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Facebook Inc. is helping artificial intelligence systems use their memory more effectively by teaching them to forget unimportant memories that they don’t need to know. Teaching AI models stuff is easy. AI models are simply fed labeled dataset As they process the …
AWS powers new shot and save analytics for NHL’s Stanley Cup
Amazon Web Services Inc. wants to help National Hockey League fans gain a better understanding of their favorite players’ and teams’ performances with two new analytics features that will make their debut in the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The company said today …
AI life sciences software startup Axtria raises $150M
Life sciences software startup Axtria Inc. has reportedly been valued at close to $1 billion after picking up $150 million in a funding round led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. Founded in 2010, Axtria provides cloud based data management and artificial intelligence …
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne steps down, replaced by industry veteran Bill Staples
Observability platform provider New Relic Inc. caused a bit of a stir today with the sudden announcement that Chief Executive Officer Lew Cirne is stepping down, to be replaced by software industry veteran Bill Staples. The news came as New Relic delivered …
PayPal expands its use of Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation
PayPal Holdings Inc. is betting on Google Cloud’s infrastructure to support its continued growth and will expand the use of that company’s services to accelerate its digital transformation plans. Google LLC said today it will provide PayPal with expanded cloud resources in …
ChaosSearch adds SQL support to deliver multicloud business intelligence
ChaosSearch Inc. is making its log analytics data platform more useful, creating what it says is the industry’s first true multimodel, multicloud data lake that enables fast, cost-effective log analytics and business intelligence at large scale. The platform gets a significant update …
VMware’s Modern Apps Connectivity platform brings load balancing to Tanzu service mesh
VMware Inc. is trying to help companies that struggle to maintain hybrid cloud application connectivity with the launch of a new platform that combines its Tanzu Service Mesh product with its NSX Advanced Load Balancer. VMware’s Modern Apps Connectivity platform is designed …
Chipmakers and big tech push for $50B funding for semiconductor R&D
Computer chip makers and some of their biggest customers joined forces today in an attempt to pressure the U.S. government to commit tens of billion dollars in funding toward semiconductor manufacturing and research. The Semiconductors in America Coalition’s members include international chipmakers …
DevOps company CircleCI raises $100M round and buys Dutch startup Vamp
DevOps platform company Circle Internet Services Inc. announced today it has closed on a $100 million round of funding that takes its valuation to $1.7 billion. The news came as the company announced it has acquired a software release orchestration platform provider, called …
Dell debuts high-end PowerScale F900 all-flash storage array
Dell Technologies Inc. said today it’s updating its Dell EMC PowerScale line of all-flash storage systems for enterprises in order to target some of the most demanding workloads around unstructured data. The updates include the all-new Dell EMC PowerScale F900, its highest-performing …