IBM announced on Wednesday it was entering into a partnership with Latin American IT giant GBM Corporation to create a new company designed to apply the unique talents of IBM's cognitive computer Watson to the region's challenges. The new company, appropriately named Cognitiva, will be dedicated to addressing complex problems with big data and Watson's incredible capacity for analysis.
IBM announced on Thursday that it had made a working version of a computer chip designed with a breakthrough architecture at the scale of 7nm, about twice as small as the current generation.
Don't get your heart broken this Valentine's Day, but also make sure you don't get your personal life cracked as well. According to a recent report, the majority of dating apps are quite hackable. And for every extra feature offered, more details of your personal life are vulnerable to violation and possible theft.
Recently elected Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis in on a five-day trip in the United States, and he's looking to improve foreign direct investments and trade from big-name companies to his country. He also addressed concerns about taking employment opportunities away from Americans.
As phones, cars, and even kitchen appliances get smarter, so will one other thing: cities. Although smart cities are still a ways off in the future, premier wireless and communications network AT&T and tech firm IBM announced a partnership Tuesday that should surely help speed up the process.
It was a busy week on social media: Facebook announced its continuing dominance and a new mobile app, Tumblr incorporated comedy into its terms of service, Twitter got IBM off its back, and President Obama used the most disliked social media platform to popularize his State of the Union agenda. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
