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Chip startup Perceive exits stealth with Ergo, a tiny AI processor for edge devices
Chip startup Perceive Corp. today emerged from stealth mode to introduce Ergo, an artificial intelligence processor for edge devices that it says is 20 to 100 times more power-efficient than competing products in the category. San Jose, California-based Perceive was incubated for two years at publicly traded semiconductor firm Xperi Corp., which is also the ...
Axonius lands $58M to shed light on hidden IT assets and vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity startup Axonius Inc. today announced that it has raised a $58 million funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, a follow-up to a year in which it claims to have seen revenues soar more than 910%. New York-based Axonius provides a software platform that helps information technology departments find insecure systems in the corporate network. ...
Commvault sharpens cloud focus with latest platform release
Commvault Systems Inc. today introduced new features for its data protection platform that should put it in a better position to address the ongoing shift of enterprise workloads to the public cloud. Publicly-traded Commvault is an established player in the enterprise backup market that traces its roots back to 1988. After a period of slowing ...
Office 365 will become Microsoft 365 and gain new AI features across key apps
Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to rebrand Office 365 to Microsoft 365 on April 21, a name change that will be accompanied by the addition of a raft of new artificial intelligence features across the suite’s core applications. Microsoft is also adding a new Family Safety app as part of a drive to make the ...
As pandemic hits startups, electric scooter unicorn Bird cuts staff by 30%
Bird Rides Inc., an electric scooter startup that raised $250 million in October, today laid off 30% of its workforce to help weather the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. “Due to the financial and operational impact of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we are saying goodbye to about 30% of our team,” Bird Chief Executive Travis ...
Google pledges $800M in coronavirus aid as Apple launches screening app
Google LLC and Apple Inc. today stepped up their involvement in the global fight against the coronavirus, with the search giant announcing a $800 million aid program and the iPhone maker a COVID-19 screening tool for the public. Google also said it’s partnering with an Illinois-based manufacturer to donate up to 3 million face masks. It’s giving ...
Report: Apple readying ‘several’ Arm-powered Mac desktops and laptops for 2021
Apple Inc. plans to introduce “several” new Mac models with Arm Holdings PLC silicon under the hood in 2021, MacRumors reported Thursday evening. The information comes by way of a research note from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a long track record of accurately predicting future Apple products. Since at least early 2019, reports ...
Internal AMD source files surface online after data breach
Source files for some of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s graphics processing units recently surfaced online after a data breach at the chipmaker. AMD disclosed the incident in a brief statement issued Wednesday. “In December 2019, we were contacted by someone who claimed to have test files related to a subset of our current and future ...
Microsoft buys Affirmed Networks to push into the 5G networking market
Microsoft Corp. today made a significant move into the 5G networking market with the acquisition of Affirmed Networks Inc., a maker of infrastructure management software for wireless carriers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. But the price tag was likely substantial given that Affirmed Networks has raised about $155 million in funding and ...
Slack rockets past a billion usage minutes per day after adding 9,000 new customers
Slack Technologies Inc. Chief Executive officer Stewart Butterfield took to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon to share new data about the rapid user growth the company is seeing as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. Butterfield’s tweets came about a week after the Slack disclosed it had added paying 7,000 customers between Feb. 1 and March ...