Nvidia launches Rapids: open source GPU acceleration for machine learning
Nvidia launches the open source GPU acceleration platform Rapids during its GPU Technology Conference in Munich. Companies can use the data science and machine learning platform to analyse huge amounts of data more quickly. This enables them to make business forecasts faster and more accurately than... Read more
Apple programming language Swift is steadily gaining popularity
Programming language Swift, which allows developers to build apps for iOS, is now one of the top ten most popular programming languages. Python has meanwhile, one month after finishing in the top three, dropped back to fourth place.
This is demonstrated by the TIOBE index with the most popular progr... Read more
Shares of Elasticsearch almost double at IPO
The shares of the enterprise search engine Elasticsearch increased by 94 percent during the first trading day after the IPO of the company. The company had put the price of its shares at 36 dollars for its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. The shares were worth 70 dollars last week after the deb... Read more
Both Firefox and Edge support Google’s WebP image format
Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge get support for Google's WebP image format. This makes Apples Safari the only remaining browser that does not support it. The support has already been added to Edge, and Firefox will follow later this year.
WebP was conceived and developed by Google eight years ago... Read more
MLflow from Databricks is supported for programming language R
Big Data company Databricks has supported its MLflow machine learning toolkit for the R programming language. New functions have also been launched to increase its usefulness, writes Silicon Angle, among others.
MLflow was unveiled in June. The toolkit should help to standardise the process of deve... Read more
Facebook makes preview PyTorch AI framework available
Facebook has launched a developer preview of its PyTorch Artificial Intelligence (AI) framework. The framework helps accelerate the deployment of AI-based applications, reports Silicon Angle.
PyTorch was announced in May. The framework was developed by the Facebook AI research group as a machine le... Read more
Groupon must pay IBM compensation of 57 million U.S. dollars for patent infringement
Groupon must pay IBM a total of 57 million dollars to resolve the patent dispute. Originally, IBM wanted compensation of $167 million, but now the two tech giants have solved the problems between themselves. All patent cases are stopped and the companies start working together.
As part of the collab... Read more
In November Microsoft stops supporting classic Skype
For a moment, it seemed that Microsoft wouldn't stop using the traditional version of Skype for the time being. But now the company reports that Skype 7 (and older) will no longer be supported on desktops by November 1, 2018. As of November 15, 2018, support on mobile devices and tablets will stop.
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SurveyMonkey books good IPO results
SurveyMonkey, the company known for the tools it offers for online surveys, raised $180 million at the time of its IPO. In the end, shares were more expensive than the company had originally thought. Yet there is something striking about the IPO.
SurveyMonkey was founded two decades ago. The company... Read more
Google releases improved Android Studio 3.2
Today Google released Android Studio 3.2. The latest version of the software has a lot of new and useful features for developers. Think of a new format for publishing apps, a tool that maps the energy consumption of an app and an improved emulator.
As every year, Google also unveiled this year's upd... Read more