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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today debuted the long-anticipated Galaxy Note 9, a homegrown smart speaker to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo and a variety of other products. Indeed, the new “phablet” was the star of Samsung’s big Unpacked conference today. The Note 9 looks …
Intel unveils new 32TB, ruler-shaped SSD hailed as the densest ever
Intel Corp. has unveiled a new ruler-shaped flash drive aimed at the data center market that it hails as the densest in the world. The SSD DC P4500 (pictured), introduced late Wednesday, packs a hefty 32 terabytes of capacity. It uses 3D …
It’s graduation day for Prometheus, the open-source container monitoring system
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today officially graduated Prometheus from incubation, opening a new chapter in the popular open-source project’s evolution. Prometheus is one of the most widely used systems for monitoring software container deployments. As such, the project has taken on …
Samsung pledges to invest $22B in AI, 5G and other emerging technologies
Samsung Group today unveiled a grandiose plan to invest $22 billion in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence over the next three years. The effort will be driven primarily by the conglomerate’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. arm, which makes its popular mobile devices. Last …
Oracle formally challenges the Pentagon’s controversial $10B cloud contract
Oracle Corp. has filed a formal protest against the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract in a bid to change the structure of the controversial project. The complaint, reports of which emerged late Tuesday, focuses on the government’s plans to award the deal …
Intercom rolls out new chatbot builder to automate customer engagement
Intercom Inc., a customer engagement startup that achieved unicorn status with a big funding round in March, today launched a new tool to let brands automate their interactions with users. Custom Bots is a chatbot builder that enables companies to build tailored virtual …
RiskRecon bags $25M funding round backed by Accel and Dell to tackle outside security risk
Enterprises generally rely on countless different cloud service providers, suppliers and other third parties to support day-to-day operations. Recent history has shown that it can take just one such partner to be hit by a breach for sensitive data to get compromised. …
Mozilla’s new experimental Advance tool helps Firefox users explore the web
The Mozilla Foundation’s efforts to set Firefox apart from Google Chrome have moved into a new area: content recommendation. The browser maker today introduced Advance, an experimental feature that uses machine learning to suggest new websites and online content for users to explore. …
Dell EMC unveils new Ready Solutions for AI and machine learning
Hot on the heels of rival NetApp Inc. introducing a new hardware platform for artificial intelligence workloads, Dell EMC today unveiled two competing offerings that target the same market. The products are rolling out under the brand Ready Solutions for AI. According to …
Google Cloud adds Nvidia P4 graphics cards for AI and virtual desktops
Google LLC today made a new graphics accelerator available in its public cloud to provide better support for artificial intelligence and virtual desktop workloads. The chip in question is market leader Nvidia Corp.’s P4. It brings the number of Nvidia graphics processing units that Google’s …