AWS launches DataZone, a new ML-based data management service
At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced Amazon DataZone, a new data management service that can help enterprises catalog, discover, share and — most importantly — govern their data. The nifty part here is that AWS is using machine learning to help businesses build these data ca
Amplio helps companies find components when supply chain breaks down
When COVID shut down much of the world in 2020, it ended up wreaking havoc on the supply chain. Suddenly companies built for just-in-time production couldn't find parts they needed to build their products.
Even as COVID subsided, the supply chain woes continued. Veterans of supply management li
Deepgram lands new cash to grow its enterprise voice-recognition business
Deepgram, a company developing voice-recognition tech for the enterprise, today raised $47 million in new funding led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from Citi Ventures and Alkeon. An extension of Deepgram’s Series B that kicked off in February 2021, led by Tiger Global, it brings
AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart
At its re:Invent kickoff keynote tonight, AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of the most common issues with the service. Typically, when a function isn’t used for quite a while, Lambda will shut down the virtual machine — and
AWS launches Graviton3E, its new Arm-based chip for HPC workloads
At its traditional evening keynote at re:Invent, AWS tonight announced quite a bit of new hardware in its cloud, starting with a new version of its Nitro hypervisor, new instance types and a new version of its custom Arm-based Graviton chips, which was specifically designed for powering high-perfor
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor lets you track connection-related performance issues
When it comes to performance issues, it's hard to know where the problem lies. This is especially true when your monitoring dashboard shows an all-clear, yet you’re still hearing slow app complaints from your users. In these cases, there's a good chance those problems could be related
AWS announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge
Right on time for its annual post-Thanksgiving re:Invent festivities in Las Vegas, AWS last night announced its “AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge” — and before you click away, let me just point out that this is definitely more important than the prosaic name implies. As nations acro
V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models
Artificial intelligence promises to help humans carry out everyday tasks faster and quickly solve problems that they have been too big for humans to tackle. But ironically, the building that AI can take a long time because of the data crunching needed to train the models.
That’s given rise to
Deepomatic wants to build the AI-based computer vision companion for field workers
French startup Deepomatic has raised a $10.5 million (€10 million) Series B funding round. While the round is relatively small, the startup has managed to convince some large-scale clients to use its visual automation platform. For instance, telecom companies use Deepomatic in the field to check
How to run data on Kubernetes: 6 starting principles
Kubernetes is fast becoming an industry standard, with up to 94% of organizations deploying their services and applications on the container orchestration platform, per a survey. One of the key reasons companies deploy on Kubernetes is standardization, which lets advanced users double productivity
South Africa’s Revio allows businesses to connect to multiple payment methods and reduce failures
Three out of every 10 payments in Africa fail, according to reports. Factors behind this range from a fragmented payments landscape and invalid cards to dormant accounts and higher dispute rates; they surface yearly leading to a $14 billion loss in recurring revenue for digital businesses across th
LinkedIn now lets you schedule posts for later
LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature that allows users to schedule posts to send at a later time.
The Microsoft-owned social network has seemingly been testing the new feature internally for several months already, according to at least one online report back in August from web developer and app r
Obrizum uses AI to build employee training modules out of existing content
The market for corporate training, which Allied Market Research estimates is worth over $400 billion, has grown substantially in recent years as companies realize the cost savings in upskilling their workers. One PwC report found that teaching employees additional skills can save a company between
South Korean financial regulator confirms it is reviewing Apple Pay service for launch
Apple is poised to launch its Apple Pay service in South Korea, one of the fastest-growing countries in the world for cashless services, yet as of right now untapped by both Apple and the other major smartphone platform player, Google. South Korea’s financial regulator is currently rev