Salesforce has confirmed that it’s buying team collaboration platform Slack, in a deal worth $27.7 billion. Salesforce said that it plans to combine Slack with Salesforce Customer 360, a tool it first introduced back in 2018 allows companies to connect Salesforce apps, map teams, and reconcile various data sources. Rumors first circulated last week that […]
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In the shadow of the pandemic, a skittish post-US election economic climate, and the semi-permanent shift to work-from-home, cloud vendors are facing a groundswell of customer demand for multicloud solutions. We’ve recently seen two of the Big Three cloud vendors increasingly embrace multicloud. Azure announced expansion of support for hybrid and multicloud environments, and Google […]
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Facebook in May launched the Hateful Memes Challenge, a $100,000 competition aimed at spurring researchers to develop systems that can identify memes intended to hurt people. The first phase of the one-year contest recently crossed the halfway mark with over 3,000 entries from hundreds of teams around the world. But while progress has been encouraging, […]
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Demand is sky high for GPUs, according to industry intelligence firm Jon Peddie Research. In the company’s latest Market Watch report for calendar Q3 of 2020, it found that GPU shipments increased 10.8% year-over-year. AMD, Nvidia, and Intel all saw quarter-over-quarter increases as well. As Jon Peddie notes in the breakdown of the report, GPU […]
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This fall feels different for role-playing games. Sure, we’ve seen a lot of new titles hit, but between the paucity of RPGs on the new consoles and the biggest launch this fall being the unfinished Baldur’s Gate III, I feel like many smaller games haven’t garnered a lot of attention. Of course, the launch of […]
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Amazon today launched SageMaker Data Wrangler, a new AWS service designed to speed up data prep for machine learning and AI applications. Alongside it, the company took the wraps off of SageMaker Feature Store, a purpose-built product for naming, organizing, finding, and sharing features, or the individual independent variables that act like a input in […]
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EG7 announced today that it has acquired Daybreak Games, the development studio best known for online role-playing games like EverQuest and DC Universe, in a deal valued at $300 million. EG7 is a group that contains over 170 developers, including Sniper Elite studio Sold Out. Most of its dev houses are on the smaller side, […]
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Microsoft today streamlined the Teams calling experience to bring all related elements (dial pad, call history, voicemail, contacts, and settings) into a single location. The company also added features like Apple CarPlay support, saving call recordings to OneDrive and SharePoint, spam call identification, and call merging. Microsoft further outlined new advanced business calling capabilities and […]
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Amazon today debuted AWS Trainium, a chip custom-designed to deliver what the company describes as cost-effective machine learning model training in the cloud. It comes ahead of the availability of new Habana Gaudi-based Amazon EC2 instances built specifically for machine learning training, powered by Intel’s new Habana Gaudi processors. “We know that we want to […]
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Flock Freight today closed a $113.5 million round to accelerate developments of its algorithmic pooling technology for truckload shipping and logistics. The injection of capital comes after Flock Freight reached 12,000 in pooled shipments across thousands of shippers, a 296% increase between 2018 and 2019. Roughly 80% of all cargo in the U.S. is transported by […]
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