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Facebook scraps F8 developer conference over coronavirus concerns
Facebook Inc. will not be holding its annual F8 developer conference this year on account of the global coronavirus outbreak, the social network said today. “This was a tough call to make — F8 is an incredibly important event for Facebook and it’s one of our favorite ways to celebrate all of you from around ...
Google: Our data centers are now twice as energy-efficient as a typical enterprise facility
Google LLC has revealed that, thanks to innovations such as its Tensor Processing Unit artificial intelligence chips, its data centers are twice as energy-efficient as the typical enterprise data center. Urs Hölzle, the head of engineering for Google Cloud, shared the milestone in a blog post today. The announcement was timed to coincide with a ...
DoorDash files to go public after hitting $13B valuation in November
Food delivery unicorn DoorDash Inc. said today that it has submitted paperwork to go public, just months after raising funding at reported $13 billion valuation. DoorDash’s S-1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is confidential for the time being. The company didn’t provide any details on its initial public offering or when it ...
Google boosts Open Images dataset with ‘localized narratives’ to advance AI
Google LLC today rolled out a new version of Open Images, its photo dataset for artificial intelligence research, that adds millions of additional data points and a feature dubbed “localized narratives” intended to aid academic projects. First released in 2016, Open Images contains 9 million photos annotated with descriptive labels. Such datasets play an important role ...
GraphQL startup Hasura reels in $9.9M to simplify database operations
Hasura Inc., a startup commercializing the Facebook Inc.-developed GraphQL data management technology, today announced that it has closed a $9.9 million funding round led by Vertex Ventures. SAP SE’s early-stage SAP.iO Fund contributed as well. So did a number of other investors, including GitHub infrastructure engineering head Sam Lambert and Firebase founder James Tamplin. San ...
Google plans to spend $10B+ on data centers and offices this year
Google LLC will spend more than $10 billion this year to grow its network of data centers and offices in the U.S., Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai disclosed today. Pichai, who is also the CEO of Google parent Alphabet Inc., said the planned investment will focus on 11 states. The list includes Google’s home state of ...
Amazon opens its first full-sized cashierless grocery store
Amazon.com Inc.’s effort to automate the brick-and-mortar shopping experience hit a new milestone today after it inaugurated its first full-sized cashierless grocery store in Seattle. The online retail giant’s first cashierless convenience store opened a little over two years ago, also in Seattle. Amazon has since added about two dozen locations nationwide under the Amazon ...
Google’s cloud business unveils $500M services collaboration with partner SADA
Partners are a big part of Google LLC’s public cloud strategy and it actively invests in strategic alliances to support competitive goals. Case in point: The search giant today announced that it has entered a $500 million agreement with partner SADA Systems Inc. that will see SADA deliver more consulting services to enterprises looking to adopt ...
McAfee acquires browser isolation provider Light Point Security
McAfee LLC has acquired Light Point Security LLC, a provider of browser isolation technology founded by former National Security Agency cybersecurity experts. McAfee announced the deal against at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday afternoon along with an update to its product portfolio. The company unveiled Unified Cloud Edge, a security toolkit that combines the ...
With new platform, JFrog pitches end-to-end DevOps tooling
JFrog Ltd., a heavily funded startup responsible for a stable of widely used development tools, today launched an offering called JFrog Platform that it touts as an end-to-end toolkit for managing enterprise software projects. JFrog is best known as the creator of Artifactory, an open-source binary repository manager. It serves a similar role as GitHub but ...