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Airbus bids to launch a fleet of flying, autonomous taxis in just ten years
What’s cooler than self-driving cars? Self-driving cars that can fly! Flying, autonomous vehicles have long been a staple of favorite sci-fi flicks like The Fifth Element and Back to the Future, but those who assumed they’d never get the chance to be a passenger in one had better think again – Airbus SAS, the company ...
Facebook open-sources fastText, its AI bot-building library
Artificial intelligence could soon get a whole lot smarter, after Facebook said it’s open-sourcing fastText, a library of code for text representation and classification that it uses to power its bots. The release comes as part of the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Lab’s goal to help engineers and researchers by making its work available to ...
Datapipe acquires Adapt to fuel European expansion plans
Managed cloud services provider Datapipe Inc. has said it’s to acquire U.K.-based rival Adapt, a company that sells services to help customers run Amazon Web Services (AWS). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Adapt is one of a number of “managed services providers”, or MSPs, which offer technology services that make cloud platforms like ...
Linux Foundation touts open-source PNDA for network analytics
The Linux Foundation has taken another open-source project under its wing, one that’s focused on the architecture, implementation and support of digital networks. Called the Platform for Network Data Analytics (or “PNDA” for short), the initiative aims to better integrate and manage massive amounts of network information, and deploy analytics applications and services. “PNDA addresses a ...
Hyper-converged infrastructure upstarts beat out bigger rivals, says Forrester
Smaller players in the burgeoning hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) market are beating out the traditional information technology leaders, according to new report from Forrester Research Inc., providing fuel for possible initial public offerings by at least two of the upstarts. The research firm has identified Nutanix Inc., SimpliVity Corp. and Pivot3 as leaders in the market. The report, The Forrester ...
Report: Cisco could soon cut 14,000 jobs
Cisco Systems Inc. is about to lay off as many as 14,000 workers, or almost 20 percent of its workforce, according to a report from CRN.com. CRN says the maker of networking gear and software, which is set to announced its fourth quarter fiscal results Wednesday, will announce the job cuts “within the next few ...
Intel cuts a deal to start building ARM chips
While Intel’s virtual reality and augmented reality gambits stole the headlines at its Developer Forum yesterday, the company also made a second, arguably even more important announcement, in the form of a deal with rival chip maker ARM Holdings Ltd. to use its physical intellectual property. Intel Custom Foundry will now begin making processors based ...
Google’s cloud databases launch into general availability
Google is stepping up its efforts to woo enterprises to try out its public cloud offering with the release into general availability of three database services ready to handle production workloads. The products include the second iteration of Google’s Cloud SQL managed database service: Cloud BigTable, a NSQL database service that powers Gmail among other ...
Micron teases 3-D Xpoint memory ahead of late 2016 launch
Micron Technology Inc. took to the stage at last week’s Flash Memory Summit to introduce the new 3-D Xpoint (pronounced “cross point”) memory technology it developed jointly with Intel, demonstrating it for the first time in solid-state drives. At the summit, Micron boasted that its Quantx line enables PCI Express (PCIe) SSD performance with read ...
Salesforce acquisition splurge continues with BeyondCore buy
Salesforce.com Inc. has added yet another acquisition in the shape of business analytics platform BeyondCore. The move was confirmed by BeyondCore’s CEO Arijit Sengupta in a blog post, and later in a tweet from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but with BeyondCore having raised $9 million in ...