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Facebook’s new Chrome API helps websites load faster and stay responsive
Facebook Inc.’s developer team says it worked with Google LLC to implement a new JavaScript application programming interface in the Chrome browser that can help website developers avoid the tradeoff between page load performance and input responsiveness. In a blog post today, Facebook developers Nate Schloss and Andrew Comminos outlined the problem they’re trying to ...
Amazon S3 Storage Lens helps customers optimize object storage costs
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that Amazon S3 customers are getting a new feature that improves visibility into object storage, delivering insights that can help them to discover anomalies, identify cost efficiencies and better apply best practices for data protection. Amazon S3 Storage Lens is described by the company as a “cloud storage analytics solution.” ...
Nvidia smashes earnings forecast with record revenue, but shares sag
Nvidia Corp. did just about everything it could today in reporting its third-quarter results, beating expectations on earnings and revenue, setting new records in the process, and following up with strong guidance for the next three month period. But its stock still fell more than 2% in after-hours trading, as investors noted that revenue from its ...
Google uses AI to digitize StoryCorps’ massive archive of audio interviews
Google LLC today shared how it has worked with the nonprofit organization StoryCorps Inc. to digitize an enormous archive of human story audio recordings using some of its most advanced artificial intelligence technologies. StoryCorps’ mission is to record, preserve and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs. The project was founded back in 2003, ...
Google launches Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection to prevent DDoS attacks
Google LLC said today it’s advancing intelligent automation within its cloud network security controls as part of its ongoing mission to shore up its customers’ defenses. One of the biggest threats that many businesses face today is distributed denial-of-service attacks on their infrastructure. They’re designed to take websites and applications offline by overloading them with ...
Rollbar rolls out service to improve error detection for developers
Rollbar Inc. today updated its Continuous Code Improvement Platform with a new “automation-grade grouping engine” that it says can eliminate the daily noise and manual work involved in fixing broken software code, so developers can focus more of their time on building and updating their applications. Rollbar, whose platform provides “monitoring software-as-a-service” capabilities for software developers, ...
EdgeQ exits stealth with $51M to fuse 5G and AI at the edge
5G system-on-a-chip startup EdgeQ Inc. exited stealth mode today armed with $51 million in funding that includes $38.5 million from a Series A round of funding. Threshold Ventures, Fusion Fund, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures) and an unannounced strategic customer led investments, which will enable EdgeQ to address what it says is an ...
Google announces improved COVID-19 forecast models
Google LLC and the Harvard Global Health Institute have made some big improvements to their artificial intelligence-generated COVID-19 Public Forecasts that are used by healthcare organizations and first responders to help plan their response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In a blog post today, Tomas Pfister, head of Google Cloud AI Research, said the COVID-19 Public Forecasts have ...
Nvidia doubles the memory of its A100 GPU for AI workloads
Nvidia Corp. is widely held to be the leader in powering artificial intelligence workloads, but it’s refusing to rest on its laurels. Today it said that it has supercharged what is already the world’s fastest graphics processing unit, adding twice as much memory as before. The new Nvidia A100 80-gigabyte GPU (pictured) comes with double the memory ...
IBM open-sources Kubeflow Pipelines on Tekton for portable machine learning models
IBM Corp. said today it’s hoping to provide a standardized solution for developers to create and deploy machine learning models in production and make them portable to any cloud platform. To do so, it said it’s open-sourcing the Kubeflow machine learning platform on Tekton, a continuous integration/continuous development platform developed by Google LLC. It’s popular ...