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Facebook automates network peering to enable smoother web traffic management
Facebook Inc.’s engineering team today revealed how it overcame one of the most time-consuming problems in networking by automating a process called “network peering” that enables more efficient exchange of internet traffic across various networks and service providers. In a blog post, Facebook engineers Jenny Ramseyer and Jakub Heichman explained that network peering involves sending ...
Brain-machine interface firm Blackrock Neurotech gets $10M funding
Prominent venture capitalist Peter Thiel today announced he has invested in a company that’s rivaling Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. in the emerging brain-machine interface technology space. The co-founder of Palantir Technologies Inc., who was also an early backer of Facebook Inc. and founded PayPal Inc. with Musk back in 1998, is backing a company called ...
Supply chain issues cast a shadow over Cisco’s earnings results
Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc.’s shares took a nosedive in after-hours trading today as it warned of challenges in its supply chain in the coming months, despite beating Wall Street’s expectations in its third-quarter financial results. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 83 cents per share on revenue ...
Running containers on Amazon just got easier with AWS App Runner
Amazon Web Services Inc. has just launched a new, fully managed container application service that developers can use to build, run and deploy containerized applications and application programming interfaces in double-quick time. Announced today, AWS App Runner is generally available now and makes life easier for developers by taking care of tasks such as managing ...
Google says it will create a working, error-free quantum computer by 2029
Google LLC said today that it’s on course to build a fully working, commercial-grade quantum computer that can perform large-scale calculations without any errors by the end of the decade. The announcement came today at the virtual Google I/O developer conference today, where the company also unveiled its new Quantum AI Campus in Santa Barbara, ...
Google shows off advances in conversational AI, search and TPU chips
Google LLC today announced some major breakthroughs in its artificial intelligence capabilities, including a new, next-generation conversational language model that creates far more realistic and interesting dialogue than anything it has come up with so far. Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications was announced during its virtual I/O conference today, and displayed some huge leaps ...
Google launches Vertex AI platform to help companies adopt machine learning operations
Google LLC is helping companies embrace the idea of what’s known as machine learning operations with the launch of a new managed platform today that it says will accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence models. MLOps is to machine learning what DevOps is to application development. With MLOps, the idea is to add ...
Google to tap into more geothermal power and boost renewable energy use
Google LLC today revealed it’s making strong progress towards its goal of operating entirely on full-time carbon-free energy by 2030, becoming the first major corporation in the world to invest in what it calls “next-level geothermal energy.” It also announced that its “carbon-intelligent” computing platform can now shift flexible compute tasks among different data centers ...
External data provider Explorium raises $75M in new funding
Data discovery startup Explorium Ltd. revealed today that it has landed $75 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to more than $127 million. Insight Partners led the Series C round, which included participation from existing investors Zeev Ventures, Emerge, F2 Capital, 01 Advisors and Dynamic Loop Capital. Explorium offers ...
HPE bets on Europe’s Gaia-X cloud and data services initiative
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is betting on the success of a new European initiative that’s aimed at creating a unified ecosystem of cloud and data services protected by European data laws. The company said today that its new HPE Solution Framework for Gaia-X is designed for companies, service providers and other organizations that want to ...
