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DataOps observability startup Chaos Genius is looking to expand after closing on a $3.3 million seed funding round led by Elevation Capital. Y Combinator also participated in the round, together with angel investors such as former Cloudera Inc. General Manager Charles Zedlewski, Kabam …
Synaptics enables human presence detection in latest Dell and Panasonic mobile PCs
Synaptics Inc. announced today that Dell Technologies Inc. and Panasonic Corp. have launched the world’s first laptops that incorporate its Emza Visual Sense artificial intelligence technology. The technology enables what Synaptics calls “human presence detection” to allow the laptops to detect when …
Airbus in talks to acquire minority stake in Atos’ cybersecurity business
Shares of the French information technology firm Atos SE rose higher today following a report that aeronautical giant Airbus SE is in talks to acquire a minority stake in the company’s nascent cybersecurity division. The report came from Les Echos via Reuters, …
India’s Zomato loses its 4th senior executive in weeks as CTO steps down
Zomato Media Pvt. Ltd. co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Gunjan Patidar has resigned from the Indian food delivery startup, becoming the fourth senior executive to quit the company since November. Patidar, who had been with Zomato since it was founded almost 10 years …
Meta delays decision on revoking Trump’s Facebook suspension until later this month
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is expected to delay making a decision on whether or not to allow former U.S. President Donald Trump to return to its social media platforms until later this month. That’s according to a report today from …
Sales of computer graphics cards slump to lowest level in two decades
Demand for graphics processing units sank to a 20-year low in the third quarter of 2022, according to new data from the industry analyst Jon Peddie Research. The report shows that desktop graphics card sales during the quarter fell to their lowest …
Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang takes charge of cloud infrastructure business
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang Yong (pictured) announced today that he will directly oversee the company’s cloud computing business unit going forward, as it gears up for “aggressive development.” The change was announced as part of an annual leadership …
New York signs weakened digital right-to-repair bill into law
New York has become the first U.S. state to sign into law a digital right to repair bill, putting a substantial measure of power back into the hands of consumers. Instead of paying for costly repairs, consumers will now be able to …
German chipmaker Infineon to spend “billions” on acquisitions next year, CEO says
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG has earmarked “several billion euros” to spend on acquisitions in the coming year in order to boost its growth. In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Infineon Chief Executive Jochen Hanebeck (pictured) said the company is constantly …
US appeals court revives lawsuit accusing Google, YouTube and others of violating children’s privacy
A lawsuit that accuses Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC, YouTube and a number of other companies of violating the privacy of children was revived by a U.S. appeals court today. According to Reuters, the lawsuit alleges that the companies were tracking the activity …