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Nvidia-powered supercomputers advance COVID drug discovery and atomic simulations
Supercomputers built using Nvidia Corp.’s most advanced platforms are leading the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, helping researchers gain more insights into the nature of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and creating new artificial intelligence models to accelerate drug discovery. Nvidia revealed today how a team led by Arvind Ramanathan, a computational biologist at the Argonne National ...
Genesys and Google Cloud partner to deliver next-generation contact center experiences
Contact center software firm Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc. is bringing its suite of customer experience and call center technology to Google Cloud. The company said today its Genesys Multicloud CX platform will soon be available on Google Cloud as a private deployment option. The Genesys Multicloud CX Private Edition is expected to launch within the ...
Autonomous truck software firm Embark Trucks goes public via SPAC merger but stock falls
Autonomous trucking firm Embark Trucks Inc. began trading on the Nasdaq exchange today after completing its merger with a special-purpose acquisition company. The company, which is trading under the ticker symbol “EMBK,” is valued at $5 billion and raised more than $600 million in proceeds from the sale. Early investors redeemed nearly 30 million shares, ...
Google revives ‘Google Labs’, but not as we know it
Google LLC has revived its “Labs” organization, at least unofficially, with the creation of a new group that’s meant to oversee what the company considers to be “high-potential, long-term projects” such as its augmented reality, virtual reality and Area 120 efforts. The Labs at Google initiative signifies a renewed commitment to innovation and technological advancement. The ...
Expensify’s stock pops, rising 47% on strong public debut
Expense management platform Expensify Inc. enjoyed a strong public debut today, its stock rising almost 47% to value the company at about $3.87 billion and adding its name to a growing list of tech firms cashing in on the market’s appetite for tech startups. The company’s shares opened at $39.75 after it sold 9.73 million ...
Ambitious enterprise automation firm Workato nets $200M in late-stage funding
Enterprise automation company Workato Inc. today announced its second big raise of the year, closing on a $200 million round of funding that brings its total amount of capital raised to $420 million. Battery Ventures led the Series E round with equal participation from Insight Partners, Altimeter Capital and Tiger Global. Others, including Geodesic Capital ...
Google’s Project Relate aims to help people with speech impairments communicate more easily
Google LLC is asking for help in developing and testing a new app that it says will be able to help people with speech impairments communicate with others more easily. The app is called Project Relate, and Google is asking for an initial group of beta testers to help improve its accuracy. In a presentation ...
RingCentral’s stock jumps as it posts solid earnings beat
Shares of business communications platform RingCentral Inc. burst out of the gate today following a strong third quarter earnings beat and bullish guidance for the next quarter. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 36 cents per share on revenue of $415 million, rising 37% from a year ago. That ...
Cisco extends ThousandEyes monitoring to improve SaaS application visibility
Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is extending its visibility tools to hundreds of thousands of software-as-a-service applications across the internet. The company announced a new capability in Cisco ThousandEyes at its Partner Summit conference today called Application Outages, which provides insights into thousands of popular SaaS apps on a global scale. ThousandEyes is a network ...
Nvidia accelerates high-performance computing with new Quantum-2 network platform
Nvidia Corp. is pushing high-performance computing into overdrive with the next generation of its InfiniBand networking platform, Nvidia Quantum-2. Announced today at Nvidia’s GTC 2021 event, Nvidia Quantum-2 (pictured) is a 400-gigabytes-per-second InfiniBand networking platform that incorporates an entirely new Nvidia Quantum-2 switch, the ConnectX-7 network adapter, as well as its upcoming BlueField-3 data processing ...