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Google will require contracting companies it does business with to give employees health care, parental leave and other benefits. The decision comes after months of activism from Google staff and contractors asking for equal treatment. Continue reading Google to Require Contractors Get Health Care, Parental Leave
Google recently appointed an external ethics council to deal with tricky issues in artificial intelligence. In less than a week, the council is already falling apart, a development that may jeopardize Google’s chance of winning more military cloud-comp… Continue reading Google AI Ethics Council Is Falling Apart After a Week
The CIA is preparing to significantly increase its reliance on cloud-computing services, with plans to solicit tens of billions of dollars of work divided among multiple tech companies. Continue reading CIA Gives Tech Rivals Chance to Take on Amazon in Cloud Services
Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith, whose company does not have a video-hosting site like Google’s YouTube or Facebook Inc., said that tech companies can no longer "think of their platforms akin to a postal service without regard to the responsi… Continue reading Microsoft's Smith Urges Talk of Tech's 'Legal Responsibilities'
The Experience Platform will unify business applications added in acquisitions and connect them with third-party apps and customers’ other programs. Continue reading Adobe to Unveil Software Platform, Taking on Salesforce
The ransomware attack crippling one of the world’s top aluminum makers is exposing how crucial sophisticated digital systems have become in the centuries-old industry of turning mined rock into metal products. Continue reading Cyber Attack Puts a Spotlight on Fragile Global Supply Chain
Oracle Corp.’s shares fell after the company gave a disappointing fourth-quarter revenue and profit forecast, another setback in the software maker’s push to become a significant player in cloud computing. Continue reading Oracle Slips on Disappointing Forecast as Cloud Woes Persist
Global users encountered only partially loaded pages or no content at all on Facebook’s main social network and its related services, including photo-sharing site Instagram and messaging tools Messenger and WhatsApp. The outage continued into Thursday…. Continue reading Facebook Says Server Change Caused Widespread Outage
Microsoft will use its Azure cloud and machine-learning software to develop ways to increase the productivity and purity of viruses that Oxford Biomedica makes to carry healthy genetic sequences into cells with broken and malformed genes. Continue reading Microsoft to Work With Gene-Therapy Company Oxford Biomedica
Amazon counts some 80,000 “skills”—its name for apps—in its marketplace. It seems impressive, but at this point in their development, Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store each boasted more than 550,000 applications and minted fortunes for many s… Continue reading Amazon’s Alexa has 80,000 Apps — and Not a Single Runaway Hit