New-FANGled IT – It’s Guitars Against Saxophones
JUST a few years back if someone would have mentioned words like open hardware, elastic software, modular data centres or everything-on-cloud; s/he would have …
Here’s what a mid-level salary looks like at Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, and other big tech companies
A middle-of-the-pack employee at Facebook makes more than 8 times as much as Amazon‘s median employee. The revelation of that stark difference comes courtesy of the Dodd-Frank …
Digging Into The DNA Of Market Leaders Facebook, Amazon, Apple And Google
There was a message from investors during the two days of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress last week: in both of the …
Facebook appoints a new AI research head
Facebook has a new executive coming on to unify its research efforts in the field of artificial intelligence. Former IBM exec Jérôme Pesenti will …
Facebook admits it poses mental health risk – but says using site more can help
Facebook has acknowledged that social media use can be bad for users’ mental health, a sign the company is feeling pressure from a growing chorus …
Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart
A former Facebook executive has said he feels “tremendous guilt” over his work on “tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works”, …
Amazon’s New Artificial Intelligence Features Are a Challenge to Silicon Valley
Amazon.com (AMZN, -1.79%) this week announced a flurry of new machine learning features for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing business, raising its challenge to Silicon …
In AI Technology Race, U.S. Chips May Be Ace-In-The-Hole Vs. China
The U.S. holds an enviable lead in pushing artificial-intelligence technology out of labs and into real-world applications. Thank companies like Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) for that But …
The Best AI Companies To Work For In 2018 Based on Glassdoor
Facebook, NVIDIA, Adobe, Microsoft, Uber, and Accenture are the five best AI companies to work for in 2018 based on Glassdoor Research and % …
Big Tech blew its big moment at the Russia hearings
Big Tech’s big appearance in Washington this week was a big disappointment. Congressional representatives have been investigating Russia’s alleged meddling in last year’s election. …
How a half-educated tech elite delivered us into chaos
One of the biggest puzzles about our current predicament with fake news and the weaponization of social media is why the folks who built …
How algorithms are pushing the tech giants into the danger zone
The algorithms Facebook and other tech companies use to boost engagement – and increase profits – have led to spectacular failures of sensitivity and …
The Big Idea Behind Big Data
In the Spring of 2009, the H1N1/09 virus — dubbed “swine flu” — made the jump from pigs to people and began claiming its first victims. …
2018 Tech Prediction: Cloud Platform Battle Goes To Next Level
With Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned Google dominating the cloud-computing platform battle, those companies will seek to strengthen their respective positions through alliances with other major tech firms …
The Big Four of Technology
Life will never be the same after Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google. Four tech giants are changing the world for good and bad, but …
Facebook’s head of AI wants us to stop using the Terminator to talk about AI
Yann LeCun is one of AI’s most accomplished minds, so when he says that even recent advances in the field aren’t taking us closer …