Michelle Maisto

Conservative commentator and personality Glenn Beck has accepted an invitation to meet with Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg May 18 to discuss reports of bias in the stories posted to Facebook’s Trending Topics section. Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, presidential hopeful and Ted Cruz running mate, may also be in attendance Wednesday, according to […]

Facebook, in response to a report that editors manipulated its “trending” news sections by keeping out politically right-wing stories and inserting stories that weren’t actually trending, has released a 28-page document—its guidelines for the section. The Trending Review Guidelines were released in a May 12 blog post by Justin Osofsky, Facebook vice president of global […]

Google is reportedly working on hardware to house its voice assistant technology and enable it to compete with Amazon Echo and other voice-based, AI-driven assistants. According to a May 11 article in Recode, the device is code-named Chirp and would resemble Google’s OnHub WiFi router (pictured), which looks somewhat like the Amazon Echo. Google didn’t […]

A Salesforce.com database in North America, NA14, suffered a nearly day-long outage that led Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff to apologize and frustrated customers to vent on social media. Ultimately, five hours’ worth of data updates were lost. As of the morning of May 11, Salesforce was announcing that the disruption had been resolved, though […]

Since Apple’s introduction of Siri on Oct. 4, 2011, a handful of tech companies—Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook—have introduced competing artificial intelligence-guided digital assistants. But who better to outdo Siri than Siri’s own creators, AI experts Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer. On May 9, at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Kittlaus gave a 20-minute presentation of Viv, a […]

Twitter has decided to bar U.S. intelligence agencies from a service that analyzes tweets and provides near-instant alerts of unfolding events, the Wall Street Journal reported May 8. The service is provided by Dataminr, a private company in which Twitter owns an approximate 5 percent stake. According to the report, the decision wasn’t publicly announced […]

Apple and SAP have announced a partnership in which they’ll deliver a new software development kit (SKD) for SAP enterprise applications on Apple iOS-running devices. Additionally, SAP will develop native iOS apps in the Apple programming language Swift for “critical business operations.” According to Bloomberg Technology, which interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook and SAP CEO […]

China may be among Apple’s greatest revenue opportunities, but it also continues to present challenges. Most recently, that included the loss of the exclusive use of the word “iPhone.” The Beijing Municipal High People’s Court has ruled against Apple in a trademark dispute, granting authority to the Beijing Xintong Tiandi Technology Co. to use the […]

Apple has hired celebrated neuroroboticist Yoky Matsuoka to work on health-focused projects, according to a May 3 report from Fortune. According to the report, she’ll work directly with Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, who oversees Apple’s health care initiatives. Among her many accomplishments, Matsuoka is known for being a force behind the success of […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking public comment on a new regulatory framework that will affect wireless networks and services—and that has the five-member group split down party lines. On April 28, the FCC voted, 3-2, on an order of proposed rule making that will jump-start the process of “protecting and advancing competition in […]