Collen Kriel
The rumors started making the rounds in March that Google was working on a keyboard for iOS users. Gboard, the new iOS keyboard is now official and aligns with the rumored features that were…
Hacker leaks personal information of Chinese officials and industry leaders
When you try to control the Internet, the Internet sometimes bites back. The Chinese government suffered a large data breach, as the personal information of Chinese Communist Party officials, and several industry leaders, were…
Consortium: The Tower hits Fig campaign goal mostly thanks to investment backers
By Eric David
Indie roleplaying game Consortium: The Tower has successfully reached its campaign goal on crowdfunding platform Fig, but there is something a little unusual about the breakdown of who backed the game: it was overwhelmingly funded…
Activision Blizzard is bringing MLG esports to Facebook Live
By Eric David
Earlier this year, Activision Blizzard Inc purchased esports tournament organization Major League Gaming (MLG) for the sum of $47 million, and company CEO Bobby Kotick said at the time that the motivation behind the…
Meet Parsey McParseface, Google’s open-source tool to help machines understand language
By Robert Hof
Google is releasing SyntaxNet, an AI tool intended to unlock the secrets of natural language understanding, into open source.
Do it for me: Smart home’s laziest trend on the rise
In the sea of connected home devices, it can be difficult to choose which products to use; whether to take the do-it-yourself (DIY) route, or have a professional do it for you. In a…
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Hot on Amazon’s heels, Microsoft expands Azure to Canada and South Korea
Since it committed to matching Amazon Inc. on infrastructure prices three years ago, Microsoft Corp. quietly broadened the effort by creating homegrown versions of advanced AWS services. And judging by the locations of the…