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Zebra Technologies buys warehouse robot maker Fetch Robotics
Enterprise technology giant Zebra Technologies Corp. is looking to bolster its presence in the industrial robot industry, announcing its intention today to acquire startup called Fetch Robotics Inc. for $290 million. The acquisition, which is still subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close by the third quarter. Zebra is a massive enterprise technology ...
Google adds new checks to Scorecards, an automated tool that scans open-source software for security risks
Google LLC today announced a big update to the Scorecards project, which is an automated security tool that generates a “risk score” for open-source software projects. The Scorecards tool was launched in November 2020 by Google and the Open Source Security Foundation. The goal was to help companies decide if they should adopt a given ...
Micron says demand for memory chips will stay strong, but its stock falls anyway
Micron Technology Inc. hosted a lively earnings call today, saying it expects demand for flash memory chips to remain high for the rest of the year even as the supply of other kinds of computer chips begins to meet customers’ needs. It also announced the sale of a manufacturing plant in Lehi, Utah, where it ...
Facebook makes its Habitat virtual world AI training environment more interactive
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research department today announced a major update to its AI Habitat simulator, a virtual environment that’s used to teach robots how to interact with the physical world. The open-source Habitat simulator was first launched in 2019, giving AI researchers a better way to teach industrial robots how to interact safely and ...
Buoyant announces new cloud service for Linkerd service mesh users
Linkerd service mesh creator Buoyant Inc. is looking to make some money with the public beta launch of its Buoyant Cloud service today. Buoyant is trying to commercialize the open-source Linkerd service mesh platform, which was created in 2016 and is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. That’s the same organization that also houses ...
Secure Access Service Edge startup Versa Networks nets $84M in late-stage round
Network security startup Versa Networks Inc. banked an $84 million late-stage round of funding today that brings its total amount raised to $196 million. Princeville Capital and RPS Ventures co-led the Series D round, which included the participation of several existing investors, including Sequoia Capital. Versa Networks is an emerging player in the Secure Access ...
Rigetti looks to scale up quantum computing with modular processor architecture
Rigetti Computing Inc. believes it has cracked the challenge of scaling quantum computer systems with an entirely new approach that’s based on a modular architecture. The company is one of a number of startups competing in the quantum computing business, alongside more traditional technology giants such as IBM Corp. and Google LLC. Quantum computers are powered ...
Intel announces another chip delay, pushing back Sapphire Rapids CPUs to early 2022
Chipmaking giant Intel Corp. has announced yet another production delay. The company said today its next-generation Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable central processing units aren’t expected to ship until the first quarter of 2022, with production to ramp up by the second quarter. News of the delay came via a blog post by Lisa Spelman, corporate vice ...
Global public cloud infrastructure spending grows more than 40% in 2020
Public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service spending hit $64.3 billion in 2020, up 40.7% from the year before, as the COVID-19 pandemic pushed more companies to move computing workloads online, according to a report today from market research firm Gartner Inc. Amazon Web Services Inc. once again ranked as the top dog among IaaS public cloud services providers in ...
Nvidia soups up its HGX AI supercomputer platform with faster chips, more bandwidth and direct memory access
Nvidia Corp. is turbocharging its Nvidia HGX artificial intelligence supercomputing platform with some major enhancements to its compute, networking and storage performance. Nvidia HGX AI is an architecture for server platforms that’s designed to power high-performance computing workloads. It fuses up to 16 of Nvidia’s most powerful graphics processing units with technologies such as Infiniband networking ...