Updated with Kika Tech Inc.’s Consumer Electronics Show product introduction and award: The development of artificial intelligence has followed a roller coaster path over nearly 50 years. First there was great promise in the early 1970s, followed by stagnation from 1974 to 1980. Then there was hope again in the 1980s as Japan developed new ...

When King Price Insurance Co. Ltd, a short-term insurance firm based in South Africa, opened its doors in 2012, the company had a noble goal to revolutionize the policy-writing industry. Its novel approach ran counter to the common model for car insurance, where premiums increase yearly for vehicle owners. King Price turned that model on ...

When it comes to the product development process, simulation is a big deal, and the ability to integrate simulation with real products in the design phase is even bigger. That’s why Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and its partner PTC Inc. are particularly excited about a new process that leverages real-time “internet of things” edge data ...

When a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian city of Port-au-Prince in 2010, the world was appalled as scenes of dangerous conditions and unstable situations began to circulate around the globe. Galvanized by the need for help, two U.S. Marines assembled a small volunteer relief team to provide much-needed aid. Like Julius Caesar leading his ...

As enterprise reliance on information technology systems continues to grow by leaps and bounds, the state of a network’s health at any given time becomes critical to routine functioning of the business. Are there frequent hiccups (downtime), feelings of sluggishness (latency), or as in the nightmare scenario — is there a serious disease (computer virus)? ...

If there is a single image that sums up what can be expected in consumer technology over the coming year, it appeared barely three hours into the press conference cycle Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: Steve Koenig, senior director of market research at the Consumer Technology Association, flashed an image on a ballroom ...

The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, a non-profit genomics organization, built one of the world’s first end-to-end medicine programs with the mission to diagnose rare diseases. The Institute’s work demands a data-driven information technology infrastructure that can handle the genomics applications and algorithms needed for accelerated research. HudsonAlpha relies on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. to provide ...

When the dust settled following a flurry of announcements from the HPE Discover EU conference in Spain last November, customers and analysts were left with a clearer understanding over how Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was going to answer questions about its future direction. The conversation begins and ends with data, specifically the applications needed to ...

It’s often a common theme in the tech world that the rich get richer. Amazon.com Inc., an already successful online merchandiser, starts a cloud business (Amazon Web Service Inc.) that becomes an enterprise colossus. Apple Inc., a household name in personal computers, decides to enter the smartphone space and ends up poised to become the ...

For centuries, modern medicine has grappled with the problem of finding the right drug treatment for the correct disease. While incremental progress is made every year, the lag time and expense of bringing a drug successfully to market has frustrated doctors, scientists and patients. In search of a potential solution to this problem, one startup ...