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Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform
Google LLC is advancing its hybrid cloud play with a new tool released today that makes it easier for enterprises to migrate their applications from on-premises and public cloud environments to its Anthos platform. Launched earlier this year, Google Anthos is a hybrid cloud platform that runs atop the Kubernetes container orchestration software. It’s designed ...
Amazon’s text-to-speech service Polly gets a newscaster-style voice
Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking on Google LLC in human voice replication, adding two new features today to Amazon Polly, a cloud-based service that transforms text into lifelike speech and is used to create applications that can talk. The first of the new features is called Neural Text-To-Speech, which Amazon says delivers “significant improvements” ...
Samsung’s profit falls more than 50% amid memory chip supply glut
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that its operating profit for the second quarter of this year fell by more than 50% from the same period a year ago, blaming the decline on rapidly falling prices of its flash memory chips. The Korean firm reported an operating profit of 6.6 trillion won ($5.6 billion) in ...
AMD hits revenue targets but stock falls on lower guidance
Updated: Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has just come through a rough quarter that saw its revenue fall 13% from a year ago, despite beating expectations. The company, which competes against larger rivals such as Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp., today reported second quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 8 cents ...
At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia showcases extremely realistic computer graphics with ray tracing
Nvidia Corp. is using the annual ACM SIGGRAPH computer graphics technology conference in Los Angeles this week to highlight some of the advances it has made in the field since the launch of its powerful RTX technology last year. Nvidia RTX is a graphics rendering development platform that’s primarily aimed at enabling real-time ray tracing. ...
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Google partners with VMware to bring virtualization workloads to its public cloud
Google LLC is partnering with VMware Inc. to make it easier for enterprises to run that company’s virtualization workloads on its public cloud infrastructure. The aim of the partnership revealed today, first reported by Bloomberg, is to help companies run VMware’s vSphere virtualization software and networking tools on Google Cloud Platform more easily. To do ...
Atlassian makes steady progress as earnings top estimates
Business is humming along nicely at team productivity software company Atlassian Corp. Plc., which reported fourth-quarter results today that beat expectations. The company also issued guidance for its fiscal 2020 year that fell in line with Wall Street’s targets. For the fourth quarter, Atlassian reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 20 ...
Apple confirms it will buy Intel’s smartphone modem business for $1B
Apple Inc. said today it will acquire the majority of Intel Corp.’s smartphone modem business in an all-cash deal valued at $1 billion. About 2,200 Intel employees will move to Apple, and the iPhone maker will also obtain intellectual property and equipment relating to the business once the transaction closes before the end of the year. ...
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Despite trade tensions, Intel posts strong second-quarter earnings
Updated: Things are looking up for Intel Corp. after it delivered strong second-quarter results today that comfortably topped expectations as personal computer makers bought more to ensure adequate chip supplies during trade tensions with China. The company also raised its full-year guidance up a notch. Not least, it confirmed the widely expected sale of most ...
Fyusion shows off 3-D imaging tech for digital marketers
A startup called Fyusion Inc. is pitching its three-dimensional imaging software that uses machine learning to enable anyone to create extremely realistic 3-D images of people and objects from a few smartphone camera snaps. 3-D images are popularly used in digital marketing, but Fyusion said use of the technology isn’t very widespread because it has ...
