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Google announces the first developer preview of Android 12
Google LLC’s Android team has just made the first developer preview of Android 12 available for developers to tinker with and provide feedback on its new features. The idea is to help software developers ensure their apps are compatible with the latest version of the operating system’s features, which include a raft of user experience ...
AWS joins PennyLane, an open-source framework that melds machine learning with quantum computing
Amazon Web Services Inc. will play a central role in advancing quantum computing after announcing today that it has joined the steering council of the open-source PennyLane project. PennyLane is a framework for what’s called “hybrid quantum computing,” which is an approach to quantum computing that involves using classical computing resources alongside quantum processors. The ...
Twilio’s stock jumps after cloud communications firm posts surprise profit
Twilio Inc. is riding high today, its stock up more than 10% in extended trading the cloud communications company posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter financial results that took Wall Street by surprise. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of four cents per share on revenue of $548.1 million, up 65% year-over-year. That ...
Google doubles down on education with updates to Classroom and Meet, plus new Chromebooks
Google LLC announced a raft of updates today that it says are intended to advance education, both online and offline, in the classroom and also in remote learning environments. The most important new update is the launch of Google Workspace for Education, which is meant to align the company’s education tools with the new Google ...
Microsoft enhances data security in Power BI business intelligence apps
Microsoft Corp. is beefing up the security capabilities of its Power BI business intelligence tools with new network isolation and data protection features that help to ensure customer’s information will never be compromised. Data is, of course, at the core of Microsoft Power BI, which is the collective name for a suite of cloud-based apps ...
Project OWL updates its ClusterDuck Protocol for emergency internet connectivity
The open-source Project OWL initiative today announced a major update to its ClusterDuck Protocol that can be used to establish an internet connection during emergencies when normal connectivity has been disrupted. Project OWL, which stands for Organization, Whereabouts and Logistics, was the winner of IBM Corp.’s inaugural Call for Code Challenge in 2018. Its idea ...
Spectral exits stealth with a lightning-fast code security scanner for DevSecOps
Israel-based Spectral Inc., maker of a developer-friendly code security scanner, is exiting stealth mode today armed with $6.2 million from a seed funding round led by Amiti and MizMaa. Spectral has built a DevSecOps tool that can be used to scan for mistakes such as misconfigurations or API keys and passwords that have been accidentally ...
Nasuni partners with Google on cloud-based file storage for enterprises
Cloud file storage provider Nasuni Corp. said today it’s partnering with Google LLC to offer a new enterprise-grade, cloud-based file storage service that it says is not only easy to use but reliable and affordable. Nasuni sells a unique file storage platform that consists of a network-attached storage appliance that can store data locally or ...
Grafana Labs bundles its enterprise IT observability tools into a single stack
Observability software startup Grafana Labs Inc. is bundling its monitoring, visualization and metric analytics tools into a single suite called Grafana Enterprise Stack that’s being made available today. Grafana Labs is the maker of Grafana, a popular open-source tool (pictured) that’s used to track the health of information technology infrastructure. The company is also the lead ...
Palo Alto Networks buys Bridgecrew to boost its Prisma Cloud security platform
Network security firm Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced it’s acquiring Israeli cloud security firm Bridgecrew for $156 million in cash. The acquisition, announced this morning, is the seventh by Palo Alto Networks of a company based in Israel, long a hotbed of cybersecurity firms. The acquiring company said the deal will enable security to be ...