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Jeff Bezos reckons AWS will surpass $10bn in sales this year
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing at such a terrific rate that it’s poised to hit $10 billion in annual sales this year, according to company founder Jeff Bezos. If true, and there’s no real reason to doubt Bezos, it would mean AWS is growing even faster than its parent company Amazon.com, Inc. “This year, ...
Dell presses EMC to sell off Documentum to reduce its debt burden
There’s no sign of the rumor mill letting up over at Dell Inc., which having sold its IT services business for $3 billion and listed its Quest and SonicWall units for sale, is now looking to dump EMC Corp.’s content management business formerly known as Documentum. The latest rumor comes by way of Bloomberg, which ...
New API speeds access to Google Cloud Datastore
Google has introduced a new cross-platform API that’s designed to deliver faster access to its Cloud Datastore NoSQL database for non-Google App Engine users. Google’s Cloud Datastore API is currently in beta for the company’s cloud customers, and is said to bring improvements to both the performance and reliability of the database when accessed by ...
Intel buys Italian startup Yogitech to beef up self-driving car safety
Intel is expanding its Internet of Things horizons with the acquisition of Italian startup Yogitech S.p.A, which designs systems to ensure the functional safety of semiconductors used in the automotive industry. Ken Caviasca, who is vice president and general manager of platform engineering and development in the Internet of Things (IoT) Group at Intel, was giving the ...
Amazon acquired AI startup Orbeus late last year
Amazon.com, Inc., secretly acquired an image processing-focused machine learning startup in the shape of Orbeus Inc. and hired “nearly all” of its employees late last year, according to a report in Bloomberg that cited a person familiar with the matter. The cloud computing and retail giant snapped up Sunnyvale, California-based Orbeus in fall of last ...
It’s official: Humans get aroused by touching robot’s private parts
Although they’re really just a mass of synthetic materials, metal and wires, robots have the power to make humans feel ‘aroused’ when they become intimate with one another, according to a new study by Stanford University scientists. The researchers came to that conclusion after analyzing what happened to a group of volunteers when they were ...
The Linux Foundation sets out to build open-source civil infrastructure for the world
The Linux Foundation is embarking on a grand new project called “The Civil Infrastructure Platform” (CIP). In a nutshell, it’s an open-source framework that serves as the foundation needed for governments to provide essential services for civil infrastructure and economic development. Of course, that explanation doesn’t really define what an actual Civil Infrastructure Platform really ...
Drone makers form new advocacy group
Four of the world’s top drone makers – DJI, 3D Robotics, Parrot SA and GoPro Inc. – have just announced the creation of an advocacy group called “The Drone Manufacturers Alliance”, which aims to lobby for policies that create a practical regulatory framework for, and promote innovation and safety, in the drone industry. All four ...
Intel purges 3 top execs as Renduchintala makes his presence felt
Two of Intel’s longest serving executives are quitting the company, as the chipmaker continues to revamp its leadership following the hire of Dr. Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala from rival Qualcomm Inc. The latest departures were announced in a company-wide email from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and Renduchintala, who is now president of Intel’s client computing and ...
Tech IPOs fall off a cliff: Not one in the first quarter of this year
The market for tech IPOs has nosdived. Not one tech or Internet-related firm went public on the U.S. stock exchanges in the first quarter of 2016, according to newly published data from Dealogic, which says it’s the first time that’s happened since 2009. The picture was completely different just two under years ago, when we ...