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Intel’s Loihi neuromorphic chip can identify hazardous chemicals from their smell
Researchers from Intel Labs and Cornell University have demonstrated the unique ability of Intel Corp.’s neuromorphic research chip Loihi to identify a range of hazardous chemicals based on their odor alone. Loihi could identify each chemical based on its odor from just a single test sample, and without disrupting its memory of previously learned scents, ...
Alphabet Inc.’s Verily life sciences unit launches pilot coronavirus testing website
Updated with launch of pilot site Sunday evening: Google LLC said Friday its sister company Verily Life Sciences LLC is helping the federal government to build a new online tool to help some Americans get tested for the coronavirus. Verily, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., said the tool would first be rolled ...
UK will proceed with plans to start taxing big tech firms
The U.K. government said today it’s moving forward with plans to start taxing providers of digital services in the country starting April 1, and the move is expected to affect dozens of U.S. tech firms, including Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google LLC. The Digital Services Tax, as it’s officially known, will amount to 2% ...
Security firm Arctic Wolf lands $60M in late-stage funding
Cybersecurity startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. is hoping to expand into new markets after landing a hefty $60 million funding round announced today. Blue Cloud Ventures and Stereo Capital led the Series D round, which brings the company’s total amount raised to $151.2 million. Arctic Wolf calls itself a “security operations center-as-a-service company.” It offers ...
Linux Foundation to house Project OWL’s disaster relief IoT firmware
The Linux Foundation said today it has agreed to house the “internet of things” device firmware effort of Project OWL, which aims to create a mesh network of open source devices called “DuckLinks” that can be used to establish an Internet connection during emergency situations. One of the worst things about being in a disaster ...
IDC slashes tech spending forecast amid coronavirus fears
International Data Corp. says it’s revising its information technology spending forecast for 2020 downward, blaming the fallout from the rapid spread of the coronavirus. According to indicators in the first quarter, IDC reckons there will be a significant decline in spending on both hardware and software as companies adjust to the situation. As a result, IDC ...
IBM enhances Watson’s natural language understanding capabilities
IBM Corp. said today it has made some big improvements to the natural language processing capabilities of its IBM Watson platform. The new capabilities, which were born out of IBM Research’s Project Debater, will help Watson understand and analyze some of the most challenging aspects of English language with greater clarity than before, the company said. ...
AWS debuts Bottlerocket, an open-source operating system for container apps
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the debut of a new, open-source operating system for software containers that runs on bare metal servers or virtual machines. AWS Bottlerocket is currently available in preview, and is a stripped down operating system comprised of only the components that are absolutely essential to get containers up and running. ...
HPE Container Platform is now generally available
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced the general availability of the HPE Container Platform Monday, four months after it entered beta. Launched in November, the platform combines an assortment of technologies developed by BlueData Software Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc., which were recently acquired by HPE. The company describes the Container Platform as an “integrated turnkey solution” that uses BlueData ...
Cloudera’s stock rises after big-data firm crushes earnings forecast
It’s smiles all round at big-data company Cloudera Inc., which saw its stock jump more than 10% today after posting financial results that easily beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company, which sells various data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning and analytics software to enterprises, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
