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Musical keyboards and AI on Kubernetes: AWS fires off first salvo of re:Invent updates
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s big re:Invent conference officially kicked off today in Las Vegas and the cloud giant has wasted no time today, announcing an array of services and features headlined by new artificial intelligence offerings. Amazon Transcribe Medical First up is Amazon Transcribe Medical, an AI transcription service that enables medical professionals to dictate notes ...
PagerDuty doubles down on AWS with Cloud Operations services
PagerDuty Inc. joined the crowd of tech firms announcing new solutions at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today by introducing PagerDuty for Cloud Operations, which promises to help AWS customers catch issues in their cloud infrastructure faster. San Francisco-based PagerDuty went public in April. The company provides a cloud service that ...
Blaming Qualcomm, Intel reveals it took multibillion-dollar loss on modem unit sale
Intel Corp. took a swipe at Qualcomm Inc. in a court filing today, blaming the company’s controversial business practices for forcing it to exit the mobile modem market. Intel sold its mobile chip unit, related intellectual property and equipment to Apple Inc. in July for $1 billion. The transaction came shortly after the iPhone maker struck ...
Panasonic sells money-losing chip business to Nuvoton in $250M deal
Panasonic Corp. today said that it has inked a $250 million deal to sell its semiconductor business to Nuvoton Technology Corp., a Taiwanese chipmaker that supplies silicon for Dell Technologies Inc. and other major tech firms. The transaction has several components. Panasonic is offloading its Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions group, the unit’s intellectual property and its ...
Report: AWS is developing a faster Graviton chip with 32+ cores
Amazon Web Services Inc. is working on a successor to its homegrown Graviton processor that will be at least 20% faster than the original and likely features other major improvements as well, according to a new report. The project was detailed on Wednesday evening by Reuters, which attributed the information to two unnamed sources familiar ...
Palo Alto Networks brings its cyber startup acquisitions together in Prisma Cloud
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today introduced a new version of its Prisma Cloud cybersecurity platform that incorporates the technologies the company gained through its high-profile series of recent startup acquisitions. Prisma Cloud is, as the name indicates, designed to protect companies’ hybrid and multicloud environments. It provides monitoring features for identifying security issues along with breach prevention ...
Facebook acquires VR studio Beat Games, hints at more deals in 2020
In a bid to boost the content ecosystem around its Oculus virtual reality headsets, Facebook Inc. has acquired Beat Games s.r.o, a small VR studio behind one of the world’s most popular immersive video games. The social network announced the deal on Tuesday afternoon without disclosing financial terms. Beat Games will join Facebook’s Oculus Studio ...
AWS’ new DeepRacer Evo is an AI-powered model car with a serious mission
Amazon Web Services Inc. will be treating attendees of its re:Invent conference next week to some artificial intelligence-powered entertainment. The conference will host the company’s second annual AWS DeepRacer League, a racing series starring the AWS DeepRacer, a miniature remote-controlled car that developers can configure with custom autonomous driving models. The cloud giant today revealed ...
Report: Intel is looking to sell off its $450M home connectivity business
Intel Corp. may be looking to scale back its presence in the smart home market. Citing multiple people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg on Monday night broke the news that the company has hired a financial institution to help find a buyer for its home connectivity unit. The division makes chips for consumer routes and ...
Google fires four employees over data security violations, group calls it union-busting
In a controversial move, Google LLC said it has fired four employees after determining they had violated its data security policies. The search giant disclosed the decision in a memo distributed internally on Monday that found its way to Bloomberg. The note, the contents of which Google confirmed to the publication, came from Chris Rackow, ...