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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 ...
Betting on automation, UPS buys stake in self-driving truck startup TuSimple
United Parcel Service Inc. today disclosed that it has acquired a minority stake in TuSimple Inc., a San Diego-based startup developing autonomous driving technology for trucks. The shipping giant didn’t reveal the size of the transaction. However, given that a recent funding round valued TuSimple at nearly $1.1 billion, UPS’ investment was likely quite substantial. ...
Cloudflare files for IPO, revealing revenue of $129M in first half of 2019
Cloudflare Inc. today filed to go public, becoming the second tech firm after WeWork Cos. to do so since the start of the week. San Francisco-based Cloudflare wrapped up the six months ended June 30 with a $129.2 million revenue haul, a 48% improvement over the prior-year period. The company achieved a 51% compound annual growth rate ...
Alibaba blows past earnings estimates as cloud business hits $4.5B run rate
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shrugged off the slowdown in the Chinese economy and the Washington-Beijing trade dispute in its fiscal first quarter, posting earnings today that beat analyst expectations on all major counts. The Chinese e-commerce giant reported revenue of 114.92 billion yuan, or $16.74 billion, for the three months ended June 30. Analysts’ forecasts averaged out ...