Darryl K. Taft

IBM has trained its Watson cognitive computing system to handle a number of tasks, from serving as a customer service rep, to sales assistant, to health care services assistant to help doctors diagnose and treat cancer. But now, with the help of eight universities, IBM is training Watson to be on the lookout for cyber-crime. […]

5 Things Standing in the Way of Autonomous Trucks Despite technology advances that have increased safety and efficiency, don’t expect to see driverless trucks rolling down the road any time soon. Lane Departure Warning After a long day of driving, driver fatigue can lead to lane drifting. Lane departure warning technology combats this problem through […]

Graph database maker Neo Technology recently delivered Neo4j 3.0, the latest release of its graph database solution, which provides increased scalability and developer-friendly features such as language drivers. Philip Rathle, vice president of products at Neo, said the top three new features in Neo4j 3.0 are as follows: –redesigned internals that remove previous limits on […]

When IBM initially launched its Watson cognitive computing platform, one of the first questions on a lot folks’ minds was, “When can I tap into the power of Watson?” IBM responded by opening up Watson to developers via the Watson Developer Cloud, which offers Watson services and APIs as well as useful documentation and tutorials, […]

Still in the midst of a transformation effort, IBM has been on a spree—closing deals and launching projects around what company officials are calling its “strategic imperatives,” which they say are key to its turnaround. In the last few weeks, IBM has closed deals involving IBM Cloud, Watson and cognitive computing, the Internet of things […]

Big Blue has come a long way, baby. IBM announced it is making quantum computing available on the IBM Cloud to accelerate innovation in the field and find new applications for the technology. IBM Research announced it is making quantum computing available to members of the public, who can access and run experiments on IBM’s […]

Progress Software today announced the latest release of the NativeScript open-source mobile development framework. Telerik, a Progress company, launched NativeScript 2.0 at the ng-conf in Salt Lake City, Utah. Telerik’s NativeScript enables developers to use JavaScript to build native apps for all major mobile platforms. Todd Anglin, chief evangelist and vice president of technology at […]

Adobe announced an agreement to acquire Livefyre, a content curation and audience engagement company, to extend the Adobe Marketing Cloud. Terms of the pending deal were not disclosed. The integration of Livefyre into Adobe’s content management solution, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), will enable customers to collect, curate and publish user-generated content (UGC) from all major […]

Once again, IBM has taken an emerging technology and put its own special twist on it to make the technology work for Big Blue and its enterprise customer base. This time it’s the blockchain distributed ledger technology that IBM has optimized. IBM has been able to tap into emerging technologies and quickly adapt them to […]

Adobe recently introduced Adobe Sign, an e-signature solution, and announced integration between Adobe Sign and Adobe Marketing Cloud. Formerly known as Adobe Document Cloud eSign services, Adobe Sign is designed to bring trusted e-signatures to any organization easily and securely. The integration between Adobe Sign and Adobe Marketing Cloud eliminates manual, paper-based processes and is […]