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Palo Alto Networks brings its cyber startup acquisitions together in Prisma Cloud
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today introduced a new version of its Prisma Cloud cybersecurity platform that incorporates the technologies the company gained through its high-profile series of recent startup acquisitions. Prisma Cloud is, as the name indicates, designed to protect companies’ hybrid and multicloud environments. It provides monitoring features for identifying security issues along with breach prevention ...
Facebook acquires VR studio Beat Games, hints at more deals in 2020
In a bid to boost the content ecosystem around its Oculus virtual reality headsets, Facebook Inc. has acquired Beat Games s.r.o, a small VR studio behind one of the world’s most popular immersive video games. The social network announced the deal on Tuesday afternoon without disclosing financial terms. Beat Games will join Facebook’s Oculus Studio ...
AWS’ new DeepRacer Evo is an AI-powered model car with a serious mission
Amazon Web Services Inc. will be treating attendees of its re:Invent conference next week to some artificial intelligence-powered entertainment. The conference will host the company’s second annual AWS DeepRacer League, a racing series starring the AWS DeepRacer, a miniature remote-controlled car that developers can configure with custom autonomous driving models. The cloud giant today revealed ...
Report: Intel is looking to sell off its $450M home connectivity business
Intel Corp. may be looking to scale back its presence in the smart home market. Citing multiple people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg on Monday night broke the news that the company has hired a financial institution to help find a buyer for its home connectivity unit. The division makes chips for consumer routes and ...
Google fires four employees over data security violations, group calls it union-busting
In a controversial move, Google LLC said it has fired four employees after determining they had violated its data security policies. The search giant disclosed the decision in a memo distributed internally on Monday that found its way to Bloomberg. The note, the contents of which Google confirmed to the publication, came from Chris Rackow, ...
Meritech leads $50M round into application connectivity startup Tray.io
Application integration startup Tray.io Inc. today announced that it has reeled in $50 million from a consortium led by early Facebook Inc. backer Meritech Capital Partners. The startup apparently isn’t in unicorn territory quite yet, with a source telling TechCrunch that the post-money valuation is “over $600 million.” But Tray.io may hit the $1 billion mark sooner rather than later: ...
AWS extends Amazon Translate to 2,804 language pairs, 6 more cloud regions
Amazon Web Services Inc. today added support for 22 new languages to Amazon Translate, expanding the usefulness of a service that already powers a massive variety of applications for its cloud customers. Amazon Translate is an automated translator that uses machine learning to convert text between languages. AWS provides it via a programming interface that ...
Intel teams with MediaTek to build high-speed 5G chips for tomorrow’s PCs
Intel Corp. has joined forces with fellow semiconductor maker MediaTek Inc. to build 5G modem chips aimed at enabling ultrafast internet connections on tomorrow’s personal computers. Announced today, the partnership will initially focus on laptops. Intel will define the “solution specification” for the planned 5G modems while Taiwan-based MediaTek is set to handle product development and manufacturing. On the ...
With Custom Labels, AWS lets customers train Rekognition for specific projects
Amazon Web Services Inc. today released a new feature for Amazon Rekognition that will enable the computer vision service to identify specific objects in images — such as products on a shelf or manufacturing components — even if they aren’t in its knowledge base. AWS is calling the feature Custom Labels. Anushri Mainthia, the senior product ...
Eirini 1.0 launch brings Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry closer together
The Cloud Foundry Foundation today launched the first stable, production-ready version of Eirini, an open-source technology that will enable enterprises to use Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry. Eirini version 1.0 is rolling out about a year after the project first entered incubation. It aims to broaden the appeal of Cloud Foundry, which is already used at ...