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Facebook reverse-engineers deepfakes to detect the AI models used to create them
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit has teamed up with Michigan State University on what the company says is a new and extremely accurate tool that can not only detect deepfakes but also understand how they were were built. Deepfakes is the name for fake, computer-manipulated images or videos that have been altered in hard-to-detect ...
Real-time analytics database startup Imply raises $70M in Series C funding
Self-styled “analytics-in-motion” database startup Imply Inc. has money to spend after securing a hefty $70 million in a new round of funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series C round, which included the participation of Tiger Global Management and existing investors A16Z, Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital, bringing Imply’s total amount raised to $116 million. ...
Microsoft’s new West US 3 data center region is one of its most sustainable yet
Microsoft Corp. today said it has flipped the switch on what it says is one of its most sustainable data centers yet. The new West US 3 region located in El Mirage and Goodyear, Arizona, relies extensively on renewable energy sources and is said to be 100% carbon negative. The company said it chose Arizona for ...
Oracle’s stock falls on cloud investment plans despite solid earnings beat
Oracle Corp.’s stock is down today after the company offered lower quarterly revenue guidance stemming from a plan to make a massive increase in its cloud computing investment. The announcement followed a solid fourth quarter in which the database giant easily beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock ...
Box launches self-service content migration tools
Cloud content management provider Box Inc. is trying to welcome more enterprises into its fold by making its Box Shuttle migration tools more widely available. Box Shuttle, the company’s paid migration service, gives enterprises an easy way to move large amounts of content, together with its permissions and metadata, into the Box Content Cloud from ...
Edge data network startup Macrometa raises $20M in early-stage funding
Edge computing startup Macrometa Corp. said today it has closed on a new $20 million round of funding less than eight months after announcing its initial seed funding round. Pelion Venture Partners led the Series A round, which also saw participation from existing investors DNX Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures, Partech Partners, Fusion Fund, Sway Ventures ...
Red Hat’s migration toolkit for virtualization helps move VMs into software containers
Open-source software giant Red Hat Inc. is getting into the application migration game with a new offering that helps companies move legacy apps based on traditional infrastructure to its container-focused Red Hat OpenShift platform. Most modern applications these days are built using software containers that host the components of those apps, enabling them to run ...
Veritas brings ransomware protection to Kubernetes container environments
Data management firm Veritas Technologies LLC said today it’s expanding its ransomware data protection hardware and services to cover more environments, including Kubernetes and public cloud platforms. Veritas is well-known in the information technology space for its data services, helping organizations protect their most critical information. As well as data protection, it also provides services around ...
Google Workspace is now available to everyone, with yet more collaboration features
Google LLC is bringing its full suite of Google Workspace productivity tools to the masses as part of a series of announcements today aimed at helping people communicate and collaborate online. As well as making Google Workspace available to the entire world, Google is making some major changes to the platform, with the evolution of ...
Task force to find ways to make US government data available for AI research
A U.S. government task force launched today is working on a strategy to provide artificial intelligence researchers with access to massive amounts of data on American citizens. The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force is part of a broader effort to ensure the U.S. remains a leader in the emerging AI field. The task ...