Steve Wilson

DARPA backs research into 'unhackable' computer: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is putting $3.6 million into research focused on the development of an "unhack...

Stanford University professor Michal Kosinski made waves recently for research he conducted that suggested AI can determine a person's sexual orientation based on pictures o...

Taking measure of the massive Equifax data breach: The post-mortem on Equifax's massive data breach is just beginning, and the incident'swhich exposed the personal information ...

Oracle signals intent to move Java EE to open-source foundation: While Java EE (Enterprise Edition) has always been open source, a somewhat different perception has taken hold ...

Microsoft's plan for enterprise-ready blockchains: In the works at Microsoft is the Coco Framework, what Redmond calls "a first-of-its kind innovation that will advance en...

The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger consortium has gained steady momentum over the past year, growing to well over 100 members and releasing the 1.0 version of its Fabric platform...

IBM researchers achieve record deep learning benchmark with GPUs: Big Blue says it has achieved a big milestone in deep learning software, through the use of a 64 IBM Power sys...

Google is coming under fire from the watchdog group Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has filed a complaint asking the Federal Trade Commission to probe a new Google a...

IBM's next-generation Z14 mainframe systems have arrived, and the watch-phrase is "full encryption." That means everything associated with a Z14'sfrom applications to c...

Here comes the 'Five Eyes' fallout: Last month, the so-called Five Eyes nations of the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia held their latest meeting on intelligence-shari...

Last week, the so-called "Five Eyes" nations of Australia, Canada, the U.K., the U.S. and New Zealand took part in their annual meeting on counterterrorism, intelligenc...

Google is getting a lot of attention lately over the $2.7 billion fine it received from the European Union over antitrust practices related to its search engine. The controvers...