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Startup Fortanix Inc. has announced the first full-fledged service on its confidential computing platform, giving companies an easier way to improve the quality and accuracy of artificial intelligence models and keep them secure. Fortanix Confidential AI helps companies and organizations in privacy-sensitive …
Rackspace racks up solid earnings results and its stock rises
Rackspace Technology Inc. beat expectations as it delivered its third-quarter financial results today and offered guidance for the next period that was in line with forecasts. Third-quarter bookings fell year-over-year, though executives said the cloud services firm had landed a large, competitive …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …