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Amazon reportedly developing a voice-powered wearable that can read emotions
Amazon.com Inc. is developing a wearable device for the health and wellness market that can deduce the user’s emotional state, Bloomberg reported today. The publication learned of the project from internal company documents and an anonymous source, presumably the same person who leaked the files. Reportedly codenamed “Dylan” by Amazon personnel, the device is described ...
Informatica and Google join forces on cloud data management
Informatica Corp. has entered into a broad partnership with Google LLC to make its widely used data management products available on the search giant’s public cloud. The alliance, announced Tuesday, will expand upon the existing integrations that the companies provide between their products. Informatica sells services that simplify the process of integrating business data kept in disparate ...
Siding with FTC, judge rules Qualcomm’s licensing practices are anticompetitive
A judge has ruled against Qualcomm Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, finding that the way the company licenses its mobile chip technology violates competition law. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh issued the decision late Tuesday night in San Diego. Koh wrote in the 223-page ruling that Qualcomm has abused ...
With industry support, Microsoft launches standard for service mesh interoperability
Microsoft Corp. today broadened its open-source efforts with the launch of Service Mesh Interface, or SMI, a specification that aims to bring interoperability to a key part of the cloud technology landscape. The service mesh is a concept that emerged with the rise of software containers. Companies are increasingly taking a modular approach with their software ...
Veeam enhances data protection capabilities as it hits $1B in annual bookings
Veeam Software Inc. today unveiled enhancements for its data protection software and a new partner program aimed at giving it a competitive boost as it enters a new stage of growth. Switzerland-based Veeam is a major player in the data protection market with more than 350,000 customers worldwide. Most of those are small and midsized ...
Sales automation startup People.ai picks up $60M round led by Iconiq
People.ai Inc., a sales automation startup that counts a Who’s Who of tech companies among its customers, has raised a $60 million funding round led by Iconiq Capital. The investment was announced today, just seven months after People.ai’s last raise. Several of the investors that contributed to its previous rounds joined Iconiq Capital to back ...
Facebook is teaching robots to walk, grasp and feel
Last year, Facebook Inc.’s FAIR artificial intelligence lab expanded the scope of its research by launching a series of robotics projects. The objective was to facilitate new kinds of experiments in which neural networks installed on autonomous machines can tackle real-world problems. Today, Facebook Inc. provided the first public update on the effort in the ...
New Google AI can detect lung cancer in CT scans
Google LLC has built an artificial intelligence model that can analyze CT scans of people’s chests to determine if they might have lung cancer. The software, which the company detailed in a blog post today, is the fruit of a two-year development effort. Google taught the AI to detect tumors using a dataset of 42,000 ...
A new unicorn is born as Auth0 reels in $103M funding round
The login screen is one of the most unremarkable parts of an application, but it represents big business for providers such as Auth0 Inc. The startup, which helps companies add secure sign-in features to their services, today announced that it has raised a $103 million funding round at more than a $1 billion valuation. Returning backer Sapphire ...
After $180M IPO, Fastly pops 50% in NYSE debut
Following the disappointing public offerings of Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., content delivery provider Fastly Inc. today debuted on the stock market to a markedly warmer reception. The company saw its share price jump as much as 58% in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange thanks to strong investor demand. By end ...
