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Intel delays building Ohio chip plant after federal funding delay
Intel Corp. has reportedly delayed breaking ground on its planned multibillion-dollar chip manufacturing plant in Ohio after becoming frustrated with Congress’ lack of progress on new legislation that would support the chipmaking industry. The groundbreaking ceremony had been scheduled for July 2022 but has now been canceled indefinitely, according to a report by the Wall ...
Amazon sent an AWS Snowcone device into orbit aboard the ISS
Amazon.com Inc. revealed at its re:Mars conference today that it has put one of its AWS Snowcone edge computing and storage devices into orbit, as part of Axiom Space Inc.’s latest mission to the International Space Station. Snowcones are special devices that are designed to operate in rugged, mobile and disconnected environments, bringing onsite processing ...
Amazon partners with Matter to launch AWS Expand healthcare tech accelerator
The healthcare industry incubator Matter said today it’s partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc. on a new initiative called AWS Expand to help bring startups from Europe, the Middle East and Africa to the U.S. market. AWS said in a blog post that the partnership was driven by a shared concern around the process of ...
Qualcomm announces unified ‘full stack’ approach to AI software
Qualcomm Inc. today unveiled its new AI Stack portfolio, which it says brings a unified software approach to creating artificial intelligence applications across its products. According to the company, the Qualcomm AI Stack combines and improves upon its existing AI offerings by providing a more comprehensive AI solution for original equipment manufacturers and developers. It supports ...
Amazon reveals how it’s using AI to transform the retail experience
Amazon.com today showcased the multiple ways in which artificial intelligence-based machine learning and computer vision algorithms are being combined with synthetic data to improve key retail automation technologies such as Just Walk Out, Amazon One and Amazon Dash Cart. In a keynote at Amazon’s re:MARS event today in Las Vegas, Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s vice president ...
At re:MARS, Amazon Alexa evolves from ambient to generalizable intelligence
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s chief Alexa developer Rohit Prasad today spoke about the increasingly prominent role his company’s digital assistant plays in people’s lives, citing this as evidence of the rise of “ambient intelligence.” Prasad defines ambient intelligence as artificial intelligence that has become so pervasive that it appears all around you, responding to requests ...
Traefik Labs launches Traefik Hub to make multicloud application services easier to deploy and access
Cloud-native networking company Traefik Labs SAS today announced a new platform that’s designed to eliminate management and automation headaches around Kubernetes and Docker networking. Traefik Labs is the creator of the Traefik Stack, which provides various tools to automate cloud-natve application networking and infrastructure. Its flagship product is Traefik Proxy, which gives developers an easy ...
HashiCorp debuts new tool to detect infrastructure configuration drift
HashiCorp Inc. announced multiple updates on the product front at its HashiConf 2022 event in Amsterdam today, including a new feature that aims to prevent “infrastructure drift.” HashiCorp is in the business of information technology infrastructure automation. Its flagship platform Terraform enables system administrators to write scripts that define how their cloud and on-premises IT ...
Microsoft restricts access to controversial AI facial recognition technology
Microsoft Corp. says it will phase out access to a number of its artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition tools, including a service that’s designed to identify the emotions people exhibit based on videos and images. The company announced the decision today as it published a 27-page “Responsible AI Standard” that explains its goals with regard to ...
GitHub’s AI-powered developer assistant Copilot is now available to all programmers
GitHub Inc. said today its artificial intelligence-powered Copilot tool, which is designed to make life easier for developers, is now generally available to individual developers for $10 a month or $100 a year, with a free 60-day trial on offer. The company launched Copilot in beta in June 2021 and describes the tool as an “AI ...