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IBM will use data from aircraft and smartphones to improve weather forecasts
IBM Corp. says it has come up with a better system for predicting the weather in more isolated parts of the world. During a presentation at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas today, IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty outlined the company’s new Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System. The system, she said, would be particularly useful ...
Alibaba and Intel to partner on 3-D athlete tracking for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is working with Intel Corp. on a new “athlete tracking technology” powered by artificial intelligence that the Chinese cloud computing and e-commerce giant says could be a “game changer” in terms of audience engagement. The technology, built to run on the Alibaba Cloud platform, is intended to provide “complex real-time biomechanical data” ...
Intel shows off first 10-nanometer processors for AI, 5G and other next-gen workloads
Intel Corp. took to the stage at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas Monday in order to showcase its first central processing units built using its 10-nanometer process. Dubbed Ice Lake, the processors for personal computers are based on Intel’s recently unveiled Sunny Cove microarchitecture, which makes use of instruction sets designed to ...
First Apple, now Samsung says it’s expecting a massive drop in profit
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has added to the doom and gloom surrounding technology stock markets after posting preliminary fourth-quarter earnings today that came in way below expectations. The culprit, according to Samsung, is a drop in demand for its memory chips and strong competition in smartphones. The company said it’s expecting an operating profit for the ...
GitHub opens up access to private repositories for free users
Microsoft Corp. today offered some good news for nonpaying users of its software code repository platform GitHub. Previously, free users were forced to host their code in public repositories but that’s no longer the case. Now those users can have private repositories if they so desire. According to Microsoft, free users can now host an ...
Qualcomm demos cellular driver warning system at CES
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. stepped up its efforts to become a leader in the automotive sector today by demonstrating its new cellular vehicle-to-everything platform in vehicles made by Audi AG, Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A and Ford Motor Co. C-V2X is a new short-range communication technology developed by Qualcomm and others that allows both connected cars and roadside ...
Open-source software support provider Tidelift raises $25M
Open-source software company Tidelift Inc. is heading into the new year with renewed momentum after snagging a $25 million round of funding. The Series B round announced today was led by the investment firms General Catalyst and Foundry Group, as well as former Red Hat Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Matthew Szulik. The three investors ...
NSA to open-source GHIDRA software reverse-engineering tool in March
The United States’ National Security Agency is planning to open-source an internally developed reverse-engineering framework for popular operating systems this spring. The framework, called GHIDRA, is best described as a “disassembler,” which works by breaking down software into its assembly code so it can be analyzed by humans. The main idea is that developers and others ...
Intel is protecting endangered animals with AI-powered cameras
Intel Corp. says its Movidius artificial intelligence software will be used in special cameras designed to detect poachers who enter wildlife reserves, and prevent them from killing endangered animals. Intel said today that its AI technology will be integrated with TrailGuard cameras that can detect objects and classify them automatically without human intervention, then send ...
Google’s healthcare business Verily lands $1B in new funding
Verily Life Sciences LLC, a healthcare-focused company that’s owned by Google LLC’s parent Alphabet Inc., is getting a big financial boost in the form of a $1 billion round of financing led by private equity firm Silver Lake. The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan also participated in the round announced today. It comes about two years ...
