The Promise of Artificial Intelligence Unfolds in Small Steps - The New York...
From a big-picture AI reality check; also see Start-Up Lessons From the Once-Again Hot Field of A.I. (NYT)"IBM’s early struggles with Watson point to the sobering fact that commercializing new...
View ArticleSee That Billboard? It May See You, Too - The New York Times
A beacon of hope for billboard advertising"Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, which has tens of thousands of billboards across the United States, will announce on Monday that it has partnered with several...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner - Business...
Excerpt from a wide-ranging interview"Then there is the 10 year horizon — really far-out stuff. And for that we are investing in three big areas. One is connectivity — making sure that everyone in the...
View ArticleApple’s Cook Picks Up Where Snowden Left Off in Privacy Debate - Bloomberg...
Advocate different; also see We asked a First Amendment lawyer if Apple’s ‘code is speech’ argument holds water. Here’s what he said (Washington Post)"Edward Snowden stoked the debate over mass...
View ArticleMeg Whitman Slams Chris Christie Over Donald Trump Endorsement | Re/code
More evidence of Trump's skills as a "uniter" -- of people against Trump; also see Donald Trump promises 'such trouble' for Jeff Bezos and Amazon (The Register)"Meg Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett Packard...
View ArticleApple Wins Ruling in New York iPhone Hacking Order - The New York Times
A timely precedent"A federal magistrate judge on Monday denied the United States government’s request that Apple extract data from an iPhone in a drug case in New York, giving the company’s pro-privacy...
View ArticleUtilities Cautioned About Potential for a Cyberattack After Ukraine’s - The...
Sign of the times; also see ‘Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War,’ by Fred Kaplan (NYT review)"Investigators say that in the end, the Ukrainians may have been saved by the fact that their...
View ArticleGoogle’s Computers Paint Like Van Gogh, and the Art Sells for Thousands -...
State-of-the-art Google research"Alphabet Inc.'s Google put on an art show and auction in San Francisco on Friday, displaying works created by computers, with some guidance from humans. The images on...
View ArticleGoogle Self-driving Car Strikes Bus on California Street - Bloomberg Business
Surprising that bus-related rule wasn't part of the system from day 1"Google cars have been involved in nearly a dozen collisions in or around Mountain View since starting to test on city streets in...
View ArticleSnapchat Hires Exec Who Ran Facebook’s Ad Network | Re/code
Evidently even strategic hires are ephemeral at Snapchat"Now they’ve hired an experienced ad tech expert from a company that has figured out how to make a ton of money from mobile advertising. Krishnan...
View ArticleResilient Systems News: IBM to Buy Resilient Systems - Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier joins IBM via acquisition"We're still working out what I'll be doing at IBM; these months focused more on the company than on me personally. I know they want me to be involved in all of...
View ArticleCryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award - The New York Times
A nicely-timed recognition of the primacy of privacy"Named for Alan Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist, the award is particularly noteworthy because it comes at a time that the...
View ArticleSlack will soon start testing voice and video chat | TechCrunch
Check the full post for additional details, e.g., on shared channels, which Slack partner Slackline is probably not thrilled with; looks like Slack is hitting its inevitable partner ecosystem...
View ArticleWhite House Officials Soften Approach at RSA Conference - The New York Times
Also see F.B.I. Error Locked San Bernardino Attacker’s iPhone (NYT)"The director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael S. Rogers, also attempted a conciliatory tone at the RSA event. Admiral...
View ArticleGoogle Thinks Self-Driving Cars Will Be Great for Stranded Seniors -...
A long-term perspective"Florence Swanson has lived through every American car from the Ford Model T to the Tesla Model S. Now, at 94, she has stepped into what Google hopes will be the automotive...
View ArticleFidelity Writes Down Value of Corporate Software Startups - Bloomberg Business
Actual results may vary..."Fidelity's markdowns of corporate software startups came after a brutal month for their publicly traded peers. International Business Machines Corp. and VMware Inc. reported...
View ArticleFinancial Times to launch on Facebook at Work | About us | FT.com
Likely to constrain Slack; also see Telenor launches Facebook at Work to more than 35,000 employees worldwide"“We want to provide our employees with a place to interact with each other securely and...
View ArticleA Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck - The New York...
The case for universal basic income; also see Robots will take your job (Boston Globe)"These supporters argue machine intelligence will produce so much economic surplus that we could collectively...
View ArticleIBM Starts Undisclosed Number of Job Cuts Among U.S. Workers - Bloomberg...
Also see IBM added 70,000 people to its ranks in 2015, and lost that many, too (Business Insider)"The company currently has more than 25,000 open positions, and the “workforce rebalancing” is part of a...
View ArticleMessaging Startup Slack Seeks Up to $4 Billion Valuation in Funding Round -...
No cutting Slack"Slack Technologies Inc., which runs a messaging service for businesses, is seeking an investment that would value the company at $3.5 billion to $4 billion, according to people...
View ArticleTech Rallies to Apple’s Defense, but Not Without Some Hand-Wringing - The New...
Probably not what the FBI anticipated; also see Apple Digs In for Long Fight: 'There Is No Middle Ground' (Bloomberg Business)"Those misgivings ultimately did not win the day. About 40 companies and...
View ArticleTech Site CNET Tries Something Completely Different: Publishing Fiction - The...
First in the Technically Literate series: The Last Taco Truck in Silicon Valley"In an era when many general interest magazines have abandoned publishing short fiction, CNET is entering the literary...
View ArticleDefense Secretary Takes Position Against a Data ‘Back Door’ - The New York Times
Also see Pentagon Taps Eric Schmidt to Make Itself More Google-ish (Wired) and Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook on DoD’s “Hack the Pentagon” Cybersecurity Initiative (DoD news...
View ArticleBitcoin's nightmare scenario has come to pass | The Verge
Resisting change"Over the last year and a half a number of prominent voices in the Bitcoin community have been warning that the system needed to make fundamental changes to its core software code to...
View ArticleFacebook’s Trojan Horse Commerce Strategy | Tech.pinions - Perspective,...
Check the full post for a compelling commerce case"If you were to ask the question, “what is Facebook?”, you might get a variety of different answers: a social network, a communication platform, a...
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