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Startup Warp raises $23M to reinvent the venerable command-line terminal
Developer productivity startup Warp said today it has closed on $23 million in funding, including $6 million via a seed funding round and $17 million through a Series A round. The new funding was led by Dylan Field, co-founder and chief executive of Figma Inc., with participation from Elad Gil, Salesforce.com Inc. founder Marc Benioff’s Time ...
IBM unveils z16 mainframe for real-time fraud detection
IBM Corp. today unveiled the latest generation of its venerable Z Series mainframe family, powered by a new processor with built-in artificial intelligence for real-time fraud detection. The IBM z16 will be generally available in May, the company said. It’s the successor to the z15 mainframe that debuted in 2019, and the company has high ...
DocuSign debuts new contract lifecycle management tool for small, growing businesses
DocuSign Inc. is targeting smaller and growing businesses with its latest offering announced today, CLM Essentials. CLM Essentials is a contract lifecycle management tool that’s designed to reduce the complexity of creating, managing, securely storing and executing contracts for smaller businesses. DocuSign said CLM Essentials, which was announced during Momentum, its annual customer conference, helps ...
Backend API development platform Appwrite raises $27M in Series A round
So-called backend-as-a-service platform provider Appwrite.io Ltd. said today it has closed on a $27 million Series A round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. Existing investors from its seed funding round, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, Ibex Investors and Seedcamp also participated in the round, bringing its total amount raised to date ...
Microsoft announces preview of its first Arm-based Azure virtual machines
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s making its first-ever batch of Azure virtual machines powered by Ampere Computing LLC’s Arm-based Altra server chips available in preview. The company said the new VMs, which are essentially computers in software, include the general-purpose Dpsv5 and the memory-optimized Epsv5, which can deliver a price-performance boost of up to 50% ...
Microsoft deploys and tests AI models in space aboard the ISS
Microsoft Corp. today revealed how it has been working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop and test artificial intelligence models in orbit aboard the International Space Station. One of the first models they developed is designed to handle the chore of checking astronaut’s gloves after each spacewalk ...
Apple reportedly seeks alternative flash memory chip suppliers
Apple Inc. is reportedly mulling the idea of buying NAND flash memory chips from China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. amid fears of increased supply chain disruption. A report Wednesday from Bloomberg said Apple has been testing flash memory chips built by the Chinese firm and holding negotiations over a potential supply agreement for several months. The ...
Meta advances textless natural language processing to generate more expressive AI speech
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team said today it has made big progress as it strives to create more realistic AI-generated speech systems. Its latest advances in what it calls “textless natural language processing” mean it’s now able to model expressive vocalizations, such as laughter, yawning and cries, in addition to “spontaneous chit-chat” in ...
Google jazzes up Meet and Spaces collaboration tools with more engaging features
Google LLC said today it’s expanding its support for hybrid workforces with a host of new capabilities added to Google Meet, Spaces and Voice. In a blog post, Google Meet and Voice Director of Product Management Dave Citron and Gmail and Google Chat Product Lead Drew Rowny said the updates are meant to help workers ...
Docker hits double unicorn status after raising $105M in Series C funding round
Docker Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $105 million round of funding that values it at $2.1 billion — a sign that the provider of cloud-native software development tools and services is leveraging its longtime open-source bet to court more and more developers to its platform. The Series C round was led by ...