Cisco acquires intelligent smart camera specialist Modcam
Cisco acquires Swedish startup Modcam, a specialist in smart technology for smart cameras. Modcam's technology has been added to the Meraki portfolio.
Smart technology, such as AI and machine learning, are increasingly becoming an integral part of security cameras. The Swedish startup Modcam pro... Read more
New Chrome extension promises transparency about ads
Google introduces a new Chrome extension that gives users more information about ads. The extension shows how many ads are loaded on a web page, which advertisers are active and what user data is used to display personalised ads.
With the new extension, Ads Transparency Spotlight, Google hopes t... Read more
Cybersecurity skills gap continues to worsen, research shows.
For four years now, the cybersecurity industry has posted depressing numbers concerning skills shortage. In a recent report by the Information Systems Security Association and Enterprise Strategy Group, the gap is again growing.
A majority of organizations (up to 70%) report that they are affect... Read more
HPE introduces supercomputing portfolio HPE Cray
HPE introduces its portfolio of supercomputers under the name HPE Cray. The portfolio is based on the acquisition - and recently completed full integration - of supercomputing specialist Cray.
With the new brand name, HPE is now entering the market for supplying computing hardware capable of han... Read more
‘Acquisition of ARM will cost Nvidia more than 30 billion dollars’
Nvidia is supposedly in advanced talks with SoftBank for the acquisition of ARM. The chip company is rumoured to have a price tag of more than 32 billion dollars (27 billion euros).
ARM creates chip designs used by many big names in the tech world, including Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung and Nvidia. ... Read more
Amazon commits more than $10 billion to Project Kuiper
Project Kuiper is an initiative led by Amazon that will set up 3,236 satellites in low-Earth orbit for internet connectivity. Amazon reported on Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had granted the regulatory approval to launch Project Kuiper while providing other details conce... Read more
AWS RDS database service supports Graviton2 instances
AWS released a preview of its AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) that supports its own ARM-based Graviton2 database instances.
The support should make various cloud-based database services cheaper to use than the standard x86-based database servers.
The AWS RDS service helps companies with... Read more
Google Cloud introduces Private Service Connect
Google introduces new cloud infrastructure updates, including a new way to access Google Cloud with Private Service Connect.
Many customers don't want data traffic to travel over the open internet because of network security or company policies. Private Service Connect ensures that data traffic ... Read more
Apple’s new iPhones will be released later than usual this year
If you are an iPhone user, you might have to wait a little longer for a new model release this year. That’s to be expected, of course, with the pandemic shutting down production across multiple industries.
During the release of Apple’s third-quarter earnings, Luca Maestri, the CFO, said that... Read more
Google launches version 2.3.0 of TensorFlow
Google has released a new version of its AI development platform TensorFlow. New features include an experimental API and more functionality for TensorFlow profiler.
The update of the AI development platform arrived two months after the previous release of version 2.0. In version 2.3.0, more att... Read more