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Salesforce finds a new use for its Einstein AI: shark spotting
Salesforce.com Inc. provides a suite of machine learning tools called Einstein designed to improve the productivity of salespeople, help desk agents and other knowledge workers. Now, the company is extending its focus to a new audience: great white sharks. Researchers from the company’s Einstein unit have teamed up with the Benioff Ocean Initiative at UC ...
With Project Nebula, Puppet looks to automate cloud application deployment
Puppet Inc., a major provider of infrastructure automation software, today launched a new product called Project Nebula into public beta aimed at simplifying the deployment of cloud applications. Turning a collection of code files into a working service is a complicated multistep process. Engineers must not only build the application itself, but also prepare the infrastructure ...
Apple expected to launch rumored AR headset, new budget iPhone in 2020
Apple Inc. will unveil its long-anticipated augmented reality glasses and a successor to the budget-friendly iPhone SE in the first half of 2020, according to the latest report about its product roadmap. The information comes from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo by way of 9to5Apple, which published a summary of the respected market watcher’s Chinese-language report ...
Facebook rolls out new video tools for Workplace as it hits 3M paid users
Facebook Inc. is making significant inroads into the enterprise collaboration market. The social network revealed at its Flow 2019 event today that Workplace by Facebook, its alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams, now has 3 million paid users. That’s up a million from when the company last shared data on subscriptions eight months ago. Facebook announced ...
AWS adds giant memory-optimized instances to win over SAP HANA users
The latest addition to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s ever-growing selection of cloud instances is a pair of beefy bare-metal servers aimed at enterprises running SAP SE applications. The machines, unveiled today, are joining the EC2 High Memory instance family AWS launched last year. They both pack eight Intel Corp. central processing units with a 2.7-gigahertz ...
Oracle will add 2,000 jobs and 20 data centers in cloud infrastructure push
If its infrastructure expansion plan goes according to schedule, Oracle Corp. will have more than doubled the size of its cloud data center network by 2021. Don Johnson, Oracle’s head of cloud infrastructure engineering, detailed the initiative in a Reuters interview published Monday night. The push is set to see the company open 20 data ...
Intel unveils new workstation processor chips for data scientists and developers
Intel Corp. has a new family of desktop processors aimed squarely at data scientists, architects, developers and other power users who work with hardware-intensive applications. The W-2200 series, unveiled today, consists of eight 14-nanometer central processing units ranging in price from $294 to $1,333. The CPUs cost between 40% and 50% less than their respective predecessors in ...
Next Insurance picks up $250M to simplify digital insurance for small businesses
Traditional industries where the shift to digital is still ongoing are proving to be fertile grounds for startups. One such industry, the insurance sector, saw a new unicorn emerge today after Next Insurance Inc. announced that it has raised $250 million in funding. The capital was provided entirely by Munich Re Inc. and values the ...
Alteryx snaps up MIT-born machine learning startup Feature Labs
Analytics provider Alteryx Inc. today announced that it has acquired Feature Labs Inc., a startup using techniques developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to simplify artificial intelligence development. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Feature Labs team will continue to operate out of its current Boston headquarters and its technology will ...
Google reveals hackers are using a new flaw to attack Android devices
A month after revealing a set of previously unknown “zero-day” vulnerabilities in iOS, Google LLC has exposed a zero-day flaw affecting its own Android operating system. The search giant published a technical description of the bug late Thursday. Project Zero, the Google security team behind the report, usually waits 90 days before publicizing a software vulnerability ...