As Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market leaders like Akamai and CloudFlare grapple with technological shifts, some innovators like Teridion, Signal Sciences and Section.io (in which I am an investor) are making rapid advances. The CDN market, estimated at [...]
The European Commission is trumpeting what it dubs “significant progress” on hate speech takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft vs their performance six months prior. Though it also cautions some challenges remain. Read More on Tech Crunch
Code rules everything around me. And you. Really: be it the stoplight you stared at this morning, or the train you rode in on, or the lil’ robot vacuum keeping your floor ever-so-slightly cleaner while you’re away, code [...]
SpaceX is going to attempt to re-use one of its Dragon capsules for the first time in an active mission to resupply the International Space Station. The Dragon spacecraft was used first back in September 2014 to resupply [...]
Getting to display for free in Startup Alley at Disrupt is kind of like a dream. For several startups planning to attend Disrupt SF 2017, that dream is about to become a reality. The Featured Pavilions rolled out [...]
What’s raised over $6.9 billion dollars in funding, exited or IPO’ed over 95 times, and delivered over 655 pitches? TechCrunch Startup Battlefield: Applications for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF are now open. We’re searching for new, innovative startups [...]
Microsoft today launched version 2.0 of what is now called the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit. This open source toolkit, which was previously known as CNTK, is Microsoft’s competitor to similar tools like TensorFlow, Caffe and Torch and while the [...]
One of Alexa’s more practical, everyday uses is setting timers – helpful when cooking, remembering to perform some task, or alerting kids it’s bedtime, among other things. Today, Amazon is improving its timers by allowing users to name [...]
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, will soon be using virtual reality to help train its employees on topics like management and customer service. VR instruction will be used at each of the retailer’s 200 “Walmart Academy” training centers [...]
