Software
Former Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer began her comeback to the tech scene Wednesday with the launch of a new mobile app aimed at helping people organize their contacts.
Nov 18, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
She's an important figure behind today's artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up with the idea for a giant visual database called ImageNet that ...
Dec 25, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Despite the recent cancellation of a next-generation US nuclear plant, backers of the carbon-free power source remain hopeful new projects will come on line by the end of the decade.
Apr 7, 2024
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Business
Mance Harmon graduated from college in 1993 when the World Wide Web was just getting ripples, so he remembers the frustrations of trying to explain it to his parents. It didn't make sense to them until they got an email account, ...
May 25, 2022
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Business
In 2013, Harry Glaser and Tom O'Neill started hiring for their new company Periscope Data from their professional networks. They knew they had a problem when "we got up to be four or five white men" in the company, said Glaser, ...
May 3, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
An amusing video has surfaced about an intelligent parking chair inspired by Nissan; the video shows the chairs swinging into action, self-guiding to finally park at a table in response to a person's claps.
Internet
On October 29, 1969, professor Leonard Kleinrock and a team at the University of California at Los Angeles got a computer to "talk" to a machine in what is now known as Silicon Valley.
Oct 13, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Across the globe, data servers are humming, consuming both megawatts and precious natural resources to bring life to our digital world.
Sep 3, 2023
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Internet
Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google's 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted each day, it's difficult to remember how we ever lived without the search engine.
Sep 4, 2023
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Business
Fallen US biotech star Elizabeth Holmes is to begin serving prison time this month after a judge denied her request to remain free while appealing her fraud conviction.
Apr 12, 2023
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