BuildDirect opens its freight-shipping platform

 BuildDirect has developed a name for itself as an online store for home improvement products. One…

Kubernetes on Microsoft’s Azure Container Service is now generally available

 Kubernetes, the Google-incubated open source container orchestration system, is quickly becoming the de facto standard for…

How Google’s Project Loon balloons learned to loiter

 When Google launched Project Loon a few years ago, the plan was to provide internet access to underserved…

YouTube says it now has automatically captioned 1 billion videos

 When Google rolled out its automatic captioning service for YouTube back in 2009, the results were far from…

Google’s A.I. Duet experiment lets you jam with the machine

 Google today launched a fun new machine learning experiment: A.I. Duet. This new web-based experiment lets…

Google Home now lets you shop by voice just like Amazon’s Alexa

 The Google Assistant on Google Home is getting a new feature today that may sound rather familiar…

Google teams up with Kaggle to host $100,000 video classification challenge

 Google and Kaggle today announced a new machine learning challenge that asks developers to find the…

Linode challenges DigitalOcean with its new $5 instances

 Linode has been in the virtual private server (VPS) game for longer than most, but in…