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Google’s new ‘carbon-intelligent’ data center maximizes renewable energy use
Google LLC today is rolling out a new “carbon-intelligent computing platform” for its data centers. The technology is designed to shift the timing of certain kinds of compute tasks so as to maximize how its facilities use renewable energy from low-carbon power sources such as wind and solar. Google said that by shifting the timing of non-urgent ...
AWS and Facebook join on new open-source projects for PyTorch
Amazon Web Services Inc. and Facebook Inc. jointly announced a couple of new open-source projects today for PyTorch, a popular open-source machine learning framework used to train artificial intelligence models. PyTorch was created by Facebook’s AI research group as a machine learning library of functions for the programming language Python. It’s primarily designed for use ...
Red Hat debuts RHEL 8.2 enterprise Linux with intelligent monitoring capabilities
Linux software company Red Hat Inc.today pushed out a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, one week before its annual Red Hat Summit 2020 event kicks off in digital form. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 is the latest version of the company’s flagship operating system for business users. RHEL, as it’s ...
Cloud infrastructure management startup env0 raises $3.3M
“Infrastructure-as-code” startup envZero Inc. is launching its self-service cloud management platform in beta today after securing $3.3 million in funding. The round was led by Boldstart Ventures and Grove Ventures, while Guy Podjarny of Snyk Ltd. participated as an angel investor. Env0, as the company is known, has high hopes for its platform, which offers ...
Google’s Cloud Healthcare API is ready for prime time
Google LLC today announced the general availability of a new technology that should make it easier for patients to access their own healthcare information through third-party applications. The Google Healthcare API is a service that helps to facilitate the exchange of data among healthcare applications and services that run on Google’s cloud. It enables healthcare providers to ...
Google launches BeyondCorp Remote Access for virtual workers
Google LLC today updated its BeyondCorp security framework to help organizations secure their most important applications and data at a time when many workers are confined to their homes from the COVID-19 pandemic. BeyondCorp is a “zero-trust” security framework that shifts access controls from the perimeter to individual devices and users, allowing employees to work ...
COVID-19 forces Tor Project to lay off a third of its staff
The Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that develops and maintains the privacy-focused Tor browser, is laying off a third of its staff as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement came Friday via a blog post from Executive Director Isabela Bagueros, who said the group was letting go of 13 staff members and ...
NBA taps Microsoft’s Azure cloud to enhance fans’ online experiences
Microsoft Corp. has scored another big win today after the National Basketball Association said it will adopt its Azure cloud to enhance online experiences for its fans. In addition, NBA teams will use Microsoft Surface tablets in unspecified ways from the beginning of the league’s 2020-21 season, it was announced today. Microsoft has become both an ...
Google integrates its Meet video calling app with Gmail
Google LLC is planning to add a new, gallerylike view to its Meet videoconferencing tool, following an update that lets people take calls directly from within Gmail. The updates come at a time when Meet is said to be growing wildly, with families, students and workers all using the service to stay connected during the ...
Google warns of rise phishing email attacks related to COVID-19
Google LLC today warned that it’s seeing a big increase in the number of phishing, spam and malware emails being sent to businesses and their workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced millions of employees across the world to work from home. A blog post written by Gmail Security product manager Neil Kumaran and ...