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Google launches new storage option for long-term data
Google LLC has announced general availability of its Archive class cloud storage service, designed for rarely accessed data that needs to be stored for longer than 12 months. Archive Storage, announced Wednesday, was first launched in preview last year, and becomes the fourth tier of Google Cloud Platform’s storage options, after its Standard, Nearline and ...
AWS announces AutoGluon, an open-source library for writing AI models
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new open-source library to help developers write, with just a few lines of code, machine learning-based applications that use image, text or tabular data sets. Building machine learning apps that rely on such data isn’t an easy task. For example, developers need to know how to tune the “hyperparameters” ...
Google’s Project Zero will now wait 90 days before disclosing security vulnerabilities
Google LLC’s Project Zero security research team is changing its vulnerability disclosure policy to give software developers more time to patch any bugs it finds and ensure their users are protected. The new policy, announced Tuesday, means Project Zero will wait a full 90 days before revealing any vulnerabilities, regardless of when the bug is ...
IBM expands Q Network to advance quantum computing
IBM Corp. today announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it’s expanding the IBM Q Network, a service that provides organizations with access to its cloud-based quantum computing systems, experts and developer tools. There are now more than 100 organizations using the IBM Q Network, including various private companies, academic institutions and government ...
CNCF upgrades Falco runtime security tool to incubator status
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. said today its open-source, cloud-native runtime security tool Falco has been accepted as an incubation-level project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The CNCF is an organization that’s responsible for overseeing the development of numerous popular open-source, cloud-native software projects. The most famous open source project it houses is Kubernetes, ...
White House chiefs propose a more ‘flexible’ approach to AI regulation
The White House is urging federal agencies to consider carefully any regulatory actions they take on artificial intelligence technology, saying they should attempt to establish more “flexible frameworks” as opposed to one-size-fits-all regulation. The proposed regulatory principles regarding the development and use of AI are intended to limit authorities’ “overreach,” the White House said in ...
Samsung expects rebound this year as memory chip prices bottom out
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is feeling a bit more optimistic today after reporting a smaller-than-expected drop in its quarterly operating profit. The suggestion is that prices in the all-important memory chip market may have bottomed out sooner than expected, raising hopes of an early recovery. In a preliminary earnings call, Samsung said its operating profit for ...
Lyft open-sources Flyte tool for managing machine learning workflows
Ride-sharing company Lyft Inc. today said it has open-sourced a new debugging tool for artificial intelligence data that its pricing, locations, estimate time of arrivals, mapping and self-driving developer teams have been using in-house for the last three years. Flyte is described by Lyft as a “structured and distributed platform for concurrent, scalable and maintainable machine ...
Google Assistant to get more features in 2020
Google LLC today announced a raft of upcoming updates for its Google Assistant app, including the ability to schedule actions, a new “Read It” mode that reads website content in a natural voice and Smart Display features such as a speed dial and sticky notes. At the same time, Google said some 500 million people ...
SoftBank’s Vision Fund backs out of startup investments
SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund has reportedly backed out of investment deals involving three startups, just months after one of its most important portfolio companies, WeWork parent We Co., dropped its plans for an initial public offering. Axios reported that SoftBank walked away from investing in the three startups at an extremely late stage, having ...