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Microsoft adds more APIs to its Azure Cognitive Services for developers
Microsoft Corp. is adding more Cognitive Services application programming interfaces to its Azure cloud platform as it continues to expand its array of artificial intelligence services. Azure Cognitive Services is used by developers to add AI capabilities such as image recognition, speech understanding and search to their applications. The idea is to help them build ...
Google and Canonical partner to support Flutter-based apps on Linux
Google LLC’s said today it’s forging a partnership with Canonical Ltd.’s Ubuntu Desktop team to support applications built using its Flutter framework on Linux-based computer systems. Flutter is a software framework that’s used by developers to build “native” apps on multiple operating systems, including Android, iOS, Windows and MacOS. The idea is that they can ...
Arm to spin off its two IoT businesses to SoftBank
Arm Holdings Plc said today it’s going to spin off its two “internet of things” chip businesses and transfer them to its parent company SoftBank Group Corp. Arm said it will hand over its IoT Platform and Treasure Data businesses to SoftBank in order to focus exclusively on the semiconductor intellectual property business that has ...
DocuSign buys Liveoak Technologies to power its upcoming Notary tool
E-signature company DocuSign Inc. made another in a string of acquisitions today, announcing it’s buying Liveoak Technologies Inc., which sells software that lets people electronically prepare, sign and manage contract agreements. Liveoak uses a combination of identity verification, videoconferencing and other collaboration tools to enable people to remotely complete auditable transactions. DocuSign said it’s buying Liveoak to boost the ...
Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield exits stealth
Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today armed with a suite of tools it says companies can use to safeguard computer systems and other devices from quantum-based attacks. It also announced £5.5 million ($6.8 million) in seed funding from backers including Kindred Capital, Crane Venture Partners, Oxford Sciences Innovation and angel investor ...
Nvidia’s latest A100 graphics processor debuts on Google Cloud
Nvidia Corp. today announced the availability of its latest high-performance graphics processing unit on Google LLC’s public cloud platform. The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the new Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family on Google’s Compute Engine service. The company claims the new chip, built using Nvidia’s next-generation Ampere architecture, ...
VMware’s Contour becomes the CNCF’s latest incubation-level project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation said today it has accepted Contour, an open-source ingress controller for Kubernetes, as its latest incubation-level project. Contour was first built by a company called Heptio Inc., which was later acquired by VMware Inc. It’s designed as an easy-to-use control plane for Envoy, a popular edge and service proxy for ...
F5 Networks debuts new tool to protect against fake web traffic
With a new security service introduced today, network traffic management company F5 Networks Inc. said it’s helping its enterprise customers to protect themselves against malicious bots and other types of automated attacks on their websites. The fully managed service, called Silverline Shape Defense, is based on technology F5 acquired when it paid about $1 billion ...
Samsung expects second-quarter profits to grow 22% on chip demand
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. saw its stock price waver early today despite issuing strong second-quarter preliminary earnings guidance that comfortably beat analysts’ forecasts. The company said later Mondday that its operating profit is expected to rise by almost 23% to 8.1 trillion won (about $6.8 billion) compared with the same period a year ago. That’s well ...
AWS Outposts adds support for managed cloud database services
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its hybrid cloud platform AWS Outposts now supports its Amazon Relational Database Service, making it possible for customers to create RDS database instances inside their own data centers. Announced during the AWS re:Invent conference back in December, Outposts extends native AWS or VMware Cloud on AWS deployments to customers’ ...