Technology

  Relaxnews What should you do when a colleague collapses at work or when someone loses consciousness in the street? Defibrillators are now installed in most public places (train stations, streets, etc.) and workplaces, and can save lives in the event of cardiac arrest. An app- lication, called “Staying Alive”, lists 80,000 such devices worldwide, and lets users locate nearby ...

  Emirates Business Infoblox Inc., the network control company that provides Actionable Network Intelligence, today announced the latest release of its software (NIOS 8.0) for DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (DDI) to automatically scale according to the needs of the network. NIOS 8.0 provides organizations with “elastic scaling” capability – a way to add or reduce DDI capacity on-demand ...

  AP Whether it’s a video clip of your friend’s dog or a live stream of the presidential debates, you are likely watching more videos on Facebook than ever. And that means you’re also more likely to see video ads. Facebook’s latest strategy is to grow both user-generated and advertiser-created videos as it tries to get a firm foothold in ...

  AP A Samsung phone user in France says her Galaxy J5 smartphone caught fire and exploded on Sunday. The model is different from the Galaxy Note 7 that has been recalled worldwide. Lamya Bouyirdane said that she noticed the phone was very hot after she asked her four-year-old son to pass it over during a family gathering at her ...

  Relaxnews Business software maker SAP SE introduced the most significant update to its database software in five years, including new tools for analyzing streams of data created by smart sensors and a lightweight free version for developers to test. Hana 2, the second major release of SAP’s main database software since its wide release in 2011, includes tools for ...

  Bloomberg Broadcom Ltd., whose chips are used in Apple Inc.’s iPhone and TV set- top boxes, agreed to buy Brocade Communications Systems Inc. for $5.9 billion including debt to capitalize on booming demand for cloud computing and the data centers that deliver it. Broadcom is acquiring Brocade for technology that links computer-storage systems and allows the fast transfer of ...

  Bloomberg Google’s DeepMind AI unit, which earlier this year achieved a breakthrough in computer intelligence by creating software that beat the world’s best human player at the strategy game Go, is turning its attention to the sci-fi video game Starcraft II. The company said it had reached a deal with Blizzard Entertainment Inc., the Irvine, California-based division of Activision ...

  Bloomberg How big a threat are the new batch of robo-advisors to traditional active fund managers?Are they, as Sanford C. Bernstein & Co LLC put it in a new research note, an “innocuous robot like R2-D2 or are they Terminator?” To answer the question, Bernstein analysts opened multiple accounts at two prominent European based robo-advisors, Nutmeg Saving and Investment ...

  AFP BlackBerry Ltd. said it will work directly with Ford Motor Co. to develop automotive software, a move BlackBerry says will help it move into self-driving technology as the company looks beyond the smartphone market. Ford has been using software built by BlackBerry’s QNX unit for its Sync3 in-car infotainment system, but previously bought it through Panasonic Corp., QNX ...

  AP Ronald De Feo has watched robots take factory jobs for years. Now he sees them threatening a new class of worker: People who drive for a living. “I am in Pittsburgh; it’s a test market for Uber’s autonomous vehicle,” says De Feo, CEO of the industrial materials firm Kennametal. “We see all these (automated) Ubers running around the ...