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Amazon debuts Astro robot assistant and adds more smart home devices
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted a flurry of additions to its portfolio of smart home devices, including a robot called Astro that can transport items between rooms and perform numerous other tasks. Astro is joined by a smart thermostat that automatically adjusts indoor temperature according to the user’s preferences. Amazon is refreshing several existing product lineups ...
Cloudflare targets the cloud object storage market with new R2 service
Cloudflare Inc. today previewed Cloudflare R2 Storage, an upcoming object storage service that the company says will offer lower pricing than existing offerings from the major cloud operators. R2 advances Cloudflare’s ongoing effort to expand into more parts of the enterprise technology market. As part of the initiative, the company has also been growing its ...
New IBM and Linux Foundation toolkit makes AI projects more organized
IBM Corp. has teamed up with the The LF AI & Data Foundation, an open-source group operating as part of the Linux Foundation, to launch a new toolkit for managing enterprise machine learning projects. The toolkit is called the Machine Learning eXchange and made its debut today under an open-source license. According to IBM, the ...
HPE expands GreenLake portfolio with new data protection and analytics services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today expanded its GreenLake product portfolio, a core pillar of the company’s revenue growth strategy, with a set of new cloud-based data protection and analytics services. The GreenLake portfolio includes data center hardware products that enterprises can buy on a pay-as-you-go basis instead of purchasing everything upfront. GreenLake also features a ...
Pure Storage automates storage operations with Fusion and Portworx Data Services
Pure Storage Inc. today introduced two new software products, Fusion and Portworx Data Services, to reduce the amount of manual work involved in managing a company’s information and the hardware on which it’s kept. Publicly traded Pure Storage supplies flash storage arrays for on-premises data centers. It also sells software that companies use to manage ...
Oracle builds more AI features into its cloud ERP platform
Oracle Corp. today introduced a new release of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning system with machine learning features designed to automate manual work for users. A company’s ERP system is one of the most important components of its entire technology infrastructure. ERP systems function as the central hub through which organizations manage their supply chains ...
Dell debuts ‘hybrid’ quantum emulation platform for algorithm development
Dell Technologies Inc. engineers recently tested an internally developed emulation platform for running “hybrid” quantum algorithms, which use both quantum circuits and classical computing hardware to carry out calculations. The company detailed the project today. Dell’s platform is based on its commercial PowerEdge R740xd data center server, which uses Intel Corp. central processing units. Also ...
China declares cryptocurrency-related activities illegal
China’s central bank today declared cryptocurrency-related activities illegal, sending the prices of virtual currencies such as bitcoin dropping. The People’s Bank of China said that services offering trading, order matching, token issuance and derivatives for cryptocurrencies are prohibited. Cryptocurrency services offered by foreign exchanges are illegal as well. The People’s Bank of China stated that ...
Proposed EU legislation seeks USB-C charging support in all smartphones
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, today proposed new legislation that would require all smartphone makers to add USB-C charging ports to their handsets. The requirement would also apply to other types of devices, namely tablets, cameras, headphones, portable speakers and handheld video game consoles. But the proposed legislation is particularly significant for the ...
Panorays raises $42M to find cybersecurity risks in companies’ supplier ecosystems
Startup Panorays Ltd. has raised $42 million to grow its presence in the cybersecurity market, where it competes with a cloud platform that helps companies determine if any of their suppliers has vulnerable networks. Panorays announced the round this morning. The New York-based startup says that the investment, led by Greenfield Partners, follows a fivefold ...