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Google builds AI model that accurately distinguishes among human voices

By Mike Wheatley Nov 12, 2018

Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit has made some big advances in its efforts to build a system that can accurately distinguish among different human voices. The system employs something called “speaker diarization,” defined as…

Security

Scammers hijacking verified Twitter accounts to promote Elon Musk bitcoin scams

By Duncan Riley Nov 12, 2018

Scammers pretending to be Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk have been hijacking Twitter accounts to promote bitcoin scams. Those behind the scam hijack verified accounts — those with a blue checkmark next to…

Cloud

Cloud companies form Ceph Foundation to advance object storage tech

By Mike Wheatley Nov 12, 2018

The Linux Foundation Monday announced the formation of a new “Ceph Foundation” backed by more than 30 major technology firms hoping to support and manage the popular open-source storage technology. Ceph is a unified…

Apps

Apple suppliers warn of faltering iPhone demand – and take down the stock market

By Duncan Riley Nov 12, 2018

Demand for the latest iPhone range may be faltering as three major suppliers today issued warnings of weakening demand. As a result, shares of Apple and iPhone component makers all dropped today, triggering a bloodbath…

Infra

IBM’s Summit and Sierra supercomputers ranked as world’s most powerful

By Mike Wheatley Nov 12, 2018

The U.S. now has two machines atop the world’s supercomputer rankings, with a pair of IBM Corp.-built systems holding first and second place ahead of their Chinese competitors. The latest edition of the Top500…

Cloud

New Nvidia T4 graphics chip lands on Google’s cloud and lots of servers

By Robert Hof Nov 12, 2018

Graphics chips have become the standard for enabling artificial intelligence, as the kind of parallel processing that speeded up video games turned out to be ideal for AI too. Now they’re increasingly finding their…

Infra

Icahn attacks Dell’s planned stock market return, citing the $34B IBM-Red Hat deal

By Maria Deutscher Nov 12, 2018

Back in 2013, activist investor Carl Icahn sued Dell Technologies Inc. in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to block Chief Executive Michael Dell (pictured) from taking it private. Now that the enterprise technology giant is looking…

AI

RPA provider Kofax to shell out $400M for Nuance’s document imaging business

By Maria Deutscher Nov 12, 2018

Kofax Inc., a major player in the fast-growing robotic process automation market, today announced its first acquisition since moving under the wing of the private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC last year. Kofax has inked…

Cloud

Oracle’s cloud adds new options for high-powered computing workloads

By Mike Wheatley Nov 12, 2018

Oracle Corp.’s Cloud Infrastructure business is adding new bare-metal compute instances for high-performance computing workloads such as artificial intelligence and engineering simulations. The bare-metal Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances — meaning they ship without additional…

AI

As AWS re:Invent approaches, AI becomes the killer app for public cloud

By James Kobielus Nov 12, 2018

Amazon Web Services Inc. has become a powerhouse provider of cloud-based tools for enterprises to develop and deploy sophisticated artificial intelligence applications. As we look ahead to the seventh annual re:Invent conference late this month, AWS…

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Google builds AI model that accurately distinguishes among human voices

Scammers hijacking verified Twitter accounts to promote Elon Musk bitcoin scams

Apple suppliers warn of faltering iPhone demand – and take down the stock market

New Nvidia T4 graphics chip lands on Google’s cloud and lots of servers

Icahn attacks Dell’s planned stock market return, citing the $34B IBM-Red Hat deal

RPA provider Kofax to shell out $400M for Nuance’s document imaging business

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