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eWEEKchat Aug. 10: How Behavioral Biometrics Is Innovating Security

On Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 46th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, "How...

Sling Media Founder Blake Krikorian Dies at 48

Blake Krikorian, a well-known and respected IT thought leader and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, died Aug. 3, apparently of a heart attack while surfing near...

Facebook Opens Separate Hardware Development Lab

It was bound to happen at some point: Facebook, one of world's most prescient software-as-a-service providers, was destined to converge its hardware-development teams into...

IBM Develops Artificial Neurons to Speed Up Cognitive Computing

IBM research scientists have advanced the company's effort to extend cognitive computing with a breakthrough that could lead to the development of neuromorphic computers.Neuromorphic...

E-Discovery Provider Lighthouse Gets $23M Line of Credit

CIT Group Communications and Technology Finance announced Aug. 3 it has provided a $23 million senior secured line of credit to Lighthouse eDiscovery, a...

Why Time Warner’s $583 Million Stake in Hulu Fits a Trend

Several well-established cable and telecommunications companies, despite their huge number of employees and powerful data centers, cannot come up with their own innovation, so...

BP3 Global Gets $10 Million VC Investment From Petra Capital

BP3 Global, a global provider of business process and decision management (BPM) software and services, has landed a $10 million investment from Nashville, Tenn.-based...

IBM Launches Lab-on-a-Chip Technology to Fight Cancer

IBM's research scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can separate biological particles at the nanoscale to enable doctors to detect diseases such...

Alphabet’s Verily, GlaxoSmithKline Establish Medical Tech Firm

Verily Life Sciences, a company owned by Google parent Alphabet, and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline have established Galvani Bioelectronics, a firm that will focus on...

Facebook Aquila Unmanned Aircraft to Beam Internet to Remote Areas

What has the wingspan of an airliner and can fly on the power of roughly three hair dryers? The answer: Facebook's Aquila, a solar-powered,...