Silicon Valley rallies behind Alchemist, an incubator for B2B startups (exclusive)

The startups that have been selected for the first class are far from sexy -- unless a "software-defined infrastructure platform for heterogeneous computing" does it for you -- but they're all generating revenues. What they have in common is that they target their products at businesses, not consumers.

Scientists say deep learning is the future of Silicon Valley tech

It may sound like something out of a dystopian novel, but scientists are confident about a machine learning technology that can recognize and replicate human activities like seeing and thinking.