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Jeff Bezos tells Amazon staff grappling with pandemic: ‘People are depending on us’
Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has told company employees that “people are depending on us” as it scrambles to keep up with deliveries to customers during the coronavirus pandemic. Bezos (pictured), in his letter shared Saturday with employees via his personal Instagram account, also outlined the steps the company is taking to keep its workers ...
Report: Google’s Firebase platform comes under scrutiny in competition probe
Google LLC has been accused by some app developers of pressuring them to embed its Firebase code into their products, giving it access to even more data on consumers and a significant advantage over competing services. Google’s Firebase mobile and web application development framework has apparently come under the scrutiny of the U.S. Justice Department ...
Alibaba Cloud offers free access to its AI tools to help fight the coronavirus
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud computing arm Alibaba Cloud is making several of its artificial intelligence-powered technologies available for free to medical professionals and researchers to help them fight the coronavirus outbreak. The tools can help medical professionals by speeding up diagnosis of the disease and by providing more data-based insights, the company said. The ...
2nd Watch debuts new managed DevOps offering
Managed cloud services provider 2nd Watch Inc. today announced a new DevOps offering for companies that want to enjoy the benefits of a more agile and rapid software development philosophy without the hassles of configuring, deploying and managing the process themselves. DevOps refers to a set of practices that combines software development and information technology operations. ...
Startup Quantum Machines raises $17.5M in early-stage round
Israeli startup Quantum Machines Ltd., which has built a platform for controlling and operating quantum computers, said today it has raised $17.5 million in a new round of funding. The Series A round was led by Israeli entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz, who previously sold artificial intelligence chip startup Habana Labs Ltd. to Intel Corp. for $2 ...
Amazon Elastic Inference adds support for PyTorch machine learning models
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that it’s adding support for PyTorch models with its Amazon Elastic Inference service, which it said will help developers reduce the costs of deep learning inference by as much as 75% in some cases. Amazon Elastic Inference is a service launched in late 2018 that enables customers to attach ...
Nokia’s Worldwide IoT Network Grid gets new 5G and edge capabilities
Nokia Corp. added new 5G and edge capabilities to its Worldwide IoT Network Grid managed service today. The move should help communications service providers take advantage of new opportunities in the “internet of things” without needing to make any significant investment in 5G infrastructure, the company said. Nokia’s WING service provides CSPs with access to ...
Google Translate’s new real-time transcription feature goes live
Google LLC today announced the general availability of a new, artificial intelligence-powered and near real-time transcription feature for its Google Translate app. First revealed in January, the transcription feature is now rolling out on Android devices this week. Google Translate will be able to support transcribed translations between any pair of eight languages, including English, French, Hindi, ...
MongoDB’s stock tumbles after warning on negative coronavirus impact
MongoDB Inc. reported strong fourth-quarter financial results Tuesday, but its stock fell sharply after the database company warned of the negative impact the coronavirus outbreak is likely to have on its future earnings. The company, which sells a document-oriented database of the same name that’s used to power big-data applications and other intensive workloads, reported ...
Databricks Unified Analytics Platform gains new security and admin tools
Big-data analytics company Databricks Inc. is adding more automation, administration and security features to its Unified Data Analytics Platform today. The updates are designed to make it safer for companies to leverage data for machine learning applications and other data-intensive tasks. Databricks’ Unified Data Analytics Platform, based on the open-source Apache Spark big data framework, is ...