Baidu, the Chinese search engine company, said that it's into Artificial Intelligence (AI), and has built the world's most-accurate computer vision system. Called the Deep Image which runs on a series of supercomputers optimized for deep learning, Baidu claims it to be comparable to Google's.
When talking about providing security patches and updates for old software versions, manufacturers have different strategies. Microsoft, for example, chooses to provide updates for software long after it stopped selling it. Others, like Google and Apple, approaches a more tighter timeline.
As smartphones are already in most people's hands, the landscape is becoming somehow unpredictable. Smartphones were once the promising market for vendors, but the slowdown of global shipment has affected total sales.
The search giant Google is one of the most advanced tech company in the modern world.
The American multinational corporation and e-commerce company eBay is splitting off its payments system PayPal into a separate company. PayPal, the online payments giant, is seen as the real crown jewel of the eBay business.
Instagram, the online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service, is simple and intuitive. It seems like yesterday that the social network was small and still putting all of its wits to grow.
Microsoft's venture into the cloud wasn't smooth, but the company is starting to get the fruit of the business. Microsoft has moved to make database services running on Microsoft Azure more accessible, rolling out more SDK, update database managements and many more.
A powerful software called Metasploit has been one of the most important tool in the hacking world. Regarded as a multipurpose tool to exploit weaknesses on the web, available for anyone who's interested: from security professionals, random criminals to federal agents.
With Facebook Search, the company is quite happy in managing its over a trillion status updates, text posts, photos, and other pieces of contents. And for that, Facebook is quietly dropping Bing to focus more on its own search engine product.
When Google first introduced Cardboard VR earlier at its 2014 I/O event, most people misunderstood it