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Atom Computing emerges with quantum computing system made from atoms and controlled by lasers
Quantum computing startup Atom Computing Inc. said today it has secured a new $15 million funding round to help it push forward with what it believes is the most pragmatic approach to scaling quantum machines. Along with the Series A round, led by Venrock, Innovation Ventures and Prelude Ventures, the company has also hired a new ...
Zoom adds native app integrations and virtual event hosting to its platform
Zoom Video Communications Inc. is hoping to make workers more productive with the general availability of Zoom Apps, which enables people to use dozens of third-party tools from directly within its platform. The new offering was announced today alongside a new online event hosting platform, called Zoom Events, that enables businesses to stand up interactive, ...
Qualtrics posts surprise profit and ups its forecast to $1B in annual revenue
Qualtrics International Inc. is taking well to the single life. The experience management platform provider, which recently split from SAP SE, posted a surprise second-quarter profit today as it topped Wall Street’s expectations on revenue for the second quarter in a row. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of four ...
Nvidia accelerates AI inference performance with TensorRT 8 boosts
Nvidia Corp. is speeding up artificial intelligence inference with the launch of the next generation of its TensorRT software today. TensorRT 8 is the eighth iteration of Nvidia’s popular AI software that’s used for high-performance deep learning inference. The software combines a powerful deep learning optimizer with a runtime that delivers low-latency, high-throughput inference for ...
Sysdig buys ‘policy as code’ startup Apolicy to automate compliance and governance
Freshly minted DevOps unicorn Sysdig Inc. is spending some of the money it raised recently to buy a startup called Apolicy.IO Inc. that specializes in “infrastructure as code” security. The company today announced its intent to acquire Apolicy, saying it will bolster its own secure DevOps capabilities with compliance and governance enforcement via “policy as ...
Google advances ‘invisible’ cloud security with intrusion detection, analytics and more
Google LLC is advancing its vision of “invisible security” with a raft of updates to its existing security services, as well as some new ones, announced at its Security Summit today. Sunil Potti, Google’s vice president and general manager of cloud security, said in a blog post that one of the problems with traditional security services ...
Amazon offers cloud-based SAN with EBS io2 Block Express volumes
Amazon Web Services Inc. is looking to simplify its block storage offerings. The company announced the general availability of Amazon EBC io2 Block Express volumes today, bringing storage area network capabilities to its cloud for the first time. Amazon EBS io2 Block Express was first previewed at re:Invent 2020 and is part of a bigger drive ...
Facebook’s BlenderBot 2.0 chatbot can learn and remember new things by itself
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit has open-sourced what it claims is the first chatbot in the world that’s capable of building a long-term memory that can be continually accessed. That, combined with its ability to search the internet for up-to-date information, allows it to have more sophisticated conversations on almost any topic, researchers said ...
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Intel exploring deal to buy US chipmaker GlobalFoundries for $30B
Intel Corp. is said to be in talks about acquiring the chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc. in a deal that could be worth as much as $30 billion, which would make it Intel’s largest-ever acquisition. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which cites people familiar with the matter as saying the talks involve ...
Splunk announces 3 new top execs to help accelerate its cloud transition
Big-data analytics player Splunk Inc. announced a trio of key executive executive hires today who have been tasked with helping accelerate its cloud product and marketing strategies going forward. The appointments include Sendur Sellakumar, who has been hired as the company’s first-ever chief cloud officer. Splunk sells software that processes automatically generated data such as ...