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Microsoft’s prototype Ink to Code app transforms sketches into working code
Microsoft Corp.’s experimental Garage Project team has unveiled a new application that aims to bring to life all of those wonderful ideas that are first jotted down on a scrap of paper. The app, called Ink to Code, is designed to help developers export rough sketches of their ideas into its Visual Studio platform. From ...
Dell considers going public to pay down debt, buy rest of VMware
Dell Technologies Inc. is reportedly mulling over the idea of becoming a publicly traded company once again, less than five years after it bought out shareholders to go private. Sources including Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal cite people familiar with the matter as saying that Dell is “considering strategic options” that include an initial ...
Cisco’s HyperFlex multicloud platform gains support for containers
Cisco Systems Inc. Thursday said it’s updating its hyperconverged infrastructure platform HyperFlex to enable both multicloud deployments and management of on-premises software containers. HyperFlex 3.0 is a platform that combines hardware from Cisco with software obtained from Springpath Inc., which the networking giant acquired in September. The latest release adds support for Microsoft Corp.’s Hyper-V hypervisor, ...
Microsemi reportedly seeks buyers as consolidation grips the chip industry
Microsemi Corp., a semiconductor manufacturer that’s focused on selling computer chips to the military and aerospace industries, is scouting out potential buyers after receiving an offer from an unnamed firm. The company has reacted to that offer by hiring Qatalyst Partners, an investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions, to advise it on its next ...
Snowflake lands massive $263M funding round to expand its cloud data warehouse
Cloud data warehouse company Snowflake Computing Inc. has just been handed a big fat wallet to fuel its growth after closing on a massive $263 million round of funding. The Series E round was led by ICONIQ Capital, Altimeter Capital and newcomer Sequoia Capital, with participation from Capital One Growth Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Redpoint ...
Microsoft’s Diagnostic Data Viewer lets Windows users see the data it collects on them
Microsoft Corp. has faced years of criticism over its practice of slurping data from Windows 10 users. Organizations such as the European Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have complained, and France actually ordered the software giant to stop tracking its users. Microsoft responded to those concerns last year by revealing exactly what data Windows ...
The Linux Foundation creates new umbrella organization for open network projects
Finding itself close to being overwhelmed by the sheer number of open-source networking projects it manages, the Linux Foundation said Tuesday it has decided to create a single administrative structure to govern them all. Called the “LF Networking Fund,” the new initiative is a kind of umbrella organization for several networking projects, including the Open ...
Microsoft slims down Windows Server Core container operating system
Microsoft Corp. has managed to slim down the already slimmed down version of its operating system for virtualized and software container environments. Windows Server Core, as the operating system is known, does away with nonessential components such as a fancy user interface in order to use less system resources. This lightens the load on the ...
Cumulus Networks lands $43M funding as investors bet on shift to open networks
Open networking company Cumulus Networks Inc. has closed on a $43 million late-stage funding round as it bids to capitalize on an enterprise shift to more agile data center operations that can change quickly with shifting needs. The Series D financing round was led by Telstra Ventures, the venture capital arm of Australian telecommunications giant ...
AI research guru Yann LeCun shifts role at Facebook as new AI boss joins
Facebook Inc. is restructuring its artificial intelligence research teams, hiring a new leader to head up its research lab and Applied Machine Learning group, which implements AI tech into many of its products. Yann LeCun (pictured), a prominent AI expert who founded and led Facebook’s AI research lab, is stepping down to take on a ...