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Tech News Archives • Page 52 of 100 •

Tech News February 6, 2015

  • IBM Says Watson Can Help Declutter Your In-Box

    IBM’s new messaging software uses algorithms to learn how to organize your e-mail better .

    Over 100 billion work e-mails are exchanged each day, but research suggests that only around a quarter of those are actually essential. IBM hopes to lighten that load. Later this month the company will open up a trial of a new online e-mail service called Verse, which uses algorithms to work out which messages and people are most important to you.

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Tech News February 5, 2015

  • Holding Data Hostage: The Perfect Internet Crime?

    Thousands of people will have their personal files held hostage this year, by software that uses virtually unbreakable encryption.

    Every so often someone invents a new way of making money on the Internet that earns wild profits, attracts countless imitators, and reshapes what it means to be online. Unfortunately, such a shift took place last year in the world of online crime, with the establishment of sophisticated malicious software known as ransomware as a popular and reliable business model for criminals.

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Tech News February 4, 2015

  • A Startup’s Neural Network Can Understand Video

    Software that understands what it sees in video could lead to new forms of advertising, or make video editing easier.

    In recent years, researchers at companies including Google and Facebook have made impressive breakthroughs in training software to understand what’s going on in images, thanks to a technique known as deep learning. Now a startup called Clarifai is offering a service that uses deep learning to understand video.

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Tech News January 27, 2015

  • Why the Time Seems Right for a Space-Based Internet Service

    New micro-satellite technology is enabling satellite Internet services that could reach billions of new users.

    Providing Internet access from orbiting satellites—a concept that seemed to have died with the excesses of the dot-com boom—has returned thanks to SpaceX founder (and dot-com billionaire) Elon Musk. And while such a service would be expensive and risky to deploy, recent technological trends mean it’s no longer so out-of-this-world.

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Tech News January 26, 2015

  • Technology Repaints the Payment Landscape

    As technology-driven payment ideas give cash a run for its money, the big winners could be established banks and credit card companies.

    In developed economies, money has been digitizing for decades. Few Westerners touch a paycheck anymore. Through direct deposit, digital money is transferred electronically from our employer to our bank account every pay period. A similar process moves contributions into our 401(k) accounts or zaps money over to pay the rent, the utility bill, a student loan, or any other expense.

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Tech News January 22, 2015

  • Microsoft’s New Idea: A Hologram Headset to Rewrite Reality

    A wearable display set for release by Microsoft later this year can augment your world with realistic, interactive virtual objects.

    Microsoft today showed off an augmented reality headset slated for release later this year. The compact, visor-style device, called Hololens, generates holograms that make 3-D objects appear to the wearer to be overlaid on the real world.

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