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Intel hires David Zinsner from Micron as its new CFO
Intel Corp. said Monday it has appointed David Zinsner, the financial head of Micron Technology Inc., as its new chief financial officer and executive vice president. Zinsner, who is 53 years old, will start the job on Jan. 17, the chipmaker said in a statement. He replaces former CFO George Davis, who had announced his ...
Nvidia buys high-performance computing cluster management software provider Bright Computing
Computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. announced today it has acquired Bright Computing Inc., which makes software that’s used to manage high-performance computing systems. Given Nvidia’s presence in the HPC market, with its graphics processing units widely used by enterprises to perform compute-heavy tasks such as artificial intelligence, Bright looks to be a natural fit. Founded ...
Meta AI builds speech recognition platform that uses visual cues to filter out background noise
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is trying to tackle one of the biggest problems in artificial intelligence-based speech recognition: background noise. Modern AI speech recognition systems don’t always work that well in situations where there’s lots of noise, or if multiple people are speaking at the same time. They generally use sophisticated noise-suppression techniques ...
Big-data analytics firm Alteryx buys rival Trifacta in $400M deal
Big-data analytics company Alteryx Inc. revealed today that it’s buying the cloud-based “data wrangling” technology specialist Trifacta Inc. for $400 million in cash. The acquisition is aimed at helping Alteryx accelerate its own journey to the cloud and bring it access to more enterprise buyers. Alteryx sells so-called extract, transform and load or ETL tools that ...
Amazon launches Sidewalk Bridge Pro devices to expand IoT connectivity to factories, farms and forests
Amazon.com Inc. today expanded its long-range, low-powered “internet of things” network service Amazon Sidewalk to provide greater connectivity to factories, farms and other nonresidential areas. Amazon Sidewalk was launched in 2019, pitched as a way to keep Amazon devices such as the Ring or Echo smart speaker connected even when the home network goes down. ...
AWS simplifies cloud data auditing with AWS CloudTrail Lake
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that its newest service, AWS CloudTrail Lake, is now generally available. CloudTrail Lake is a managed audit and security lake for cloud customers that can be used to aggregate, immutably store and query activity logs for auditing, security investigation and operational troubleshooting purposes. The service is an extension of ...
French data regulator to hit Google and Meta with big fines for privacy violations
Google LLC and Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. are bracing themselves for another big fine after France’s data watchdog found them guilty of violating European Union privacy rules. According to Politico, the Commission Nationale de L’informatique et des Libertés or CNIL is preparing to slap Google’s U.S. and Irish operations with fines of €90 ...
Google wants to make Android work better with Windows PCs and other devices
Google LLC is working to expand connectivity within its Android ecosystem with a plan to launch various new features later this year. The initiative is aimed at making Android devices play nicely with others, part of a new initiative it calls “Better Together.” One of the biggest updates announced today involves Google’s “Fast Pair” feature, ...
Sensory debuts new voice and vision AI services in the cloud
Artificial intelligence processing firm Sensory Inc. today announced the launch in beta test mode of its new SensoryCloud.ai service, providing a full “AI as a service” platform for companies that want to process voice and vision AI in the cloud. Sensory said the new offering enables AI processes around speech to text, sound identification, wake ...
Ivanti links smart devices to bring automation to supply chain operations
Ivanti Software Inc.’s supply chain business unit, Ivanti Wavelink, said today it’s extending its Ivanti Neurons platform to help companies automate and optimize their supply chain operations to drive more efficiency. With the new Ivanti Neurons for Industrial Internet of Things platform, enterprises will be able to build scalable applications that integrate into existing processes ...