Category: Software Category

October 16, 2018

Medtronic, a maker of medical devices and implants, has pulled the plug on its internet-based software update system, which security researchers had found had a dangerous security vulnerability The company said in a notice this week that it’s switching off […]

October 16, 2018

Visual search engine Pinterest is rolling out new features this morning that will make it easier for people to purchase the products on its platform. The $12 billion company, which has 250 million monthly active users, has rebuilt the infrastructure […]

October 15, 2018

Adobe didn’t waste any time giving attendees of its Adobe MAX conference something to cheer about on Monday, as the software company announced that Photoshop CC is finally coming to iPad. This isn’t a scaled-down version of the app, but […]

October 15, 2018

Is there nothing artificial intelligence can’t do? The Google AI team developed a deep learning tool that can spot advanced breast cancer with greater accuracy than doctors. Introduced last year, the LYmph Node Assistant (LYNA) algorithm was trained to recognize […]

October 12, 2018

It’s almost 2019, if you can believe it, and more than fall leaves or pumpkin spice lattes, tech fans like myself relish the smell of a freshly unboxed smartphone (thanks to Apple’s annual September unveiling). But it’s not just consumers […]

October 11, 2018

Increasingly, developers rely on a microservices architecture to build an application as a suite of fine-grained, narrowly focused, and independent services, each of which is developed and deployed independently. Despite the agility fostered by the microservices approach, it also brings […]

October 11, 2018

Shopping carts are a utilitarian asset meant to help haul goods you intend to purchase to the checkout lanes. Walmart, it seems, believes carts should be capable of far more. The big box retailer filed a patent earlier this year […]

October 10, 2018

If you remember last year’s massive Equifax breach, you may also recall DoNotPay, a “robot lawyer.” The AI started as an easy way for people to dispute parking tickets and other minor annoyances, but it quickly expanded to offer more […]

October 10, 2018

Every year Google brings new features to its Photos app together with the Pixel launch. This year, Google introduced Live albums and new editing features in the app. Live albums is a feature that automatically adds photos of people and […]

October 9, 2018

It’s easy to imagine artificial intelligence as a force that makes existing technology more convenient or more powerful, or as one that opens the door to entirely novel possibilities. But one overlooked effect could dramatically change our society, and how […]