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IBM opens up the instruction set of its supercomputer-grade OpenPower chips

By Maria Deutscher Aug 20, 2019

IBM Corp. is open-sourcing the machine language at the heart of its OpenPower processor series, which is used, among others, in the world’s two fastest supercomputers. The move was revealed today by the OpenPower Foundation,…

Emerging Tech

After 100,000 deliveries, robot courier startup Starship Technologies picks up $40M

By Maria Deutscher Aug 20, 2019

If Starship Technologies Inc. has its way, delivery robots carrying restaurant orders and snacks will roam the grounds of more than 100 universities by 2021. That’s the plan the San Francisco-based startup laid out…

Cloud

DigitalOcean launches new managed MySQL and Redis database services

By Maria Deutscher Aug 20, 2019

DigitalOcean Inc. today released a pair of new database services that will enable developers to spin up managed MySQL and Redis instances on its cloud platform. The services join the provider’s aptly named Managed…

Big Data

North Star of freedom: How Polaris leverages business and data to combat human trafficking

By Mark Albertson Aug 20, 2019

Since human trafficking today has become a $150-billion major enterprise, why not fight one big business with another? This is the strategy that the nonprofit Polaris Project has put in place to combat human…

AI

Databricks intros AutoML tools for building machine learning models

By Mike Wheatley Aug 20, 2019

Big-data company Databricks Inc. is hoping to empower so-called citizen data scientists to create their own machine learning models with new “Automated Machine Learning” capabilities in its Unified Analytics platform. The AutoML capabilities announced today rely…

Cloud

Druva enables intelligent data storage on Amazon Web Services

By Mike Wheatley Aug 20, 2019

Cloud data protection startup Druva Inc. announced ahead of VMworld 2019 in San Francisco what it says is the industry’s first “multitier data storage system” for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. Druva sells an integrated…

Policy

Twitter and Facebook purge Chinese trolls sowing disinformation

By James Farrell Aug 19, 2019

Both Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. reported Monday that they have removed a number of Chinese government-backed accounts engaging in inauthentic behavior. In a post Twitter announced that it had taken down a total…

Blockchain

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten launches cryptocurrency exchange

By Duncan Riley Aug 19, 2019

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. Monday launched a cryptocurrency exchange after plans were first reported in February. The exchange, launched under the company’s Rakuten Wallet Inc. division, launches with spot trading via mobile app for…

Blockchain

Binance’s ‘Venus’ stablecoin project to take on Facebook’s Libra

By Duncan Riley Aug 19, 2019

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is taking on Facebook Inc. with a stablecoin project to rival the social network’s announced Libra. Called “Venus,” the project has been designed to develop localized stablecoins and…

Infra

Twitter open-sources network diagnostic tool Rezolus

By Mike Wheatley Aug 19, 2019

Twitter Inc. has open-sourced an internally developed tool for discovering performance anomalies and usage spikes in its network that were too brief to be noticed by its regular observability and metrics systems. In a…

explore news

IBM opens up the instruction set of its supercomputer-grade OpenPower chips

After 100,000 deliveries, robot courier startup Starship Technologies picks up $40M

North Star of freedom: How Polaris leverages business and data to combat human trafficking

Databricks intros AutoML tools for building machine learning models

Twitter and Facebook purge Chinese trolls sowing disinformation

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten launches cryptocurrency exchange

Binance’s ‘Venus’ stablecoin project to take on Facebook’s Libra

Twitter open-sources network diagnostic tool Rezolus

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