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McAfee CTO On Election Hacking, Cryptojacking, Quantum Security

Xconomy

Adversarial artificial intelligence. But the McAfee chief technology officer seems surprisingly upbeat about the prospects of meeting these cybersecurity challenges—or at least putting up a good fight. Election hacking. Information warfare. I met Grobman at a coffee shop in downtown Boston last week.

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Price Check on Aisle 3: Retailers Turn to Robots to Manage Inventory

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And as hard as it may be to believe, retailers “don’t really know what’s on the shelves,” says Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CTO of Bossa Nova Robotics. Bossa Nova, along with San Francisco-based Simbe Robotics, is among a group of tech companies that are using robotics and artificial intelligence.

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Stitch Fix CTO Polinsky Says Its Style Shuffle App Makes Data Fun

Xconomy

When Cathy Polinsky became chief technology officer of Stitch Fix in late 2016, she knew one of the San Francisco-based company’s key challenges was continually refining its core software algorithm to make sure customers received the right tailored suggestions in their monthly wardrobe boxes. So, she made it into a game.

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Colorado’s Webroot Buys CyberFlow Analytics, Expands in San Diego

Xconomy

Eslambolchi, who had served as a LonoCloud advisor and CEO, told Caldwell he had an idea for a cybersecurity startup that would use analytic software and machine learning technology to monitor the data flowing in and out of networks for anything that looks out of the ordinary. This is ‘leaning forward’ cybersecurity.”.

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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

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Michael Wong: I was previously CTO of an agency called Breakthrough Ads. My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. For example, Chris Louvion, the CTO of Citygrid, is one of our advisors, and Greg Kim of Savings.com is also an advisor.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

Xconomy

In a recent interview, Certona CEO Meyar Sheik said the company has taken a measured approach since he founded Certona in 2004 with CTO Geoffrey Hueter. Certona uses the data to offer shoppers personalized options based on “real-time profiling.”. When you get all that data and analyze it, you get interesting insights,” Sheik said.

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San Diego’s KnuEdge, Stealthy Since 2005, Unveils Neural Tech

Xconomy

KnuEdge said its LambdaFabric technology is ideally suited for massively parallel processing applications, and can operate alone or be integrated with Intel processors and other processors. The technology is available for use in neural computing to support machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and signal processing.