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Yandex open-sources CatBoost, a machine learning library that can be trained with minimal data
Russia’s search engine market leader Yandex Europe AG has just open-sourced a new machine learning library called CatBoost. The company is the latest in a long line of tech giants to offer a machine learning framework, following in the footsteps of Google Inc., Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others. However, while these companies have focused ...
Report: AWS and VMware to team up on hybrid cloud data center product
Former rivals Amazon Web Services Inc. and VMware Inc. are collaborating on a new data center product targeting hybrid cloud users, according to a report in The Information. If true, the move would mark a major strategy shift for AWS, which for years has been intensely focused on getting customers to move their workloads away from ...
Report: Google is planning to introduce a cloud-based quantum computing service
Although it’s still debatable whether a true quantum computer has even been built yet, Google Inc. is already looking to drive the development of new applications and tools for the technology. The company is reportedly planning to let researchers access its nascent quantum computing technology via the cloud, as part of its plans to eventually introduce a ...
Neurala wants to use its deep-learning software to locate missing children
Deep learning startup Neurala Inc. wants to use artificial intelligence for public safety purposes. To that end it’s teaming up with Motorola Solutions Inc. today to develop “intelligent cameras” that can be worn by police officers to help search for missing children and other persons or objects of interest. Neurala, whose technology was originally designed for ...
Wall Street analyst says IBM Watson is ‘outgunned’ in AI battle
IBM Corp. has been left reeling ahead of its earnings call Tuesday following a scathing report last week on its Watson artificial intelligence business unit. The report comes from Wall Street analyst firm Jefferies & Co.’s James Kisner, who argued that IBM is being “outgunned” in the battle for artificial intelligence, even though he says Watson ...
As earnings season kicks off, the cloud hovers over almost every tech giant
As second-quarter earnings reports start rolling in this week from technology bellwethers such as IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and SAP SE, all eyes will be looking upward once again to the cloud. Cloud computing at once is providing a kicker for information technology companies while also continuing to eat away at traditional tech markets ranging ...
Robin Systems debuts new editions of its cloud infrastructure platform
Container-based cloud infrastructure provider Robin Systems Inc. is making its platform more accessible to the developer community with the launch of two new versions available on Amazon Web Services. The company today announced the general availability of new Community and Developer versions of its Robin Cloud Platform, which provides a container-based infrastructure platform for running ...
Google acquires Indian AI startup Halli Labs to help reach Net’s next billion users
Artificial intelligence is proving to be such a hot trend that some startups are barely able to get their feet off the ground before being acquired by bigger players. One such example is Halli Labs, an Indian firm focused on AI, machine learning and natural language processing, that Google Inc. just snapped up. Halli Labs, ...
Google ships out new container engine with a focus on security
Google Inc. Wednesday revamped its service for running Kubernetes-based containers in the cloud, with a focus on better security. The latest edition of Google Container Engine, known as GKE, brings the service up to date with the new Kubernetes 1.7 release that was announced two weeks ago. The Kubernetes project has effectively become the industry’s ...
Affirmed Networks announces 5G-ready ‘network slicing’ feature
Software-defined networking company Affirmed Networks Inc. on Wednesday announced what it says is an industry-first “network slicing” feature that provides fine-grained control over corporate networks and paves the way for the installation of next-generation 5G networks. Affirmed Networks’ vice president of marketing and product management Angela Whiteford said in an interview that network slicing is ...