You pay less if the item you’re buying has a couple of dings on it. Verizon is apparently close to purchasing Yahoo’s Internet properties for roughly $4.8 billion, a price that includes a $250 million discount after the revelation of security breaches at the web company. Sources close to the store cited the discounted price […]
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Machine learning is the hip new thing and Apple wants to be as large a part of it as humanly possible. Adding to its collection of machine learning acquisitions, following a buyout of Perceptio at the end of 2015 and Turi just a few months ago, Apple has now acquired an India/US-based machine learning team, […]
Apple has apparently acquired Gliimpse, a health startup whose stated aim is to allow any American to pull together a comprehensive picture of their health, which they would be free to share with medical professionals as desired. The acquisition reportedly happened “earlier this year” and has yet to be noted by Apple or published on […]
The perpetually useful Parallels Desktop has just hit version 12. The new version arrives with support for macOS Sierra alongside a new standalone app called Parallels Toolbox, which allows users to perform some simple tasks that aren’t necessarily tied to virtualization. New features include a Windows 10 “always on” function wherein Windows 10 continues to […]
Add this to the other cool things Apple has bought over the years and may or may not do something with. Apple has apparently purchased VocalIQ, a startup located in the UK that has “developed a self-learning dialogue API built on 10 years of natural language research, belief tracking, decision making, and message generation.” Albeit […]