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Intel adds more processors for laptops with Comet Lake series
Intel Corp. today added eight new chips to its portfolio with the introduction of Comet Lake, a central processing unit family for lightweight and power-efficient notebooks. Comet Lake is based on the 14-nanometer Skylake architecture Intel launched back in 2015. The series is making its debut several weeks after the chipmaker unveiled Ice Lake, another ...
Capacity, formerly Jane.ai, reels in $13.2M round for its AI productivity platform
In a large company that has its data spread out over multiple systems, finding the specific piece of information a worker needs for a meeting or assignment can be akin to looking for a needle in a haystack. Capacity Inc. is using artificial intelligence to speed up the task. The St. Louis, Missouri-based startup today ...
PerimeterX acquires fellow security startup PageSeal to expand product lineup
PerimeterX Inc., a cybersecurity provider backed by $77 million in funding, has dipped into its venture capital war chest to acquire fellow startup PageSeal Ltd. The company announced the deal today without disclosing financial details. PerimeterX, which sells tools for securing websites and mobile apps, is relaunching PageSeal’s software as a cloud service called PerimeterX ...
IBM opens up the instruction set of its supercomputer-grade OpenPower chips
IBM Corp. is open-sourcing the machine language at the heart of its OpenPower processor series, which is used, among others, in the world’s two fastest supercomputers. The move was revealed today by the OpenPower Foundation, an industry body IBM had set up a few years ago to foster adoption of the chip family. The group is ...
After 100,000 deliveries, robot courier startup Starship Technologies picks up $40M
If Starship Technologies Inc. has its way, delivery robots carrying restaurant orders and snacks will roam the grounds of more than 100 universities by 2021. That’s the plan the San Francisco-based startup laid out today after announcing it has raised $40 million in funding to support expansion efforts. Launched five years ago by Skype co-founders Ahti ...
DigitalOcean launches new managed MySQL and Redis database services
DigitalOcean Inc. today released a pair of new database services that will enable developers to spin up managed MySQL and Redis instances on its cloud platform. The services join the provider’s aptly named Managed Databases suite, which debuted in February with initial support for PostgreSQL. The launch marks DigitalOcean’s first product update since its big leadership ...
Simon Data wins $30M in funding to blend and organize companies’ customer data
Companies possess more information about their customers than ever before, but putting that data to work to drive sales remains a major challenge for marketing teams. Simon Data Inc. claims it has the solution. The New York-based startup, which announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series C funding, provides a cloud service for ...
Microsoft buys Java specialist jClarity to make Azure workloads run smoother
Microsoft Corp. today divulged that it has acquired jClarity Ltd., a British provider of tools for Java software projects. Java is one of the most popular programming languages in the enterprise and is used for building everything from mobile apps to complex back-end systems. Several of Microsoft’s own products are written in the language, including its ...
With 1.2 trillion transistors, Cerebras’ new AI chip is the world’s biggest processor
Historically, the main way the semiconductor industry increased chip speeds year over year is by shrinking transistors so more of them can fit on a processor. Cerebras Systems Inc. is taking a different approach: Instead of making the transistors smaller, the California chip startup has made the processor bigger — much bigger. Cerebras today revealed ...
Trend Micro exposes 85 adware apps on Google Play with 8M+ downloads
Google LLC has built security mechanisms into Google Play to keep malicious Android apps out, but occasionally cybercriminals find a way to jump the moat. Researchers from antivirus maker Trend Micro Inc. today revealed that they’ve discovered a family of 85 adware-laced applications on the marketplace. The apps, which Google removed after being notified by the ...