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Intel Expands Mobileye, Nvidia Buys Cumulus Networks
Intel Corp. moved this week to expand its Mobileye unit with the acquisition of a transportation data startup while GPU leader Nvidia acquired network software specialist Cumulus Networks as ...Full Article
COVID Cabin Fever: Travel Uptick Detected as Curve Flattens
An analysis of smartphone location data since mid-March reveals an outbreak of what’s been described as COVID-induced “quarantine fatigue.” University of Maryland researchers studying how social distancing and shelter-in-place ...Full Article
AMD’s Q1 Sets Records and Meets Expectations, but COVID-19 Looms
AMD has reported its Q1 2020 revenue, slightly outperforming analyst expectations and dodging the first financial blows of COVID-19 to deliver $1.79 billion – a whopping 40 percent year-over-year ...Full Article
Red Hat Adds Tools for ‘Open Hybrid Cloud’
The rise of the Linux kernel nearly three decades ago and the open source operating system it begat has fundamentally changed the way enterprises operate, virtualizing IT infrastructure, ushering ...Full Article
‘Natural Language Understanding’ Appliance Targets the Email Deluge
“Eighty percent of customer service should go to the other 20 percent.” - Yogi Berra Like many things he said, Yogi never said that. But the statement gets ...Full Article
GPU-Driven Near-time Valuation Coming to Derivatives Market – Microsoft
Microsoft Azure and an AI startup named Riskfuel – along with Nvidia GPUs – have teamed to deliver deep learning based near-time valuations of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, a capability ...Full Article
Liqid’s Off-the-Shelf AI Supercomputer Takes on DGX-2
This article has been updated, with information added on April 24 to the original version. Composable infrastructure specialist Liqid has taken on Nvidia’s DGX-2, the 2 petaFLOPS superstar of ...Full Article
Taiwan Is Open for Business: A COVID-19 Tech Template
Taiwan, tech-savvy and pandemic-prepared, has emerged as the gold standard for containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. Using hard lessons learned from previous epidemics, frequent earthquakes and other ...Full Article
COVID-19 Update: Apple Frees Mobility Data, MIT Predictive ML, IBM Data Challenge, Rolls-Royce & More
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, AI and big data have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here's a ...Full Article
Virtualized AI: Deep Learning Needs More than Just More Compute Power
Is the recent progress in deep learning true artificial intelligence? A widely-discussed article by Google’s Francois Chollet discusses the skill acquisition-based approach to gathering intelligence – the one currently ...Full Article
