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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is betting on a new approach to memory that it says can bring dramatic speed improvements to companies wrestling with growing troves of data.
Apple and Major League Baseball struck a multi-year agreement to equip every team with iPad Pro tablets to help coaching staffs make better use of data.
Markets around the globe tuned in as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen sounded a dovish note Tuesday.
Internet-radio giant Pandora is betting that its charismatic founder, Tim Westergren, can help it strike crucial licensing deals with the music industry.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will begin testing on Thursday a $1 million computer packed with 16 microprocessors that are designed to mimic the way the brain works.
Yahoo has given potential suitors two weeks to submit preliminary bids for its core Web business and Asian assets, according to people familiar with the matter.
The first totally immersive home virtual reality rig is a pricey, awkward, isolating—and occasionally brilliant—glimpse of the future of computing, Geoffrey A. Fowler writes.
The 2013 attack against the Rye Brook, N.Y. facility reflects the vulnerability of industrial control systems, many of which are old and predate the modern Internet, according to the WSJ. As CIO Journal reported last year, industrial control systems faced at least 245 cybersecurity incidents in fiscal year 2014, the Department of Homeland Security said in a report.
Sony is planning to sell a more powerful version of its PlayStation 4 to handle higher-end graphics, including virtual reality, while continuing production of its console.
Apple fired a broadside at what remains of the PC industry last week, when its marketing chief claimed the company’s new iPad Pro is aimed at anyone still using an old PC. Still, it isn’t clear Apple’s iPad Pro can deliver on that goal—at least not yet.
At its Build conference, Microsoft will press its case that developers can write an application once and have it run on PCs, tablets, smartphones and game consoles.
The auto industry is not the first to look beyond the corporate cafeteria for experts—a week barely passes without news of the opening of an innovation lab somewhere. But the vast technological demands for self-driving cars require auto makers to hunt down talent in some of the most exciting areas of computing.
Anti-corruption tools used by banks to fight money laundering and other types of fraud can also be used to help companies combat the use of slave labor in their supply chains.
Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman's legacy could be tarnished, depending on how the company’s fight with Starboard and its restructuring plan turn out
Sony said it would start making games for smartphones including Apple’s iPhones and Android phones, following rival Nintendo’s move into the fast-growing market.
Less than one day after Microsoft Corp. released Tay, an artificially intelligent software chatbot that communicated through messages on social-media services, the program went rogue.
In Oracle’s new cloud-with-a-twist offering, customers can still access their data over the Web, from a third party’s server. But to address the concerns of those not quite ready for prime time, that third-party server is physically located in the customer’s own data center and behind its security firewall.
Oracle on Thursday laid out a major element of its strategy for competing in the fiercely competitive market for cloud computing. A new service, called Oracle Cloud at Customer, allows companies to place an Oracle cloud server within their own data center, essentially turning one of the basic concepts of cloud computing inside-out, according to Thomas Kurian, president of Oracle product development.
Columnist Li Yuan writes that some incubators and shared-office spaces for startups in the country are largely empty and at risk of closing.
Amazon.com, under pressure to release details of gender pay equality, said it found that among its U.S. workforce, women and men earn essentially the same.