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To speed up machine learning, Google’s DeepMind simulates the effect of dopamine on the human brain
Artificial intelligence systems based on deep learning algorithms have shown their ability to outperform real people in all manner of tasks, including classifying images and playing classic board games such as chess and Go. But despite those impressive achievements, deep learning systems still struggle to compete with humans when it comes to the speed at ...
Filament brings blockchain capabilities to existing IoT devices
Startup Filament is adding another layer of abstraction and utility to the blockchain with a new plug-and-play hardware device that allows “internet of things” devices to access the distributed digital ledger technology. The company, which builds a variety of blockchain-based hardware and software products, is touting a new USB device it said can enable existing ...
Dropbox beats forecasts in its first earnings report since IPO
Dropbox Inc. today posted solid quarterly results in its first earnings report since the launch of its initial public offering in March. The file storage company beat out Wall Street’s expectations for its first quarter, reporting earnings after certain costs such as stock compensation of 4 cents per share on revenue of $316.3 million, up 28 ...
Red Hat explains how it’s going to integrate CoreOS with its container software
Four months after buying up CoreOS Inc. in one of the most significant acquisitions in the tech industry this year, Red Hat Inc. Wednesday outlined how it’s planning to integrate the company’s technology into its own stack. The acquisition in January was seen as an attempt by Red Hat to bring in more talent and expertise to ...
Microsoft launches preview of Azure Confidential Computing
Microsoft Corp. today announced a preview of new data security capabilities within its Azure cloud as part of a previously announced Azure Confidential Computing program. Microsoft introduced Azure Confidential Computing last year, saying it would provide a way for customers to ensure their most critical data is protected at the hardware level so that even its ...
Google acquires Velostrata for its cloud migration service
Google Inc. said today it will acquire the Israeli startup Velostrata Inc., which provides a migration service for moving applications from on-premises data centers to public clouds such as Google’s. The move is designed to make Google’s cloud platform more appealing to enterprise customers, many of which have forgone a move to the cloud because ...
Nutanix doubles down on multicloud with new cost control, security and database tools
Hyperconverged infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. is pushing forward to try to eliminate the complexity of managing disaggregated workloads across multiple cloud computing environments. At its .NEXT Conference 2018 today, the company unveiled a new software-as-a-service offering aimed at providing multicloud governance and management capabilities. Called Nutanix Beam, the service is meant to help enterprises manage things ...
Neurala’s new neural network reduces AI training times from hours to seconds
Artificial intelligence startup Neurala Inc. is claiming a major breakthrough with its deep learning platform, saying it has reduced the time it takes to train a deep neural network from 15 hours to just 20 seconds. Neurala claims to differentiate itself from other AI software makers because its platform learns by mimicking the human brain, ...
ServiceNow gets its own chatbot to handle basic customer and employee requests
Less than a week after agreeing to acquire the natural language processing artificial intelligence startup Parlo, ServiceNow Inc. is adding conversational chatbot technology to its Now Platform. ServiceNow said the base technology for its new “Virtual Agent” (pictured below) was built by itself. It says its chatbot is designed to manage employee and customer requests ...
David vs. Goliath: Startup Cycle wants to take on Kubernetes in container orchestration
A startup called Cycle.io is teaming up with bare-metal server infrastructure provider Packet Host Inc. to take on Kubernetes with a rival container orchestration platform. Upending Kubernetes might seem like a pretty ambitious goal for an unknown startup such as Cycle. After all, Kubernetes has already grown into a monster, by far and away the ...