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Google on Tuesday announced a suite of analytics products for marketers The Google Analytics 360 Suite is a set of integrated data and marketing analytics products designed to give enterprise-class marketers the ability to reach consumers with the right message at the right moment, according to Paul Muret, Google's vice president of analytics, disp...

Personal digital assistants are of little benefit for people experiencing a serious personal crisis, such as sexual assault or thoughts of suicide, according to a study published Monday inJAMA Internal Medicine The research looked at four major personal assistants -- Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google Now and Samsung's S Voice. The virtual a...

Apple recently updated its iAd specifications to allow the display of sponsored posts directly in users' news feeds in the Apple News app for the iPhone and iPad The ads will appear in native-banner format and can link to articles in the News app. They will be set in the same default font as News articles and will have the same look, with a title, ...

IDC Health Insights on Monday outlined best practices for customer engagement strategies to help health insurance companies adopt a semiretail approach to interacting with members or patients Health insurers need an integrated customer engagement strategy enabling automated interactions, shared communications, and appropriate transaction and inform...

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that's left wondering whether the latest gadget announcements suggest that now is our winter of discontent or if they're heralding a glorious summer ...

The ability to run the Android OS as a fully functional desktop on PCs took a giant leap forward this month with a release that merges theAndroid-x86 Project with Jide Technology'sRemix OS distribution....

A new front may have opened up between the Department of Justice and Silicon Valley in the ongoing legal battle over government access to encrypted data, this time involvingWhatsApp, the electronic messaging and voice system owned by Facebook DoJ officials have been debating how to proceed in a criminal case in which a court-ordered wiretap has bee...

Google'sAlphaGo on Tuesday rocked the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence when it beat 18-time international Go champion Lee Se-dol the final round of the Google DeepMind Challenge ...

Microsoft on Monday unveiled AIX, a platform that its researchers have been using to turn Minecraft into an artificial intelligence learning environment. Although Microsoft's 2014 decision to buy Minecraft raised some eyebrows -- the main criticism being that the game had run its course by then -- the company has been putting it to some innovative...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise last week announced the public availability of its HPE Haven OnDemand Machine Learning as a Service The Microsoft Azure cloud-based platform provides more than 60 APIs and services that deliver deep learning analytics on a variety of data, including text, audio, images, social Web and video....

Micrososft on Monday withdrew a notice posted earlier in the day to its Windows website, which declared that bitcoin currency no longer would be accepted in its users' accounts "We continue to support Bitcoin for adding money to your Microsoft Account which can be used for purchasing content in the Windows and Xbox stores," the company said in a st...

The USA Today Network last week announced VRtually There, a virtual reality news program that will evolve alongside the nascent VR sector Set to launch this spring, VRtually There will take a network approach and will air an assortment of regularly scheduled programming, according to theGannett-owned company....

Google last week announced a developer preview of Android N, the forthcoming release of its mobile operating system The release came early; it was widely expected to be unveiled in May at Google I/O 2016, the Google developers conference....

Philips Lighting on Monday unveiled its Philips Hue white ambiance connected light bulbs Designed to feature more natural light, the bulbs can gradually brighten in the morning to help users wake up naturally, while at night they can dim to help ease users to sleep....

The legal battle between Apple and the Department of Justice over access to encrypted iPhone data got a little more personal last week after lawyers for Apple blasted a government filing that accused the company of collaborating with the Chinese government The DoJ's filing was nothing more than a smear campaign designed to paint a false picture of ...

There's an old rather funny movie called The Mouse That Roared. Basically, it is about a little no-name country that decides to go to war with the U.S. and lose, so that the U.S. will pay it reparations. Only it somehow wins, to everyone's surprise. It isn't clear whether Donald Trump declared war on Silicon Valley or the other way around -- it...

Oculus VR this week launched Oculus Social for Samsung's Gear VR viewer Gear VR users can create profiles on Oculus Social and search out friends via real names or handles....

Apple on Thursday sent out media invitations to a March 21 event at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, with the cryptic teaser, "Let us loop you in." Speculation is rife that the company will unveil a new 4-inch iPhone called the "iPhone SE." A 9.7-inch iPad Air also is expected, as well as some new Apple Watch bands and minor hardware and so...

Lawmakers this week sent to the White House the draft version of a bill that would penalize technology companies if they failed to cooperate on encryption cases, according to Capitol Hill sources The bill, sponsored by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would open up tech comp...

Opera on Thursday announced that new version of its desktop browser will have ad blocking built in Users can block ads in other browsers, but only through add-on programs called "extensions." With ad blocking built in, Opera's Web engine can perform the task better than extensions....