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Graphcore, a U.K.-based company developing accelerators for AI workloads, this morning unveiled the second generation of its Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs), which will soon be made available in the company’s M2000 IPU Machine. Graphcore claims this new GC200 chip will enable the M2000 to…
Along with all-new home screen widgets, iOS 14 offers the ability to remove app pages (without deleting apps) as another way to customize your experience. Follow along for a look at how to hide iPhone app pages for a cleaner setup.
Up until iOS 14, the main ways to organize…
Abacus.ai, founded by Amazon and Google alums, raises $13 million to match projects with AI models
July 14, 2020
AI startup Abacus.ai today announced the close of a $13 million series A round for its cloud platform for AI services. The company was founded last year by a team with experience scaling AI projects at AWS and Google, including BigQuery cocreator Siddartha Naidu, former AWS…
Traceable raises $20 million for AI system that shields cloud app APIs from cyberattacks
July 14, 2020
Traceable, a startup developing an end-to-end cloud app security solution, today emerged from stealth with $20 million in funding. CEO Jyoti Bansal plans to focus on acquiring customers globally while growing Traceable’s team and accelerating R&D.
Cloud-native apps are often built with hundreds or even thousands of API microservices (i.e., loosely coupled services), making them difficult to…
Apple’s Independent Repair Provider Program, which allows businesses to purchase genuine Apple parts to perform iPhone repairs without having to become a full-fledged Apple Authorized Service Provide (AASP), is expanding to Canada and 32 countries across Europe, the…
Researchers at Zhejiang University and Microsoft claim they’ve developed an AI system — DeepSinger — that can generate singing voices in multiple languages by training on data from music websites. In a paper published on the preprint Arxiv.org, they describe the novel…
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Comcast said investments in artificial intelligence software and network capacity have helped it meet internet traffic demand during the pandemic.
Elad Nafshi, senior vice president for next-generation access networks at Comcast Xfinity, said in an interview with VentureBeat…
Ubisoft unveils Far Cry 6 for February 18 launch
July 12, 2020
Ubisoft unveiled the first trailer for Far Cry 6 at its Ubisoft Forward event today, announcing that the new installment in the popular series will debut on February 18, 2021.
Word of the game had leaked on the the internet, but the launch date is new. Far Cry 6 features…
In this week’s top stories: iOS 14 beta testing continues, iPhone 12 rumors, new details about Apple’s AR glasses, and more. Read on for all of this week’s biggest news.
Apple this week continued beta testing of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 Big Sur, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14. The company released the second developer betas of each update, bringing a variety of small but notable tweaks. You can…
