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Microsoft has deployed an underwater data center off the Scottish coast
Microsoft Corp. today revealed that it has deployed, or more precisely sunk, a self-contained data center in the waters off Scotland as part of a moonshot research initiative dubbed Project Natick. The 40-foot-long capsule (pictured) holds 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage. According Microsoft, the hardware inside is cooled by specialized radiators that use technology originally developed ...
BlackRock leads $93M round into scale-out storage startup Qumulo
Qumulo Inc., a fast-growing storage startup that counts three of the world’s five largest companies as customers, today announced that it has nabbed a sizable $93 million funding round to keep expanding. The investment saw the participation of several high-profile backers. Wall Street giant BlackRock Inc. led the round with participation from the Goldman Sachs ...
On-demand scooter startups Lime and Bird reportedly raising $450M
The on-demand transportation market is slowly but surely expanding beyond traditional ride-hailing to other modes of travel. One of the most promising new frontiers is app-based scooter sharing, a new but already fiercely competitive segment. A number of separate reports from today indicate that Bird Rides Inc. and LimeBike Inc., two of this segment’s leading ...
Intel teases a mammoth 28-core chip and new display technology at Computex
Following Nvidia Corp.’s introduction of a new robotics chip at Computex yesterday, Intel Corp. this morning gave attendees of the closely watched computing event a look at several of its own upcoming products. The announcement was headlined by a yet-unnamed, single-socket central processing unit for personal computers. It packs no fewer than 28 processing cores ...
Microsoft debuts supersized Azure instances for memory-hungry applications
Microsoft Corp. today previewed new Azure cloud instances geared towards large, demanding analytics applications that require a lot of memory to store the data they’re crunching. The update centers on the company’s M family of RAM-optimized virtual machines, or computers emulated in software. Microsoft is expanding the lineup with new instances that offer as much as 12 terabytes ...
Nvidia debuts Jetson Xavier, a versatile new AI chip for robots
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang today introduced Jetson Xavier, a new artificial intelligence chip developed with robots and drones in mind. The system-on-chip, debuted at the Computex conference in Taiwan, is touted as capable of punching well above its weight. According to Nvidia, a single Jetson Xavier provides the same amount of computing power as a “$10,000 workstation” ...
Report: Lyft on the verge of acquiring bike sharing startup Motivate for $250M
It appears that Lyft Inc. wants to follow Uber Technologies Inc. into the hotly contested bike sharing market. The Information reported today that the company is in talks to acquire Motivate Inc., a leading player in the nascent industry. The two sources who spoke to the publication said that the transaction could be worth upwards ...
Box buys automation startup Progressly to make enterprises more productive
Box Inc. this morning announced that it has acquired Progressly Inc., a low-key startup focused on helping companies become more productive through automation. The startup’s brand of automation is different than that of more familiar workflow tools such as IFTTT. Whereas the latter product and others like it are built to coordinate cloud services, for ...
Apple set to debut new ‘digital health’ and AR features for iOS at WWDC
The first details on what Apple Inc. can be expected to announce its Worldwide Developers Conference next Monday have started to emerge. The traditionally software-centric event is unsurprisingly set to focus on iOS, Bloomberg reported today. The publication’s sources said Apple will unveil a new release of the operating system designed not only to create more ways for users to interact ...
SoftBank to invest $2.25B into GM’s Cruise self-driving car unit
Shares of General Motors Co. are up more than 10 percent this morning following the news that SoftBank Group Corp. is set to invest a staggering $2.25 billion into its Cruise self-driving car group. The capital will come from the Japanese telecommunications carrier’s $100 billion Vision Fund, which it set up last year to bet ...