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Apple buys computational photography specialist Spectral Edge
Apple Inc.’s latest startup pickup is U.K.-based computational photography provider Spectral Edge Ltd., Bloomberg reported late Thursday. The outlet, citing public regulatory filings, detailed that an Apple corporate lawyer recently joined the company’s board and replaced all the previous directors. Spectral Edge has furthermore taken its website offline. Cambridge-based Spectral Edge started out nine years ago as an academic ...
DataRobot acquires Accel-backed data preparation startup Paxata
DataRobot Inc., a unicorn that makes software for developing artificial intelligence models, has bought fellow startup Paxata Inc. to add more depth to its feature set. The deal size wasn’t disclosed in the acquisition announcement that went out Thursday afternoon. It was most likely a fairly sizable transaction. DataRobot is backed by over $400 million ...
Report: FTC could file an injunction against Facebook over its platform plans
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission might stop Facebook Inc. from going through with its plans to add tighter integration among its Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram apps. The Wall Street Journal reported today that FTC officials are weighing to issue a preliminary injunction against the social networking giant to halt the integration project. According to sources ...
Fortinet scoops up security orchestration startup CyberSponse
Less than two months after wrapping up its previous acquisition, Fortinet Inc. has announced a new one: The publicly traded cybersecurity company is buying CyberSponse Inc. in a deal disclosed today. Arlington, Virginia-based CyberSponse specializes in simplifying operations for organizations with a large number of breach prevention systems. The firm’s CyOPs platform can pull alerts ...
Waymo acquires AI-powered simulation startup Latent Logic
Waymo LLC, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving subsidiary, has acquired a British startup called Latent Logic Ltd. that provides software for simulating drivers and pedestrians. The group announced the deal on Twitter today without sharing financial details. The Latent Logic team will continue to operate out of its current location in Oxford, which is set to become ...
Report: Francisco Partners, Elliott looking to take LogMeIn private for $4B+
LogMeIn Inc. could become the next publicly traded tech company to be taken private, according to information revealed in a Bloomberg report today. The usual “people familiar with the matter” told the outlet that private equity firm Francisco Partners Management has joined forces with hedge fund Elliott Management to bid for the company. LogMeIn, which ...
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A ‘new internet’: Cisco debuts unified Silicon ONE chip series for tomorrow’s networks
Cisco Systems Inc. wants to do for the network what Intel Corp. did for servers and personal computers. At a livestreamed event today in San Francisco, Cisco Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins (pictured) unveiled Silicon ONE, a chip architecture five years in the making that’s designed to provide a common foundation for tomorrow’s networks. Silicon ONE processors ...
Twitter plans to fund ‘Bluesky,’ an open, decentralized social network standard
Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said today that the company will fund the development of an open-source and decentralized social network standard in an attempt to address the shortcomings of current platforms. Dorsey, in a series of tweets, detailed that the project will be run by a small independent team operating under the ...
Entering lidar market, Intel debuts industry’s smallest high-resolution camera
Intel Corp. is jumping into the lidar market. The chipmaker today took the covers off a new RealSense camera that it describes as the smallest and most power-efficient entry into the high-resolution lidar sensor category. The device, the RealSense LiDAR Camera L515, is a compact disk the size of a tennis ball (pictured) that comes ...
New ‘Plundervolt’ exploit affecting Intel chips uses electricity to steal data
A group of cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a vulnerability in Intel Corp. central processing units that can potentially be exploited to steal sensitive data and compromise otherwise secure applications. The researchers, hailing from three European universities, named the bug Plundervolt, in a nod to the somewhat unusual attack method it facilitates. Plundervolt enables hackers to ...