Bill Gross is one of the great heros when it comes to technology incubators. Twenty years ago, he founded Idealab, a business whose business plan is to create more businesses. This started out with just a handful of companies in 1996, and has since gone on to found 150 companies, that have collectively raised three…

Any ideas? IBM boss Ginni Rometty has turned her wrathful gaze towards irresponsible Silicon Valley bosses, saying “the weakest link should not define the digital economy”.… …read more Source:: <a href=http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/27/ginni_rometty_sideswipes_umm_someone_for_being_irresponsible/ target="_self" title="IBM's Ginni Rometty snipes, er, someone for being irresponsible with data, haven’t a clue who” >TheRegister

An algorithm that remembers previous explorations in Montezuma’s Revenge and Pitfall! could make computers and robots better at learning how to succeed in the real world. From a report: A new kind of machine-learning algorithm just mastered a couple of throwback video games that have proved to be a big headache for AI. Those following…

And adds containers to halfway hybrid house Cloud Volumes HPE has made its storage arrays faster with Optane caching, while adding containerisation support to its Cloud Volume Nimble arrays to bridge on-premises, AWS and Azure public clouds.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Security researchers unearth several adware campaigns distributed via apps available through the official Google Play Store. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Thanks to ‘dark patterns’ and ‘nudging’, no doesn’t mean no Seven European consumer organisations have filed a blockbuster complaint arguing that Google’s location tracking in Android lacks a valid legal basis in the European Union.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

New submitter Bruce Henry shares a story: Today’s aging workforce faces an uncertain future. The announcement this week that General Motors will lay off 15 percent of its salaried workforce and shutter multiple plants in North America was a sobering reminder of how far the American worker has fallen. Unlike most large private sector corporations…

It’s now the largest online shopping day in US history, says Adobe Analytics. …read more Source:: CNet

The real thing, sans camo, will debut at the LA Auto Show this week. …read more Source:: CNet

Microsoft and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day In a touching show of solidarity with its Exchange Online cousin, Microsoft’s Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) service has fallen over and is struggling to get back up. Again.… …read more Source:: TheRegister