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Apple and Google launch COVID-19 contact tracing technology
Apple Inc. and Google LLC today officially launched their COVID-19 contact tracing technology for public health agencies across the globe. Some 22 countries and three U.S. states have expressed an interest in using the Exposure Notifications System application programming interface, which is designed to be used by PHAs to build their own contact tracing applications. ...
Intel buys Rivet Networks for its high-performance Wi-Fi technology
Intel Corp. said today it has acquired a company called Rivet Networks LLC, maker of the Killer Networking line of Wi-Fi network interface cards used in laptops from brands such as Dell Technologies Inc., HP Inc. and Alienware. Intel didn’t reveal how much it is paying to acquire Rivet Networks. It said the company’s Killer ...
Box enables zero-trust-based access to its content from any device
Cloud content management and collaboration company Box Inc. is helping customers to enable “zero-trust” policy enforcement by revamping its Box Device Trust service. Box officials said the sudden shift to working at home has created a new security challenge for organizations, which need to keep their most valuable content secure while ensuring it can be accessed by ...
Software-as-a-service monitoring firm BetterCloud raises $75M
Software-as-a-service management company BetterCloud Inc. today said it has raised $75 million in a fresh round of funding led by the private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Existing investors Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, New Amsterdam Growth Capital, Greycroft and e.ventures also participated in the round, which brings BetterCloud’s total amount raised to $182 million. ...
Container security startup Aqua Security raises $30M
Aqua Security Software Ltd.’s latest funding round shows there’s still a big appetite for container security tools in the enterprise. The company today said it has just raised $30 million in a Series D round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to more than $130 million. Greenspring Associates led the latest round, which also saw ...
Docker partners with Snyk on container image vulnerability scanning
Software container company Docker Inc. said today it’s teaming up with the British cybersecurity startup Snyk Ltd. to provide what it said is the first native vulnerability scanning service for container images. The companies said they intend to create a more streamlined workflow that will secure the application development process for millions of developers who ...
At digital Build conference, Microsoft unifies Windows app development, boosts Teams and AI
Microsoft Corp. kicked off its annual developer conference Build 2020 today with new services to unify Windows application development, additional Teams services and even a supercomputer for artificial intelligence available through its Azure cloud service. This year’s event is quite a bit different from previous editions, as safety concerns around the coronavirus pandemic prompted Microsoft to transform ...
Xilinx’s new smaller programmable chips enable machine learning in space
Xilinx Inc. today launched what it says is the industry’s first-ever 20-nanometer, space-grade field-programmable gate array, which is a special kind of computer chip built on an integrated circuit that can be reprogrammed for specific computing tasks. The new 20nm Radiation Tolerant Kintex UltraScale XQRKU060 FPGA is designed for use in orbital satellites, and delivers a ...
Puppet launches new IT infrastructure security compliance service
DevOps automation firm Puppet Inc. is pitching a new service that helps companies ensure the information technology infrastructure they use is compliant with Center for Internet Security benchmarks. Puppet sells tools that developers use to automate the delivery and optimization of modern software applications. It’s best known for its flagship Puppet Enterprise platform that’s used ...
Xs:code and Redis Labs team up to help open-source software developers get paid
Xscode international Ltd., which does business as xs:code, said today it’s teaming up with Redis Labs Inc., developer of the popular Redis in-memory data structure store, to provide financial incentives for software developers. Xs:code’s platform provides open-source software developers with a way to make money from their code by offering premium features and support. The idea ...