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Facebook is teaching robots to walk, grasp and feel
Last year, Facebook Inc.’s FAIR artificial intelligence lab expanded the scope of its research by launching a series of robotics projects. The objective was to facilitate new kinds of experiments in which neural networks installed on autonomous machines can tackle real-world problems. Today, Facebook Inc. provided the first public update on the effort in the ...
New Google AI can detect lung cancer in CT scans
Google LLC has built an artificial intelligence model that can analyze CT scans of people’s chests to determine if they might have lung cancer. The software, which the company detailed in a blog post today, is the fruit of a two-year development effort. Google taught the AI to detect tumors using a dataset of 42,000 ...
A new unicorn is born as Auth0 reels in $103M funding round
The login screen is one of the most unremarkable parts of an application, but it represents big business for providers such as Auth0 Inc. The startup, which helps companies add secure sign-in features to their services, today announced that it has raised a $103 million funding round at more than a $1 billion valuation. Returning backer Sapphire ...
After $180M IPO, Fastly pops 50% in NYSE debut
Following the disappointing public offerings of Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., content delivery provider Fastly Inc. today debuted on the stock market to a markedly warmer reception. The company saw its share price jump as much as 58% in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange thanks to strong investor demand. By end ...
Amazon leads $575M round into UK food delivery startup Deliveroo
Three months after backing a half-billion-dollar round into autonomous driving firm Aurora Innovation Inc., Amazon.com Inc. has made another major startup investment. British food delivery unicorn Deliveroo Ltd. today announced that it has raised $575 million from a consortium led by the online retail giant. The other participants included Fidelity Management and Research, Greenoaks Capital ...
HPE acquires storied supercomputer maker Cray for $1.3B
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced that it has inked a $1.3 billion deal to acquire Cray Inc., a move poised to catapult the company to the forefront of the growing supercomputing market. The $1.3 billion price tag breaks down to $35 per share, a 17% premium to Cray’s Thursday closing price. The deal is HPE’s ...
Report: Samsung has solved Galaxy Fold screen issues, plans June launch
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s troubled Galaxy Fold may be back on track to hit the market after technical issues caused the company to delay its launch indefinitely. CNBC, citing South Korean news agency Yonhap, reported today that Samsung will begin selling the foldable handset next month. It’s unclear whether the Galaxy Fold is set to become available ...
Advancing M&A plans, SugarCRM buys marketing automation startup Salesfusion
SugarCRM Inc. today announced that it’s expanding its market reach with the acquisition of Salesfusion Inc., a marketing automation startup backed by more than $32 million in funding. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. It comes two months after SugarCRM picked up another startup, Singapore’s Collabspot Pte Ltd., that developed a tool for ...
Microsoft open-sources one of the core algorithms powering Bing
Microsoft Corp. today open-sourced one of the cornerstone algorithms powering its Bing search engine in an effort to help developers build faster, more easily navigable applications. The Space Partition Tree And Graph algorithm, or SPTAG for short, is available under the permissive MIT License. Microsoft has bundled it into a library that includes tools to help ...
Data orchestration startup Tealium raises $55M at reported $850M valuation
Companies interact with their customers through a growing number of digital channels, with each interaction providing new data about user preferences and habits. But making full use of all this information is challenging because of the massive volume of records generated. Tealium Inc., a San Diego-based startup working to simplify the process, today announced ...