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Report: Samsung’s Galaxy S11 will sport powerful 108-megapixel camera
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s next flagship smartphone will bring the biggest camera upgrade in the history of the Galaxy S family, Bloomberg reported today. The South Korean electronics giant is said to be readying a new rear camera for the upcoming Galaxy S11 with a resolution of 108 megapixels. For comparison, Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone ...
Qualcomm brings out world’s first 5G mixed-reality chip, new laptop processors
Qualcomm Inc. has followed up the unveiling of its new flagship smartphone processor by pulling back the curtains on the XR2, a chip for augmented and virtual reality headsets hailed as the first of its kind in the world to support 5G. The 5G compatibility is one of several firsts Qualcomm is touting for the XR2, ...
NFL teams up with AWS to simulate and predict player injuries using AI
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today the National Football League will use its cloud platform to model contributing factors to player injuries and explore ways of reducing health risks using machine learning. The partnership, announced at AWS’ annual re:Invent conference today in Las Vegas, expands upon the organizations’ existing multiyear relationship. Since 2017, the NFL has been ...
AWS launches ML Embark program to help enterprises adopt machine learning
For enterprises, the path to adopting artificial intelligence involves more than just development tools and algorithms. A company looking to deploy AI must first and foremost train its engineers in using the technology, a task that Amazon Web Services Inc. hopes to simplify through the ML Embark program it debuted at its re:Invent conference in ...
Report: FTC antitrust officials are investigating Amazon’s AWS cloud business
Officials with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission are reportedly investigating whether Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services Inc., has violated antitrust laws. Bloomberg broke the news Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources who weren’t authorized to talk with the press about the matter. Details are slim for the time being, and Bloomberg said the ...
Qualcomm unleashes new generation of 5G-enabled Snapdragon chips
After giving the industry a sneak peak at its product roadmap on Tuesday, Qualcomm Inc. today officially unveiled the Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 765 and Snapdragon 756G, the chips that will power next year’s 5G-enabled Android devices. The Snapdragon 865 is the company’s new top-end processor. It’s based on a seven-nanometer architecture and uses a separate X55 modem module ...
Kustomer picks up $60M at $500M+ valuation for its customer service CRM
Marking its third funding round of the year, Kustomer Inc. today announced that it has picked up $60 million in additional capital from Coatue, Tiger Global Management and Battery Ventures. New York-based Kustomer has built a customer service platform that allows companies to handle inquiries from buyers more efficiently. The offering is built around a customer ...
BP shifts 900 workloads to AWS as Novartis, FINRA spin up new cloud data projects
BP plc will shift 900 core workloads to Amazon Web Services Inc. as part of an agreement revealed today, while Novartis AG and FINRA are spinning up massive new data projects on the provider’s public cloud. The three deals were all announced at AWS’ ongoing re:Invent event in Las Vegas. They follow several other high-profile ...
AI takes center stage: AWS debuts SageMaker Studio, CodeGuru, Kendra and more
Kicking re:Invent into high gear, Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled a massive array of artificial intelligence solutions spanning more than a half-dozen product categories, from code debugging to cybersecurity and contact center automation. And that’s on top of a formidable lineup of infrastructure announcements. The new AI offerings fill in key pieces of the ...
AWS wins multiyear cloud and machine learning deal with Fox
Media giant Fox Corp. will use Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud infrastructure, as well as managed offerings such as the provider’s SageMaker machine learning platform, to support broadcast operations. AWS announced the deal at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today alongside a raft of new product releases, many focused on machine learning. The contract ...