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Google on Monday announced the release of TensorFlow, its second-generation machine learning system, to the open source community. It's offering TensorFlow as a standalone library with associated tools, tutorials and examples under the Apache 2.0 license Google uses TensorFlow in deep learning, Google Search and other applications.Apps built with T...

Part 1: Starting a Startup: Tips for Budding E-Commerce Entrepreneurs. Selling products online requires answering one basic question: where? Beyond traditional business websites, entrepreneurs have a cornucopia of choices, including Etsy, Amazon, eBay and Facebook. Making use of these alternatives can be a vital part of a business' sales strategy....

Microsoft last week revealed some new details about Dynamics CRM 2016, emphasizing functionality designed to empower customer service agents It will be released in both cloud and on-premises versions in Q4, said Bill Patterson, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics. It will be available as a standalone application or as an add-on to Office 365....

The U.S. National Security Agency is getting a collective side-eye after posting what it characterized as proactive information: the fact that it discloses 91 percent of security vulnerabilities that pass through its internal review process While the agency appears pleased with its newfound transparency, it's being called out en masse for the thin...

BlackBerry on Friday released its Priv smartphone, its first Android-based device The Android 5.1.1 Lollipop slider is driven by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 hexa-core processor and an Adreno 418 GPU....

Microsoft on Monday announced that 104 catalog titles for the Xbox 360 will be fully compatible and playable on its "new" Xbox One video game system, which hit store shelves two years ago. The list of Xbox One backward-compatible games includes notable hits such as the complete Gears of Wars catalog, Assassin's Creed II, Fallout 3, Borderlands and Castle Crashers, among many others...

Lytro last week announced its Immerge concept, a virtual reality camera system that promises to plop people right in the center of an experience the company calls "six degrees of freedom." Lytro's Immerge harnesses the potential of light field technology, the same tech behind the clandestineMagic Leap augmented reality headset....

Karma Mobility last week unveiled Neverstop, an all-you-can-use data plan for its mobile hotspot There are no data caps, and the service, which runs on Sprint's 4G LTE network, is available in more than 450 cities in the United States....

Boy, we really have gone full circle on tablets -- and not just once. Back when the Windows tablets first came to market, a whole bunch of us predicted it wouldn't be long before they replaced all of the notebooks. I don't think they even made it to 10 percent before the tablet market collapsed, and the pre-existing forms reclaimed their shares. ...

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that ventures forth into the land of new gadget announcements to seek out the best and brightest gizmos ...

Facebook on Thursday announced Music Stories, a feature in its iPhone app that lets users post links to music they like with comments Clicking the link will launch a 30-second preview of the music, which is streamed from either Apple Music orSpotify. Listeners then can purchase the music from the service or save it to their account there....

Toyota Motor on Friday announced plans to launch a new company, Toyota Research Institute, as part of a five-year US$1 billion investment in artificial intelligence and robotics technology for automobiles The new company will begin operations in January 2016 under the leadership of Toyota's executive technical advisor Gill Pratt (pictured above). I...

Google this week unveiled Smart Reply for Gmail on iOS and Android It uses machine intelligence and neural networks to suggest up to three possible responses for incoming email, based on the content of those emails....

Microsoft and Red Hat on Wednesday announced a deal that bridges their cloud technologies, which have been separated by the competing Windows and Linux platforms The partnership lets customers migrate their data to either Microsoft Azure or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also integrates features in both cloud systems so customers can use them interch...

Although teens and tweens have more choices than ever when it comes to media activities, watching television and listening to music are their top preferences, according to a report Common Sense Media released this week Among tweens, ages 8 to 12, watching TV was the top media activity, with nearly 62 percent saying they did it every day. For teens,...

Four former delivery drivers for Amazon Prime Now, or APN, last week filed a lawsuit againstAmazon, arguing they should have been classified as employees rather than independent contractors The complaint also namesScoobeez, the courier service through which the four worked for Amazon;ABT Holdings, Scoobeez's parent company; and 10 John Does as code...

Circle Media and Disney Interactive on Wednesday launched Circle With Disney, a device that gives parents greater control over the management of their children's online activities. Circle With Disney provides curated Disney content through a licensing agreement. Paired with a companion iOS app, it allows users to limit and filter content streaming...

Bethesda on Thursday released a preview trailer for its postapocalyptic video game Fallout 4 The game will be released worldwide next week for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One as well as the Sony PlayStation 4. Despite the title, it's actually the fifth major installment in the series and follows 2010's Fallout: Las Vegas....

Microsoft on Tuesday said it would stop offering unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 customers and would cut the amount of free storage it offers Some users abused the unlimited feature, exceeding 75 TB per user, or 14,000 times the average, the company said....

Instagram last week began offering packaged videos tied to topical events, starting with a stream of video content to celebrate Halloween In launching a curated content initiative, Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, is following in the steps ofSnapchat andTwitter. Snapchat launched Live Stories in June, and Twitter introduced a feature called M...