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Amazon Web Services Inc. late Monday night introduced what it says are the first natively run, cloud-based macOS instances on its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud platform. The new macOS instances were announced during the opening night of AWS re:Invent 2020 virtual event by Amazon …
Google Anthos now available on bare-metal servers
Google LLC announced today that its hybrid cloud application development platform Anthos is now available on bare-metal servers, giving customers more choice on how and where to run their hybrid cloud workloads. Google Anthos is a hybrid cloud application development platform that …
Google’s DeepMind solves the ‘protein folding problem,’ one of biology’s biggest challenges
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind Technologies said today it has solved a 50-year-old “grand challenge” in biology by creating software that can predict the atomic structure that proteins will fold into in a matter of days. The breakthrough could pave the way …
Nvidia launches Monai framework to speed up AI healthcare training
Nvidia Corp. is stepping up its efforts in healthcare with today’s launch of its Medical Open Network for AI, or Monai, an open-source framework that’s used to train artificial intelligence-powered models for medical imaging. Monai is based on the open-source PyTorch framework …
Iguazio’s data science platform achieves ‘AWS Outposts Ready’ designation
Data science company Iguazio Systems Ltd. hit a new milestone today, announcing that its platform has been certified to run on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, AWS Outposts. Iguazio sells a “serverless” data platform-as-a-service product that creates real-time intelligence …
ServiceNow buys artificial intelligence pioneer Element AI
ServiceNow Inc. is beefing up its artificial intelligence development capabilities with the acquisition today of a company called Element AI Inc. that’s widely known as one of the pioneers in the field. Montreal-based Element AI launched back in 2016 as a professional …
Ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns spark big rise in global PC sales
Research firm International Data Corp. said today that demand boosted by ongoing COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in Europe, Middle East and Africa will help drive double-digit growth in the region’s personal computer market, ending years of declining sales. The need to continue working …
France orders big tech firms to start paying digital tax
France is moving ahead with its plan to implement a controversial digital tax on big tech companies, sending out notices to various companies today informing them they’ll be required to pay up if they want to continue doing business there. The tax …
Microsoft to open its most sustainable data center in Sweden next year
Microsoft Corp. said this week it’s planning to open in Sweden next year what it says will be one of the most advanced and sustainable data center locations it has ever built. The company said the new region, which consists of data …
Amazon debuts a fully managed version of Apache Airflow for data processing workloads
Amazon Web Services Inc. added to its growing catalog of big data services today with the launch of a new managed offering that helps customers execute data processing workloads in the cloud. The new service, called Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow, …