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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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Google to tap into more geothermal power and boost renewable energy use
Google LLC today revealed it’s making strong progress towards its goal of operating entirely on full-time carbon-free energy by 2030, becoming the first major corporation in the world to invest in what it calls “next-level geothermal energy.” It also announced that its …
External data provider Explorium raises $75M in new funding
Data discovery startup Explorium Ltd. revealed today that it has landed $75 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to more than $127 million. Insight Partners led the Series C round, which included participation from existing investors …