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AWS announces Amazon Forecast Weather Index to provide 14-day predictions
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the release of the Amazon Forecast Weather Index, which will help developers increase predictive accuracy of machine learning models by including local weather information into demand forecasts for retailers and service providers at no extra cost. Weather conditions can affect many industries, especially consumer buying patterns, such as product ...
CircleCI unveils self-hosted Server 3.0 and integrations with AWS and HashiCorp
CircleCI Inc., a software deployment and integration platform for DevOps, the practice of combining development and operations, today announced new updates to its server self-hosting option for new users. The company also debuted partner integrations, bringing on board Amazon Web Services Inc. and HashiCorp, among others. “The idea of automation, of being able to move quickly ...
GitHub reveals new features, Sponsors for companies, auto-merge and more
GitHub Inc., a provider of hosting for software development code version control, today announced a number of new features and products at its virtual developer conference GitHub Universe 2020. The first addition to the lineup is Sponsors for Companies, which extends the ability to sponsor open-source projects from individuals – who could support open-source developers ...
AWS announces partnership with MGM to reinvent its media supply chain
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a multiyear collaboration with Metro Goldwyn Mayer, a media company best known for the production of movies and television programs, to reimagine its core digital distribution platform using the cloud. Founded in 1924, MGM has one of the world’s largest libraries of digital and physical film content. The company focuses on ...
Atlassian launches four DevOps features to raise visibility for enterprise developers
Atlassian, maker of the project automation software Jira, today announced four new features that will give enterprise DevOps teams greater visibility into development pipelines, shortening time from idea to production regardless of what tool they’re using. These new features will extend Atlassian’s flagship project Jira Software Cloud and will allow developers to visualize and measure ...
Capgemini enlists AI and AWS to identify and protect sperm whales
The professional outsourcing firm Capgemini SE has developed a solution designed to identify sperm whales accurately using computer vision using image processing and cloud computing to look at the animals’ tail fins or “flukes.” Whale flukes can be used to identify individual animals because the tails gain unique features over their lives – similar to human ...
Aspire launches ‘broadcasting on the blockchain’ for storing messages forever
Digital asset technology creator Aspire Technology today announced its own unique “broadcasting on the blockchain” feature that will allow its customers to generate and broadcast their own messages on its distributed ledger blockchain platform. These special messages will be permanently stored on its blockchain platform, pitched as a channel for brand marketing and declaring special ...
Blockdaemon announces support for Oasis Network’s privacy-focused blockchain
Blockdaemon Inc., a distributed ledger platform for blockchain node management, today announced its support for the Oasis Network’s newly launched open finance and data economy mainnet network that will support a privacy-enabled blockchain. In a blockchain, a node forms a fundamental part of the infrastructure of a blockchain by storing, spreading and preserving the blockchain ...
To combat COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ on Twitter with machine learning, Novetta taps AWS
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads globally, misinformation about the virus spreads online through word of mouth on Twitter. Today, Novetta, an advanced analytics and technical solutions company, announced it used Amazon Web Services to understand better how to curtail these harmful narratives. Decision-makers and activists combatting misinformation about COVID-19, which Novetta calls the “infodemic,” need better ...
GitHub archives open-source ‘greatest hits’ in four locations around the world
GitHub Inc., an open-source code repository and subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., today announced an expansion of the GitHub Archive Program by which the company sought to preserve open-source software for future generations in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault in Svalbard, Norway. This new expansion will see the “Greatest Hits” of GitHub, a collection of the most ...