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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 ...
Intel’s new flagship desktop processor offers 5.3GHz peak speeds on thinner die
Intel Corp. today introduced a line of 32 new processor chips for desktop personal computers headlined by the i9-10900K, a 10-core model with a 5.3-gigahertz top clock speed that is touted as the “world’s fastest” gaming processor. Intel is bringing the central processing unit chips to market under the S-Series brand. All the processors are based ...
Lyft lays off nearly 1,000 employees after ride-hailing business reportedly craters
Lyft Inc. has laid off 982 employees, or 17% of its total workforce, and furloughed an additional 288 in response to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on its business. The company disclosed the move in a regulatory filing today. The news follows a report that executives at Lyft’s chief rival, Uber Technologies Inc., are in discussions ...
Pitching unified cloud backup, Clumio extends its platform to Microsoft 365
Clumio Inc., fresh off a large funding round, today added Microsoft 365 support to its backup platform. Santa Clara, California-based Clumio exited stealth mode last August with a cloud-based backup platform that allows companies to create contingency copies of their data. The startup went on to raise a $135 million investment two months later. At ...