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Developers will soon be able to run Linux containers natively on Windows Server, Microsoft Corp. said at Dockercon 2017 Wednesday. Windows Server 2016 already provides support for Docker containers, but it’s a complicated process to run them because developers need to target Windows …
Microsoft adds new building blocks to create applications that can see and hear
Microsoft Corp. added three new Cognitive Services building blocks to the Azure Portal application management console Wednesday, hoping to spur more apps that can see, hear, and interpret human modes of communication. The three services are Computer Vision API (application programming interface), Content Moderator …
Oracle drops its flagship database into the Docker Store
Oracle Corp. is diving headlong into the software container game, teaming up with Docker Inc. to make its most popular products available in the Docker Store. Oracle said that its Oracle Database, Oracle MySQL, Oracle Java 8 SE Runtime Environment, Oracle WebLogic Server, …
Mirantis combines OpenStack and Kubernetes in a single package with continuous update model
Private cloud infrastructure company Mirantis Inc., which offers commercially supported distributions of both OpenStack and Kubernetes for running applications on private clouds, is bundling the two platforms into a single package. The Sunnyvale, California-based company is also announcing a new deployment and …
Facebook’s Caffe2 framework brings AI to low-power mobile devices
Aiming to bring artificial intelligence to low-power mobile devices so they can recognize objects in images, Facebook Inc. released into open source a new deep learning framework at its F8 developer conference Tuesday. Called Caffe2, it’s the successor to its original deep …
Intel stops funding OpenStack initiative, but remains as ‘committed’ as ever
Intel Corp. has turned its back on a major OpenStack initiative it founded with Rackspace Inc., but all parties concerned nonetheless insist that there’s no problem, and Intel said it remains committed to the open-source project. Fortune reported over the weekend that …
Fastly launches edge cloud platform to speed up content delivery at the network edge
Fastly Inc. is expanding beyond its content delivery network roots with the introduction of a new “edge cloud” platform that offers a range of new capabilities for developers at the edge of the network. Fastly was founded in 2011 and has proven …
Continuum Analytics’ Anaconda data science platform gets IBM Power boost
IBM Corp. is making the Anaconda data science platform available on its Cognitive Systems platform in collaboration with Continuum Analytics. In addition, the company announced the formation of a machine learning work group within the OpenPOWER Foundation. The group, which includes Google …
In new update, Microsoft Flow gets more streamlined approvals
Microsoft Corp. today updated its Flow task automation tool with new capabilities that among other things speed up the approval process. Microsoft launched Flow in November as a competing platform to the popular workflow automation service IFTTT, which stands for “If This Then …
Princeton researchers may have just won the ad blocking war – for now, anyway
A Princeton University researcher may have just dealt Facebook Inc. a sucker punch in its war against ad blockers, creating a new tool that goes undetected by the company’s anti-ad-blocking software. Computer scientist Arvind Narayanan and Princeton undergraduate Grant Storey have created …