
IBM withdraws annual forecast
COVID-19 changing everything
IBM has withdrawn its 2020 annual forecast due to the impact of the COVID-19.

Speech recognition systems understand white people
They are more like us
Speech recognition systems from five of the world's biggest tech companies -- Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft -- make far fewer errors with users who are white than with users who are black.

IBM commercialises AI communication
Will help our machine overlords understand us better
IBM is commercialising a new technology that makes it easier for computers to understand human communication.

IBM sues Airbnb
Nicked four of our patents
IBM is taking Airbnb to court over what it claims is the illegal use of four patents -- the latest in a string of suits against online companies.

IBM snubs Microsoft Teams
Cuts it some Slack instead
Big Blue has snubbed Microsoft's Microsoft Teams and chosen Slack for its more than 350,000 employees it what is being seen as a big test for the software.

Big Blue has management shake-up
Krishna takes top role
IBM named Arvind Krishna as chief executive officer, replacing longtime CEO Virginia Rometty.

IBM takes a step towards argument mining
Is this the five minute or the ten minute argument?
IBM has taken a big step towards developing an artificial intelligence technique known as argument mining.

Red Hat and IBM take on Oracle
Tells the supremes that APIs cannot be copyrighted
Red Hat and IBM jointly filed their own amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the "Google vs. Oracle" case, arguing that APIs cannot be copyrighted.

IBM annouces record number of patents
9,200 last year
Big Blue announced that the company received a record number of patents in 2019 – reaching over 9,200, marking the company’s 27th consecutive year of US patent leadership.

Big Blue comes up with batteries from the sea
My lap-top smells of fish
Big Blue boffins have developed a new battery whose unique ingredients can be extracted from seawater instead of mining.