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Leading carriers will soon begin rolling out new telecommunications infrastructure that’s set to boost wireless connectivity dramatically this year and next. Intel Corp. is launching a new push to ensure that consumers can take advantage of the increased speeds. The chipmaker today …
Feature Labs, a startup with MIT roots, launches to accelerate AI projects
Feature Labs Inc., a startup founded in 2015 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s computer science department, today hit the scene with $1.5 million from investors to change how organizations build artificial intelligence models. The company is focusing its attention on the …
Qualcomm debuts ‘internet of things’ chip for drones and AI-powered devices
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. this morning pulled back the curtains on the Snapdragon 820E, a new chip designed to power the drones and other increasingly sophisticated devices that make up the “internet of things.” At the heart of the system is a central …
Revving up self-driving car push, Intel leads $50M round into public transit app Moovit
Moovit Ltd., the Israeli startup behind a hugely popular public transit app with 120 million users worldwide, today announced that it has landed a $50 million investment led by Intel Corp.’s venture capital arm. More than a half-dozen existing backers contributed as well. Among the …
Qualcomm makes new $44B offer for NXP amid Broadcom’s hostile takeover push
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. this morning announced a hefty $44 billion acquisition offer for NXP Semiconductors N.V., a fellow chip maker based in the Netherlands that it has been trying to buy for more than a year. The price tag amounts to a …
With IPO on the table, Rubrik hires Atlassian’s former CFO
Last May, Rubrik Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bipul Sinha said during an interview that he expects to take the company public “probably in two or three years.” Today, the data protection startup announced a hire that may represent an initial step toward a stock …
IBM teams up with Unity to bring Watson into virtual reality environments
Companies have begun seriously experimenting with how virtual reality can be applied in work environments to streamline tasks such as product design. Now, IBM Corp. is looking to capitalize on the trend. As part of the effort, the technology giant today announced …
Intel’s new silicon-based qubits could help make quantum computing a reality
Intel Corp. and Dutch research institute QuTech have invented a silicon-based quantum chip that could take the industry effort to move beyond classical computing in an entirely new direction. The unit, which was unveiled on Wednesday, is based on so-called spin qubits. These …
Oracle picks up security startup Zenedge to bolster cloud lineup
Hot on the heels of introducing new “autonomous” services that can tune and update themselves, Oracle Corp. is once again bolstering its cloud platform, this time through an acquisition. The database maker today announced that it has inked an agreement to buy …
New MongoDB release adds features to take on relational databases
MongoDB Inc., the company behind the popular open-source NoSQL database used for managing large amounts of rapidly changing data, today unveiled a new iteration of the platform that could significantly raise its enterprise appeal. MongoDB 4.0 introduces support for what’s known as the …