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Salesforce adds new AI and collaboration features to automate customer service
Salesforce.com Inc.’s Service Cloud grew 50 percent faster than its flagship customer relationship management platform in 2018, ending the year with revenue of more than $2.8 billion. Today, the company introduced a set of new artificial intelligence features in a bid to further boost this demand. The update expands upon Service Cloud’s customer care and ...
Apple upgrades iMac and iMac Pro, promising up to 240% more performance
A day after introducing upgraded versions of the iPad Air and iPad mini, Apple Inc. today refreshed yet another product line that it hasn’t updated in a while. The company is launching five new configurations of its popular iMac all-in-one desktop computer that range from $1,099 to $2,299. They come in the same form factors ...
US government taps Intel to build its first ‘exascale’ supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy has tapped Intel Corp. to build a massive new supercomputer that will surpass the capabilities of even the most powerful systems currently in existence. The chipmaker said today that the planned system, dubbed Aurora, will provide an entire exaflop of performance when it comes online in 2021. An exaflop equals ...
Apple debuts faster, more visually capable iPad Air and iPad mini
After omitting the iPad Air and iPad mini from its last few product refresh cycles, Apple Inc. today debuted new versions of the tablets that feature major upgrades across the board. The iPad Air (pictured, left) is making its return two years after the release of the previous model. The tablet, which sits below the top-end iPad Pro ...
Stanford launches ambitious new AI institute co-led by former Google exec
Stanford University is launching an interdisciplinary research institute backed by a who’s who of the tech industry to explore how artificial intelligence will affect society, as well as discover new applications for the technology. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, or HAI for short, was formally inaugurated today. It’s led by philosophy professor John ...
With new encryption management tool, Slack seeks to court large enterprises
Slack Technologies Inc. is expanding its cybersecurity capabilities in a bid to win more enterprise customers. The team chat provider today launched Slack EKM, a new tool that will enable companies to encrypt employee correspondence using their own cryptographic keys. Slack already encrypts the data that goes through its messaging platform, but large organizations often ...
PagerDuty files for IPO after passing $100M in annual revenue
Incident response specialist PagerDuty Inc. today publicly filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange, revealing that it’s seeing strong revenue growth but has not yet turned a profit. The San Francisco-based “unicorn” startup sells a cloud platform used by information technology teams to alert administrators about technical issues and perform troubleshooting. The provider logged revenues of $107 million ...
Apple hits back at Spotify’s accusations of anticompetitive behavior
Apple Inc. has hit back at Spotify Technology AB’s claims that its App Store rules are anticompetitive, escalating a war of words potentially on track to draw regulatory scrutiny. Spotify submitted an antitrust complaint to the European Commission earlier this week over what it argues is unfair treatment by the iPhone maker toward outside app developers. The filing ...
Facebook opens up its internal AI training hardware and custom-built chips
Few organizations use artificial intelligence on the scale that Facebook Inc. does. The social network’s deep learning models perform 200 trillion predictions each day, a level of output made possible by purpose-built hardware designed from the ground up to run neural networks. At the Open Compute Summit today in San Jose, California, Facebook open-sourced three ...
Microsoft open-sources technology behind Azure’s powerful data compression
International Data Corp. estimates that the total volume of digital information in the world will balloon from 33 zettabytes, or trillion gigabytes, today to 175 zettabytes in 2025. This rapid growth is being felt particularly strongly by cloud providers such as Microsoft Corp., which host not just their own information but also that of countless ...