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Lyft is turning its self-driving taxi demo from CES into a regional pilot
Lyft Inc. is looking to accelerate its self-driving taxi push. On Tuesday, the ride-hailing company revealed plans to extend an autonomous shuttle service that it had set up for the Consumer Electronics Show last week and launch a regional pilot project. The initiative is the fruit of a partnership with auto parts giant Aptiv PLC. Originally known ...
Google’s new AutoML service promises code-free AI development
Artificial intelligence has become quite accessible for enterprises thanks to cloud services such as Google LLC’s Vision API that offer pretrained machine learning models on-demand. But building a custom AI optimized for a company’s specific use case is still a costly endeavor. Google has set out to change that by introducing today a new cloud toolkit ...
Usermind raises $23.5M to become the IFTTT of customer experience
Usermind Inc., a Seattle-based startup working to improve customer experience with automation, today announced that it has secured a $23.5 million investment led by Northgate Capital. Returning backers Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures and Charles River Ventures contributed as well. The trio previously invested $14.5 million into Usermind as part of a 2016 funding round. The ...
Cloudflare’s new secure access service takes a page from Google
Cloudflare Inc. today rolled out a new service designed to make it easier for the world’s growing population of mobile workers to access company systems when they’re away from the office. Employees at most enterprises currently have to use virtual private network tools for the task, which can be quite cumbersome. The main issue is that ...
GV-backed Anomali raises $40M more for its threat intelligence platform
Anomali Inc., a startup that supplies enterprises with information about hacker activity and cybersecurity developments, today announced that it has closed a $40 million funding round. The investment was led by expansion-stage fund Lumia Capital. Previously, Anomali raised $30 million from a group that included Alphabet Inc.’s GV private equity arm and General Catalyst Partners. ...
Hoping to make tech jobs more accessible, Google launches IT training program
Google LLC today introduced a new online certification initiative designed to equip workers with skills that can help them join the tech industry. The program, which will become available on Coursera starting Jan. 23, focuses on training participants for information technology support jobs. Google said there are currently 150,000 open positions in this field in the ...
Google is building three undersea Internet cables, five new regions to extend its cloud reach
Google LLC is taking its efforts to gain an edge in the public cloud market to a new front: the ocean floor. The technology giant today announced plans to lay three undersea fiber-optic links as part of an ambitious new infrastructure expansion. The most significant of the projects is the Curie cable, which is named ...
NS1 launches an answer to the internet’s ‘cache poisoning’ problem
Many of the core technologies that underpin the internet were created decades ago, in a time when hacking was a much less pronounced threat than it is today. As a result, some of these building blocks suffer from security weaknesses that make them and the services that depend on them vulnerable to attack. NS1 Inc., a ...
New study finds one in nine online accounts are opened fraudulently
In 2017, data theft reached new heights thanks to high-profile attacks such as the breach at Equifax Inc. that compromised over 140 million consumers. A new report from ThreatMetrix Inc. claims that hackers have stepped up their efforts on other fronts, too. The cybersecurity provider, which helps brands such as Netflix Inc. detect fraudulent activity ...
Thanks to Alibaba and Microsoft, AI can now beat humans at reading
For the first time, artificial intelligence models have outperformed humans in a respected Stanford University reading test used to gauge neural networks’ cognitive prowess. Chinese web giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announced on Monday that it was an AI developed by its research arm that reached the milestone by earning a score of 82.44. That compares with ...