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Samsung unveils $1,000 Galaxy Chromebook as portable computing market heats up
The two entry-level Galaxy phones Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled last week aren’t the only new devices the company is showing off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Samsung today pulled back the covers on the Galaxy Chromebook, a high-end laptop running on Google LLC’s Chrome OS that will start at $999. The ...
Xerox secures $24B from banks to pursue HP acquisition
Xerox Holdings Corp. said today that it has secured $24 billion in “binding financing commitments” from a trio of banks to carry out its proposed acquisition of HP Inc. Norwalk, Connecticut-based Xerox is currently attempting a hostile takeover of HP for $33.5 billion. The printer and copier maker has argued that joining forces would put ...
At CES, Amazon targets auto market with new Alexa features, industry partnerships
Now that Alexa is firmly established as a fixture of the smart home appliance market, Amazon.com Inc. is trying to bring its voice assistant to other parts of consumers’ lives. That includes, among others, their cars, which the company made the center focus of its announcements today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ...
Snap acquires computer vision startup AI Factory for a reported $166M
Snap Inc. has acquired AI Factory Inc., a two-year-old startup that makes computer vision and video analysis software, for a reported $166 million. The acquisition became public this morning via media reports that were later confirmed by a Snap spokesperson. The company didn’t comment on the reported $166 million price tag, but the figure is ...
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 ...