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Intel & Udacity announce new training program for AI at the edge
Chipmaker Intel Corp. today teamed up with the online educational course provider Udacity Inc. to launch a new course for developers interested in deploying artificial intelligence models at the network edge. Edge computing refers to computing processes that are run locally on the device itself, instead of in the cloud. This enables data to be processed ...
Microsoft is building a ‘Planetary Computer’ to preserve biodiversity around the world
Microsoft Corp. today outlined a new initiative that it says will advance the protection and preservation of biodiversity and ecosystems around the world. The initiative includes a plan to develop what Microsoft calls a “Planetary Computer” that will be used to aggregate environmental data. It will also use artificial intelligence technologies to develop and deploy ...
Google to cut back on new hires this year amid COVID-19 pandemic
Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. is planning to cut back on new hires this year in a stark reminder that very few companies will be left unscathed by the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The plans were revealed in an email from Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to employees this week. “We ...
Identity verification startup Onfido lands $100M funding round
British identity verification and authentication startup Onfido Ltd. said today it has secured a fresh infusion of $100 million in capital as it tries to become “the new standard for digital access.” TPG Growth led the Series D round, which brings Onfido’s total amount raised to $200 million. Onfido’s main product is a software platform that ...
VMware updates its Tanzu application development tools
Computer virtualization software provider VMware Inc. today announced a number of updates to its Tanzu application development tools. VMware’s Tanzu portfolio is a collection of tools used by developers to build and manage modern applications. They were officially launched in March, when VMware Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger said it would help the company to ...
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 ...