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Walmart and Google team up for Google Assistant-powered grocery shopping
One of the most novel concepts that Amazon.com Inc. introduced with its Alexa voice assistant is the ability for consumers to purchase goods from its marketplace by simply saying the names of products. Today, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that it’s teaming up with Google LLC to introduce a competing capability. The feature, dubbed Walmart Voice ...
Intel quietly lays off ‘hundreds’ of IT staffers in new cuts
Intel Corp. has quietly carried out a round of layoffs being described as one of its biggest in three years. According to a report that appeared in The Oregonian today, the chipmaker has let go of “hundreds” of people from its internal information technology group. The insiders who spoke with the paper said that the redundancies didn’t come ...
Taking on traditional VPNs, Cloudflare launches Warp
Cloudflare Inc. is expanding its lineup of consumer-focused services today with the launch of Warp, a virtual private network that promises to make mobile connections faster and more private. All VPN services are built around the same basic principle. They encrypt the web traffic that comes out of a user’s device and route it through ...
Amazon reportedly developing a Fire TV news streaming service
Amazon.com Inc. may be gearing up to expand its presence in the fast-growing and increasingly competitive video streaming market. Citing three sources familiar with the matter, The Information today reported that the online retail giant is preparing to launch a free news service for its Fire TV family of streaming devices. The offering is expected to ...
Daimler acquires majority stake in autonomous driving provider Torc
Auto giant Daimler AG today announced it’s teaming up with Torc Robotics Inc., an early pioneer of autonomous vehicle technology, to develop self-driving trucks for the U.S. market. The company has acquired an unspecified majority stake in Torc as part of the partnership. The dollar value of the investment is not being disclosed. Blacksburg, Virginia-based Torc ...
Amazon aims to boost enterprise Alexa adoption with no-code voice blueprints
Amazon.com Inc. hopes to grow enterprise adoption of Alexa by making it easier for companies to customize the voice assistant to their needs. The technology giant on Thursday launched Alexa for Business Blueprints, a collection of templates that will enable workers to extend the service’s feature set without writing any code. They’re rolling out about ...
Microsoft to shield startups and IoT developers from patent trolls
Microsoft Corp. today launched an initiative to provide legal protection against so-called patent trolls for startups, as well as for larger companies that use its Azure cloud platform to power “internet of things” projects. Patent trolls, or nonpracticing entities as they’re formally known, are an oft-discussed concern in the tech industry. They’re firms whose business model is to ...
UK watchdog warns of ‘significant’ security issues in Huawei telecom gear
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is facing a fresh round of scrutiny, this time in the United Kingdom. British cybersecurity watchdog HCSEC today issued a scathing report warning of “significant technical issues” in the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker’s gear. It’s the fifth assessment of Huawei gear produced thus far by the body, which was established in ...
AWS launches Deep Learning Containers and new AI infrastructure options
Fresh off landing a major infrastructure deal with Volkswagen AG, Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced new features that will give enterprises more flexibility in how they use its cloud platform. The main highlight is a software bundle dubbed AWS Deep Learning Containers. It consists of popular artificial intelligence tools from the open-source ecosystem that ...
Volkswagen taps AWS to build industrial IoT platform for its supply chain
The world’s largest carmaker is standardizing its manufacturing infrastructure on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud. Volkswagen AG and AWS today announced a multiyear deal to build a cloud analytics platform that will process data from all 122 of the German auto giant’s global factories. The Volkswagen Industrial Cloud, as it’s called, will also be linked ...
