Oura valued at $5B following deal with medical device firm Dexcom
Smart ring maker Oura announced on Tuesday that it has received a $75 million investment from glucose device maker Dexcom. The investment marks Oura’s Series D funding round and brings the company’s valuation to more than $5 billion.
The partnership paves the way for the two companies&
US extradites Russian accused of extorting millions in Phobos ransomware payments
The U.S. government has secured the extradition of an alleged Russian hacker who allegedly served as a key administrator of the prolific Phobos ransomware operation.
Prosecutors said Monday that Evgenii Ptitsyn, 42, was recently extradited from South Korea to appear in a Maryland federal cou
Amazon’s top music plan will now include one audiobook per month
Amazon said on Tuesday that it will let Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers access one audiobook per month from Audible’s catalog for free. This move aims to counter Spotify’s growth in the audiobook space and also nudge some Amazon Music subscribers to purchase Audible books or plans.
Nuro expands driverless autonomous vehicle testing in push to attract customers
Nuro is rolling out a test fleet of its driverless, passenger-less R3 vehicles across the Bay Area and Houston, two months after the autonomous vehicle technology startup changed its business strategy to license its AV tech to automakers and mobility providers.
The large-scale demo, which will e
Google Lens can now check prices and inventory when shopping in the real world
After building out Google Lens to help users shop online more easily, Google is now updating the product to help people shop when they’re in a physical store by offering product insights, price comparisons, and local inventory availability. Alongside this news, the company is bringing new sho
Database startup Neo4j embraces AI to supercharge growth
To make AI possible, you need to create connections between vast quantities of data. That’s where tech like graph databases come into play.
Graph databases handle fast-changing, interconnected data more adeptly than traditional databases, which were designed to store rigidly structured info
Microsoft built a PC that can’t run local apps
Prefer to offload all your Windows tasks to the cloud? Microsoft may just have the compact, desk-bound computer for you.
On Tuesday at Microsoft Ignite 2024, the tech giant unveiled Windows 365 Link, a fanless, lightweight PC that connects to Windows 365. Windows 365 is a cloud-hosted, virtual Win
Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings
Microsoft plans to let Teams users clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak to others in meetings in different languages.
At Microsoft Ignite 2024 on Tuesday, the company revealed Interpreter in Teams, a tool for Microsoft Teams that delivers “real-time, speech-to-speech&
Microsoft to launch new custom chips for data processing, security
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security, particularly a new hardware accelerator that can manage data processing, networking, and storage-related tasks.
The Azure Boost DPU is Microsoft’s first data processing unit
Microsoft beefs up Windows security with new recovery and patching features
In the aftermath of the devastating CrowdStrike outage this July, Microsoft vowed to do better even though it insisted that the event was an aberration.
Evidently unwilling to take chances (or risk further hits to its credibility), the company on Tuesday, during Microsoft Ignite 2024, shared how i
Microsoft brings together its enterprise AI offerings in the Azure AI Foundry
At its annual Ignite conference, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Azure AI Foundry, a new offering that brings together a number of Microsoft’s existing AI services for enterprises under a single umbrella. Azure AI Studio, Microsoft’s hub for building generative AI-based applications,
Microsoft and Atom Computing will launch a commercial quantum computer in 2025
Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer that can outperform classical machines, we’re still squarely in the “noisy intermediate-scale quantum era.” However, many of the pieces needed for building more advan
Spectro Cloud nets $75M to help companies manage their Kubernetes installations
Kubernetes, the open source system that helps manage containerized applications (software packages that run in isolated environments), long ago breached the mainstream. According to one recent poll, 60% of organizations have adopted Kubernetes, and Gartner estimates that more than 90% of all enterp
Selector automatically spots IT issues and recommends fixes
AIOps, short for “artificial intelligence in operations,” is a process that uses AI to automate IT tasks. More organizations are embracing it as AI commodifies, yet adoption is still lagging. According to a recent IDC survey, almost half of companies said that they were just getting sta