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Facebook launches Facebook Pay to let users send money in WhatsApp, Instagram
Facebook Inc. today pulled back the curtains on Facebook Pay, a new feature that will serve as an overarching payment processing system across its social platforms. The system expands upon the existing financial tools the company provided before. Facebook’s namesake social network enables users to send money to contacts, donate to fundraising campaigns and buy goods ...
Challenging Nvidia, Intel unleashes three new chips for AI work
Intel Corp. today introduced a trio of chips for training and deploying artificial intelligence models that will allow it to step up the competition against Nvidia Corp., whose graphics processing units dominate the market. The chips, unveiled at a press event in San Francisco this morning, grew out of Intel’s 2016 acquisitions of two machine learning ...
Launching from stealth, Blaize pitches ‘graph-native’ chip for AI workloads
Blaize Inc. wants to help enterprises run their artificial intelligence workloads more efficiently. The El Dorado Hills, California-based startup launched from stealth mode this morning and unveiled the Graph Streaming Processor, a chip specifically designed to power AI applications. It’s positioned as an alternative to the graphic processing units and central processing units commonly used ...
SpaceX’s first 60 operational Starlink satellites deploy in orbit
SpaceX Corp. has successfully launched 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit, putting in place the first building block of a space-based telecommunications network meant to challenge traditional broadband providers. The satellites blasted off from Florida this morning aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. They’re SpaceX’s first operational Starlink systems, building on lessons the company drew from a launch ...
OpenText strengthens data protection business with $1.4B Carbonite deal
Information management provider OpenText Inc. today said that it will shell out $1.42 billion to acquire Carbonite Inc., a Boston-based data protection specialist. OpenText develops software that helps organizations manage the documents and other business records scattered throughout their corporate network. Carbonite, in turn, sells cloud services for protecting those business records from data loss. The ...
Lyft expands self-driving car program with East Palo Alto test hub, autonomous minivans
Lyft Inc. is ramping up its autonomous vehicle operation going into 2020. Luc Vincent, the executive who heads the program, detailed in a blog post today that the company is establishing a new self-driving car testing facility in East Palo Alto, California. The hub will feature a “reconfigurable” track designed to simulate a real road. There ...
With new 32-core Threadripper processor, AMD claims to leapfrog Intel
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has unveiled a pair of central processing units for high-end desktop computers that it hails as the fastest of their kind in the world. Announced on Thursday, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and Ryzen Threadripper 3970X are based on the company’s latest seven-nanometer chip architecture. The 3960X packs 24 processing cores with ...
Google releases its Skaffold tool for automating Kubernetes into general availability
Google LLC today announced the general availability of Skaffold, an open-source tool that makes it easier for developers to work with Kuberentes. The launch is the culmination of a 20-month beta testing and development period that saw the software go through no fewer than 40 iterations. Contributors from the open-source community submitted some 5,000 pieces ...
AWS tweaks its cloud platform’s economics with Savings Plans
Amazon Web Services Inc. is streamlining infrastructure purchases for enterprises that make long-term commitments on its platform. The cloud giant on Wednesday evening launched Savings Plans, a buying model that offers customers steep discounts if they pay for computing power a year or three years in advance. AWS has already been providing such discounts through ...
Networking heavyweight Infoblox acquires Microsoft-backed startup SnapRoute
Infoblox Inc., a major maker of networking equipment and software, today said that it has acquired California startup SnapRoute Inc. to add more depth to its product portfolio. Infoblox is the biggest player in a niche but important segment of the networking industry. The company sells solutions that help enterprises manage their internet protocol or ...