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Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn have introduced a bill that would require tech firms to help law enforcement officials access their users’ encrypted data if a court issues a warrant for doing so. If passed, the bill may force companies …
GPU data warehouse startup SQream lands $39.4M funding round
SQream Technologies Ltd., the maker of a data warehouse that uses graphics cards to speed up large-sale analytics, today said it has secured $39.4 million in fresh funding. Mangrove Capital Partners and Schusterman Family Investments jointly led the round. SQream has raised more …
Amazon launches $2B fund to back sustainable technologies
Amazon.com Inc. today said it’s setting up a $2 billion venture capital fund to support companies developing sustainable technologies and services. The investment vehicle, called the Climate Pledge Fund, will advance Amazon’s previously announced effort to become net carbon-neutral by 2040. Amazon said it …
Red Hat upgrades Ansible Automation Platform to streamline IT tasks
Red Hat today released a new version of the Ansible Automation Platform, its suite of software products for automating information technology management tasks. The suite is based on Ansible, a popular open-source tool maintained by Red Hat that lets administrators create scripts …
Nvidia teams with Mercedes-Benz to build self-driving cars
In a boost for its automobile chip business, Nvidia Corp. today announced a partnership with Mercedes-Benz to build “software-defined” autonomous vehicles powered by its Drive AGX Orin system-on-chip. Nvidia senior director of automotive Danny Shapiro touted the deal as the biggest collaboration in …
Nebulon emerges from stealth to disrupt data center storage
Nebulon Inc., a startup led by a group of storage industry veterans, today emerged from stealth mode with a product it bills as the “first ground-breaking innovation for server-based primary storage” since hyperconverged infrastructure. Nebulon is led by Chief Executive Siamak Nazari, …
Bamboo Systems’ new Arm server runs microservices with 75% less electricity
Server startup Bamboo Systems Ltd. today debuted its new B1000N flagship system, which runs on Arm Ltd. processors and is described as needing up to 75% less power than machines that use Intel Corp. silicon. The vast majority of servers today ship with …
Nvidia unveils new GPU accelerator and Selene, a homegrown supercomputer
Nvidia Corp. early today announced a new accelerator card for servers and unveiled Selene, a supercomputer it recently added to its internal research cluster that ranks as the seventh most powerful system in the world. The announcements were made during the virtual …
HashiCorp launches new multicloud automation platform after $5.1B valuation
HashiCorp Inc., the infrastructure automation startup that received a $5.1 billion valuation in March, early today launched a new flagship product designed to make it more practical for enterprises to build multicloud environments. San Francisco-based HashiCorp provides a set of open-source tools …
Palantir raises $500M amid IPO filing reports
Palantir Technologies Inc., the controversial big data company co-founded by Peter Thiel, has raised $500 million amid reports that it’s readying to file for an initial public offering. The entirety of the funding was provided by Tokyo-based insurer Sompo Holdings Inc. As …