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Mobile commerce startup Metropolis Technologies Inc. is feeling richer today after closing on a $167 million round of funding that was co-led by 3L Capital and Assembly Ventures. Dragoneer Investment Group, Eldridge Industries, Silver Lake Partners and UP Partners also participated in …
Canonical updates Ubuntu Core with support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial apps
The Ubuntu developer Canonical Ltd. today announced general availability of a new edition of Ubuntu Core, its fully containerized operating system for edge and “internet of things” devices. With the update, the operating system now supports real-time compute in robotics and industrial …
Quantum computing service provider Quantinuum boosts its hardware to 20 qubits
Quantinuum Ltd., a startup that claims to be the world’s largest independent quantum computing company, today announced a major hardware upgrade that expands its System Model H1-1 platform to 20 fully connected qubits, making it possible to process quantum operations in parallel. …
Adobe Real-Time CDP delivers enhanced customer tracking tools as an alternative to third-party cookies
Adobe Inc. is updating its Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform offering with new capabilities that it says will help customers overcome plans by Google LLC to block third-party cookies. The company said today that Adobe Real-Time CDP has gained newly enriched capabilities …
Yellowbrick Data scales its cloud data warehouse across public clouds
Data warehouse provider Yellowbrick Data Inc. announced an updated version of its cloud platform today, saying it can scale more effectively as customer’s data needs grow. It’s also introducing what it says is a unique pricing model that offers customers more predictable …
Splunk bolsters its big-data platforms with new security and observability tools
Big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. announced some major updates to the cloud-based and self-managed versions of its data platforms today. With the updated Splunk Cloud Platform and general availability of Splunk Enterprise 9.0, customers gain access to greater visibility that enables them …
Strong cloud growth powers another earnings beat for Oracle, sending stock higher
Oracle Corp.’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results elicited enthusiasm from Wall Street after it delivered profit and revenue that came in ahead of expectations, primarily thanks to its strong cloud growth. The database firm delivered a sharp increase in cloud license and on-premises …
Google suspends researcher who claims one of its AI systems is now sentient
Google LLC has suspended an artificial intelligence engineer after he made claims that one of its AI chatbots has become “sentient” and deserving of rights normally afforded to humans. Blake Lemoine (pictured) reportedly informed the company of his belief that its Language …
Report: Global chip shortage could expand to include more advanced processors
The global shortage of computer chips that has stricken the world for the past two years could soon spread to more advanced silicon that’s used to power next-generation smartphones and data center workloads. The two-year chip drought has until now only really …
AMD unveils roadmap for next-gen Ryzen chips and Zen 5 architecture
Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. used its Financial Analyst Day event today to lay out the roadmap for its next-generation desktop, laptop and mobile silicon. The roadmap revealed some key details about the upcoming Ryzen 7000 processors, which will be used …