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Micron stock jumps on improved demand for memory chips
Micron Technology Inc.’s stock jumped more than 4% in extended trading today after company executives predicted the chipmaker had hit the bottom of a rough period during which its sales have declined for four successive quarters. The maker of flash memory chips reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 48 cents per ...
Cloud-native project The Update Framework hits top-level CNCF status
An open-source specification that secures software updates has just become the ninth Cloud Native Computing Foundation project to graduate to top-level status. The CNCF is an organization that’s responsible for overseeing the development of several popular open-source, cloud-native software projects, including Kubernetes, which is used to manage and orchestrate software containers that host modern applications. The ...
Nvidia debuts new DRIVE AGX Orin platform for autonomous cars and robots
Nvidia Corp. tonight bid to expand the reach of artificial intelligence systems into autonomous vehicles and robots with the launch of its new Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin platform. Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin is a software-defined platform that’s powered by a new system-on-a-chip called Orin. The new chip is said to be the fruit of “billions ...
AWS adds ontology linking to its Comprehend Medical natural language processing service
Amazon Web Services Inc. today updated its natural language processing service for healthcare providers with a new feature that lets them link to information from medical ontologies. AWS Comprehend Medical is a machine learning service that models topics, detects language, conducts sentiment analysis and extracts phrases from unstructured medical texts such as doctors’ notes, clinical ...
Google denies report it considered quitting cloud computing business
Executives at Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. reportedly considered exiting the public cloud computing business back in early 2018, only to reject that idea and instead set a goal of becoming the No. 2 player in the market by 2023. However, some Google employees are said to believe the company may still withdraw from ...
Google unveils BeyondProd framework for implementing cloud-native security
Following the success of its BeyondCorp framework for network access, Google LLC is pitching another model its adopted for securing its cloud-native information technology architecture. BeyondProd, as the new model is called, is the subject of a new white paper that details how Google has implemented cloud-native security principles within its organization. Google developed BeyondProd ...
Application monitoring firm Instana announces a hat-trick of acquisitions
Application monitoring startup Instana Inc. has parted ways with a chunk of the $30 million in venture capital it raised last year, buying up two startup companies and the technology assets of a third. Instana today said it’s buying outright both BeeInstant Ltd., which provides high-frequency metrics analysis tools, and StackImpact GmbH, which sells application profiling ...
Amazon debuts Knowledge Skills for Alexa business users
Amazon.com Inc. is making another big push to bring its Alexa digital assistant into the workplace. Today it launched a new kind of skill that lets users ask questions about data in a spreadsheet without writing any code or calling up a specific skill by name. Currently in preview, Knowledge Skills allows users at organizations with Alexa for ...
Google stops issuing new licenses for Android phones in Turkey
Google LLC says it has stopped issuing licenses for new Android phones sold in Turkey, which means devices will not be allowed to ship with its applications and services. Reuters reported today that Google made the decision following a dispute with Turkey’s competition regulator, which last year fined it 93 million lira (around $17.4 million) for violating ...
Actifio’s latest release speeds up multicloud data recovery
Copy data management software company Actifio Inc. today added some new features to its platform that it says will help enterprise customers to use public cloud services faster, and at a lower cost, for their data-driven transformation initiatives. Founded in 2009, Actifio has made a name for itself by applying virtualization technology to data management. It ...