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Real-time database startup Imply bags $30M round led by Andreessen Horowitz
Database startup Imply Inc. has raised $30 million in what it describes as an “opportunistic” funding round to build on the eightfold revenue increase it logged over the past two years. The investment, announced today, was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital. Imply now claims a valuation of $350 million. Burlingame, ...
Apple accused of snooping on employees after suing former iPhone chip architect
Apple Inc. and a former top processor engineer who left the company to start a server chip startup are exchanging claims of illegal conduct in a court battle that came to light Monday evening. The startup in question, Nuvia Inc., exited stealth mode just last month with backing from prominent investors such as Mayfield. Co-founder and Chief Executive ...
Xerox pitches up to $1.5B revenue growth to HP investors as proxy fight heats up
Xerox Holdings Corp. wants to convince HP Inc.’s shareholders that its proposed $33.5 billion hostile takeover of the company is a good idea. Today, Norwalk, Connecticut-based Xerox released an investor presentation in which it makes the case for a deal to happen. The printer and copier maker said it’s willing to offer $17 per HP share along ...
Intel hails new cryogenic control chip as milestone toward ‘quantum practicality’
While Alphabet Inc.’s researchers were working on achieving quantum supremacy, staff at an Intel Corp. lab in Ronler Acres, Oregon, have spent the past five years pursuing a different, no less important goal: “quantum practicality.” Intel today revealed the fruit of the Ronler Acres lab’s efforts: a cryogenic system-on-chip for controlling quantum computers. The processor is named ...
In court filing, Amazon charges pressure from Trump, ‘egregious errors’ led to loss of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI contract
In a court filing newly unsealed today, Amazon.com Inc. provided more details on its charge that “improper pressure” from President Donald Trump was behind the Defense Department’s decision to pass it over for the lucrative JEDI cloud computing contract and choose rival Microsoft Corp. instead. Moreover, Amazon’s cloud company Amazon Web Services Inc. detailed a ...
Report: Samsung’s Galaxy S11 will sport powerful 108-megapixel camera
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s next flagship smartphone will bring the biggest camera upgrade in the history of the Galaxy S family, Bloomberg reported today. The South Korean electronics giant is said to be readying a new rear camera for the upcoming Galaxy S11 with a resolution of 108 megapixels. For comparison, Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone ...
Qualcomm brings out world’s first 5G mixed-reality chip, new laptop processors
Qualcomm Inc. has followed up the unveiling of its new flagship smartphone processor by pulling back the curtains on the XR2, a chip for augmented and virtual reality headsets hailed as the first of its kind in the world to support 5G. The 5G compatibility is one of several firsts Qualcomm is touting for the XR2, ...
NFL teams up with AWS to simulate and predict player injuries using AI
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today the National Football League will use its cloud platform to model contributing factors to player injuries and explore ways of reducing health risks using machine learning. The partnership, announced at AWS’ annual re:Invent conference today in Las Vegas, expands upon the organizations’ existing multiyear relationship. Since 2017, the NFL has been ...
AWS launches ML Embark program to help enterprises adopt machine learning
For enterprises, the path to adopting artificial intelligence involves more than just development tools and algorithms. A company looking to deploy AI must first and foremost train its engineers in using the technology, a task that Amazon Web Services Inc. hopes to simplify through the ML Embark program it debuted at its re:Invent conference in ...
Report: FTC antitrust officials are investigating Amazon’s AWS cloud business
Officials with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission are reportedly investigating whether Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services Inc., has violated antitrust laws. Bloomberg broke the news Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources who weren’t authorized to talk with the press about the matter. Details are slim for the time being, and Bloomberg said the ...