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AWS open-sources toolkit for modeling the spread of COVID-19
Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced an open-source toolkit that researchers can use to simulate how COVID-19 spreads in communities and estimate what results different kinds of government responses might produce. The toolkit includes a simulator that can make projections about how many COVID-19 cases will be reported in a region over a given time ...
Daimler teams up with lidar maker Luminar for self-driving trucks
Daimler AG’s truck business, the world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles, today said it’s teaming up with lidar maker Luminar Technologies Inc. to develop self-driving trucks. Under the partnership Daimler will take an undisclosed minority stake in Luminar. Lidar sensors are widely used in the perception systems that enable autonomous vehicles to see the environment. The ...
Google One gets a built-in virtual private network
Google LLC will roll out a virtual private network service for Google One users to help them browse the web more securely. Google One is a subscription bundle introduced in 2018 that gives customers access to additional storage space beyond the 15 gigabytes of free capacity available with every Google Account. It also packs other ...
Microsoft adds ‘third dimension’ to Excel with custom data types
Microsoft Corp. today introduced new data management features for Excel that will make it easier to work with spreadsheets containing complex, regularly updated information. For most of its history, Excel only allowed users to fill spreadsheets with text, numbers and formulas. Microsoft last year took an initial step toward changing that by adding support for ...
Intel to acquire AI hyperparameter optimization startup SigOpt
Intel Corp. today said that it’s buying Andreessen Horowitz-backed artificial intelligence startup SigOpt Inc. for an undisclosed sum. SigOpt, based in San Francisco, develops a software platform that is used by private firms and research groups such as OpenAI to boost the performance of their AI models. Its platform improves model performance through a method known as ...
Marvell to pay $10B for network chipmaker Inphi
Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd. today said it has inked a $10 billion deal to acquire Inphi Corp., a maker of semiconductors for optical networks. The deal is a cash-and-stock transaction. Marvell estimates that absorbing Inphi will give it an enterprise value of $40 billion, while growing the size of its addressable market to $24 billion. Marvell’s ...
Honeywell reveals 10-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer
Honeywell International Inc. today introduced a 10-qubit quantum computer, the System H1, that it will make available to enterprise customers via the cloud. Honeywell is one of the world’s major makers of industrial and aerospace gear. It made a surprise return into computing this March, about 30 years after exiting the market, by revealing that ...
AMD debuts new 26.8B-transistor consumer graphics cards
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today introduced a trio of graphics processing units for consumer desktops that pack 26.8 billion transistors and an upgraded architecture dubbed RDNA 2. The three chips form AMD’s new Radeon RX 6000 product series. The series challenges the high-end RTX GPU line from Nvidia Corp., the leading maker of standalone graphics ...
Infrastructure-as-code startup Pulumi bags $37.5M round
Pulumi Corp. today said that it has raised $37.5 million from investors to expand the user base and capabilities of its infrastructure-as-code platform, which enables companies to automate the management of their cloud environments. The startup’s platform is already logging more than a million downloads per month. Deploying an enterprise application on a cloud platform ...
SpaceX starts beta program for its Starlink satellite network
SpaceX Corp. today launched the public beta test program for its Starlink internet network, which uses satellites deployed hundreds of miles above the Earth to deliver wireless connectivity. The launch is a milestone for a nascent field that could become quite competitive in the coming years. Amazon.com Inc. is building its own satellite constellation as part ...