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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 ...
Aqua Security debuts open-source container image registry scanner
Container security startup Aqua Security Software Ltd. announced today that its open-source tool for scanning container images is now integrated by default with registries from Docker Inc. and the Mirantis Docker Enterprise platform, as well as Harbor, an open-source image registry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Aqua sells a Cloud Native Security Platform ...
Tech firms publish massive CORD-19 dataset to help fight the coronavirus
A consortium of America’s leading technology firms and organizations has come together to create a new artificial intelligence-enabled dataset on the coronavirus to help facilitate research into the disease. The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, called CORD-19, is meant to give researchers faster access to the most popular scientific resources on the coronavirus in order to ...
France slaps Apple with a record 1.1 billion euro fine for anticompetitive behavior
France’s competition agency today slapped Apple Inc. with a 1.1 billion euro ($1.23 billion) fine for conspiring with its wholesalers in that country to fix prices and limit competition. Reuters said the verdict, from France’s L’Autorité de la Concurrence, is the largest fine that the agency has ever imposed. According to the agency, Apple tightly ...
Container management firm Rancher Labs raises $40M
Container management software company Rancher Labs Inc. closed on a $40 million late-stage round of funding Monday, it said. The round was led by Telstra Ventures and Telstra Corp., and brings Rancher’s total funding to $95 million to date. Rancher Labs said the company plans to use the Series D funding to drive what it ...
Intel’s Loihi neuromorphic chip can identify hazardous chemicals from their smell
Researchers from Intel Labs and Cornell University have demonstrated the unique ability of Intel Corp.’s neuromorphic research chip Loihi to identify a range of hazardous chemicals based on their odor alone. Loihi could identify each chemical based on its odor from just a single test sample, and without disrupting its memory of previously learned scents, ...