IBM Security has announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based spinoff from its Watson cognitive technology platform that will be trained in the language of security. The new service will begin with one year of research in partnership with eight universities in the United States to train Watson on the finer points of security research findings, ...

The United States Senate Commerce Committee has issued a please explain demand to Facebook, Inc. after it was alleged that the company censored conservative news in its trending news list. A letter from the Chairman of the committee, Senator John Thune, asked Facebook to detail the steps it was taking to investigate the allegation, and ...

Enterprise flash NVMe storage startup E8 Storage, Inc. has raised $12 million Series B in a round led by Accel that included existing investors Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures. Founded in 2014, E8 Storage offers next generation flash storage with a rack-scale architecture for the enterprise and software-defined cloud. The company claims it can ...

Google is said to be investigating the adoption of an acceptable ads policy as a counter to the growing popularity of ad blockers, according to a report Monday. Digiday claims the policy would require ads served on its Adwords and Doubleclick networks are not obtrusive or annoying, enabling ad-blocking companies with what it calls “acceptable ad” ...

Arthur Budovsky, the founder of the now defunct notorious cryptocurrency service Liberty Reserve, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined $500,000 for his involvement in the site. Budovsky, aged 42, pleaded guilty in January to one charge of conspiring to run a money laundering service. At its peak Liberty Reserve was a ...

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have launched a parallel inquiry into mobile device security updates. As part of the investigation, the FTC has sent please explain requests to eight mobile device manufacturers asking them to provide the agency with information about how they issue security updates to ...

Music streaming service Spotify AB has furthered its push into online video with the announcement of not one, but twelve original television-like series. Each episode of the new shows, which naturally have a focus on music, will be a maximum of 15 minutes and will initially be available to both free and paid users in ...

The Co-founder of Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. has slammed an alleged exposé published by Buzzfeed that claimed the company was losing major clients, and was struggling with staff and revenue. Buzzfeed’s report, which relied on allegedly confidential internal documentation and interviews with a number of past and present employees, claimed among other ...

Live virtual reality broadcasting startup NextVR, Inc. has signed a deal with live events firm Live Nation, Inc. to stream concerts live in virtual reality. Under the deal, NextVR will broadcast “hundreds of live, cutting-edge performances in virtual reality to music fans worldwide.” While a list of which performances would be covered under the deal ...

The future is coming and in this case it’s via General Motors Co. and Lyft, Inc. who will begin testing self-driving electric taxis on public roads starting in 2017. According to The Wall Street Journal who broke the story, the details for the trial of the fleet of self-driving Chevrolet Bolt electric taxis is still being worked ...