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‘Avatar’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ visual effects creator Weta Digital chooses AWS for hosting
Weta Digital Ltd. said today it’s going “all-in” on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud infrastructure to host its visual effects tools and collaborative workflow platforms. Weta Digital is a New Zealand-based company that provides animation and compositing software tools for visual effects artists. Its software is used to create immersive, computer-generated worlds for TV, ...
Postman launches web client of its API development platform
Postman Inc. said today it’s making its popular namesake application programming interface development environment available via the web. Postman sells what it calls a “collaboration platform” for API development that’s used by developers to test API calls and validate that their responses are accurate. APIs are key to the ability of applications to tap into ...
Microsoft creates a new tool to spot ‘deepfake’ videos and images
Microsoft Corp. today launched a new tool designed to combat deepfakes. Deepfakes are faked computer-manipulated images or videos that have been altered in hard-to-detect ways to make someone appear to have said something they didn’t or look like they were in places that they weren’t. They’re often used to defame notable people, and their widespread use ...
Amazon and Microsoft back the LF Climate Finance Foundation
The Linux Foundation said today it’s stepping up its efforts to tackle climate change with the launch of the LF Climate Finance Foundation. The initiative has been established to provide artificial intelligence-based, open source analytics and data to academia, banks, companies, insurers, investors, governments and nongovernmental organizations to help them address climate risk and opportunities, ...
Diamanti embraces commodity hardware with container software update
Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Diamanti Inc. said today that it has completed its transition to a software-focused company with the release of Diamanti Spektra 3.0, a software platform that’s designed to enable container-based hybrid clouds. Diamanti sells hardware and software that enables companies to run Kubernetes-based container workloads in hybrid cloud environments, where workloads are split ...
Google debuts new AI features and tools to advance MLOps
Google LLC announced today a raft of artificial intelligence-related updates as part of Google Cloud Next: OnAir, a nine-week series of livestream events that runs through Sept. 15. The focus of today’s updates is all about machine learning and, in particular, the emerging MLOps discipline that’s aimed at putting machine learning workflows into operation by fostering ...
Zoom’s revenue jumps 355% as it crushes earnings expectations
Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s hot streak continued today as the company reported fiscal second-quarter results well ahead of market expectations. The company, which most of the world now knows sells videoconferencing tools that enable online collaboration, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 92 cents per share on revenue of $663.5 million, up 355% from ...
Samsung starts producing faster, thinner DRAM chips for next year’s premium smartphones
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today it has begun mass production of its most advanced dynamic random-access memory chips yet. The 16-gigabyte LPDDR5 DRAM chip is designed for mobile devices and is being manufactured at the company’s Pyeongtaek plant in South Korea, using a new process called extreme ultraviolet lithography. That process involves using lasers ...
Okta beats earnings expectations as work-from-home trends accelerate
Cloud identity management company Okta Inc. beat earnings expectations in its second-quarter financial results today, but the strong performance wasn’t enough to prevent its stock falling more than 4% in after-hours trading. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 7 cents per share on revenue of $200.4 million, up 43% ...
In surprise moves, Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey to step down as Bain Capital steps up
Data center software and services company Nutanix Inc. caused a bit of a stir today, announcing that Chief Executive Dheeraj Pandey will retire. Pandey (pictured), who co-founded the company 11 years ago, said he will stay on until a successor has been found. The company also announced that private equity firm Bain Capital will become ...