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Flex Logix debuts self-adapting Infer X1 chip for running AI at the edge
Flex Logix Technologies Inc., a semiconductor startup that counts Harvard University and DARPA among its customers, today debuted a new artificial intelligence chip for edge devices. The Infer X1 is built to power industrial robots, network gateways and other systems that run outside an organization’s data centers. Flex Logix claims that the chip can perform ...
Atlassian revamps Opsgenie and Confluence to make teams more productive
Atlassian Corp. Plc. today introduced an array of new features for Opsgenie and Confluence, two tools at the heart of its product lineup, in a bid to help users collaborate more effectively with one another. Opsgenie, the first offering the company has updated, is also one of the newest additions to its portfolio. It’s an incident response ...
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 730 and 665 chips offer double AI performance
Qualcomm Inc. today unveiled two new chips for midrange smartphones that promise to bring a significant boost in app performance, as well as potentially widen the adoption of on-device artificial intelligence. Both products are systems-on-a-chip that incorporate multiple processing modules. The more powerful of the pair, the Snapdragon 730, is built around an eight-core Kryo ...
With new integrations, Slack embeds Office 365 into the team chat experience
Slack Technologies Inc. is making a big push for the 120 million-plus business users who do their work in Office 365. This morning, the company launched an extensive collection of integrations for Microsoft Corp.’s productivity suite that will let teams collaborate on documents and schedule meetings directly in their chat channels. Slack is essentially looking ...
Ready for takeoff: Alphabet’s Wing starts commercial drone deliveries in Australia
Alphabet Inc. is launching a drone delivery service in the Australian capital of Canberra that will allow residents to order food, coffee and medicine through an app. The company’s Wing subsidiary, which runs the project, announced the move today after receiving the go-ahead from the local Civil Aviation Safety Authority. The approval follows an 18-month ...
Deepening Google partnership, Dropbox launches native G Suite integration
Dropbox Inc. officially launched the much-touted G Suite integration today at Google LLC’s Cloud Next conference, a connection it has been working on in collaboration with the search giant for the past year. The companies struck a partnership last March to link their productivity platforms with one another in order to provide a better experience ...
TPG Growth leads $70M round into network security startup Expanse
A group of prominent investors is betting that San Francisco-based Expanse Inc. can establish itself as a major player in the cybersecurity market. The startup, formerly known as Qadium, today announced that it has raised a $70 million funding round led by private equity heavyweight TPG Growth. More than a half-dozen other backers joined in as ...
Microsoft launches first previews of its Chromium-based Edge browser
Microsoft Corp. today previewed the next major iteration of its Edge browser, which will be based on the same engine as Google LLC’s Chrome. Microsoft first revealed the effort to rebuild Edge in December, saying the initiative will see the browser decoupled from Windows 10. The company plans to make it available on older versions of the ...
Ahead of IPO, Pinterest sets price target below last valuation
Pinterest Inc. may not hit the stock market at the valuation its executives and investors had hoped for. The company, whose scrapbooking-focused social network has more than 250 million users worldwide, will debut on the New York Stock Exchange next week. Pinterest disclosed in a regulatory filing today that it plans to sell 75 million ...
Report: Apple Music has vaulted past Spotify in US with 28M paid subscribers
Apple Inc.’s big bet on services seems to be paying off in the music streaming market. The Wall Street Journal today reported that Apple Music has overtaken rival Spotify Technology AB in U.S. subscriber count. According to the sources who spoke with the paper, the iPhone maker’s service had over 28 million paid users in February compared ...