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Kirk Bresniker On Why Naivete Is Key To Tapping Into AI’s Potential
Artificial Intelligence // October 22, 2018

An increasingly non-controversial point is that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been — and will continue to be — major boons to human advancement. Self-driving cars, voice assistants, digital personal stylists, logistics, digital security — there is an application for AI and...

Fax Machines: A Hacker’s Latest Tool
Security & Fraud // August 14, 2018

New research shows that one office machine can cause serious security issues — and it’s not the computer. Believe it or not, the fax machine could potentially allow an attacker to steal sensitive files through a company’s network, using just a phone line and a...

Mobile Data, On Literal Wheels And In The Driver’s Seat
Blockchain // May 16, 2018

It’s mobile data (emphasis on the mobile) — as in data, wrought by and transferred across vehicles. All manner of data — from weather to payments, from cell towers to street lights — uses technology to measure whether other technologies are functioning as they should....

Sources Reveal Meg Whitman Is Benchmark’s Top Pick For Uber CEO
Personnel // August 23, 2017

In Uber news this week, sources have revealed that Benchmark, Uber’s biggest investor, wants Meg Whitman to be the ridesharing company’s new CEO. Whitman is currently the CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. And while she had publicly denied she wanted the job on July 27...

Interviews & Exclusives
Kirk Bresniker On Why Naivete Is Key To Tapping Into AI’s Potential

October 22, 2018
An increasingly non-controversial point is that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been — and will continue to be — major boons to human advancement. Self-driving cars, voice assistants, digital personal stylists, logistics, digital security — there is an application for AI and “smart computers” around almost every corner these days. There is […]

Quick Reads
COVID-19 Boosting PC Sales

July 10, 2020
Add makers of personal computers to the short list of companies that are seeing a net benefit from the COVID-19 crisis. IDC reported that worldwide sales of PCs surged in the quarter ended June 30, 2020, with U.S. sales growing the most. Analysts at Framingham, MA-based IDC wrote, “Traditional PC shipments posted double-digit growth in […]

Fax Machines: A Hacker’s Latest Tool

August 14, 2018
New research shows that one office machine can cause serious security issues — and it’s not the computer. Believe it or not, the fax machine could potentially allow an attacker...

Sources Reveal Meg Whitman Is Benchmark’s Top Pick For Uber CEO

August 23, 2017
In Uber news this week, sources have revealed that Benchmark, Uber’s biggest investor, wants Meg Whitman to be the ridesharing company’s new CEO. Whitman is currently the CEO of Hewlett...

HP Enterprise Already On The Fritz?

August 31, 2015
Hewlett-Packard’s consumer-facing business is struggling, and analysts suspect that the impending split of HP to form HP Enterprise is likely to fare better on the market thanks to recent successes...