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Confluent debuts free tier of its Apache Kafka cloud big-data service
Big-data company Confluent Inc. is introducing a free tier to its cloud-based Apache Kafka offering, giving enterprises an easy way to get started with the popular open source data streaming platform. Confluent was founded in 2014 by former LinkedIn Corp. engineers who helped create the original Apache Kafka project. Kafka is an event streaming platform ...
AWS IQ gives cloud customers easy access to hired help
Amazon Web Services Inc. wants to provide more of a helping hand to its customers with the launch today of a new program called AWS IQ. AWS IQ is a service that connects Amazon customers directly with AWS certified engineers. The idea is to provide assistance to customers working on a range of computing projects. ...
Microsoft challenges secrecy order over customer data requests
Microsoft Corp. is taking issue with the U.S. government again, challenging a federal judge’s order that prevents it from informing one of its largest corporate customers that law enforcement has issued a warrant for its data. Microsoft argues that the gag order is inappropriate, since it believes its customers own their data and should therefore ...
Micron’s stock falls on declining sales and a weak profit outlook
Updated: Shares in computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. fell more than 6% in after-hours trading today after it posted yet another revenue decline and guidance for the next quarter that fell short of expectations. The company reported a fourth-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 56 cents per share on revenue of $4.87 ...
Google Firebase intros packaged code for developers to speed app-building
Google LLC today is adding more features to its Firebase mobile and web application development framework aimed at making developers’ lives easier and get more of them to use the platform. Firebase is Google’s main application development platform that enables developers to develop iOS, Android and web apps. As well as providing an app development ...
QC Ware launches Forge platform for easy access to quantum computing
A startup called QC Ware is trying to carve out a role for itself as a “quantum computing-as-a-service” company with the beta launch of its Forge cloud service today. Quantum computing is a fundamentally different and vastly more powerful computer architecture that has the potential to solve extremely complex problems that are impossible or would take ...
Microsoft’s newest cybersecurity service Azure Sentinel now available
Microsoft Corp. said today that its security information and event management service Azure Sentinel is now generally available after more than six months of testing. SIEM tools such as Azure Sentinel are proving to be quite popular with cybersecurity teams because they work by gathering data from a range of sources such as operating systems, ...
Google releases videos to help researchers create better ‘deepfake’ detection tools
Google LLC is trying to combat the rise of so-called “deepfake” videos on the web with the release of a tranche of example clips its made that researchers can use to develop more sophisticated detection tools. Deepfake is the name of a technique for human image synthesis that relies on artificial intelligence. It’s used to ...
Lawmakers propose $1B in grants to help replace Huawei networking gear
Members of the U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled bipartisan legislation on Tuesday that would authorize $1 billion in grants to small and rural wireless network providers. The money would be used to replace banned networking equipment from Chinese firms such as Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp. The legislation is similar to another ...
D-Wave debuts new 5,000-qubit quantum computer
Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems Inc. today revealed that it has sold the first of its next-generation, 5,000-qubit machines to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The new machine is named “Advantage” because, D-Wave said, it gives organizations a significant edge over competitors that do not have access to a quantum computer. For the uninitiated, quantum ...