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Waymo starts selling its homegrown LiDAR technology to other companies
Waymo LLC, the self-driving car subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., has started selling one of the core technologies underpinning its autonomous vehicles to other companies. The Laser Bear Honeycomb is a short-range sensor that the group’s driverless taxis use to detect objects in their immediate vicinity. In the blog post announcing the commercialization effort today, Waymo ...
Google launches TensorFlow 2.0 with tools for building privacy-conscious AI
Google LLC today launched a new iteration of TensorFlow, its popular artificial intelligence framework, and a pair of complementary modules aimed at enabling algorithms to process user data more responsibly. TensorFlow 2.0 focuses primarily on improving usability. The release brings a streamlined application programming interface based on Keras, an open-source tool designed to make AI ...
Report: Samsung developing two new foldable devices to follow Galaxy Fold
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. hasn’t started shipping the Galaxy Fold yet, but it’s already said to be developing two more foldable handsets. According to a Bloomberg report published in the early-morning hours, the company will introduce the devices one after one another beginning as soon as this year. The first handset, which the publication’s sources expect to be ...
In first acquisition since IPO, SurveyMonkey to buy Usabilla for $80M
SurveyMonkey Inc. is making its first acquisition since hitting the stock market in September. The company, which provides cloud-based tools that help organizations perform user and employee studies, today announced that it’s buying fellow online polling specialist Usabilla BV. The deal is worth approximately $80 million, making it one of SurveyMonkey’s most significant to date. ...
Expanding its cybersecurity portfolio, VMware launches a firewall
Adding to the flurry of product announcements coming out of the RSA Conference this week in San Francisco, VMware Inc. today introduced a firewall offering designed to provide an added layer of security for enterprise applications. The new Service-defined Firewall builds on two of the company’s existing products. One is the NSX network management and ...
Juniper to buy AI-powered networking startup Mist Systems for $405M
Juniper Networks Inc. is making a big bet on artificial intelligence. The network equipment maker today announced that it has inked a $405 million deal to buy Mist Systems Inc., a heavily funded startup using AI to automate companies’ Wi-Fi infrastructure. Juniper said that it will pay for the acquisition in combination of cash and ...
Scytale raises $5M to simplify authentication for cloud and container apps
Before an enterprise can bring a new cloud or software container-based application online, it must implement mechanisms to ensure that the service will run securely, which takes a great deal of time and effort. San Francisco-based Scytale Inc. is working to streamline the task. The startup today announced that it has closed a $5 million funding ...
IoT security provider Mocana picks up $15M round led by Uber investor
Mocana Corp., a major provider of security software for connected devices, today announced that it has raised $15 million in funding to boost its expansion and product development efforts. San Francisco-based venture capital firm Sway Ventures led the round. The fund, which also counts Uber Technologies Inc. among its investments, was joined by Shasta Ventures ...
Lyft heads for IPO after losing $911M on revenues of $2.2B in 2018
Beating bigger rival Uber Technologies Inc. to the punch, Lyft Inc. today released the prospectus for its upcoming initial public offering, giving the industry the first detailed look at its finances and stock market roadmap. The ride-hailing provider plans to debut on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “LYFT.” The filing lists the value ...
Red Hat partners with cloud giants to launch a hub for Kubernetes Operators
Red Hat Inc. has teamed up with the three biggest names in the cloud market on a new initiative to lower the entry barrier to Kubernetes. The company, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC, on Thursday launched a Kubernetes-focused online marketplace called OperatorHub.io. It will offer a catalog of ...