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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 …
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 …
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 …
Nvidia brings highly realistic, walking, talking AI avatars to its Omniverse design tool
Nvidia Corp. is expanding its hyper-realistic graphics collaboration platform and ecosystem Nvidia Omniverse with a new tool for generating interactive artificial intelligence avatars. The company also announced a new synthetic data-generation engine that can generate physically simulated synthetic data for training deep …
Nvidia’s new autonomous driving system can park safely and create real-time maps
Nvidia Corp. has unveiled what it claims is a production-ready autonomous vehicle platform powered by a combination of sensors, its Ampere graphics processing units and its Drive Orin system-on-a-chip, plus a unique mapping technology platform. Nvidia Drive Hyperion 8 was announced today …