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Verizon beats out AT&T to grab 5G spectrum holder Straight Path for $3.1B
Verizon Communications Inc. has swooped in to snatch 5G spectrum holder Straight Path Communications Inc. out of the hands of rival telecommunications firm AT&T Inc. in an acquisition valued at $3.1 billion. On Thursday, Verizon said it would pay $184 per share for the company in an all-stock deal. The transaction should close in about ...
Microsoft adds new APIs to its growing Cognitive Services lineup
Microsoft Corp. added to its growing collection of Cognitive Services with the launch of several new application programming interfaces at its Build 2017 conference Wednesday. The company said developers can use the new APIs alongside the tools they’re already familiar with to build new artificial intelligence-powered apps quickly and easily, with customization. Microsoft said it already counts ...
HPE teams up with SUSE on Helion OpenStack 5.0 release
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. sold the bulk of its OpenStack assets to SUSE at the end of last year, you could be forgiven for thinking the company was done and dusted with the platform. But it turns out that that’s not so, for the company has just announced HPE Helion OpenStack 5.0 platform, which ...
Apple to spend $1 billion on Reno data center expansion project
Apple Inc. is planning a massive extension of its data center located in Reno, Nevada, according to the Reno-Gazette Journal, which recently covered a meeting between Apple and the Reno City Council where the project was discussed. According to the report, Apple plans to invest $1 billion into the project, which will almost double the ...
IBM beefs up PowerAI software to accelerate deep learning AI models
IBM Corp. is stepping up its deep learning game with an update to its popular PowerAI software for its IBM Power hardware systems. The announcement came at Nvidia Corp.’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose today. IBM developed PowerAI in concert with Nvidia, which makes graphics processing unit chips, releasing the inaugural version of the software ...
Gartner says AI systems might start replacing lawyers in just five years
Artificial intelligence-powered robots are coming along so fast that they could start replacing doctors, lawyers and information technology workers within the next five years, according to a new prediction. It’s hardly a new forecast, of course, but this time it comes from analyst firm Gartner Inc., whose job is to provide technology roadmaps for decision ...
Yahoo’s new Athenz platform provides access control for software containers
Yahoo Inc. is probably one of the least heralded open-source contributors around, throwing its weight behind an array of community software projects over the last decade, with its most notable contribution being the Apache Hadoop big data platform. On Tuesday the company open-sourced yet another potentially significant project called Athenz that should prove especially useful ...
Rackspace and Dell EMC offer OpenStack-based private cloud as a service
Rackspace Inc. and Dell EMC announced at the OpenStack Summit in Boston Monday that they’re working together to offer a private cloud as a service solution. According to Rackspace, this is just the first step of an expanded partnership with Dell EMC that aims to make it easier for organizations to get started with public ...
Grammarly raises $110M to help perfect your writing
Many people feel that good grammar is important – even venture capitalists. Several VC firms have just decided to throw $110 million at it, or rather, a company that uses artificial intelligence software to help people improve the quality and readability of the content they create. Grammarly Inc., as the company is known, offers grammar ...
Data analytics firms join to standardize deep learning on graphics chips
Data analytics suppliers Continuum Analytics Inc., H20.ai and MapD Technologies Inc. said today they’re joining forces to create standards for using graphics chips in analytics. The GPU Open Analytics Initiative aims to develop a community of data science and deep learning workloads running on graphics processing units such as those made by Nvidia Corp. To ...