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Salesforce joins the blockchain fray with low-code development toolkit
Salesforce.com Inc. today debuted a new development toolkit that will enable enterprises to build blockchain applications on its cloud platform. A blockchain is a type of database that can store records in a highly secure manner. All the users of a blockchain receive their own separate, encrypted copies of the information in the system, which makes ...
Logz.io raises $52M in funding for its infrastructure monitoring platform
A year and a half after last raising capital, infrastructure monitoring startup Logz.io Inc. today announced that it has closed another $52 million funding round led by General Catalyst. Boston-based General Catalyst’s previous bets include high-profile tech unicorns such as Airbnb Inc. The venture capital firm was joined by a half-dozen other investors in Logz.io’s latest round, ...
Amazon doubles down on voice with Echo Show 5, new Alexa privacy controls
Amazon.com Inc. today augmented its Echo family of voice-activated devices with a new smart display and a set of privacy features that will become available across the entire product lineup. The smart display, the Echo Show 5 (pictured), is essentially a miniature version of the Echo Spot. It features a smaller 5.5-inch screen and a ...
Intuit acquires analytics startup Origami Logic to enhance its data infrastructure
Financial software powerhouse Intuit Inc. today announced that it’s buying Origami Logic Inc., an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup. The deal marks the veteran company’s first acquisition under Chief Executive Sasan Goodarzi, who took the helm in January. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Seven-year-old Origami Logic offers a cloud service that helps companies ...
Intel’s 10-nanometer laptop CPUs bring more speed, vastly improved graphics
Two days after debuting its 10-nanometer Ice Lake chip architecture, Intel Corp. this morning introduced the first central processing units based on the design. The new 10th Gen Intel Core processors, which represent only the first of several batches of 10-nanometer CPUs, are aimed at the laptop market. They’re organized into three groups that each falls under ...
With new GPUs, Nvidia promises workstation performance in a laptop-sized package
Nvidia Corp. today introduced a set of new graphics processing units for laptops, including a trio of top-end chips aimed at industries such as film and engineering. The Quadro RTX 3000, 4000 and 5000 are slimmed-down version of the powerful workstation GPUs Nvidia debuted last August. The fastest of those workstation cards packs more than ...
Arm unleashes AI-optimized chips for 2020’s flagship phones and beyond
Arm Ltd., the British firm whose semiconductor designs are used in most of the world’s connected devices and handsets, today debuted the chips that will likely power the next generation of flagship Android phones. The unveiling comes hot on the heels of the company introducing a new accelerator for virtual reality headsets. While that chip, known ...
SpaceX launches its first 60 internet satellites into low Earth orbit
Thursday night marked yet another milestone for Elon Musk’s SpaceX Corp. At precisely 10:30 p.m. EDT, the company launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with 60 Starlink internet satellites aboard. Just over an hour later, 273 miles about the launchpad, the spacecraft were released into their low Earth orbit ...
DoorDash pulls in $600M at $12.6B valuation to keep up its growth streak
Venture capital continues to flow into the crowded food delivery market. DoorDash Inc., one of the leading players in the segment, today announced that it has closed a $600 million funding round at a formidable $12.6 billion valuation. The investment comes a mere three months after the startup’s last raise of $400 million. Most of the ...
With Sponsors, GitHub aims to give open-source projects more financial support
GitHub wants to help the programmers who maintain the world’s open-source software get financial support for their work. The Microsoft Corp. subsidiary today launched Sponsors, a tool for funding the projects on its code hosting platform and the developers behind them. GitHub is home to much of the world’s open-source software, including foundational technologies such ...
