Author: WTN News

When computers speak, how human should they sound? This was a question that a team of six IBM linguists, engineers and marketers faced in 2009, when they began designing a function that turned text into speech for Watson, the company’s “Jeopardy!”-playing artificial intelligence program. Eighteen months later,...

To many startups, search engine optimization (SEO) is a task that sits on their company’s back burner. With features to launch and customers to support, the idea of spending time fiddling with your title tags can seem like a fool’s errand. That’s especially true when there’s...

Google is increasingly interested in building an alternative to the traditional cable set-top box, according to a top exec for Google Fiber. Milo Medin, vice president of access services at Google, predicts that the Internet giant's own platform for smart televisions, Android TV, will "eventually build...

Managing storage and networking in Docker containers can be a nightmare. New Kubernetes contributions may help. As I’ve written before, Docker provides a better way to package and distribute software, which is one reason Docker adoption keeps booming, growing 5X in the last year. Awesome! But...

Some people are already used to having their personal information exposed in massive data breaches. But the rise of artificial intelligence and connected computers in everything from toasters to implanted medical device could dramatically raise the stakes of digital security. In fact, they topped a long...

Dr. Alan Kaplan, executive vice president and chief clinical transformation officer for Iowa-based UnityPoint Health, has been selected as the new UW Health CEO, officials said Tuesday. Kaplan replaces Dr. Jeff Grossman, who has been interim CEO since July, when UW Hospital and UW Medical Foundation...