Look around any crowded place nowadays and it’s quite clear that many of us have literally become prisoners of our own devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops — anything and everything with an Internet connection. Our lifestyles practically require us to always be on, and connected to...
To the average person, it may seem that the biggest technology advances of 2015 were the larger smartphone screens and small app updates. But a lot more happened than that. A broad range of technologies reached a tipping point, from cool science projects or...
Known most for his baseball work, DePodesta will now help informatics data scientists at STSI Paul DePodesta, one of the men who brought "Moneyball" to Major League Baseball, just joined Scripps Translational Science Institute, where he will use his data-analyzing prowess to help drive transformation in...
Around ten years ago, Jules Urbach was sitting at the table at his mom’s house, coding away, when there was a knock at the door. His mom answered, but the visitor was for him. Directors J.J. Abrams and David Fincher had some questions about a...
Slack, the increasingly popular team-messaging software, wants more developers to build apps that hook into its work-chat software. So it's announcing new software, Botkit, to simplify the building of such apps; a directory to make it easier to find them; and an investment fund to back...
Now is the winter of tech companies’ discontent. By that I mean December is fast becoming the time of the year for tech companies to shutter apps and services that haven’t quite made their mark. Most recently, LinkedIn has decided to fully discontinue its Pulse News...
Turning Point: An AI system teaches itself how to play and win video games without any programming. Welcome to the era of AI-human hybrid intelligence, where people and artificial intelligence systems work together seamlessly. Picture the scene from the 1986 movie “Aliens,” where Sigourney Weaver slips...
The Disruptive Healthcare Conference, held Tuesday in Madison, featured a keynote session titled, “Interoperability - Can’t we all get along ?” WTN News, invited senior executives from leading rival electronic medial records software vendors Epic and Cerner to publicly set the record and dispel disinformation...
The tech industry is no stranger to change, but the data derived from the IoT is taking disruption to a new level—sforzando. At IBM's Insight conference last month, Bob Picciano, senior vice president of IBM Analytics, talked about the rise of the “cognitive business”, or...
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft was once the epitome of everything wrong with security in technology. Its products were so infested with vulnerabilities that the company’s co-founder, Bill Gates, once ordered all of Microsoft engineers to stop writing new code for a month and focus on...