Meet the TrashBot: CleanRobotics is using machine learning to keep recycling from going to waste PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart trash can” is fastidiously photographing, weighing, and sorting… Read More
How IBM is using its Watson AI platform to automatically generate Masters highlight reels IBM is using new technology to help speed up the highlight reel production process at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta,… Read More
IBM in the cloud: Inside the tech giant’s quest to stand out against Amazon, Microsoft and Google LAS VEGAS — IBM CEO Ginni Rometty seemed this week to be the living embodiment of what could be the company’s… Read More
Twitter starts using IBM’s Watson technology to help identify bullies who tweet LAS VEGAS — Twitter wants to do a better job of policing bullies who tweet, and Twitter vice-president of data strategy… Read More
IBM announces new data center in China, aims to use Watson to beat out cloud competitors The cloud is becoming a bigger part of IBM’s business, and the technology giant is expanding its data center offerings.… Read More
Actor and musician Will Smith explains how he honed his career with data, ‘like an African American Watson’ LAS VEGAS — At a conference full of news on cloud storage, enterprise device management and other technical advances, Will Smith… Read More
IBM aims to undercut AWS and Azure with new ‘Flex’ cloud storage service LAS VEGAS — IBM unveiled a raft of new products and services at its InterConnect conference here today, aimed at making it easier… Read More
Cash or Watson? IBM and Visa bringing AI-based purchasing to cars, running shoes and other objects IBM is partnering with credit card giant Visa to spread the use of its IBM Watson supercomputing and artificial intelligence… Read More
IBM’s Watson Internet of Things engine scores top ranking in new analyst study In trying to enlarge its share of the public-cloud market, IBM has put a lot of emphasis on its Watson Internet… Read More
IBM Watson AI XPRIZE offers $5M for projects that link humans and computers – but who’ll sign up? The latest multimillion-dollar tech challenge – known as the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE – will be aimed at encouraging collaboration… Read More
IBM partners with Spare5 to use Watson technology for golf advice app IBM wants to improve your golf game and it’s getting help from a Seattle startup to do so. The tech… Read More
Watson has an API: IBM takes Jeopardy champ to the cloud IBM announced today that it’s opening up partnerships for developers to work with Watson, its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer. What made it… Read More
Watson in Seattle: Tips from Ken Jennings on beating IBM’s supercomputer A scaled-down version of IBM’s Watson will be in Seattle starting this weekend for the SC11 supercomputer conference, giving attendees… Read More
Q&A: ‘Final Jeopardy’ author Stephen Baker on Watson, IBM, the future of e-books and the fate of humanity Stephen Baker is the journalist and author who traced IBM’s Watson project from its inception and development all the way… Read More
