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Gartner: Tech mergers and acquisitions will hit record high next year
Consolidation in the technology business is expected to reach new highs in 2022, according to a report by Gartner Inc. The analyst firm said economic uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is the driving force of this consolidation, compelling enterprises to make some “tough decisions” about whether to merge or acquire other organizations. The report ...
Facebook system can train AI models to recognize speech without transcribed audio data
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence team today revealed a way to build speech recognition systems without using any transcribed audio data to train them. Speech recognition is one of the most common types of AI, widely used in lots of popular applications. Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, for example, use speech recognition to understand their user’s ...
Palo Alto Networks beats forecasts and ups full-year guidance
Palo Alto Networks Inc. is growing fast as enterprises place more emphasis on cybersecurity, and it showed today as it delivered impressive third-quarter financial results and raised its outlook. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.38 per share on revenue of $1.1 billion, up 24% from a year ago. That ...
Facebook automates network peering to enable smoother web traffic management
Facebook Inc.’s engineering team today revealed how it overcame one of the most time-consuming problems in networking by automating a process called “network peering” that enables more efficient exchange of internet traffic across various networks and service providers. In a blog post, Facebook engineers Jenny Ramseyer and Jakub Heichman explained that network peering involves sending ...
Brain-machine interface firm Blackrock Neurotech gets $10M funding
Prominent venture capitalist Peter Thiel today announced he has invested in a company that’s rivaling Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. in the emerging brain-machine interface technology space. The co-founder of Palantir Technologies Inc., who was also an early backer of Facebook Inc. and founded PayPal Inc. with Musk back in 1998, is backing a company called ...
Supply chain issues cast a shadow over Cisco’s earnings results
Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc.’s shares took a nosedive in after-hours trading today as it warned of challenges in its supply chain in the coming months, despite beating Wall Street’s expectations in its third-quarter financial results. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 83 cents per share on revenue ...
Running containers on Amazon just got easier with AWS App Runner
Amazon Web Services Inc. has just launched a new, fully managed container application service that developers can use to build, run and deploy containerized applications and application programming interfaces in double-quick time. Announced today, AWS App Runner is generally available now and makes life easier for developers by taking care of tasks such as managing ...
Google says it will create a working, error-free quantum computer by 2029
Google LLC said today that it’s on course to build a fully working, commercial-grade quantum computer that can perform large-scale calculations without any errors by the end of the decade. The announcement came today at the virtual Google I/O developer conference today, where the company also unveiled its new Quantum AI Campus in Santa Barbara, ...
Google shows off advances in conversational AI, search and TPU chips
Google LLC today announced some major breakthroughs in its artificial intelligence capabilities, including a new, next-generation conversational language model that creates far more realistic and interesting dialogue than anything it has come up with so far. Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications was announced during its virtual I/O conference today, and displayed some huge leaps ...
Google launches Vertex AI platform to help companies adopt machine learning operations
Google LLC is helping companies embrace the idea of what’s known as machine learning operations with the launch of a new managed platform today that it says will accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence models. MLOps is to machine learning what DevOps is to application development. With MLOps, the idea is to add ...