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Google’s DeepMind partners with Unity to train AI agents in virtual worlds
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence group DeepMind Technologies Ltd. said today it will research AI agents with 3-D game development company Unity Technologies Inc., which made the engine for the popular Pokemon Go game. The two companies plan to create a virtual test ground for AI agents that may eventually be used in fields such as autonomous ...
Flexera acquires cloud management and cost optimization firm RightScale
Flexera Software LLC says it wants to help enterprises keep a lid on their cloud spending, acquiring RightScale Inc. for an undisclosed price today to beef up its ability to do that. Flexera is a software asset management provider that sells tools that help enterprises to automate many of the tasks required to maintain compliance ...
New working group aims to bring Kubernetes to IoT edge networks
The Kubernetes project has emerged as the default container orchestration tool in many DevOps scenarios, but teething problems still exist when it comes to “internet of things” deployments in the cloud and at the network edge. With that in mind, the Eclipse Foundation, an organization that’s working to standardize on open source technologies for IoT, ...
Mesosphere says Kubernetes adoption is driving hybrid cloud shift
One in four companies now relies on multiple cloud providers, up 50 percent from two years ago. That’s according to Mesosphere Inc.‘s latest survey published Tuesday on the state of the cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystems. The company, which sells a data center operating system based on Apache Mesos, said this shift to the cloud is reflected in enterprises’ growing ...
LinkedIn launches Talent Insights to aid recruitment planning
LinkedIn Corp. is trying to cash in on the data it has gathered from its 575 million worldwide members, 20 million companies and 15 million job listings with a new service for companies to learn more about themselves, their competitors and the talent they want to attract. The Talent Insights service, launched Tuesday, essentially marks LinkedIn’s first foray ...
Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing its mobile chip designs, giving them to Intel
Qualcomm Inc.’s long-running legal battle with Apple Inc. has taken another twist, with the chipmaker accusing its rival of intellectual property theft on a grand scale. Qualcomm said in an amended complaint Tuesday that Apple has been stealing its modem chip designs and providing them to Intel Corp. for several years. Intel, it’s alleged, then used those ...
Google and Salesforce integrate their platforms with new data connector
Google LLC stole a march on its public cloud rivals last year when it announced it was teaming up with Salesforce.com Inc. to help customers get more actionable insights from their marketing, sales and service data. One of the major aspects of that partnership was that Salesforce would integrate its marketing, sales and advertising data ...
Salesforce debuts Customer 360 service for creating ‘connected experiences’
With a new service to be announced today at its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com Inc. is aiming to make it easier for its users to connect its various applications and the data they generate. The service, called Salesforce Customer 360, also gives users a way to build “connected experiences” more easily, without ...
Apple and Salesforce are teaming up on mobile app development
Apple Inc. is teaming up with customer relationship management software company Salesforce.com Inc. in order to improve the number and quality of mobile business applications available on its iPhone and iPad devices. The companies said in an announcement today that their partnership would focus on three areas, each pertaining to developers and Apple’s iOS operating system. ...
Alibaba Cloud teams up with NeuVector to boost Kubernetes container security
Kubernetes security startup NeuVector Inc.’s container firewall technology has been validated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Alibaba Cloud, which is now using the system to safeguard containerized workloads running on its public cloud infrastructure. NeuVector provides a security platform for companies that use Kubernetes to manage their container deployments. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestrator ...