Jaikumar Vijayan

Google’s general counsel Kent Walker on Sunday outlined four measures the company is taking to identify, remove and prevent terror-related video and content from its online properties. As a first measure, the company will devote more engineering resources and video analytics technology to remove and prevent extremist content from its services. As part of the […]

Google has made more of its extensive research around machine learning and computer vision available to the open source community. The company this week publicly released an API that developers and researchers can use to explore a Google computer vision system for automatically detecting and correctly identifying multiple objects in a single image. Google has […]

Amazon Web Services has made it easier for customers of its DynamoDB cloud database service to manage capacity requirements for their applications. The company this week introduced a new Auto Scaling for DynamoDB capability that is designed to automate capacity management of database tables and secondary indexes. Administrators can now simply specify the upper and […]

SAP this week announced a completely redesigned version of its SAP SuccessFactors Mobile application for iOS devices. The updated app will become available on the Apple App Store in the next few weeks and comes with several features that the company said would make it easier for employees and managers to access and use human […]

Websites have used CAPTCHA’s for years now to protect website registrations, application logins, blog comments, online polls and other features from being accessed and spammed by automated bot programs. Over the years, the programs have employed a variety of ways to distinguish humans from bots including using distorted text, street names, street numbers and other […]

With Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo core businesses set to close June 13, the focus now is on how effectively the telecommunications giant will leverage its purchase to accelerate revenues in the digital advertising space. Yahoo shareholders this week formally approved the previously announced sale to Verizon for  $4.48 billion. The figure is $350 million less […]

Google parent Alphabet’s efforts to put a fleet of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the sky over the next few years for tasks such as package delivery and pickup appear to be taking flight. The company’s Project Wing this week said it had successfully tested an air traffic management system it has been developing for […]

Antitrust authorities in Europe appear to be on the verge of slapping Google with what could potentially be a massive fine over the company’s alleged anticompetitive business practices. Reuters quoted unnamed sources as saying the European Commission has nearly completed its investigation into complaints that Google is using its search engine dominance to favor its […]

Google has released a new version of Spinnaker, an open-source software release management platform for deploying application code to the cloud. Video streaming giant Netflix originally developed the technology to enable continuous delivery of software updates to its hosted applications and services on Amazon’s cloud platform. In 2014 Netflix began working with Google and a […]

Google has sharply increased the cash rewards available to security researchers who find certain categories of vulnerabilities in its products. Starting this week, the company will award $200,000 to any researcher that can demonstrate a successful remote exploit against Google’s TrustZone and Verified Boot technologies. That number represents a four-fold increase over the $50,000 it […]