Boston -- November 15, 2016 -- Machine learning automation leader DataRobot today announced the integration of its enterprise machine learning platform with the Alteryx, Inc. self-service data analytics platform. The Alteryx connector for DataRobot allows users of both platforms to simplify and automate the end-to-end workflow for predictive analytics, from data preparation to modeling to deployment. The connector is now available to download from the Alteryx Analytics Gallery. Predictive analytics can be challenging and complex, often requiring disconnected tools and a variety of programming environments to blend data from disparate sources, build predictive models and then seamlessly deploy them so they can drive real business value. The integration of Alteryx and DataRobot brings together self-service data preparation, blending and advanced analytics from Alteryx with intuitive, automated machine learning from DataRobot.

Electronics giant Samsung on Monday said it will buy U.S. car and audio systems supplier Harman International for $8 billion. South Korean electronics giant Samsung looks to very quickly get up to speed in the highly-competitive smart car business with its $8 billion acquisition of U.S. car and audio systems supplier Harman International The all-cash deal will see Samsung buy the Stamford, Conn.-headquartered firm for $112.00 per share. It is the biggest acquisition in Samsung's history, the company said. Automotive electronics is expected to grow to more than $100 billion by 2025, estimates Samsung, which has made the segment a strategic priority. But the electronics titan -- hit in recent weeks by the recalls of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone and some washing machines with tops that could detach -- is playing catchup in smart cars to competitors such as Apple, which has a CarPlay feature available in a growing number of vehicles, and Google and its Android Auto in-car platform.

Wipro Cited as a Leader in Service Providers for Next-generation Oracle Application Projects by Leading Independent Research and Advisory Firm Business Wire India Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company today announced that Wipro has been cited as a "Leader" by technology global research and advisory firm Forrester Research Inc. in its report, 'The Forrester Wave(TM): Services Providers for Next-Generation Oracle Application Projects, Q3 2016'. Forrester evaluated 13 service providers across three categories of current offering, strategy and market presence. Forrester wrote, "Wipro is a proven provider making big investments in the shift to cloud. It has a long track record of delivering Oracle services ... [Wipro] was recognized by Oracle with a co-innovation award at Oracle's Collaborate conference in 2016." According to the Forrester report: "Wipro wants to be the partner of choice for tomorrow's digital businesses; it has invested in its own artificial intelligence tool, [Wipro HOLMES Artificial Intelligence Platform(TM)], and in next-generation Oracle technologies. Wipro has recently started to invest in digital experience and customer journey mapping capabilities, including its acquisition of Designit and associated studios."

CAMBRIDGE, MA - 10 Nov 2016: IBM Watson Health (NYSE: IBM) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard today announced a research initiative aimed at discovering the basis of cancer drug resistance. The five year, $50 million project will study thousands of drug resistant tumors and draw on Watson's computational and machine learning methods to help researchers understand how cancers become resistant to therapies. The anonymized data will be made available to the scientific community to catalyze research worldwide. To help understand how cancers become resistant to specific therapies, Broad Institute will generate tumor genome sequence data from patients who initially respond to treatment but who then become drug-resistant. Broad will use new genome-editing methods to conduct large-scale cancer drug resistance studies in the laboratory, to help identify tumors' specific vulnerabilities.

Global awareness of data privacy and its implications is improving, not least due to a spate of high profile image hacks. But this has been slow to translate directly into changed behaviour, as in many instances there has been no alternative to storing and archiving images other than on global online services, where data can be mined, hacked and shared. Pimloc, which intends to provide that alternative, was founded in March this year by serial entrepreneur Simon Randall. The founding team includes some of the world's foremost thinkers in deep learning visual technology and computer vision application development across a range of fields. The firm has already completed an oversubscribed seed funding round lead by staff and UK business angels.

Beleaguered action camera maker GoPro is recalling its new Karma drone just weeks after it launched, the company announced late Tuesday as many Americans were glued to coverage of the Presidential election. The recall affects all approximately 2,500 Karma units GoPro has sold thus far, representing a major blow as the holiday shopping season draws near. GoPro says it issued the recall after it was discovered that the Karma lost power during flight in "a very small number of cases." No injuries or property damage has been reported as a result of the malfunctions, the company says. Those who have purchased a Karma will receive a full refund.

Udacity, the education platform focused on helping workers gain skills they need for great careers in tech, has partnered with IBM Watson, Didi Chuxing and Amazon Alexa to offer a new nanodegree in artificial intelligence, the companies announced today at the IBM World of Watson conference. IBM Watson is co-developing the curriculum of the course with Udacity. Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing intends to hire students who successfully complete the nanodegree, as does IBM. And Amazon Alexa is serving as an advisor to Udacity in developing the new AI nanodegree. According to Udacity's founder Sebastian Thrun, who previously started Google's innovation shop Google X and its self-driving car initiative, the new AI nanodegree will be for students who already have a level of mastery in software development.

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Artificial Intelligence vs. Driverless Cars: Which Tech Trend Has More Opportunity? Self-driving cars are well on their way, and many tech companies are focusing much of their attention on artificial intelligence. Here's how big these two trends could get. IHS Automotive predicts that just 20 years from now, nearly 10% of all new vehicles sold will be fully self-driving. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said last month that all of the company's new cars built from now on will ship with fully autonomous hardware (though the features won't be activated yet).

On November 6 2014, Amazon announced Echo, a smart speaker featuring a voice-controlled assistant service called Alexa. The company didn't exactly go out of its way to whip up excitement for these newcomers. In sharp contrast to the rollout of its ill-fated Fire Phone--which kicked off with a press-conference extravaganza starring Jeff Bezos--it simply disclosed that Echo existed and would be sold, at first, on an invitation-only basis to Prime members. But Echo spoke for itself--and not just literally. People quickly saw that the pint-size cylinder was a genuinely new kind of consumer-electronics device.