Chat bot lets companies do job interviews via chat

A Singapore-based tech start-up has introduced a faster way for employers to screen job applications through a messaging app powered by artificial intelligence (AI). GrabJobs,...

Adobe Flash to be phased out by 2020

SAN FRANCISCO -- Adobe on Tuesday said its Flash software that served up video and online games for decades will be killed off over...

Microsoft moves to erase Paint, then takes it back after a change of art

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft put out word that it would not abandon Paint after reports of its pending demise triggered a deluge of lament...

Acer introduces new cloud solutions

By Zsarlene B. Chua Reporter THE CLOUD solutions arm of New Taipei-based Acer, Inc., has presented three new solutions under its Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC)...

Tech billionaires Musk, Zuckerberg trade barbs over artificial intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO -- Visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg were trading jabs on social media over artificial intelligence this week in...

Why you should replace your PC screen with an AR headset

By Selina Wang Bloomberg IMAGINE an office without computer monitors, cubicles or chairs. Everyone is wearing headsets that project their work in the form of 3-D...

Google Glass returns, eyes enterprise market

SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES -- After spending two years on the sidelines, Google Glass Internet-linked eyewear is back in the game, this time aimed...

Microsoft Cloud to help Baidu smart cars effort

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft’s cloud computing platform will be used outside China for collaboration by members of a self-driving car alliance formed by Chinese...

Want to escape traffic? Take a flying taxi

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL -- While Uber has changed ground transport in many cities, Sao Paulo’s infernal traffic jams have sparked a new app that...

Google, Amazon join online protest of net neutrality change

HOW MANY online activists does it take to save Silicon Valley’s favorite Obama-era regulation? Organizers of an online protest aimed at derailing a Republican plan...

App for women turns phones into panic buttons

CIUDAD JUçREZ, MEXICO -- The Mexican city of Juarez has been dubbed “the capital of murdered women”: since the 1990s, hundreds of women have...

IBM revamps network unit around Watson AI

INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is revamping its Global Technology Services division, which helps customers run their computer networks, to rely more heavily on...