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New Facebook software creates smarter natural language processing models
Facebook Inc. has designed a new artificial intelligence framework it says can create more intelligent natural language processing models that generate accurate answers to questions without being constantly retrained. Natural language processing, or NLP, refers to the process of teaching computers to understand how to interpret and manipulate human language. It’s one of the oldest ...
Red Hat and Samsung partner to build cloud-native 5G network infrastructure
Red Hat Inc. said today it’s teaming up with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to create a horizontal, cloud-native 5G networking platform for telecommunications providers that’s based on the Red Hat OpenShift platform. The collaboration is important because telecommunications providers need to adopt new communications infrastructure in order to enable 5G. One of the key components ...
Microsoft to launch new, nonsubscription version of Office in 2021
Microsoft Corp. has revealed it will release a new, flat-priced version of its Office productivity software sometime in 2021. The announcement comes as a surprise, since Microsoft has for several years been moving away from the perpetual licensing model in favor of subscription services. The news was revealed in a blog post earlier this week outlining ...
Fungible buys infrastructure software startup Cloudistics
Data center chip maker Fungible Inc. said today it’s buying a cloud software company called Cloudistics Inc. as it bids to make compute infrastructure more efficient. Fungible, which is led by Chief Executive Pradeep Sindhu (pictured), one of the founders of Juniper Networks Inc., has developed a special kind of chip called a data processing ...
Traefik Labs adds another layer to its open-source microservices networking stack
Rebranding itself as Traefik Labs SAS, cloud-native networking company Containous SAS today unveiled a new product called Traefik Pilot. The company said it’s the latest step in its plan to build an open-source networking stack for microservices, which are the components of container-based software applications. Traefik Labs, which raised $10 million in a Series A round ...
Google Maps gets a COVID-19 layer to track active cases
Google LLC said today it’s adding a new layer to the Google Maps app that displays information about COVID-19 outbreaks in every country where data is available. Google Maps product manager Sujoy Banerjee said the COVID-19 layer will display information about the disease for all 220 countries and territories supported by the app. Users will ...
Baidu announces Quantum Leaf, a cloud-based quantum infrastructure service
China’s Baidu Inc. announced a new cloud-based quantum computing platform called Quantum Leaf today that it says is designed for programming, simulating and executing quantum workloads. Baidu is one of a number of big technology firms racing to develop quantum computing, which relies on quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform computation. The ...
Granulate debuts software that uses AI to speed up data center server performance
Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd. said today it’s debuting a real-time optimization solution for computer servers that enables companies to get more performance and higher throughput from their data center infrastructure at much lower costs. The company, which raised $12 million in a Series A round of funding in April, says it’s trying to tackle the problem ...
Intel launches new chips to boost AI performance at the edge
Intel Corp. announced a new series of processors today that it says will provide more advanced artificial intelligence, real-time, security and functional safety benefits for “internet of things” and edge workloads. The company said its new 11th Gen Intel Core processors, the Intel Atom x6000E Series and the Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J ...
Microsoft expands Azure Arc’s hybrid cloud capabilities for better communications
Microsoft Corp. said today at its Ignite 2020 virtual conference that it’s extending the hybrid cloud capabilities of its Azure cloud platform to make it easier for customers to run their applications and workloads in any environment, across on-premises data centers, multiple clouds and the network edge. In addition, the company announced a new communications service built ...