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Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. is embracing the developer shift to building on the Kubernetes software container orchestrator with the launch of its Tanzu Application Platform into general availability today. The Tanzu Application Platform was first announced in beta test mode in …
European startups Pasqal and Qu&Co join forces to create quantum advantage faster
European quantum computing startups Pasqal SE and Qu&Co BV said today they’re merging in a move they say will accelerate their progress on achieving business advantage with the emerging technology. The new entity, which will be known as Pasqal and based in …
AI Clearing debuts AI Surveyor to speed up solar farm construction
Artificial intelligence-powered construction monitoring firm AI Clearing Inc. believes solar power is will play a much more prominent role in the U.S. energy grid over the next decade, and its newest AI-based offering is designed to make that happen. The company today …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …