Accenture, Microsoft Team Up on Blockchain-based Digital ID Network

8 years ago0305 Accenture Plc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents. The companies unveiled a prototype of the network on Monday at the UN headquarters in New...

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Tech CEOs Meet With White House Officials On Improving Information Technology Services

8 years ago0356 Major U.S. technology company chief executives sat down with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and other top Trump administration officials on Monday before meeting with the president on cutting government waste and improving information technology services. Other officials meeting in 10 small group sessions with the executives...

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Siri, Alexa, and Google Home: How Marketers Can Survive in the Era of Audio Assistants

8 years ago0505 Most people think of artificial intelligence as something out of a science fiction movie. But AIs are already among us. (You likely have one in your pocket.) Their names are Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Home. And they are all here to stay. These digital audio assistants from Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google present a unique...

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Will Virtual Reality Headsets Become the New Office?

8 years ago0351 Imagine -- after a long, grueling, eight-hour day of office work -- you can simply take off your headset, already relaxing in your favorite chair in your living room. No commute. No traffic. No bathing or dressing up to go to work. No real interaction with other people. Yes, the workplace of the future may be entirely inside your...

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Artificial Intelligence Is Facebook's New Terrorism Watchdog

8 years ago0536 After a string of terrorist attacks in Western countries over the past couple of years, major technology companies have been the targets of criticism from European government officials, advertiser boycotts, and lawsuits from family members of those killed in terrorist attacks. As a result, such companies are increasing their counter...

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Twitter Users Mock New Look

8 years ago0272 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Twitter has unveiled a new look, and much like some previous changes the company has made to its short-messaging service, it's not going over so well with the Twitterati. The San Francisco company says the new design emphasizes simplicity, making it faster and easier to use, with bolder headlines and more intuitive...

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The 25 Tech Companies Everyone Wants To Work For Right Now

8 years ago0337 Tech is one of the hottest industries out there. But what companies are able to live up to the hype and keep their top talent happy? Job site Paysa recently released a report breaking down which tech companies were able to recruit and retain the best employees from April 2016 to April 2017. Paysa tracks employee movements with...

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Forrester Names Hortonworks a Leader in Big Data Warehouse Report

8 years ago0375 Hortonworks® (NASDAQ: HDP), a leading innovator of open and connected data platforms, today announced that it was among the select companies that Forrester Research, Inc. invited to participate in its June 2017 report titled The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Warehouse (BDW), Q2 2017. In this evaluation, Hortonworks was cited as a...

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Verizon Awards $10,000 Grant to 'Good Girls Write Code' to Empower the Next Generation of Women-Leaders in Tech

8 years ago0532 Despite its critical and growing importance, computer science is taught in only a small minority of U.S. schools. In our technology-driven world exists a gender-gap in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM,  with only 1 out of 3 high school girls entering college in a STEM related field. The...

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Women Engineers On the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley

8 years ago0310 “Imagine you are nothing like how you are right now,” says Duretti Hirpa, a senior engineer at Slack. The words tumble out of her mouth as she tries to convey the alienation and otherness of working in Silicon Valley when you don’t fit the conventional image of an engineer. “It’s very tough to explain to someone what you...

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Microsoft to Shut Down Docs.com Document Sharing Service on December 15

8 years ago0336 After being around for a little more than two years, Microsoft is shutting down its document sharing service, Docs.com. The purpose of Docs.com was to provide users a place on the Web to show off their Office documents without them having to be hosted on a personal website. On June 9, Microsoft posted a bulletin on its website...

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U.S. Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment In Artificial Intelligence

8 years ago0329 The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national security, current and former U.S. officials tell Reuters. Of particular concern is China's interest in fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, which...

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