Apps
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 makes its debut
Four years on from the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, open source software company Red Hat Inc. finally announced today that version 8 of its computer server operating system is now in beta.…
Emerging Tech
SpaceX obtains approval to launch an additional 7,518 space internet satellites
By Duncan Riley
Elon Musk’s internet-in-space project today received a boost, as SpaceX Corp. got approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to launch an additional 7,518 broadband satellites. The additional satellites, which are on top of the…
Apps
Facebook denies wrongdoing in the face of more scandals
Facebook Inc. quickly responded to the scathing report published by the New York Times Wednesday, stating the story included a number of inaccuracies. In a post on Thursday, Facebook denied that it knew about Russian…
Infra
Oracle buys SD-WAN company Talari Networks
Oracle Corp. said today it’s acquiring a software-defined wide area network company called Talari Networks Inc. in order to build out its cloud and networking businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.…
AI
Practical AI playbook: Less ocean boiling, more use cases
By R. Danes
A few years ago, big-data hype resounded through the tech industry, even as many companies frankly didn’t get it. They had data lakes, but few were fishing anything valuable from them. Then artificial intelligence…
Infra
Nvidia shares plunge after it misses earnings forecasts
By Robert Hof
Updated: Investors have been punishing graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. lately, its shares down by more than a quarter on concerns about growth forecasts. The spanking continued today. The Santa Clara, California-based maker of graphics…
Infra
Backed by new investment from Salesforce, Docker inks alliance with MuleSoft
Docker Inc. today announced a broad partnership with software integration provider MuleSoft Inc. that will focus on helping enterprises manage their internal applications more efficiently. The alliance is accompanied by a new investment from…
AI
SoftBank joins the RPA craze, leads $300M round into Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere Inc., one of the biggest players in the red-hot robotic process automation market, today announced that it has snagged $300 million from SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund. The investment values the software…
AI
Google open-sources API for its Quick, Draw! machine learning doodle tool
In 2016, Google LLC released a sort of digital Pictionary called Quick, Draw!, a machine learning tool that let people doodle sketches, which would then be analyzed by the tool. Apparently it caught on. Since then,…
Cloud
Alfresco brings its content/process management platform to Amazon Kubernetes and Glacier
By Paul Gillin
Alfresco Software Inc. is bringing its open-source enterprise content management and business process management services platform to the Amazon Web Services Inc. Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or EKS and adding support for Amazon…