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With an eye to fully autonomous taxis, Uber intros new self-driving SUV
Uber Technologies Inc. today took the covers off a new self-driving vehicle that will start hitting public roads in 2020. The model (pictured) is the third autonomous prototype the company has developed so far as part of its partnership with Volvo AB. It’s based on the Swedish automaker’s XC90 sport utility vehicle, which is also ...
Cyberboom: CrowdStrike stock pops 71% in market debut after $612M IPO
Updated: CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s first day as a public company is off with a bang. The cybersecurity provider started trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange this morning at $63.50 a share, up 85% over the pricing of its initial public offering Tuesday night. Update: It closed up 70% Wednesday, and then rose 16% more on Thursday. ...
Dropbox releases new native integrations, team features in major platform redesign
Dropbox Inc. today released a major redesign of its collaboration platform aimed at winning over more enterprise users by adding in a slew of new productivity features. The main theme of the update, which is available to all customers on an opt-in basis, is centralization. The average enterprise user relies on several different productivity tools from multiple providers ...
Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends are out: Tech giants dominate, mobile growth falters
Every year, famed venture capitalist Mary Meeker publishes a slide deck that touches upon key current trends in technology. The presentation draws wide industry attention both because of its depth — this year’s edition comes in at a massive 333 slides — and because Meeker has a long track record of correctly calling where the digital ...
AWS adds new partner programs for cloud migrations and government projects
Amazon Web Services Inc. relies extensively on partners to assist enterprise customers with their cloud projects. Today, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit launched new partner programs to address two types of cloud projects that account for an increasingly important part of its business. First up is the ISV Workload Migration Program. It will provide resources for ...
Intel researchers promise faster AI training with new hybrid algorithm
Besides pursuing practical applications of artificial intelligence, Intel Corp. also invests in research to advance the technology’s theoretical foundations. The latest fruit of the chipmaker’s work is an algorithm that could accelerate the development of complex AI models. The Collaborative Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning or CERL algorithm was presented today at the ICML machine learning conference in California. ...
WANdisco aims to simplify large-scale cloud migrations with LiveMigrator
Data management specialist WANdisco plc is moving to make it easier for enterprises to move workloads to the public cloud. The company today launched LiveMigrator, a new software product that promises to simplify the task of shifting files from on-premises hardware to an infrastructure-as-a-service environment. LiveMigrator addresses an important gap: The difficulty of moving legacy on-premises workloads ...
Microsoft redesigns Power BI and adds in new AI analytics tools
Microsoft Corp. today debuted a new version of its Power BI business intelligence platform that features a revamped user experience and analytics features powered by machine learning. Power BI enables analysts to turn raw data such as sales figures into visualizations that can be easily shared with decision-makers. The product competes in the same category ...
Vectra bags $100M from blue-chip investors to hunt threats with network metadata
Alongside the wave of acquisitions that took place in the past few weeks, the cybersecurity industry has seen a number of startups raise substantial funding rounds. Today, Vectra AI Inc. became the latest to join the fray after announcing that it has closed a fresh $100 million investment. Early Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc. investor ...
Google reportedly lobbying US government for waiver from Huawei ban
Google LLC is seeking an exemption from the Trump administration’s ban on doing business with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., the Financial Times reported today. Sources told the publication that “senior executives” from the search giant have approached the Commerce Department about the matter in recent weeks. According to the people, the subject of the executives’ ...