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Japanese semiconductor firm Kioxia Holdings Corp., formerly known as Toshiba Memory Corp., said today it’s postponing an initial public offering that was due to take place next month. The company, which is the world’s second-largest maker of flash memory chips behind Samsung …
New Facebook software creates smarter natural language processing models
Facebook Inc. has designed a new artificial intelligence framework it says can create more intelligent natural language processing models that generate accurate answers to questions without being constantly retrained. Natural language processing, or NLP, refers to the process of teaching computers to …
Red Hat and Samsung partner to build cloud-native 5G network infrastructure
Red Hat Inc. said today it’s teaming up with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to create a horizontal, cloud-native 5G networking platform for telecommunications providers that’s based on the Red Hat OpenShift platform. The collaboration is important because telecommunications providers need to adopt …
Microsoft to launch new, nonsubscription version of Office in 2021
Microsoft Corp. has revealed it will release a new, flat-priced version of its Office productivity software sometime in 2021. The announcement comes as a surprise, since Microsoft has for several years been moving away from the perpetual licensing model in favor of …
Fungible buys infrastructure software startup Cloudistics
Data center chip maker Fungible Inc. said today it’s buying a cloud software company called Cloudistics Inc. as it bids to make compute infrastructure more efficient. Fungible, which is led by Chief Executive Pradeep Sindhu (pictured), one of the founders of Juniper …
Traefik Labs adds another layer to its open-source microservices networking stack
Rebranding itself as Traefik Labs SAS, cloud-native networking company Containous SAS today unveiled a new product called Traefik Pilot. The company said it’s the latest step in its plan to build an open-source networking stack for microservices, which are the components of container-based …
Google Maps gets a COVID-19 layer to track active cases
Google LLC said today it’s adding a new layer to the Google Maps app that displays information about COVID-19 outbreaks in every country where data is available. Google Maps product manager Sujoy Banerjee said the COVID-19 layer will display information about the …
Baidu announces Quantum Leaf, a cloud-based quantum infrastructure service
China’s Baidu Inc. announced a new cloud-based quantum computing platform called Quantum Leaf today that it says is designed for programming, simulating and executing quantum workloads. Baidu is one of a number of big technology firms racing to develop quantum computing, which …
Granulate debuts software that uses AI to speed up data center server performance
Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd. said today it’s debuting a real-time optimization solution for computer servers that enables companies to get more performance and higher throughput from their data center infrastructure at much lower costs. The company, which raised $12 million in a …
Intel launches new chips to boost AI performance at the edge
Intel Corp. announced a new series of processors today that it says will provide more advanced artificial intelligence, real-time, security and functional safety benefits for “internet of things” and edge workloads. The company said its new 11th Gen Intel Core processors, the …