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Google launches ARCore Depth API to enable more powerful AR apps on Android
Google LLC has released a new application programming interface for Android that will enable developers to create more realistic-looking and functional augmented reality applications. The ARCore Depth API, launched today, will be available on hundreds of millions of Android devices worldwide. A number of Google partners including Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Snap Inc., have ...
Google will start paying some publishers for content under new program
Google LLC today detailed an upcoming program in which it will pay select publishers for content and, in some cases, potentially make paywalled articles freely available to its users. The initiative comes amid mounting regulatory scrutiny of how tech firms use content created by media outlets. Last year, the European Union passed legislation allowing member ...
UJet raises $55M round backed by GV for its cloud contact center platform
San Francisco-based startup UJet Inc. today announced that it has raised $55 million to grow the adoption of its cloud-based contact center platform, which is used by the likes of Google LLC’s Nest subsidiary to deliver customer support. Sapphire Ventures led the round. The venture firm was joined by several existing UJet backers, including Google’s ...
Senate Republicans propose to limit encryption used by tech firms
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn have introduced a bill that would require tech firms to help law enforcement officials access their users’ encrypted data if a court issues a warrant for doing so. If passed, the bill may force companies such as Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. to weaken some privacy features in ...
GPU data warehouse startup SQream lands $39.4M funding round
SQream Technologies Ltd., the maker of a data warehouse that uses graphics cards to speed up large-sale analytics, today said it has secured $39.4 million in fresh funding. Mangrove Capital Partners and Schusterman Family Investments jointly led the round. SQream has raised more than $50 million from investors since its founding in 2010. The company’s SQream ...
Amazon launches $2B fund to back sustainable technologies
Amazon.com Inc. today said it’s setting up a $2 billion venture capital fund to support companies developing sustainable technologies and services. The investment vehicle, called the Climate Pledge Fund, will advance Amazon’s previously announced effort to become net carbon-neutral by 2040. Amazon said it will back companies whose solutions can help it and other organizations reach their ...
Red Hat upgrades Ansible Automation Platform to streamline IT tasks
Red Hat today released a new version of the Ansible Automation Platform, its suite of software products for automating information technology management tasks. The suite is based on Ansible, a popular open-source tool maintained by Red Hat that lets administrators create scripts called playbooks to handle repetitive IT chores automatically. The Ansible Automation Platform also ...
Nvidia teams with Mercedes-Benz to build self-driving cars
In a boost for its automobile chip business, Nvidia Corp. today announced a partnership with Mercedes-Benz to build “software-defined” autonomous vehicles powered by its Drive AGX Orin system-on-chip. Nvidia senior director of automotive Danny Shapiro touted the deal as the biggest collaboration in Nvidia’s history during a press briefing. “We’re bringing the car up to the ...
Nebulon emerges from stealth to disrupt data center storage
Nebulon Inc., a startup led by a group of storage industry veterans, today emerged from stealth mode with a product it bills as the “first ground-breaking innovation for server-based primary storage” since hyperconverged infrastructure. Nebulon is led by Chief Executive Siamak Nazari, a onetime principal engineer with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s 3PAR array business. Chief ...
Bamboo Systems’ new Arm server runs microservices with 75% less electricity
Server startup Bamboo Systems Ltd. today debuted its new B1000N flagship system, which runs on Arm Ltd. processors and is described as needing up to 75% less power than machines that use Intel Corp. silicon. The vast majority of servers today ship with Intel central processing units. Arm chip designs are typically used to make CPUs ...