Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small Silicon Valley-based machine learning startup, which could help strengthen the company’s artificial intelligence efforts, including its Siri virtual assistant, The Information has learned.

An Apple spokesperson confirmed the acquisition of the four-year-old startup, which was founded by three former Google engineers, Anand Shukla, Srinivasan ...

Kubernetes, a tool that Google engineers created in 2014 to manage applications running across large numbers of machines, is becoming a kind of standard in enterprise computing, powering everything from mobile banking to smart home applications. Now the question is how much further Kubernetes can go.

“I do think [Kubernetes] is capable of running almost any kind of workload,” Jason ...

The Apple executive responsible for overseeing Siri for the past seven years recently left that role, said five people with knowledge of the change.

Bill Stasior, who was recruited from Amazon in 2012 to lead Siri after two of the technology’s creators left Apple, is no longer heading the voice assistant group, though he remains at Apple, the people said. The change appears to be part of ...