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ET Deals: Dell XPS 8940 SE Intel Core i7-10700 and Nvidia RTX 3070 Gaming Desktop for $1,849, Dell Vostro 15 5502 Intel Core i7-1165G7 Laptop for $849Today you can save over $300 on a gaming desktop from Dell that comes equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card. The post ET Deals: Dell XPS 8940 SE Intel Core i7-10700 and Nvidia RTX 3070 Gaming Desktop for $1,849, Dell Vostro 15 5502 Intel Core i7-1165G7…
Get A Year Of PlayStation Plus and A Lifetime Of VPN Unlimited For Just $50The tech bundle including a lifetime subscription to Keepsolid VPN as well as a one-year subscription to PlayStation Plus is just $49.99, significant saving of $208.01 off the full price of $258. The post Get A Year Of PlayStation Plus and A Lifetime Of VPN Unlimited For Just $50 appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Nvidia May Reissue RTX 3060, Other Ampere GPUs to Fight Crypto MiningRumors suggest Nvidia will reintroduce a new version of the RTX 3060 designed to thwart cryptocurrency mining more effectively. Other GPUs may be refreshed in the same fashion. The post Nvidia May Reissue RTX 3060, Other Ampere GPUs to Fight Crypto Mining appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Alienware Really Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PCJust because Alienware sells Ryzen systems doesn't mean the company wants you to buy one. All objective evidence suggests it would rather you didn't. The post Alienware Really Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC appeared first on ExtremeTech.
There’s a Ticking Time Bomb Inside Older PlayStation ConsolesThe PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 have a mandatory online check-in feature that could make life difficult for video game history preservationists down the road. The post There’s a Ticking Time Bomb Inside Older PlayStation Consoles appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Researchers Develop Whitest Paint Ever to Combat Climate ChangeXiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, holds up his lab’s sample of the whitest paint on record. (Purdue University/Jared Pike) Aside from being a neat technical feat, the team believes the new white paint could help address climate change by saving loads of power. The post Researchers Develop Whitest Paint Ever to…
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Inside the rise of police department real-time crime centersAt a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a presentation by the New York City Police Department about a sophisticated new data hub called a “real time crime center.” Reams of information rendered in red and green splotches, dotted lines, and tiny yellow icons…
NASA has selected SpaceX’s Starship as the lander to take astronauts to the moonLater this decade, NASA astronauts are expected to touch down on the lunar surface for the first time in decades. When they do, according to an announcement made by the agency, they’ll be riding inside SpaceX’s Starship vehicle. NASA’s award of a $2.9 billion contract to build Starship, first reported by the Washington Post on…
Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AIBack in November, the computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Hinton had a hunch. After a half-century’s worth of attempts—some wildly successful—he’d arrived at another promising insight into how the brain works and how to replicate its circuitry in a computer. “It’s my current best bet about how things fit together,” Hinton says from his…
The $1 billion Russian cyber company that the US says hacks for MoscowThe hackers at Positive Technologies are undeniably good at what they do. The Russian cybersecurity firm regularly publishes highly-regarded research, looks at cutting edge computer security flaws, and has spotted vulnerabilities in networking equipment, telephone signals, and electric car technology. But American intelligence agencies have concluded that this $1 billion company—which is headquartered in Moscow,…
Building a high-performance data and AI organizationCxOs and boards recognize that their organization’s ability to generate actionable insights from data, often in real-time, is of the highest strategic importance. If there were any doubts on this score, consumers’ accelerated flight to digital in this past crisis year have dispelled them. To help them become data driven, companies are deploying increasingly advanced…
Why is it so hard to review the Johnson & Johnson vaccine? Data.The future of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine remains in limbo after an advisory panel recommended taking a deeper look into reports of rare—and sometimes fatal—side effects. The US Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration advised suspension of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Tuesday, after reports that six…
Podcast: What’s AI doing in your wallet?Our entire financial system is built on trust. We can exchange otherwise worthless paper bills for fresh groceries, or swipe a piece of plastic for new clothes. But this trust—typically in a central-government-backed bank—is changing. As our financial lives are rapidly digitized, the resulting data turns into fodder for AI. Companies like Apple, Facebook, and…
The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issueOn January 9, 2020, Detroit police drove to the suburb of Farmington Hill and arrested Robert Williams in his driveway while his wife and young daughters looked on. Williams, a Black man, was accused of stealing watches from Shinola, a luxury store. He was held overnight in jail. During questioning, an officer showed Williams a…
The US says not to give Johnson & Johnson vaccines after a woman died from a rare blood clotThe US took the dramatic step of recommending that health-care providers stop giving people the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against covid-19 after six women who received it developed serious blood clots and one died. The US Food and Drug Administration described its action as a temporary halt to give regulators time to understand the apparent…
This family raised millions to get experimental gene therapy for their childrenWhen Gary Landsman prays, he imagines he is in Israel and his sons Benny and Josh are running toward him. They are wearing yarmulkes, and the cotton fringes called tzizit fly out from their waistbands. He opens his arms ready for a tackle. The reality is Benny and Josh both have Canavan disease, a fatal…
Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethicsAI researchers often say good machine learning is really more art than science. The same could be said for effective public relations. Selecting the right words to strike a positive tone or reframe the conversation about AI is a delicate task: done well, it can strengthen one’s brand image, but done poorly, it can trigger…
New business models, big opportunity: Tech/manufacturingThe 2020 coronavirus pandemic upended the way companies do business. Some are coping better than others—but largely, businesses are optimistic about 2021. That’s especially so for tech-forward organizations in two different industries—technology and manufacturing— that are planning major business initiatives to move beyond crisis response and thrive in a transformed corporate landscape. The pandemic accelerated…
New business models, big opportunity: RetailNow is a tough time to be a retailer. Even before the 2020 coronavirus pandemic brought rapid changes to the market, many traditional brick-and-mortar businesses were struggling. For example, from 2011 to 2020, the number of US department stores shrank from 8,600 to just over 6,000. The global crisis only amplified retail challenges. Since March…
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Volvo to supply cars for Didi’s global autonomous driving fleetsAs the autonomous driving race in China heats up, Didi is rushing to expand its car fleets by picking Swedish automaker Volvo, an old partner of Uber, as its ally. Didi said on Monday it will be using the XC90 SUVs of Volvo, which has been owned by Chinese auto company Geely since 2010, for…
Andela begins global expansion in 37 countries months after going remote across AfricaMore than a year after the pandemic began, remote work shows no signs of going away. While it has its cons, it remains top of mind for potential employees around the world before joining a new company. But while most people in Africa still go to physical offices despite the pandemic, a few companies have…
UK’s Zilch raises $80M at a $500M+ valuation for its direct-to-consumer buy now, pay later serviceThe buy now, pay later model, popularized by companies like Klarn and Affirm has been one of the big e-commerce winners in the last year, giving consumers who might be stretched financially another option to pay for things when they buy them online. While that has prompted the UK financial authority to re-examine how it…
Gett inks deal with Curb Mobility to bring yellow cabs to its enterprise-focused on-demand ride-hailing appGett, the ride-hailing startup that has been carving out a niche for itself in a crowded and competitive market for on-demand transportation by focusing on enterprise accounts and connecting people with rides in some 1,500 cities leveraging a number of third-party fleets, is adding another partner today as it continues to double down on its…
India’s Razorpay raises funds at $3 billion valuation ahead of Southeast Asia launchSix-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay topped a $1 billion valuation late last year, becoming the first Y Combinator-backed Indian startup to reach the much sought after unicorn status. In less than six months since, the Indian startup has tripled its valuation and is preparing to launch in the Southeast Asian markets. Razorpay said on Monday it…
Once VMware is free from Dell, who might fancy buying it?If you accept that VMware is in play, the prospective price tag means that the number of firms that could afford such a purchase are few and far between.
Consumer agency warns against Peloton Tread+ use, as company pushes backAlmost exactly a month ago, Peloton CEO John Foley wrote an open letter about the the company’s treadmill. “I’m reaching out to you today because I recently learned about a tragic accident involving a child and the Tread+, resulting in, unthinkably, a death,” it begins. “While we are aware of only a small handful of…
Why it’s not surprising to see nine-figure AI rounds This week Scale AI raised a $325 million Series E. The company, as TechCrunch has written, works in the data labeling space. And it has been on a fundraising tear over the last few years.
What does it take to create a startup ecosystem?Say it louder for the people in the back: As tech grows bigger by the minute and venture capital adds dollar signs by the day, a startup hub’s success is not an either/or situation. The next Silicon Valley is a tired narrative, when in reality startups look, innovate and create differently all over the world.…
How one founder build a startup around compassion and care facilitated by AIIn the second episode of our new podcast Found, our guest is Brie Code. Code is the founder and CEO of TRU LUV, a startup based out of Toronto that has its roots in the game industry, but that is taking a radically different approach to designing interactive experiences based on a historically-overlooked motivating paradigm…
Hear how StockX brought the sneaker scene to DetroitAt TechCrunch’s Detroit City Spotlight this week, I sat down with Rae Witte, the journalist behind the StockX EC-1. TechCrunch’s EC-1 push allows individual authors to go deep on a particular company. And as StockX has been headquartered in Detroit since its inception, we took the chance to dig into our reporting in front of…
Outdoor startups see supercharged growth during COVID-19 eraAfter months of shelter-in-place orders, widespread shutdowns and physical distancing, outdoors became the only location for safe socializing.
This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kidsWelcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android…
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National Grid Partners raises $150 million to invest in energy and tech crossoversNational Grid Partners raises $150 million to invest in startups focused on energy and information technology crossovers.
Deloitte: Consumers load up on subscriptions but are frustrated with fragmentationConsumers have loaded up on paid subscriptions during the pandemic, but they're frustrated with fragmentation in services offered.
Cambridge Quantum pushes into NLP and quantum computing with new head of AICambridge Quantum Computing's new hire signals it may be looking at ways quantum computing could be used for natural language processing.
Is Boston Dynamics becoming a boring robotics company?The new Stretch robot from Boston Dynamics doesn't do backflips or dance, but it may become the company's most successful commercial product.
How Playable Worlds is building a cloud-native sandbox MMOPlayable Worlds is building a cloud-native massively multiplayer online game with venture capital funding.
5 features that drive revenue for mobile games in both the U.S. and ChinaGameRefinery analyzed the top 200 grossing iOS games in the U.S. and China to learn the best ways to monetize on mobile.
Why Microsoft’s new AI acquisition is a big dealMicrosoft's acquisition of Nuance signals the tech giant's AI strategy in Azure, self-driving cars, and other products beyond health care AI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interview: From the Grace CPU to engineer’s metaverseNvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke with the press during GTC 21 about everything from the Grace AI CPU to the Omniverse.
The SASE wave: Why cloud-native edge security is gathering huge momentumSecure Access Service Edge is less than two years old but is already moving the needle when it comes to forging a new market.
AI Weekly: Data analytics keeps attracting investment through the pandemicThe pandemic is accelerating the adoption of data analytics enabled by AI and machine learning, often in the cloud.
March 2021 NPD, PS5/Switch sales, and more | GB Decides 192Lady Demitrescu is gonna drink so much blood in Resident Evil: Village, and I feel that is a very good thing on this week's GB Decides.
The RetroBeat: QuackShot is a treasured Genesis duck taleI’ve been spending a lot of time enjoying the Sega Genesis during 2021. That includes revisiting one of my favorite games from my childhood, 1991’s QuackShot. Sega created QuackShot as something of a follow-up to Castle of Illusion. But while Castle of Illusion stars Mickey Mouse, QuackShot is a Donald Duck joint. It’s also a […]
Harness coordinates DevOps and cloud spending across multiple platformsHarness announced new integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to ease multicloud software deployments and track cloud costs.
Open Grid Alliance aims to support cloud computing at the edgeVMware and Vapor IO combine efforts to launch an initiative dubbed Open Grid Alliance (OGA) that aims to rearchitect the internet.
The DeanBeat: A Big Bang week for the metaverseEpic Games' $1 billion funding for building the metaverse and Nvidia's Omniverse are two Big Bangs for the metaverse this week.
GamesBeat Summit 2021: Growing the next generation — Our leader-packed agendaGamesBeat Summit 2021 is coming on April 28 and April 29 with an agenda packed full of gaming's leaders and big topics.
March 2021 NPD: PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling U.S. console everPlayStation 5 sales are on a record trajetory. But the Nintendo Switch, was the top-selling console in March.
Mythic Quest’s Everlight episode will trigger the LARPer in youUbisoft is launching a special episode for Mythic Quest, dubbed Everlight, ahead of the May 7 launch of season 2 of the game studio show.
Device42 extends AIOps reach of IT infrastructure discovery toolDevice42 extends reach of IT tool infused with machine learning algorithms to discover cloud databases and on-premises storage systems.
Paxafe, which offers visibility into B2B supply chains, raises $2.25MPaxafe, a business-to-business supply chain visibility solutions provider, announced it has raised $2.25 million in funding.
Facebook claims AI can predict drug combinations to treat complex diseasesFacebook in collaboration with Helmholtz Zentrum München is developing an AI system that can predict drug combinations to combat disease.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s continued sales dominance is bad news for Mario Kart 9 hopesAs Nintendo fans begin to ponder what the company may be revealing during E3, I often see Mario Kart 9 brought up as a possibility.
March 2021 NPD — Monster Hunter: Rise sales soar to No. 2 in the U.S.Monster Hunter and Outriders had strong debuts as the gaming industry looks back on a full year under the pandemic.
E3 Rewind: Nintendo’s boring and bizarre E3 2008Jeff Grubb and I decided to watch this event again, almost 13 years after it first aired, and try make sense of Nintendo's strategy.
Kryon throws down the gauntlet for better RPA governanceAs the first RPA vendor to earn the ISO 27701 security certification, process discovery vendor Kryon shows governance is necessary in RPA.
Google Cloud partners with OSIsoft to simplify industry cloud migrationGoogle Cloud partnered with OSIsoft to help enterprises deploy the PI Core industrial operations platform and generate business insights.
Oculus launches subscriptions on Oculus Quest VR headsetsFacebook's Oculus division has launched premium subscriptions on its Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets.
Autonomous trucking company Plus will use AI and billions of miles of data to train self-driving semisBy this time next year, hundreds of automated trucks powered by PlusDrive will be on the road, hauling commercial cargo.
Misfits Gaming esports group launches Women of Misfits speaker seriesEsports company Misfits Gaming Group is leaning into female gamers with the launch of its Women of Misfits speaker series.
User experience testing and monitoring startup UserZoom raises $100MUserZoom, a user experience testing and monitoring startup, raised $100 million in a venture capital round.
F1 debuts on next-gen July 16 as first joint EA-Codemasters racing gameCodemasters and its new parent company Electronic Arts will launch the F1 2021 racing game on next-gen consoles on July 16, 2021.
Puzzle Bobble VR: Vacation Odyssey launches for Oculus Quest on May 20Taito and Survios.inc have announced today that Puzzle Bobble VR: Vacation Odyssey will launch for Oculus Quest on May 20.
Digital transformation stalwart Bizagi hires first CIO to boost enterprise automationBizagi's new CIO Antonio Vázquez has a business strategy in the wake of the pandemic: Improve collaboration between IT and business.
SuperWorld teams with Props for selling NFT virtual real estateSuperWorld is a the virtual world in augmented reality that allows users to buy and sell virtual real estate, using NFTs.
Google researchers boost speech recognition accuracy with more datasetsGoogle researchers propose a simple solution for improving speech recognition accuracy: training one large model on many datasets.
Rockset integrates real-time analytics platform with relational databasesRockset integrates database with open source MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to enable real-time analysis of structured data.
Only 13% of organizations are delivering on their data strategy, survey findsA new survey from MIT and Databricks finds that only 13% of organizations are delivering on their data strategy.
Bigeye raises $17M to algorithmically monitor data qualityBigeye, a startup providing data quality monitoring solutions, has raised $17 million in venture capital funding.
IBM acquires business process automation startup MyInvenioIBM has acquired MyInvenio, an enterprise process automation startup based in Reggio Emilia, Italy, for an undisclosed sum.
TetraScience raises $80M to help life sciences companies analyze dataTetraScience, a startup building cloud tools for managing and analyzing life sciences data, has raised $80 million.
The Games Fund raises $50 million to invest in games in U.S. and EuropeThe Games Fund has raised $50 million for a new game-focused venture capital fund for early-stage investing in both the U.S. and Europe. In doing so, it is joining dozens of other venture capital funds aimed at the hot market of games. But it stands out because its headquarters split between Moscow and Los Angeles, […]
Keyfactor raises $125M and merges with PrimeKey to create a machine identity management platformKeyfactor's merger with PrimeKey and its fresh $125 million in funding are aimed at making it easier to manage indentity and authentication.
Cado Security raises $10M for cloud cybersecurity forensicsCado Security, a company developing cloud cybersecurity tools, has secured $10 million in venture capital backing.
Jambox Games raises $1.1 million to publish games by devs in India and Southeast AsiaSingapore's Jambox has raised $1.1 million to publish games from indie game developers in India and Southeast Asia.
Dell finally spins off VMware stake in $9.7B dealDell announced a $9.7 billion deal to spin off its stake in VMware to create two standalone companies. The deal is expected to close in Q4.
PlayStation boss Jim Ryan needs to create a better narrativeSony Interactive Entertainment boss Jim Ryan is overseeing a strong PlayStation, so then why do fans seem so alienated by him?
Building a company culture that directly impacts your bottom-line (VB Live)Learn about what makes a successful company culture and how to strengthen your culture to align with your organization’s values and goals.
Domino accelerates MLOps with new Nvidia integrationsDomino Data Lab's new integrations with Nvidia will make it easier to run more virtual workloads on high-end GPUs and work with containers.
Nintendo has some intriguing indie games to fill out the Switch’s future lineupThese indies should help keep the Switch relevant for a lot of players while they wait Breath of the Wild 2.
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals heads to Switch later this yearNintendo revealed Oxenfree II at the end of today's Indie World Showcase. The sequel to the hit indie game is coming later this year.
Linux Foundation creates research division to study open source impactThe Linux Foundation is creating a new research unit to provide greater insight into open source technology and the people creating it.
USC Games Expo will highlight 70 student games on May 15The USC Games Expo will debut more than 70 student-made games on May 15 in a livestreamed online-only event at noon Pacific time.
Nvidia forms Inception VC Alliance to connect AI startups with venture capitalNvidia has launched its Nvidia Inception VC Alliance to educate VCs about AI and fast-track the growth of AI startups.
How Wayfair and Burt’s Bees optimize digital creative for every social platform (VB Live)Learn how data can help you optimize your digital creatives for every channel and get results in this on-demand VB Live event.
Paving the Yellowbrick road to closer integration with cloud data storesYellowbrick Data launched Yellowbrick Manager to give customers unified control of data warehouses across distributed clouds.
Epic Games launches early access for MetaHuman Creator tool to make realistic animated peopleEpic Games is launching early access for its MetaHuman Creator tool, which enables people to create realistic humans in minutes.
Verizon unveils Hyper Precise Location service in more than 100 marketsVerizon is launching Hyper Precise Location service in 100 U.S. markets to fix the location of a device with centimeter-level accuracy.
Rocket Software acquires ASG Technologies to boost infrastructure management toolsRocket Software will acquire ASG Technologies as part of an effort to expand its IT management portfolio across the enterprise.
Gains in cloud, digital transformation boost SAP 2021 Q1 revenue outlookSales in cloud and digital transformation were the key drivers behind SAP's "stellar" first-quarter results this year.
Flows audio glasses are a smart fit in the right scenariosFlows audio glasses provide a wearable-speaker experience that is also stylish. But they don't quite have enough oomph.
How process mining and analytics complement each otherProcess mining and analytics complement each other by helping execs get better analytics and offering visibility into business processes.
Generation Esports raises $10.8 million to grow student esports leaguesGeneration Esports has raised $10.8 million in funding to grow high school and middle school esports leagues and tournaments.
Oracle integrates cloud service with ServiceNow ITSM platformOracle integrates cloud services with ServiceNow's IT sevice management platform as part of an effort to increase adoption.
HyperX teams with 1,000 Dreams Fund to support women in gamingHyperX, the gaming accessories and memory brand now owned by HP, has teamed up with 1,000 Dreams Fund's academy to support women in gaming.
Sales management platform Atrium raises $13.5M to surface insights with AIAtrium raises $13.5 million in seed funding to boost the adoption of its AI-driven tool for sales managers.
Latest Edelman survey rates trust in tech at a 21-year lowLack of accountability and unwillingness to self-govern eroded the public's trust in technology, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer.
Video conferencing company Touchcast uses AI to add context to conversationsTouchcast is using Nvidia's Maxine to add AI to video conferencing, such as curating content by themes and using mixed reality sets.
The Blizzard Arcade Collection adds two games for freeBlizzard has released a free update for The Blizzard Arcade Collection that adds two games: The Lost Vikings 2 and RPM Racing.
Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata proved it was better to be loved than fearedSatoru Iwata's years as chief executive officer at Nintendo are evidence that love is better than fear to earn respect.
Google makes business process tool AppSheet Automation generally availableGoogle has released AppSheet Automation, an automation service for enterprise customers, in general availability.
Start prepping for open finance — if you want to gain more market share(VB Live)Data sharing is only going to become more powerful, and the data is only going to become richer, with higher fidelity. Learn how.
Gartner: PC sales in Q1 hit highest growth rate in 20 yearsPeople and businesses are buying PCs, with almost 70 million PCs shipped in Q1, Gartner said, and growth in PC shipments hit a 20-year high.
Informatica modernizes iPaaS platform using microservices and AIInformatica unveils revamped platform based on microservices and AI to modernize cloud integration services at scale.
1Password expands into secrets management to help enterprises secure their infrastructure1Password is expanding into the "secrets management" space, helping developer teams across the enterprise safeguard their infrastructure.
Epic Games raises $1B for long-term metaverse plans, with $200M from SonyEpic Games has raised another $1 billion to fund its plans to build a metaverse, with Sony contributing $200 million.
Balan Wonderworld review: A prolonged exercise in frustrationBalan Wonderworld is a bad game, and you should not pay $10 for it let alone $60. Although it is fun as a bad game to broadcast on Twitch.
Robin.io brings pay-as-you-go pricing to Red Hat private cloudsRobin.io launches pay-as-you-go pricing for Robin Cloud Native Storage (CNS) users on private clouds like Red Hat OpenShift.
Aclima adds climate and environmental justice leaders to advisory boardAclima today announced it's adding climate and environmental justice leaders to its advisory board to further its social good agenda.
Density launches occupancy-tracking software for offices, raises $25MDensity, a startup developing occupancy-tracking radar sensors, has raised $25 million in venture capital.
How Creative Solutions will use Lightstream to help turn livestreaming into a livingCreative Solutions, a division the Vitec Group, acquired Lightstream for $35.9 million yesterday in a move into game livestreaming.
SambaNova raises $676M to mass-produce AI training and inference chipsAI chip startup SambaNova systems has raised $676 million, bringing its total raised to over $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation.
Pegasystems adds enterprise AI tools to simplify analysis and forecastingPegasystems extends AI capabilities to streaming data to give organizations more control over business process outcomes.
Enterprise security platform Intrigue expands attack surface management with $2M roundIntrigue's attack surface management platform helps enterprises secure and monitor their perimeter and cloud applications.
Synopsys: 84% of codebases contain an open source vulnerabilityVulnerabilities in open source codebases increased by nine percentage points in 2020, according to a new report from Synopsys and Black Duck.
How IT leaders stay on the right side of innovation with open cloud (VB Live)As cloud computing accelerates, learn how to determine what best fits your needs in compute, storage, networking, and the software stack.
Game industry recommits to #PlayApartTogether campaign a year after pandemic startedA year ago, leaders from the global games industry participated in the #PlayApartTogether campaign to fight the pandemic. And now they’re recommitting to the initiative that the World Health Organization launched. The campaign encouraged people to follow WHO health advice on preventing COVID-19 infection. As part of PlayApartTogether, 88 gaming companies agreed to disseminate evidence-based […]
Grid.ai launches platform for training AI models on the cloud at scaleGrid.ai's platform, Grid, offers a way for data scientists to train AI models at scale on cloud infrastructure.
Nvidia now expects Q1 sales to pass $5.3B forecastNvidia's Q1 revenue will pass its earlier forecast of $5.3 billion, thanks to strong demand, the chipmaker said on Monday, .
Energy Transition Ventures is raising $75M fund for renewable powerEnergy Transition Ventures is a new fund that's expected to be about $75 million and will help the U.S. economy transition to clean energy.
Oculus plans a virtual reality gaming showcase for April 21Facebook said its Oculus division will hold a virtual reality gaming showcase on April 21. The event will feature new VR games.
Lora DiCarlo launches crowdfunding campaign for sexual wellness productsLora DiCarlo, the sexual wellness startup at the center of a trade show dustup in 2019, has launched a crowdfunding campaign.
Cloudera partners with Nvidia to expand GPU usage across AI applicationsIntegrating Cloudera Data Platform and Nvidia's Apache Spark 3.0 libraries will simplify adding machine learning workflows to processes.
Why any developer can — and should — join the esports boom (VB Live)It's surprisingly easy for developers to add tournaments, event streaming, and VIP content to their own platform to engage that fanbase.
Some FDA-approved AI medical devices are not ‘adequately’ evaluated, Stanford study saysA Stanford study published in Nature Medicine finds evidence that FDA-approved AI medical devices aren't being adequately evaluated.
Nvidia launches TAO, an enterprise workflow for AI developmentNvidia released a new enterprise-focused workflow called TAO that's designed to help companies use cutting-edge AI techniques.
Nvidia unveils rental model for DGX Station A100 mini supercomputersNvidia announced that it will enable customers to rent its Nvidia DGX Station A100 mini supercomputers instead of buying them.
Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant programMozilla says it's winding down development of DeepSpeech, its open source speech recognition model, as it transitions to an advisory role.
Nvidia unveils 8 new RTX GPUs for workstations and laptopsNvidia unveiled eight new Ampere-based graphics processing units (GPUs) for workstations and high-end PCs.
Nvidia debuts Drive Atlan system-on-chip for autonomous vehiclesNvidia's new Drive Atlan system-on-chip for autonomous driving can deliver up to 33 times the performance of the previous generation.
Nvidia launches Jarvis conversational AI framework in general availabilityNvidia announced general availability of Jarvis, an AI framework that supports a range of conversational uses cases and applications.
Nvidia announces Morpheus, an AI-powered app framework for cybersecurityNvidia's new Morpheus platform is an app framework aimed at providing enterprises with AI-powered protections against cyberattacks.
Nvidia unveils Grace ARM-based CPU for giant-scale AI and HPC appsNvidia today unveiled its Grace ARM-based processor for giant-scale artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications.
Nvidia announces BlueField-3 DPUs for AI and analytics workloadsNvidia's BlueField-3 DPUs are optimized for AI and big data analytics workloads, the company says. They're expected to sample in 2022.
Nvidia reveals Omniverse Enterprise for simulating products and worldsNvidia has announced its Omniverse, a virtual environment dubbed a "metaverse" for engineers, will be available as an enterprise service.
NLP Cloud helps app developers add language processingNLP Cloud wants to lower the barriers for developers trying to create apps for a wider range of use cases.
Kongregate focuses on building its own idle games for mobileKongregate took off as a publisher of early free-to-play web games, but under new owners it is focused on idle mobile games.
Intel: Advances in silicon photonics can break the I/O “power wall” with less energy, higher throughputAs we approach the limits of electrical interconnects, advances in integrated photonics may soon drive optical I/O inside servers.
SafeGuard nabs $45M to combat cybersecurity risks using AISafeGuard, a startup developing technologies to combat cybersecurity risks, has raised $45M in venture funding to date.
Data access management startup DoControl emerges from stealth with $13.35MDoControl, a platform for automated data access controls, emerged from stealth with $13.35 million in total funding.