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Apple’s online-only WWDC developer event will kick off on June 22
Apple Inc. today shared new details about the virtual edition of its Worldwide Developer Conference that will take place this year, most notably the date: The event is scheduled to kick off on June 22. WWDC is a normally in-person conference held in San Jose, California, that Apple uses to unveil new versions of iOS. ...
Database startup Cockroach Labs reels in $86.6M funding round
Database startup Cockroach Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised $86.6 million in funding from a roster of blue-chip investors, among them Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm and Sequoia Capital. Cockroach Labs said it plans to use the cash to support the continued development of its namesake CockroachDB platform. The platform, which is ...
Apple refreshes 13-inch MacBook Pro with quad-core Intel chips, new keyboard
Apple Inc. today pulled back the curtains on a refreshed version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with quad-core processor options, significantly more storage capacity and, perhaps most important, an overhauled keyboard. The laptop will start shipping to customers this week. It’s arriving hot on the heels of the new MacBook Air that Apple introduced in ...
AWS vice president and senior engineer Tim Bray resigns after worker firings
Tim Bray, a distinguished engineer and vice president at Amazon Web Services Inc., penned a blog post today announcing that he has quit over “Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.” Bray is a prominent technologist who joined AWS in 2014 after a stint at Google LLC as Android ...
Nvidia to acquire Sequoia-backed networking startup Cumulus Networks
Nvidia Corp. today announced that it has struck an agreement to acquire Cumulus Networks Inc., a data center networking startup backed by $129 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and others. The terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Cumulus sells a Linux-based operating system for data center switches that is used ...
Pure Storage gives FlashBlade systems a software boost with Purity 3.0 release
Pure Storage Inc. today introduced a new release of Purity, the software powering its FlashBlade systems for holding unstructured information, that packs an expanded set of data management and protection features. FlashBlade is a series of compact flash systems designed for storing unstructured information formatted as objects or files. The product line mainly targets performance-intensive ...
Google open-sources Tapas, a natural language AI for analyzing relational data
Google LLC has released the code for Tapas, an internally developed artificial intelligence that can take a natural language question such as “What’s the name of the latest iPhone?” and fetch the answer from a relational database or spreadsheet. The search giant’s researchers detailed the AI on Thursday. Tapas is based on BERT, a natural-language ...
ICANN blocks controversial $1.1B sale of .org registry to investment firm
ICANN, an internet body responsible for overseeing the domain name system that underpins the web, today blocked a deal that would have given an investment firm control over the world’s .org domains. The Internet Society, the nonprofit that runs the .org registry, last year announced plans to hand over control to investment firm Ethos Capital as part of ...
Interface design startup Figma lands $2B valuation after raising $50M
Figma Inc., a startup whose interface design platform is used by the likes of Microsoft Corp. and Twitter Inc., today announced that it has picked up $50 million from an Andreessen Horowitz-led investor group. The Series D round reportedly values Figma at $2 billion. Andreessen Horowitz was joined in the investment by Index Ventures, Greylock, ...
Zoom retracts claim of 300M daily active users as rivals narrow the gap
Zoom Video Communications Inc. has walked back a claim it made earlier this month about having 300 million daily active users, indicating that the number of people logging into its platform daily is lower. The company’s stock is down nearly 7% today on the news. Zoom revised its publicly stated user count by quietly updating the blog post in ...