Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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Facebook earnings beat back bad news, but privacy issues may slow sales

APPS By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Updated: Beating back weeks of negative publicity all the way into today, Facebook Inc. reported better-than-expected second quarter results on strong sales of mobile ads on its core app and Instagram. The social networking giant has been buffeted by a seemingly endless series …

Shades of South by Southwest: Amazon to hold music fest at re:Invent cloud conference

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

In a twist on the annual South by Southwest event that added a large tech component to its music festival, Amazon Web Services Inc. plans to hold a full-blown music festival at its annual cloud conference in December. Tweeted quietly late last week …

Salesforce aims to bring more common sense to AI

AI By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Machine learning and deep learning have produced plenty of breakthroughs in recent years, from more capable speech and image recognition to self-driving cars. But one big problem with these artificial-intelligence techniques that attempt to mimic how the brain works is that the …

VMware to acquire Avi Networks to make data centers cloudier

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

In a continuing bid to help data centers become more cloudlike, VMware Inc. today said it plans to acquire Avi Networks Inc. for an undisclosed price. Avi provides application delivery services to large enterprises such as Deutsche Bank, Cisco Systems Inc. and Adobe Systems …

Big bets, billion-dollar failures: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on how to succeed in business

AI By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

In a rather rare public appearance, Amazon.com Inc. founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos provided no news but offered up a few of his well-honed tips for creating and building successful businesses at a “fireside chat” today. The only exciting moment at …

Amazon will soon make its Alexa AI a lot more conversational

AI By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Alexa, Amazon.com Inc.’s increasingly ubiquitous digital voice assistant, is about to get a lot chattier. Today at the company’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, Amazon said it has developed a new approach using deep learning, which has already produced new capabilities in …

Robert Downey Jr. reveals group that will use robotics, nanotech and AI to clean up the environment

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Actor and producer Robert Downey Jr. launched a group Tuesday night at Amazon.com Inc.’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas that plans to use advanced technologies to clean up the environment “significantly if not totally” in about 10 years. Somewhat more specifically, Downey …

No cloud required: Why AI’s future is at the edge

AI By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

For all the promise and peril of artificial intelligence, there’s one big obstacle to its seemingly relentless march: The algorithms for running AI applications have been so big and complex that they’ve required processing on powerful machines in the cloud and data …

Wearable shrinks, the return of silicon and eight more hot tech trends

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Get ready for therapy by text message, new silicon chip architectures and personalized fertility services. Those are a few of the hot technology trends that will take off in the next few years, according to five venture capitalists on a panel Thursday …

At I/O, Google debuts new hardware, but AI-driven services get the love

EMERGING TECH By ROBERT HOF7 YEARS AGO

Pretty much as expected, Google LLC today debuted two new midrange smartphones and a new hub for home devices, but improved services such as a recharged Google Assistant that works much faster got most of the love from the tech giant. Headlining …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Facebook earnings beat back bad news, but privacy issues may slow sales

Shades of South by Southwest: Amazon to hold music fest at re:Invent cloud conference

Salesforce aims to bring more common sense to AI

Big bets, billion-dollar failures: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on how to succeed in business

Amazon will soon make its Alexa AI a lot more conversational

Wearable shrinks, the return of silicon and eight more hot tech trends

At I/O, Google debuts new hardware, but AI-driven services get the love

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