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SingularityNET and Cisco aim to make humanlike ‘artificial general intelligence’ real
SingularityNET, a startup that bills itself as a “decentralized artificial intelligence” company, said today it’s working with networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. on an ambitious project to create more advanced AI technologies that will soon be able to surpass humans in their ability to learn and perform new tasks. The partnership is a strong validation of ...
Cloud services and infrastructure spending tops $150B in first half of 2019
Enterprise spending on cloud computing technologies continues to grow at a breakneck pace, topping $150 billion in the first half of the year, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. Synergy said spending on seven cloud services and infrastructure segments in those six months grew by 24% from the first half of 2018. The ...
Amazon and Google make big renewable-energy commitments
Amazon.com Inc. said today it’s making a commitment to use 100% renewable energy for all of its business operations by 2030, and to become fully carbon neutral by 2040. As part of its renewable-energy drive, Amazon is also ordering 100,000 electric vehicles and will invest $100 million in reforestation projects across the world. In addition, ...
New Relic evolves its application monitoring platform with major update
Application and DevOps monitoring company New Relic Inc. is evolving its New Relic One platform via a major update announced at its annual FutureStack conference today. The company introduced what it calls “programmability” features that enable developers to build native apps atop of the platform for the first time. It also gains new capabilities that enable ...
WANdisco LiveAnalytics enables data to be analyzed as it moves to the cloud
Data management company WANdisco Plc is debuting a new tool that makes it possible for organizations to analyze on-premises data while it’s being migrated to the cloud. WANdisco said its LiveAnalytics offering helps to ensure “uninterrupted business insights” as companies move data from on-premises environments such as Hadoop to cloud hosted analytics services such as ...
Apple’s longtime communications chief Steve Dowling quits
More leadership changes are taking place at Apple Inc. The iPhone maker’s Vice President of Communications Steve Dowling will be leaving the company at the end of next month in what is the latest in a series of unexpected executive departures. Recode first reported the news today, saying that Dowling (pictured) will remain at the company until next ...
GitHub automates vulnerability discovery with Semmle code analysis engine
Software development platform GitHub Inc. is making it easier for security researchers to identify vulnerabilities in the code it hosts after acquiring a company called Semmle Ltd. Semmle has built what GitHub says is a “revolutionary code analysis engine” that works by performing “variant analysis” on entire codebases to spot mistakes that might create a vulnerability. ...
Aliro Technologies helps developers write quantum apps once and run them anywhere
Startup Aliro Technologies is emerging from stealth today, landing $2.7 million in a seed funding round for its mission to democratize quantum computing. Flybridge Capital Partners led the round, which also saw the participation of Crosslink Ventures and Samsung NEXT’s Q fund. Aliro began its life as a project at Harvard University’s quantum computing lab. There, ...
Tableau Software’s latest AI helps explain what your data means
Data visualization company Tableau Software Inc. is relying more heavily on artificial intelligence as it tries help users uncover more insights buried deep within their data. The company is pitching a new AI-powered capability called “Explain Data.” It’s just one of several interesting new features in its latest Tableau 2019.3 release. Others include a new ...
SWIM enables real-time edge data analytics on Microsoft Azure
Edge computing company SWIM Inc. wants to help enterprises bring all of their data-generating assets together within Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. By doing so, the data can quickly be analyzed in real-time, labeled appropriately and then put to use by any Azure-based applications that require it, the company said. SWIM is an interesting company that ...