Global technology giant IBM carried most of the blame for the crash of Australia’s online census three months ago and has compensated the government for the financial cost of the debacle, the prime minister said on Friday.Australia’s first attempt to conduct a census online ...
A new maker of self-driving vehicles burst onto the scene Thursday in partnership with IBM’s supercomputer platform Watson, and it is ready to roll right now.Arizona-based startup Local Motors is offering Olli, an electric minibus capable of carrying 12 people. It says the vehicle ...
The Tokyo District Court nullifies the dismissals of five IBM Japan employees and orders the company to pay their lost salaries following another "abuse of power."
Air pollution in China could be big business.Two of the world’s largest technology firms, IBM and Microsoft, are vying to tap the nascent, fast-growing market for forecasting air quality in the world’s top carbon emitters. Bouts of acrid smog enveloping Beijing prompted authorities in ...
China’s controversial anti-terrorism law could be passed as soon as the end of this month, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday, legislation that has drawn concern in Western capitals for its cyber-provisions.The draft law, which could require technology firms to install “backdoors” in ...
It’s hard to predict what the next big thing will be in technology.But IBM is looking at how much “smarter” computers can get with Watson, its new “cognitive computing” technology. IBM stresses that computers must become smarter for the good of the world to ...
Japan is set to accelerate its development of robots to secure a lead over rival nations, including the United States and Germany, as a new industrial revolution beckons.The world is “on the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution, a paradigm shift caused by robotics ...
The IBM Watson computing technology, which has helped organize massive data and has beaten champions on the “Jeopardy” TV show, is now learning Japanese.IBM Watson, a unit of the U.S. technology and consulting company, said Thursday it was working with telecommunications and robotics company ...
State-owned financial conglomerate Japan Post recruits tech giants Apple and IBM to find care solutions for senior citizens.
IBM announced plans Tuesday to bring its Watson supercomputer to Japan with mobile telecom group SoftBank, in a deal aimed at developing new applications for robotics and other services.“IBM is teaching Watson to speak, and think, in Japanese, one of most difficult languages for ...
Half a century ago, a team of young Japanese IBM engineers built a computerized real-time results service for the Tokyo Olympics, a breakthrough that led to modern-day networks such as ATMs and travel reservation systems.The order came in early 1962, when an executive at ...
U.S. stocks ended higher on Monday on investor hopes for a strong earnings season, but IBM’s disappointing results limited gains.Earnings reports from Halliburton, Gannett Co., and others, helped ease the worries over global growth and falling commodity prices that last week helped drive stocks ...
