Elon Musk opens virtual gym to train your robots
High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched an open-source training “gym” for artificial-intelligence programmers. It’s an interesting move for a man…
BrandPost: Putting Big Data to Work for Marketing – Finally We Can Connect All the Dots
Every time chiefmartec.com blogger Scott Brinker updates the Marketing Technology Landscape graphic, in which he lists all the vendors of marketing applications, I…
5 (more) reasons to be a data scientist
“Data scientist” has already been declared this year’s hottest job, and now a new report offers several more reasons to…
IDG Contributor Network: Tesla Model S P90D in 'Ludicrous Mode' is pure technology heaven
Finally! Just today, I was able to test the ludicrous mode on a Tesla Model S sedan, driving around on…
White House releases report on how to spur smart-gun tech
The White House today released a report by the Defense, Justice and Homeland Security Departments on ways to spur the…
Intel is on the verge of exiting the smartphone and tablet markets
Intel could be on the verge of exiting the market for smartphones and standalone tablets, wasting billions of dollars it…
IBM offers advice on how to secure blockchain in the cloud
Cloud providers hosting blockchain secure transactions technology should take additional steps to protect their records, IBM says. IBM’s new framework for…
FCC wireless auction hits spectrum target, paving way for fast, reliable 5G
Television stations have volunteered to sell off 126MHz of “beach front” wireless spectrum to mobile carriers in an ongoing U.S.…
Microsoft declares Cortana search box as Bing- and Edge-only turf
Microsoft on Thursday began blocking rival browsers and search providers from using Windows 10’s Cortana search box, the operating system’s…
IDG Contributor Network: OpenStack Summit — checking in after another six months
I’ve been following OpenStack since its inception half a dozen years ago. Back then the fledgling open source cloud operating…