You don’t have to share your phone number for Facebook logins anymore
Passwords can be a bear, sometimes — particularly if you’re prone to forgetting them. In an effort to help users regain access to their Facebook profiles when they lose track of their login...
Niantic and Qualcomm will build AR glasses for world-scale games
Fresh off today’s announcement of the Snapdragon XR2 mobile platform, Qualcomm has revealed an impressively ambitious early partner for its latest mixed reality effort: AR software giant Niantic. The developer of multi-billion-dollar hit Pokémon...
AWS beefs up SageMaker machine learning
Amazon Web Services has expanded the capabilities of its Amazon SageMaker machine learning toolkit to address a number of challenges that enterprises confront when trying to operationalize machine learning, from model organization, training,...
Microsoft’s JEDI contract move: Those are not the cloud providers you’re looking for
Microsoft surprised most of the tech and political world when it was awarded a 10-year, $10 billion contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project to...
Augtera raises $4 million for AI-driven network management
Augtera today announced that it raised $4 million for its operation that takes data from datacenter networks to create AI systems for management and optimization. The money will be used to grow Augtera’s...
GitGuardian raises $12 million to find sensitive data hidden in online code
GitGuardian, a cybersecurity platform that helps companies detect sensitive data hidden in public and private code repositories, has raised $12 million in a series A round of funding led by London-based Balderton Capital,...
Amazon partners with Verizon to extend AWS cloud to 5G networks
(Reuters) — Amazon.com on Tuesday said it was extending its cloud to 5G networks in partnership with Verizon Communications, so developers can run latency-sensitive programs on mobile and connected devices.
The program, called AWS...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now CEO of Alphabet, too
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now also the CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. As part of the shakeup at the search giant, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who previously acted...
How IBM plans to compete in the cloud
IBM has been pushing hard on being a competitive threat in enterprise cloud, but is far behind the leaders like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud....
Amazon introduces Fraud Detector and CodeGuru
Amazon is leveraging machine learning to fight fraud, audit code, transcribe calls, and index enterprise data. Today during a keynote at its Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas, the...