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Samsung intros new ‘Lite’ versions of Galaxy S10, Galaxy Note10 flagships
With the annual Consumer Electronics Show coming up next week, some hardware makers have already started announcing their new products. The latest big name to join the fray is Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., which today debuted two new versions of its Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note10 flagship phones that will ship under the Lite brand. ...
Informatica promotes Amit Walia to CEO as it hits $1B in recurring revenue
Data management provider Informatica LLC said on Thursday that its board of directors has appointed longtime insider Amit Walia as chief executive officer. Walia, who is taking over the reins from outgoing CEO Anil Chakravarthy, most recently served as the company’s president of products and marketing. He previously held the role of chief product officer. Walia’s ...
Google adds new Coral chip modules for AI at the edge
Google LLC’s Coral product line is a family of tiny chip modules that hardware makers can integrate into their devices to provide machine learning features. Today, ahead of next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the search giant added several new products to the series. All the offerings are based on the Edge TPU. ...
Dell targets the enterprise with new 5G, AI-enabled Latitude 9510 laptop
Dell Technologies Inc. today expanded its lineup of business laptops with the Latitude 9510, a machine touted as the lightest in its category that also sports 5G support and built-in artificial intelligence features. The gradual rollout of 5G worldwide is driving a major hardware shift in several corners of the tech ecosystem. Wireless carriers are rearchitecting their ...
Burying the hatchet, Apple strikes chip deal with Imagination Technologies
Apple Inc. has struck a deal to license chip technology from Imagination Technologies Group Plc, a British semiconductor designer that had a public falling out with the iPhone maker in 2017 over graphics processing units. Hertfordshire-based Imagination revealed the news in a terse press release issued today. “Imagination Technologies (“Imagination”) announces that it has replaced ...
Google’s new AI detects breast cancer more accurately than doctors
Google LLC’s health unit has hit the ground running in 2020, today detailing a homegrown artificial intelligence model that it says can identify breast cancer more accurately than human radiologists. The project is the fruit of a transatlantic research collaboration. Google Health worked together with Cancer Research UK Imperial Centre, Northwestern University, Royal Surrey County Hospital and ...
Google will end tax structure it used to move $24.5B to Bermuda in 2018
Alphabet Inc., Google LLC’s parent company, will wind down a tax scheme it has used to delay paying taxes on tens of billions of dollars in profits. The news comes by way of a Reuters report published today that cited regulatory filings submitted by the search giant in the Netherlands. For the last few years, Google ...
InsightFinder bags $2M to detect infrastructure issues early with AI
InsightFinder Inc. launched in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation to create an artificial intelligence tool that can detect information technology infrastructure issues ahead of time. Today the Raleigh, North Carolina-based startup announced that it has raised a $2 million round of funding to bring its technology to the enterprise. The investment was ...
VMware closes $2.7B Pivotal deal as it sets course for a Kubernetes-powered future
With less than 48 hours to go until the new year, VMware Inc. today finalized its acquisition of Pivotal Software Inc. and announced the group will be merged into a new business unit under the leadership of executive Ray O’Farrell. VMware in August inked a deal to buy Pivotal for $2.7 billion, or $11.71 per ...
Facebook stops allowing Messenger sign-ups without a Facebook account
Rolling back a feature it introduced in 2015, Facebook Inc. has quietly removed the ability to sign up for its Messenger chat service without a Facebook account. VentureBeat was first to report the change Thursday afternoon and the social network confirmed it in a statement. “If you’re new to Messenger, you’ll notice that you need ...