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IBM’s new Hypertaste system is an AI-assisted, reprogrammable chemical sensor
Researchers at IBM Corp.’s Zurich lab today unveiled their latest project: a chemical detection system called Hypertaste that uses artificial intelligence to classify liquids. Distinguishing different beverages and food items is usually a trivial task for humans, but the same can’t be said for the machines that experts use when the taste test doesn’t cut ...
UK watchdog freezes Amazon’s investment in food delivery unicorn Deliveroo
Amazon.com Inc.’s recent moves in the food delivery market have drawn scrutiny from U.K. regulators. The Competition and Markets Authority, Britain’s antitrust watchdog, today announced that it has frozen the retail giant’s May investment into London food delivery startup Deliveroo. Amazon led a $575 million Series G funding round for the startup, which is incorporated ...
Samsung sued by Australian watchdog over phone water-resistance claims
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is facing a potential regulatory fine in Australia over a series of ads that authorities charge misled consumers. The ACCC, Australia’s competition watchdog, has filed a lawsuit accusing the phonemaker of exaggerating the water resistance of several handset models. The body named more than a dozen products in its announcement of the legal action ...
BMW and Daimler team up to develop self-driving passenger cars
BMW AG and Daimler AG have signed a deal to develop autonomous driving technology for passenger cars together. The collaboration, which was announced today, builds on the partnership that the automakers struck in February to integrate their mobility services. BMW and Daimler are moving the services under the wing of a new joint venture that ...
UK antitrust watchdog launches probe of Facebook’s and Google’s ad dominance
The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog today opened an investigation to probe Facebook Inc. and Google LLC’s dominance of the digital ad market and also weigh potential regulatory restrictions on the companies. The two tech giants are sometimes referred to as the “duopoly” in marketing circles. Facebook and Google control an estimated 57.7% of the U.S. digital advertising market, while their market ...
KKR acquires software veteran Corel, reportedly for $1B+
Corel Corp., a major provider of productivity and business software, today announced that it has been acquired by private equity firm KKR. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. KKR bought Corel from Vector Capital, a fellow private equity firm that had owned the software maker for the better part of the last two decades. ...
Broadcom reportedly looking to acquire Symantec for $15B+
Last week Broadcom Inc. Chief Financial Officer Thomas Krause told Wall Street analysts that the chipmaker is looking to make more acquisitions in the software market. That statement, it seems, described not a future goal but rather a plan already set in motion. Bloomberg broke the news late Tuesday that Broadcom is holding talks to acquire cybersecurity ...
Nvidia upgrades consumer GPU lineup with new RTX Super chips
Even though its consumer graphics card business has taken a significant hit in recent quarters, Nvidia Corp. continues to bring new products to market at a rapid pace. The company today unveiled three high-powered graphics processing units that will be sold under the GeForce RTX Super brand. They’ll add more premium options to Nvidia’s consumer GPU ...
Cloudflare outage briefly knocks parts of the web offline
Cloudflare Inc. this morning experienced a brief but widely felt service disruption that made many major websites inaccessible worldwide. The outage (pictured) started at 9:52 a.m. EDT and lasted for more than an hour. Down Detector, a service that tracks website outages, received user reports of “502 Bad Gateway” errors for sites such as Pinterest ...
Growing cloud footprint, Google invests $600M in new Nevada data center
Google LLC today announced plans to bolster its U.S. data center network with a new cloud facility in Nevada that is slated to come online next year. The data center is being built in Henderson, a midsize city about 16 miles from Las Vegas. Henderson Mayor Debra March told local news station KLAS-TV that the project ...
