Public clouds hit a wall in innovation
As it opens this week, AWS re:Invent is not taking place in Vegas but is virtual and free. Virtual events are a silver lining...
A Prominent AI Ethics Researcher Says Google Fired Her
Before joining Google in 2018, Gebru worked with MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini on a project called Gender Shades that revealed face analysis technology from...
Mark Zuckerberg gave $75 million to a San Francisco hospital. The city wants to...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s adopted hometown of San Francisco took the first step on Thursday to formally condemn the naming of a major hospital...
A leading AI ethics researcher says she’s been fired from Google
On Thursday morning, after an outpouring of support for Gebru on social media, Dean sent an internal email to Google’s AI group with his...
WarnerMedia’s CEO explains why he’s blowing up the movie business
Last month, WarnerMedia announced that HBO Max subscribers would be able to watch Wonder Woman 1984 at home on Christmas Day — the same...
GitHub expects 100 million software developers by 2025
Gauging the future of open source, GitHub this week said it expects the number of software developers using its platform, currently 56 million, to...
Salesforce targets public clouds with Hyperforce
Salesforce has re-architected its underlying infrastructure to make all of its CRM solutions run in the public cloud as part of a program it...
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A surprising number of government agencies buy cellphone location data. Lawmakers want to know...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will investigate its own use of location data after it was revealed that Customs and Border Protection...
Oracle adds analytics to MySQL in the cloud
Oracle is combining OLTP (online transaction processing) and OLAP (online analytical processing) services in its open source MySQL database in the Oracle Cloud, via...
