Zuckerberg’s New Year’s Challenge: To Build an AI-Powered Helper
©2016 Bloomberg News O0EIHL6JTSEH (Bloomberg) — Mark Zuckerberg has decided on a new challenge for 2016: build an artificially intelligent assistant that can help around the home and at work. Facebook Inc.’s chief executive officer aims to build something like Jarvis in the “Iron Man” comics, he said in a
Why Silicon Valley Won’t Enlist in Anti-Terror Fight
©2015 Bloomberg News NZ0JKJ6KLVR9 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s Oval Office speechon combating ISIS included a plea for “high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice.” Hours earlier, Hillary Clinton gave her own speech urging Silicon Valley’s “disrupters” to get to
Facebook Nabs Microsoft Researchers for New Virtual-Reality Team
©2015 Bloomberg News NXD6LN6K50YP (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. has started a new research team to work on areas like virtual-reality and augmented-reality content creation, and raided Microsoft’s research labs for its first three hires. The social network’s new Seattle-based Computational Photography applied research group website lists Michael Cohen, Rick Szeliski and
Devotional 9/15: Reflections on an American Rebel, Kim Davis
I realized that the media has buried the story (now that she was released from jail) but Kim Davis’ story was really significant to me. You are familiar with the story, right? If not, you can read all about it here. I know it was significant for a lot of
Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27 Million Messages
©2015 Bloomberg News NTM8GW6VDKHW (Bloomberg) — A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty to sending more than 27 million unsolicited messages through Facebook Inc. servers after gaining access to about 500,000 accounts on the social network, according to prosecutors. Sanford Wallace, 47, known as the “Spam King,” admitted to his mass
Zuckerberg to Wall Street: Be Patient, Big Things Will Take Time
©2015 Bloomberg News NSA0BT6KLVR6 (Bloomberg) — Patience is a rare investor virtue. Mark Zuckerberg thinks he has the track record to ask for it. Facebook Inc. had just reported second-quarter revenue Wednesday that beat analysts’ estimates, and on a conference call some of the same analysts asked the chief executive
Bloomberg Business: Obama Tries to Draw Companies Into Sharing on Network Threats
Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJON8J6JIJV8 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will create a way for companies to voluntarily share information about computer- network threats while he awaits congressional action on cybersecurity legislation. Obama plans to announce an order setting up a framework for the information exchange as part of a White House-sponsored
Bloomberg Business: Three of Tech’s Top CEOs to Skip Obama Cybersecurity Summit
Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJMWYN6K50XX (Bloomberg) — The top executives of Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Facebook Inc. won’t attend President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity summit on Friday, at a time when relations between the White House and Silicon Valley have frayed over privacy issues. Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg,
