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Daimler acquires majority stake in autonomous driving provider Torc
Auto giant Daimler AG today announced it’s teaming up with Torc Robotics Inc., an early pioneer of autonomous vehicle technology, to develop self-driving trucks for the U.S. market. The company has acquired an unspecified majority stake in Torc as part of the partnership. The dollar value of the investment is not being disclosed. Blacksburg, Virginia-based Torc ...
Amazon aims to boost enterprise Alexa adoption with no-code voice blueprints
Amazon.com Inc. hopes to grow enterprise adoption of Alexa by making it easier for companies to customize the voice assistant to their needs. The technology giant on Thursday launched Alexa for Business Blueprints, a collection of templates that will enable workers to extend the service’s feature set without writing any code. They’re rolling out about ...
Microsoft to shield startups and IoT developers from patent trolls
Microsoft Corp. today launched an initiative to provide legal protection against so-called patent trolls for startups, as well as for larger companies that use its Azure cloud platform to power “internet of things” projects. Patent trolls, or nonpracticing entities as they’re formally known, are an oft-discussed concern in the tech industry. They’re firms whose business model is to ...
UK watchdog warns of ‘significant’ security issues in Huawei telecom gear
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is facing a fresh round of scrutiny, this time in the United Kingdom. British cybersecurity watchdog HCSEC today issued a scathing report warning of “significant technical issues” in the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker’s gear. It’s the fifth assessment of Huawei gear produced thus far by the body, which was established in ...
AWS launches Deep Learning Containers and new AI infrastructure options
Fresh off landing a major infrastructure deal with Volkswagen AG, Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced new features that will give enterprises more flexibility in how they use its cloud platform. The main highlight is a software bundle dubbed AWS Deep Learning Containers. It consists of popular artificial intelligence tools from the open-source ecosystem that ...
Volkswagen taps AWS to build industrial IoT platform for its supply chain
The world’s largest carmaker is standardizing its manufacturing infrastructure on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud. Volkswagen AG and AWS today announced a multiyear deal to build a cloud analytics platform that will process data from all 122 of the German auto giant’s global factories. The Volkswagen Industrial Cloud, as it’s called, will also be linked ...
Google launches AMP for Email to make emails interactive
Google LLC wants to turn the traditional email into something more akin to an interactive web page. The search giant today started rolling out AMP for Email, a technology that enables companies to create messages with embedded widgets such as meeting calendars and product catalogs. It’s based on the Accelerated Mobile Pages framework that Google provides to ...
Building on $1.7B Magento acquisition, Adobe launches Commerce Cloud
Adobe Systems Inc. today moved into the rapidly expanding e-commerce technology market with the launch of Commerce Cloud, a new service that builds on its $1.68 billion acquisition of Magento Inc. last year. Magento developed a popular online retail system that processed $155 billion in annual sales for merchants at the time of the deal. ...
EU passes controversial law to toughen online copyright enforcement
The European Parliament today passed a controversial overhaul of its online copyright laws that supporters say will give content creators more protections, but critics slam it as a threat to internet freedoms. The Copyright Directive was accepted with 348 lawmakers in favor and 274 opposed. The approval follows a preliminary vote in September that saw the parliament ...
Hazelcast gives its in-memory data grid the cloud treatment with new service
Hazelcast Inc., a major provider of in-memory computing solutions, today launched a managed cloud version of its flagship product created specifically to support off-premises workloads. Hazelcast Cloud is based on the company’s Hazelcast IMDG system, the most popular open-source product in the in-memory data grid category. In-memory data grids serve the same basic purpose as ...