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Google LLC is improving its digital assistant’s capabilities, adding a new feature that’s meant to enable more fluid and open-ended conversations. Continued Conversation for Google Assistant, announced at Google’s I/O developer conference in May, is designed to make follow-up questions feel more realistic, …
Rackspace and HPE team on pay-as-you-go Kubernetes and VMware private clouds
Managed services company Rackspace Inc. is adding the ability to pay-as-you-go to its Kubernetes and VMware private cloud services. The pay-as-you-go pricing options, which have long been available with public cloud services, are being made available thanks to a partnership with Hewlett …
Senzing uses real-time AI to hunt for insider threats
IBM Corp. spinout Senzing Inc. is launching what it calls the world’s first “entity resolution” software for fraud detection that uses artificial intelligence to detect bad actors accessing corporate data. Senzing’s bad guy hunting software is designed to identify “bad actors” who …
Lenovo unveils Neptune, a new liquid cooling system for data centers
The vast majority of data centers are kept cool using air-based data center cooling systems, but China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. is betting that things won’t always be that way, as it reckons water-based cooling tech will soon be a thing. Water-based cooling …
HPE launches GreenLake, a new hybrid cloud management service
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is getting into the hybrid cloud management game, launching a set of professional services today called HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud. The offering is designed to help customers manage and optimize workloads hosted in both public and on-premises clouds, …
Nvidia releases Kubernetes on graphics chips to accelerate deep-learning jobs
Graphics processing units are becoming increasingly popular in the data center to accelerate data-intensive workloads such as machine learning and deep learning. Now, Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest maker of GPUs, is pushing another use case, pairing them with Kubernetes clusters as …
Database startup Crate.io lands $11M funding round
Crate.io Inc., developer of the specialized CrateDB database for real-time machine data and “internet of things” applications, said today it has raised $11 million in a funding round led by Zetta Venture Partners and Deutsche Invest Equity. In addition to the Series …
MIT researchers create a neural network that can process MRI scans in under a second
Researchers at MIT say they’ve developed an algorithm capable of processing magnetic resonance images in less than a second, in what could be a crucial development for the healthcare industry. Currently, doctors need to compare two separate MRI scans taken at different …
Senate votes to block President Trump’s deal to save China’s ZTE
The Senate voted Monday to block a deal by President Donald Trump’s administration that would have removed crippling sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. Senators voted to pass an annual defense policy bill that comes with a provision ensuring that penalties …
Lacework study highlights software container vulnerabilities
New research shows that hundreds of organizations are deploying software containers in the public cloud without securing them first. Software containers, which are used by developers to build applications once that can run in any computing environment, provide benefits such as agility, …