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AWS seeks testimony from Trump, Defense Secretary Esper in JEDI legal battle
Amazon Web Services Inc. is doubling down on its challenge to the Pentagon’s award of a lucrative cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud company has filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims requesting that President Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials testify about the government’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise ...
Arm’s new Cortex and Ethos chips promise up to 480x faster AI for IoT devices
Arm Holdings PLC today unveiled a new microcontroller and an accompanying neural processing unit that, when used together, can allow “internet of things” devices to run artificial intelligence models up to 480 times faster than today’s silicon. The microcontroller, the Cortex-M55, joins the company’s ubiquitous Cortex-M family of processor designs. Arm said the chip will ...
Report: DHS bought location data on millions of US handsets
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its agencies are using a massive repository of mobile location data for immigration enforcement, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal revealed today that the federal government has bought information about the whereabouts of millions of handsets in the U.S. from Venntel Inc., a low-profile company based ...
Facebook open-sources PyTorch3D to enable AI that thinks in three dimensions
Facebook Inc.’s research division on Thursday released the code for PyTorch3D, a homegrown toolkit meant to ease the development of artificial intelligence models that can operate in three-dimensional environments. The ability to operate in or at least understand 3D spaces is essential for deep learning applications across several areas. There’s the most obvious field, robotics, ...
In new expansion, Amazon to add 15,000 workers in Bellevue, Washington
Amazon.com Inc. will add 15,000 workers in Bellevue, a city situated 10 miles from its hometown of Seattle, as part of a multiyear expansion plan unveiled this morning. The employees will join the roughly 2,000 staff the online retail and cloud computing giant already has in the suburb. Amazon opened its first Bellevue office building three ...
Cyberconsolidation: Forescout to be taken private for $1.9B by PE firms Advent and Crosspoint
Cybersecurity software maker Forescout Technologies Inc. today said that its board has approved a deal to be acquired for $1.9 billion by Advent International and Crosspoint Capital Partners. The two private equity firms’ offer amounts to $33 per Forescout share. It’s a respectable premium over the stock’s Wednesday closing price of $27.98, but that figure doesn’t tell ...
Report: Huawei, other Chinese mobile giants are developing a Google Play rival
Four Chinese handset makers that together account for an estimated 40% of global mobile device shipments are building a platform meant to rival Google Play. Reuters reported today that the companies involved in the project are Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Xiaomi Corp., Vivo Communication Technology Co. and Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd., better known as ...
Shakeup at Microsoft: LinkedIn CEO to step down as Windows, Surface units merge
Two months into 2020, Microsoft Corp.’s senior leadership team is undergoing some significant changes. The technology giant today announced that long-time LinkedIn Chief Executive Officer Jeff Weiner will step down on June 1. In conjunction, veteran Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley reported, the company’s Windows user experience group and hardware units are being merged. First, the leadership ...
Carrier chooses AWS to power its internet-connected future
Carrier Corp., a maker of air conditioners and building management products with $18 billion in annual revenue, has selected Amazon Web Services Inc. as its preferred cloud provider. AWS shared details of the agreement this morning. The cloud giant didn’t divulge any financial terms, but did say Carrier intends to move up to 70% of its ...
Google Takeout bug sent some users’ private videos to strangers
A glitch that hit Google LLC’s account backup tool last November allowed users to download the private videos of strangers, the search giant has disclosed. The issue, first reported by 9to5Google early this morning, occurred between Nov. 21 and Nov. 25. It affected the Takeout archiving tool that the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary provides to let consumers ...