Blair Frank

U.S. Correspondent

Blair Hanley Frank is primarily focused on the public cloud, productivity and operating systems businesses for the IDG News Service, and is based in San Francisco.

Articles by Blair Frank

Here’s how Google is preparing Android for the AI-laden future

The future of Android will be a lot smarter, thanks to new programming tools that Google unveiled on Wednesday. The company announced TensorFlow Lite, a version of its machine learning framework that’s designed to run on smartphones and other mobil...

Blair Frank

Articles by Blair Frank

Here’s how Google is preparing Android for the AI-laden future

Google’s new TPUs are here to accelerate AI training

Microsoft, Amazon go after enterprises with new SAP cloud offerings

SQL Server 2017 on Linux boosts efficiency for analytics firm

Microsoft takes its databases worldwide with Cosmos DB

Microsoft brings customization to its pre-built AI services

Oracle’s next big business is selling your info

Facebook’s text understanding AI is coming to a phone near you

Google Cloud growth is outpacing the company’s ad business

Box revises platform pricing to ease developer adoption

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Elon Musk’s xAI to build supercomputer to power next-gen Grok

Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Backgrounding and foregrounding processes in the Linux terminal

Has the hype around ‘Internet of Things’ paid off? | Ep. 145

Episode 1: Understanding Cisco’s Converged SDN Transport

Episode 2: Pluggable Optics and the Internet for the Future

Has the hype around ‘Internet of Things’ paid off?

Are unused IPv4 addresses a secret gold mine?

Preparing for a 6G wireless world: Exciting changes coming to the wireless industry

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