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Google debuts TensorFlow Lite Model Maker for on-device machine learning
Google LLC today announced a new tool called TensorFlow Lite Model Maker, which uses a technique known as transfer learning to adapt machine learning models to custom data sets. TensorFlow Lite is a slimmed-down version of Google’s TensorFlow framework for training machine learning models. It’s a set of tools used by developers to run TensorFlow models ...
Cisco announces financing program for customers affected by COVID-19
Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s launching a new, $2.5 billion financial relief program for customers and partners that have been left in dire straits from to the coronavirus pandemic. The new program is being offered through the company’s financing business Cisco Capital. It gifts customers a 90-day payment holiday, and allows them to defer ...
Open-source software repository GitHub makes all of its core features free to use
GitHub Inc., the popular open-source hosting and repository service owned by Microsoft Corp., is hoping to entice more developers to use its platform after making all of its core features freely available for anyone to use. For the uninitiated, GitHub is a web-based version-control and collaboration platform for software developers. It’s used to store the ...
Stackery adds CI/CD features to its serverless computing platform
Secure serverless computing company Stackery Inc. is beefing up the security and continuous integration and continuous delivery capabilities of its platform, with an aim to help customers accelerate their application modernization projects at much greater scale. Serverless computing is a popular execution model in which public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc. or ...
With new vulnerability management tools, NeuVector aims to strengthens container security
NeuVector Inc. today is adding new vulnerability management and protection features to its container security platform, making it easier for DevOps and security teams to investigate, prioritize and then mitigate any potential vulnerabilities in production environments. NeuVector, which debuted in 2018, sells a security platform for companies that use the open-source Kubernetes software to manage their ...
Eyesight Technologies updates its driver monitoring system for mask-wearing truckers
Computer vision startup Eyesight Technologies Ltd. announced today that its driver monitoring software can now detect whether drivers are distracted or feeling drowsy, even if they’re wearing a face mask. The update to its Driver Sense platform is meant to help maintain driver safety at a time when increasing numbers of them are required to wear ...
New Relic brings AIOps to the fore with new application monitoring tools
Application monitoring firm New Relic Inc. today debuted new artificial intelligence operations capabilities aimed at helping DevOps, network operations and site reliability engineering teams to identify and resolve problems with their information technology infrastructure more quickly. The idea is to boost the capabilities of New Relic One, which is the company’s main “observability platform” for detecting problems with ...
Seeqc raises $5M to develop a hybrid quantum computer
New York-based quantum computing startup Seeqc Inc. today said it has closed on a $5 million round of funding from M Ventures, the venture capital arm of German pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. As part of the deal, Merck will become a strategic partner of Seeqc’s, helping it in its quest to build an “application ...
Gartner now says global semiconductor revenue will decline in 2020
Research firm Gartner Inc. today revised its forecast for the global semiconductor market, saying it now expects revenues to decline as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Gartner had previously forecast the semiconductor industry to grow by around 12.5% this year, but it now says the market will decline 0.9%, representing a percentage change of 11.6 points. Gartner ...
CNCF to host Dragonfly, a cloud-native file distribution system for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing today announced its second incubation-level hosted project this week: Dragonfly, an open-source, cloud-native image and file distribution system for Kubernetes users. Dragonfly was created in 2015 by engineers at Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The goal was to improve the way images and files are distributed ...