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DeepMind builds an AI that can predict how proteins fold
Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind artificial intelligence division has racked up another scientific achievement. The group this morning revealed that it has built an AI system capable of taking on what is considered to be one of the biggest challenges in biology today: simulating the shape of proteins. The system, dubbed AlphaFold, took no less than two ...
Nvidia targets AI developers and data scientists with new Titan RTX desktop GPU
Nvidia Corp.’s Titan family of graphics processing units includes products for both consumers and power users such as artificial intelligence developers. The beefy new Titan RTX desktop card that the company unveiled today is aimed squarely at the latter audience. With a retail price of $2,499, the GPU will cost more than twice as much ...
AI chip startup Wave Computing raises $86M more to challenge Nvidia
Heavily funded semiconductor startup Wave Computing Inc. has raised an additional $86 million to pursue its goal of taking on Nvidia Corp. in the growing market for artificial intelligence chips. The round, announced on Thursday, was led by investment firm Oakland Corp. with participation from existing investors. It bumps Wave Computing’s total raised past the ...
Massive Marriott data breach exposes 500M customers’ information
Marriott International Inc., the world’s largest hotel chain, has suffered a massive data breach believed to affect some 500 million customers. The company disclosed the intrusion in a regulatory filing today. Marriott said hackers broke into a guest database belonging to its Starwood subsidiary in 2014, when the group was still a separate company, and ...
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AWS expands its serverless capabilities and adds a managed Kafka service
After unveiling a satellite data service, an on-premise infrastructure offering and countless new features in the first two days of its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services Inc. this morning introduced yet another set of enhancements for its cloud platform. Expanded serverless features Many of the capabilities announced today are rolling out for AWS ...
Microsoft lands $480M contract to supply HoloLens headsets to US Army
In a major boost for its augmented reality efforts, Microsoft Corp. has landed a $480 million contract to provide the U.S. Army with a military-grade version of its HoloLens headset. The deal, which was first reported by Bloomberg Wednesday, went through a bidding process that also drew offers from other companies. Heavily funded AR startup Magic ...
With $50M funding round, productivity startup Asana hits $1.5B valuation
The latest startup to join Silicon Valley’s unicorn club is San Francisco-based team productivity specialist Asana Inc., which today announced that it has raised $50 million from investors at a $1.5 billion valuation. The late-stage, Series E funding comes less than a year after Asana’s $75 million Series D raise. This latest round saw London-based Generation ...
AR navigation startup Phiar bags $3M investment backed by Y Combinator
Phiar Inc., an augmented reality startup eyeing revenue opportunities in self-driving cars, today announced that it has raised $3 million to bring its technology to market. The seed round was led by Virtual Reality Fund. The more than a half-dozen other backers that participated in the investment included prominent Sand Hill Road firm Mayfield Fund ...
Google expands its Project Fi wireless service to iPhones and most Android devices
Google LLC is moving to grow its role in the telecommunications market. The search giant today expanded the availability of Project Fi, the wireless service it launched in 2015, to iPhones and the “majority” of Android devices. The company also renamed the service to Google Fi in another sign that its telecommunications operation is starting to shed its experimental ...
AWS racks up cloud deals with finance heavyweights Guardian Life and Openbank
Two more multibillion-dollar companies have jumped on the Amazon Web Services Inc. bandwagon at the cloud leader’s re:Invent conference this week. AWS today revealed that insurance giant The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and online banking provider Open Bank SA have chosen to migrate their operations to its platform. The announcement brings the total number of ...
