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Platform9 extends its fully managed services to the wider Kubernetes ecosystem
Private cloud services company Platform9 Systems Inc. is extending its fully managed Kubernetes service with a new offering called Kubernetes Managed Apps. Platform9 is a company that specializes in offering “managed” versions of some of the most popular open-source software used by enterprises today, offering what it calls “open-source-as-a-service.” It said it now wants to provide a ...
Facebook debuts PyRobot, an open-source framework for controlling robots
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today open-sourced a new robotics framework called PyRobot. Developed alongside researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, PyRobot is meant to help AI researchers and students integrate deep learning models created using the PyTorch framework with the robots they build. The idea is that they can get their robots up and running ...
Microsoft doubles down on its educational tools for teachers and students
Microsoft Corp. today announced some updates to its educational tools ahead of the ISTE EdTech conference in Philadelphia next week. The updated products include Microsoft’s Immersive Reader tool and Teams for Education, which is a special version of its chat service that helps to foster more interaction between teachers and students. Immersive Reader, a “full-screen reading ...
Facebook contributes open-source tech to boost web browser performance
Facebook Inc. wants to improve the performance of web-based applications, and it’s doing so by open-sourcing several new technologies it hopes that mainstream internet browsers will adopt. During a presentation at the company’s invite-only Performance @Scale conference today, Vlad Djeric of Facebook’s browser engineering team said the poor performance of web-based apps is often quite noticeable for end ...
Google open-sources Private Join and Compute for comparing encrypted data sets
Google LLC is stepping up its efforts to support user privacy and security with the open-source release today of a new “multiparty computation” tool called Private Join and Compute. It’s designed to help organizations compare confidential data sets. The way the tool works is that it allows two parties to analyze and compare shared data sets ...
Oracle earnings outperform on cloud applications growth
Updated: Database giant Oracle Corp. delivered relatively strong fourth-quarter earnings today, beating estimates thanks in part to rapid growth in its cloud applications business. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.16 per share on revenue of $11.1 billion, up 1% from the same period a year ago. Wall Street had expected ...
Google makes it easier to build chattier chatbots in Hangouts Chat
Google LLC is combining its Hangouts Chat communications tool today with its natural language understanding service Dialogflow to help developers build more conversational chatbots that can be integrated with outside applications. Google introduced Hangouts Chat last year as a rival to Slack and Microsoft Teams. It tried to differentiate the offering by pairing it with ...
API development environment startup Postman raises $50M
Postman Inc., creator of the popular application programming interface development environment of the same name, is looking to build up some steam after landing a $50 million funding round led by Charles River Ventures. Nexus Venture Partners also participated in the Series B round, which brings its total amount raised to date to $57 million. ...
Google updates its educational tools for teachers
Google LLC is making some significant updates to its Google for Education learning suite today, adding new tools and service to help teachers streamline their grading workflows and find better apps to help with their classroom lesson plans. Google for Education is essentially a customizable version of Google’s G Suite product. It offers several Web applications ...
With Azure Bastion, Microsoft delivers private virtual machine access
Microsoft Corp. today announced a preview of its new Azure Bastion service, which allows companies to connect to Azure virtual machines via a private internet connection. The company said the managed service is an additional safeguard for security-conscious organizations that don’t want to connect to their Azure VMs via public internet connections, which can sometimes pose ...
