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How Audioburst is using AI to index audio broadcasts and make them easy to find
While Google indexes web pages to make it easier for people to find content from across the more than one billion websites that exist online, a fledgling startup is making moves to do something similar in the audio realm. Founded in 2015, Audioburst touts itself as a...
Softbank’s Investment in WeWork: No Problem
A client asked recently for my view on Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group’s substantial investment in WeWork, whose CEO evidently profited by selling WeWork stock in order to buy properties that he then leased back to WeWork. My client’s question is whether these...
Microsoft Warns Windows 10 Update Is Crashing PCs
Windows 10 just made the most important change in its history, but rewriting the update rules matters for nothing if Microsoft has to keep apologising for the quality of the updates themselves. And it has happened again. Just one week after freezing Windows 10...
How to Stop Amazon from Listening to Your Alexa Recordings
Many users of the popular Amazon Alexa voice assistants may not be aware that Amazon employees listen to device recordings — here’s how to disable that intrusion by strangers spread around the world. Amazon Alexa recordings can be accessed by employees at...
Google Cloud is using Anthos and AutoML to differentiate itself from AWS and Azure
Google Cloud now is now using Anthos and AutoML to differentiate itself from market leaders Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, chief AI scientist Andrew Moore and product management director Rajen Sheth told VentureBeat. “If I’m running a small business or...
Atlassian gives Confluence a makeover, acquires Good Software
Atlassian today announced a new version of Confluence, its collaboration platform. While the company has recently focused more on tools like Jira, Bitbucket and Trello, Confluence has continued to gain traction as a content collaboration tool for technical and...