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Fetch.ai debuts a decentralized Mobility Framework for delivery drivers
U.K.-based artificial intelligence lab Fetch.ai Ltd. today announced the launch of its Mobility Framework that helps support delivery drivers by eliminating the middleman. Fetch.ai says that although the delivery economy has boomed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s concerned that the majority of the profits in that business are being sucked up by what it calls “big ...
Texas and nine other Republican-led states accuse Google of online ad stranglehold
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and nine other states have slapped Google LLC with a lawsuit accusing it of anticompetitive practices in its online advertising business. The complaint filed today targets Google’s alleged stranglehold of the online advertising technology market. Paxton announced the lawsuit in a video posted to Twitter, though the full complaint is ...
Google buys Neverware, whose software turns old PCs into Chromebooks
Google LLC has quietly acquired a company called Neverware Inc. that sells software to transform old personal computers and Macs into Chromebook devices. The acquisition was announced today by Neverware on Twitter, and Google later confirmed the news in a statement. Google had taken part in the company’s Series B funding round three years ago. Neverware’s ...
Scalable log analytics provider ChaosSearch raises $40M in new funding
Log data analytics platform company ChaosSearch Inc. said today it has closed on a $40 million round of funding. New York-based growth equity firm Stripes and Moore Strategic Ventures led the Series B round, which brings the company’s total amount raised to more than $59 million. Stripes partner Ron Shah is joining the board. ChaosSearch ...
Twitter to host its real-time services on Amazon’s cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. rolled out another marquee cloud customer today, saying Twitter Inc. has chosen to deliver Twitter timelines on its cloud infrastructure. Under the multiyear deal, Twitter will use AWS’s cloud infrastructure to support the delivery of millions of tweets around the world. It marks the first time that the social media giant ...
Amazon argues for a correction of ‘flawed’ Pentagon JEDI cloud contract award
Amazon.com Inc. is ratcheting up its legal challenge to the U.S. Defense Department’s decision to award the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to its rival Microsoft Corp. In a redacted Oct. 23 court filing unsealed today, the company’s Amazon Web Services Inc. unit argued Microsoft’s bid must be “invalidated.” It said ...
Google Meet adds live caption support in more languages
Google LLC’s video calling service Google Meet is adding support for live captions in four new languages. Google Meet, known as Google Hangouts prior to its rebranding earlier this year, has supported live captions in English since last year. The feature takes advantage of Google’s artificial intelligence-based speech-to-text technology to understand what’s beings said during ...
Neurala adds ‘explainability’ to its AI-based image recognition software
Artificial intelligence startup Neurala Inc. today added “explainability technology” to its vision AI software that it says can identify objects in an image that present an anomaly or cause other problems. Neurala sells vision AI software that’s used by manufacturers and industrial firms to automate the quality inspection process, eliminating what can often be a mundane ...
Digital radar imaging startup Uhnder raises $45M round
Digital imaging radar chip startup Uhnder Inc. announced today that it has closed on a $45 million funding round that brings its total amount raised to more than $145 million. Uhnder’s newest customer and partner Sensata Technologies Inc. led the Series C round, which also included participation from existing investors Magna, Khosla Ventures, Sands Capital ...
Stuttgart’s Hawk supercomputer adds 192 Nvidia GPUs to accelerate AI
The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, known as HLRS, is adding some Nvidia Corp.-powered oomph to its Hawk supercomputer, which is already considered the fastest general-purpose machine for industrial production in Europe. The Hawk was installed earlier this year and is seen as HLRS’ flagship supercomputer. It’s based on a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.-Apollo system and currently ranks ...