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Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence researchers have come up with a more advanced method of teaching walking robots to adapt to different kinds of terrain on the fly. Using the method, robots can with relative ease make their way across sand, loose rocks, …
Google calls states’ antitrust suit on app store commissions ‘meritless’
Updated: Google LLC has been slapped with yet another antitrust lawsuit — one that it promptly called “meritless.” This time the search giant faces a coalition of state attorneys general that argue the company is abusing its control of the Android app store …
Airbyte enables easy data integration from multiple sources with Amazon S3 storage
Open-source data integration startup Airbyte Inc. has come up with an easy way for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers to replicate data from dozens of popular sources to their Amazon Simple Storage Service accounts. The new capability announced today is said to …
Skedulo, which helps companies manage mobile workers, raises $75M
5Mobile productivity software provider Skedulo Holdings Inc. is getting ready to manage more mobile workforces after landing a hefty $75 million round of funding today led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The company said it will use the Series C funding round …
IBM open-sources CodeFlare framework for AI models that run on multicloud platforms
IBM Corp. announced a new open-source framework today called CodeFlare that it says helps simplify the integration and efficient scaling up of big data and artificial intelligence workflows on multicloud infrastructures. The new framework is built atop an open-source distributed computing framework …
Samsung profit jumps more than 50% on strong memory chip demand
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Wednesday morning in South Korea that its second-quarter operating profit has likely increased by 53% on a year-over-year basis, surpassing analyst estimates. The increase was thanks to strong demand and high prices for its memory and server …
Fake Amazon cloud service AWS InfiniDash quickly goes viral
Twilio developer educator Joe Nash got more than he bargained for after posting about how a make-believe Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud service would likely go viral and be added as a skills requirement to numerous jobs listings if he posted about …
China-backed Nexperia bids to acquire U.K.’s largest semiconductor fab in cut-price deal
China is looking to get its hands on more semiconductor manufacturing technology through a cut-price deal that will see the Dutch chip maker Nexperia B.V. acquire U.K.-based Newport Wafer Fab. Nexperia, which is owned by the Chinese private equity firm Wingtech Technology …
OneWeb launches 36 satellites ahead of Internet service rollout later this year
British satellite constellation firm OneWeb Ltd. completed a successful launch today, sending 36 satellites into orbit that it said will pave the way for it to roll out a commercial internet service in parts of the northern hemisphere. OneWeb, which now has more …
Putin orders foreign tech firms to set up offices inside Russia
Vladimir Putin is taking aim at foreign technology firms again. The Russian president (pictured) has just signed a law that obliges foreign social media and tech firms to establish physical offices within Russia and threatens punishments if they do not comply. The law …