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Google Meet adds live caption support in more languages
Google LLC’s video calling service Google Meet is adding support for live captions in four new languages. Google Meet, known as Google Hangouts prior to its rebranding earlier this year, has supported live captions in English since last year. The feature takes advantage of Google’s artificial intelligence-based speech-to-text technology to understand what’s beings said during ...
Neurala adds ‘explainability’ to its AI-based image recognition software
Artificial intelligence startup Neurala Inc. today added “explainability technology” to its vision AI software that it says can identify objects in an image that present an anomaly or cause other problems. Neurala sells vision AI software that’s used by manufacturers and industrial firms to automate the quality inspection process, eliminating what can often be a mundane ...
Digital radar imaging startup Uhnder raises $45M round
Digital imaging radar chip startup Uhnder Inc. announced today that it has closed on a $45 million funding round that brings its total amount raised to more than $145 million. Uhnder’s newest customer and partner Sensata Technologies Inc. led the Series C round, which also included participation from existing investors Magna, Khosla Ventures, Sands Capital ...
Stuttgart’s Hawk supercomputer adds 192 Nvidia GPUs to accelerate AI
The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, known as HLRS, is adding some Nvidia Corp.-powered oomph to its Hawk supercomputer, which is already considered the fastest general-purpose machine for industrial production in Europe. The Hawk was installed earlier this year and is seen as HLRS’ flagship supercomputer. It’s based on a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.-Apollo system and currently ranks ...
IBM Research details big advances in compute architecture and analog AI
IBM Research today heralded what it’s calling a “breakthrough” in compute memory architecture that can achieve a superior performance for artificial intelligence computing workloads in hybrid cloud platforms. The researchers have created what they claim is the first embedded Magnetoresistive Random-Access Memory technology built on a 14-nanometer architecture that it calls Spin Transfer Torque MRAM, or STT-MRAM. The new architecture helps ...
Aviation group Star Alliance says it’s going all-in on Amazon’s cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. rolled out another marquee customer early today, kicking off the third and final week of its virtual re:Invent event by announcing that Star Alliance is going all-in on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. Star Alliance, which is the world’s largest aviation industry alliance with 26 airlines, said it’s moving its entire information technology infrastructure ...
Google Workspace gets more Microsoft Office integrations
Google LLC said today it’s adding more Microsoft Office integrations to its Workspace suite in an effort to make people more productive. Google Workspace is a rebranded version of the product that was formerly known as G Suite and includes productivity tools such as Docs, Sheets, Slides and Gmail. In recent months, Google has stepped ...
Google heads up Modern Computing Alliance to promote Chrome in the enterprise
Google LLC said today that it has teamed up with several major technology companies to form a new industry group called the “Modern Computing Alliance” that will try to tackle joint problems around issues such as remote work, performance and security. The other members of the alliance are Box Inc., Citrix Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., ...
Strong cloud sales help Oracle beat earnings targets
Database and business software giant Oracle Corp. beat expectations with its second-quarter financial results today thanks to what it said was strong growth in its cloud services offerings. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.06 per share on revenue of $9.8 billion, up 2% from the same period a ...
Healthcare analytics software firm LeanTaaS lands $130M late-stage funding round
Healthcare software startup LeanTaaS Inc. announced a massive $130 million funding round today at a time when its business is seeing strong growth. The Series D round, which was led by Insight Partners with participation from Goldman Sachs, brings LeanTaaS’s total funding to more than $250 million. Perhaps not surprisingly, LeanTaaS has seen a big surge ...