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Nvidia uses federated learning to enable AI in hospitals
Nvidia Corp. wants to make artificial intelligence a staple of the healthcare industry with a new distributed learning technique announced today that can train machine learning models while protecting patient privacy. AI holds great promise, but for industries such as healthcare where data privacy is of paramount importance, tapping into that potential is a big ...
EU launches new antitrust probe into Google data collection practices
European Union antitrust regulators are targeting Google LLC again, this time scrutinizing its data collection practices in Europe, Reuters reported today. The new investigation comes just a few months after the EU imposed a record fine on the company for its alleged “abusive” online advertising practices. A spokesperson for the European Commission told Reuters it’s ...
Russia’s Sberbank invests in driverless car tech firm Cognitive
Russian financial services giant PJSC Sberbank has expanded its technology portfolio to include driverless cars after making a substantial investment in local artificial intelligence transport firm Cognitive Technologies. Sberbank has signed a legally binding agreement with Cognitive Technologies that will lead to the creation of a new company, to be called Cognitive Pilot, it told ...
AI in the cloud: AWS makes machine learning more accessible for developers
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference is still nearly a week away, but you wouldn’t know it from the sheer number of new products and updates its announced in recent days — especially in artificial intelligence, likely to be a key focus of the conference. Following last week’s storage announcements and its “internet of things” ...
As Xerox steps up acquisition pursuit, HP delivers strong earnings
Personal computer and printer maker HP Inc. delivered strong fiscal fourth-quarter results that topped expectations on profit and revenue, sending its shares up slightly in after-hours trading. The results come at a tumultuous time for the company, which is struggling to fend off a hostile takeover attempt from the much smaller Xerox Corp. That unsolicited ...
Despite VMware boost, Dell misses revenue targets as US-China trade tensions bite
Dell Technologies Inc. missed revenue targets today as its server business struggled with higher costs and lower demand in a market left reeling by ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China. The infrastructure technology giant reported a third-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.75 per share on revenue of $22.8 ...
AWS says businesses should move to its cloud to lower their carbon footprint
Most businesses are all too aware of the benefits to be had from moving their enterprise technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform. AWS itself typically cites increased agility and innovation, access to its global infrastructure, and considerable cost savings as the main reasons to consider such a move, and it’s one ...
After a successful transition to software, Nutanix sees stock jump 21%
Updated: Nutanix Inc. is riding high today after reporting first-quarter financial results that easily beat market expectations, sending its stock soaring more than 21% in after-hours trading today. The company, which sells so-called hyperconverged information technology infrastructure that integrates compute, storage and networking components, reported a loss before certain cost such as stock compensation of ...
HPE stock falls on fourth-quarter revenue miss
Updated: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s stock fell more than 4% in after-hours trading Monday after the company reported fourth-quarter revenue that fell short of expectations. The provider of enterprise hardware and software reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 49 cents per share on revenue of $7.22 billion, down 9% from the same period a ...
AWS extends Alexa Voice Services to the smallest of connected devices
Amazon Web Services Inc. is stepping up its game in the emerging “internet of things” today by bringing voice control capabilities to low-powered devices where it was previously impossible to do so. Amazon’s Alexa Voice Services are already widely used in its Echo smart speakers and other devices that can in turn be hooked up to various ...