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Microsoft opens up its internal Trill engine for high-speed analytics
Microsoft Corp. today open-sourced Trill, a data processing engine capable of analyzing billions of events per second. Used in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, the project adds to the growing list of internal technologies that the company has shared with the world. Its open-source portfolio includes several artificial intelligence tools, including a system called Infer.NET that is ...
France to implement digital tax focused on US tech giants
Following in the footsteps of the United Kingdom, France will introduce a digital tax focused on major U.S. tech firms. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced the plan in a press conference today. The tax will go into effect on Jan. 1 and is expected to raise 500 million euros, or $570 million, in ...
In major expansion, Google to spend $1B on new Manhattan campus
In the year 2000, New York City became home to Google LLC’s very first office outside California. Eighteen years and thousands of hires later, the search giant today announced that it will significantly expand its presence in the Big Apple with a sprawling new $1 billion campus. The news comes just days after Apple Inc. ...
Facebook security bug exposes up to 6.8M users’ private photos
Facebook Inc. is headed into the weekend with another privacy blunder on its hands. The social networking giant today disclosed that a security bug gave external applications overly broad access to as many as 6.8 million users’ photos. Normally, an application that is granted permission by a user to view their photos can only pull ...
Apple to change iPhone software in China as battle with Qualcomm escalates
Apple Inc. said today that it will update certain iPhone models in China to fight a local court order banning the sale of the devices. The company claims that the decision, if not reversed, could force it to settle with Qualcomm Inc. in their high-stakes technology licensing dispute. Earlier this week, Qualcomm persuaded a court ...
Logistics unicorn Postmates is launching a fleet of delivery robots in the US
Over the past few years, food delivery has grown into a multibillion-dollar market where tech giants such as Amazon.com Inc. compete with heavily funded startups for orders. One of the latter, Postmates Inc., hopes to gain an edge by enlisting robots to assist its human couriers. The delivery startup, which is valued at $1.2 billion, ...
Uber contributes its Horovod deep learning system to the Linux Foundation
Engineers at the world’s top tech firms often find themselves having to build custom alternatives to existing software in order to meet the unique needs of their companies. One notable example of such a software project is Horovod, a deep learning platform created by Uber Technologies Inc. that today moved to the Linux Foundation. The project, ...
Apple to build new $1B campus in Austin as part of nationwide expansion
Apple Inc. today announced that it will open a massive $1 billion campus in Austin as part of an expansion plan to add 20,000 employees nationwide through 2023. Currently, the iPhone maker has 90,000 workers in the United States. Austin is already home to a major Apple hub that employs 6,200 staffers, which makes it the ...
Nvidia ships miniaturized Jetson AGX Xavier machine learning chip for robots
Nvidia Corp. today started shipping Jetson AGX Xavier, a miniaturized machine learning chip geared toward industrial robots and other autonomous machines. The company first released the module (pictured) on a limited basis last year as part of a development kit for early adopters. This limited launch enabled Nvidia to build up an impressive lineup of ...
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High-flying Kubernetes security startup Tigera grabs $30M in funding
Several leading venture capital investors have thrown their backing behind Tigera Inc., a rising star in the software container ecosystem that focuses on cybersecurity. The startup today announced that it has raised a $30 million funding round from Insight Venture Partners, Madrona Venture Group, New Enterprise Associates and Wing VC. The financing brings Tigera’s total ...