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TidalScale gets $24M to fund its software-defined server push
Software-defined server upstart TidalScale Inc. is brimming with confidence today after securing a $24 million round of funding. The Series B round was led by South Korean semiconductor firm SK Hynix Inc. with participation from previous investors, including Bain Capital, Hummer Winblad, Infosys Ltd. and Sapphire Ventures. TidalScale has largely flown under the radar since ...
Google pulls out of the race to land Pentagon’s $10B cloud computing contract
Google LLC said today it no longer wants to compete for a massive cloud computing contract for the Department of Defense that could be worth as much as $10 billion for the winning bidder. The company, which is in a pitched battle to catch up to cloud leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Azure, ...
Microsoft joins Lot Network to step up the fight against patent trolls
Microsoft Corp. signed up Thursday as the newest member of the Lot Network in order to help the technology industry combat patent trolls that stifle innovation. The Lot Network, which has been around for quite some time already, counts more than 300 organizations among its members, including big names such as Google LLC, Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., ...
Thanks to flash memory demand, Samsung expects record third-quarter profit
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has its flash memory chip business to thank for what looks to be another solid financial quarter, according to guidance issued early Friday in Korea. The South Korean company said it’s expecting to set a new record profit of about 17.5 trillion won ($15.8 billion) in the third quarter, up 20 percent from ...
D-Wave offers developers free access to its quantum computers
Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems Inc. is opening up access to its systems with the launch of its new, free Leap Quantum Application Environment. Leap provides real-time access over the cloud to D-Wave’s quantum computers for the first time. The idea is to make quantum computers accessible to developers so they can begin building an ...
UiPath opens up its one-stop shop for robotic process automation tools
Robotic process automation company UiPath Inc. today launched a marketplace for its artificial intelligence tools and services in order to help enterprises on their path to business automation. RPA, as the discipline is known, is a subset of AI that uses software robots to observe workflows in common business applications and then deduce ways to automate ...
Databricks’ MLflow machine learning toolkit adds support for R language
Big-data company Databricks Inc. today updated its MLflow machine learning toolkit with support for the R programming language and other new features aimed at boosting its utility. Databricks had unveiled MLflow only in June in order to help to standardize the process of developing and moving machine learning applications into production. The company argues that the process ...
Oracle adds a NoSQL database to its autonomous lineup
Oracle Corp. is expanding its autonomous database lineup with the release of the Oracle Autonomous NoSQL Database. Announced Tuesday, the new database is being offered as a fully managed service that’s optimized for NoSQL applications that demand lower latency, data model flexibility and elastic scaling, the company said. Those kinds of applications include advertising, gaming, ...
Xilinx unveils new breed of computer processor designed for AI inference
Chipmaker Xilinx Inc. today lifted the lid on the first product to come out of the adaptive compute acceleration platform project it revealed earlier this year. Xilinx’s proprietary seven-nanometer ACAP chips are said to have capabilities for artificial intelligence workloads that go far beyond its field-programmable gate array or FPGA chips, which are processors used in data ...
Facebook fleshes out its PyTorch AI framework along with new cloud partners
Facebook Inc. today launched a developer preview of its long-awaited PyTorch artificial intelligence software framework, which helps accelerate the deployment of AI-based applications. Announced in May, PyTorch was created by Facebook’s AI research group as a machine learning library of functions for the programming language Python. It’s primarily designed for use with deep learning, which ...