The software company said the tools will make it harder to hack elections in the first place, but if one is, it will be clear that results have been altered or tampered with. Microsoft said the tools will probably be...
Project Owl, which stands for Organization, Whereabouts, and Logistics, uses a “clusterduck” network made of hubs that resemble rubber ducks, which can float in flooded areas. Once deployed, emergency workers are able...
Big banks and other financial firms spend as much as $3,000 per employee to defend computer networks from cyber criminals, translating to approximately $750 million annually for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and HSBC each...
The company in April unveiled new artificial intelligence tools to help flag posts potentially containing false information by letting them point to trusted sources that contradicted the post. But such a system could...
There was an easy way Facebook could have shown its commitment to privacy that would have saved Zuckerberg some time during his speech: by rolling out “Clear History,” a feature Facebook promised a year ago that will...
IBM, Oracle and Microsoft are among the companies basking in the White House’s glow these days. All were founded before 1980 and are longtime government contractors with strong bipartisan ties in Washington.
The company doesn’t break out YouTube and cloud revenue, but the two are important sources of future growth. Amazon and Microsoft Corp. are well ahead of Google in the cloud market.
Microsoft unveiled a partnership with VMware . in a bid to bring more customers to its Azure cloud-computing service, emulating a pact that has benefited rival Amazon.com.
Slack cautions that it remains vulnerable to competition if it fails to keep pace technologically or fails to develop and expand its sales. It lists Microsoft as its primary rival, but also notes that companies...
Facebook, Microsoft, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and DeepMind, Amazon, Apple and International Business Machines all said that artificial intelligence algorithms should not be used by law enforcement to make decisions...