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Video leak reveals Google’s upcoming Pixelbook Go laptop
Yet more details are emerging about the hardware Google LLC will unveil at its New York product event next Tuesday. The company is expected to debut the Pixel 4 and, with it, a successor to the 2017 Pixelbook laptop, the specifications of which leaked in full today via a video and photos released by 9to5Google. The publication got ...
Uber officially jumps into grocery delivery with Cornershop acquisition
In its first move into grocery delivery, Uber Technologies Inc. today announced plans to acquire majority ownership of Delivery Technologies SpA, better known as Cornershop, a Latin American grocery delivery startup that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. tried and failed to buy for $225 million. The deal is expected to be completed in early 2020. Under the ...
Einride raises $25M to put more of its T-Pod autonomous trucks on the road
Einride AB, one of the few European startups competing in the race to develop driverless trucks, today revealed that it has secured a $25 million funding round to support expansion plans. Sweden-based Einride is commercializing an autonomous, electric freight hauler called the T-Pod (pictured) that weighs 26 metric tons and looks radically different from the traditional ...
Report reveals Amazon uses human video reviewers for its Cloud Cam cameras
A small portion of the footage recorded by Amazon.com Inc.’s Cloud Cam smart security cameras is watched by human reviewers to help improve the devices’ software, Bloomberg reported today. The revelation adds another wrinkle to the recent scrutiny around tech giants’ use of customer data for quality assurance. This year, word emerged that Amazon employs ...
With DynamicScale, Okta targets high-traffic enterprise applications
Cybersecurity provider Okta Inc. today announced that it’s enhancing its flagship solution to address the needs of major e-commerce websites and enterprise applications required to handle massive volumes of traffic. Okta provides a platform called Identity Cloud that helps companies manage who accesses their systems. It authenticates users when they try to log in, restricts ...
Now at 20M+ daily users, Grammarly raises $90M in funding
For San Francisco-based Grammarly Inc., correcting spelling and grammar mistakes is big business. The startup, whose namesake writing assistant boasts more than 20 million daily users, today revealed that it has raised a $90 million funding round led by General Catalyst. Institutional Venture Partners and a number of other backers who weren’t named contributed as well. The ...
Salesforce finds a new use for its Einstein AI: shark spotting
Salesforce.com Inc. provides a suite of machine learning tools called Einstein designed to improve the productivity of salespeople, help desk agents and other knowledge workers. Now, the company is extending its focus to a new audience: great white sharks. Researchers from the company’s Einstein unit have teamed up with the Benioff Ocean Initiative at UC ...
With Project Nebula, Puppet looks to automate cloud application deployment
Puppet Inc., a major provider of infrastructure automation software, today launched a new product called Project Nebula into public beta aimed at simplifying the deployment of cloud applications. Turning a collection of code files into a working service is a complicated multistep process. Engineers must not only build the application itself, but also prepare the infrastructure ...
Apple expected to launch rumored AR headset, new budget iPhone in 2020
Apple Inc. will unveil its long-anticipated augmented reality glasses and a successor to the budget-friendly iPhone SE in the first half of 2020, according to the latest report about its product roadmap. The information comes from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo by way of 9to5Apple, which published a summary of the respected market watcher’s Chinese-language report ...
Facebook rolls out new video tools for Workplace as it hits 3M paid users
Facebook Inc. is making significant inroads into the enterprise collaboration market. The social network revealed at its Flow 2019 event today that Workplace by Facebook, its alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams, now has 3 million paid users. That’s up a million from when the company last shared data on subscriptions eight months ago. Facebook announced ...