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Gartner: Red-hot robotic process automation market leads enterprise software growth
Gartner Inc. today published new data on the state of the robotic process automation field, saying revenue for the red-hot market jumped 63% in the past year. The influx of money means the RPA industry is now the fastest-growing enterprise software segment, though with a total market value of $846.2 million, it’s still some way behind ...
As sanctions start to bite, Huawei tries to distance itself from its US research arm
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has reportedly been working to separate the operations of its research arm Futurewei Technologies Inc. from its parent company after U.S. President Donald Trump banned the firm from trading with U.S. businesses. Reuters reported today that Futurewei has banned employees of Huawei from entering its main offices, while Futurewei employees have ...
Google makes it easier to analyze machine learning data with BigQuery and Kaggle
Google is trying to foster more collaboration within the machine learning community, which is focused on a specific subset of artificial intelligence that tries to mimic the way the human brain learns. To do so, it’s integrating its BigQuery cloud data warehouse and analytics service with Kaggle, an online community for data scientists and other machine ...
Platform9 extends its fully managed services to the wider Kubernetes ecosystem
Private cloud services company Platform9 Systems Inc. is extending its fully managed Kubernetes service with a new offering called Kubernetes Managed Apps. Platform9 is a company that specializes in offering “managed” versions of some of the most popular open-source software used by enterprises today, offering what it calls “open-source-as-a-service.” It said it now wants to provide a ...
Facebook debuts PyRobot, an open-source framework for controlling robots
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today open-sourced a new robotics framework called PyRobot. Developed alongside researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, PyRobot is meant to help AI researchers and students integrate deep learning models created using the PyTorch framework with the robots they build. The idea is that they can get their robots up and running ...
Microsoft doubles down on its educational tools for teachers and students
Microsoft Corp. today announced some updates to its educational tools ahead of the ISTE EdTech conference in Philadelphia next week. The updated products include Microsoft’s Immersive Reader tool and Teams for Education, which is a special version of its chat service that helps to foster more interaction between teachers and students. Immersive Reader, a “full-screen reading ...
Facebook contributes open-source tech to boost web browser performance
Facebook Inc. wants to improve the performance of web-based applications, and it’s doing so by open-sourcing several new technologies it hopes that mainstream internet browsers will adopt. During a presentation at the company’s invite-only Performance @Scale conference today, Vlad Djeric of Facebook’s browser engineering team said the poor performance of web-based apps is often quite noticeable for end ...
Google open-sources Private Join and Compute for comparing encrypted data sets
Google LLC is stepping up its efforts to support user privacy and security with the open-source release today of a new “multiparty computation” tool called Private Join and Compute. It’s designed to help organizations compare confidential data sets. The way the tool works is that it allows two parties to analyze and compare shared data sets ...
Oracle earnings outperform on cloud applications growth
Updated: Database giant Oracle Corp. delivered relatively strong fourth-quarter earnings today, beating estimates thanks in part to rapid growth in its cloud applications business. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.16 per share on revenue of $11.1 billion, up 1% from the same period a year ago. Wall Street had expected ...
Google makes it easier to build chattier chatbots in Hangouts Chat
Google LLC is combining its Hangouts Chat communications tool today with its natural language understanding service Dialogflow to help developers build more conversational chatbots that can be integrated with outside applications. Google introduced Hangouts Chat last year as a rival to Slack and Microsoft Teams. It tried to differentiate the offering by pairing it with ...