WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down
Video has worked the same way for a long, long time. And because of its unique qualities, video has been largely immune to the machine learning explosion upending industry after industry. WaveOne hopes to change that by taking the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and making them AI-powered —
AWS announces high resource Lambda functions, container image support & millisecond billing
AWS announced some big updates to its Lambda serverless function service today. For starters, starting today it will be able to deliver functions with up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPUs (virtual CPUs). This will allow developers building more compute-intensive functions to get the resources they nee
AWS launches Glue Elastic Views to make it easier to move data from one purpose-built data store to another
AWS has launched Glue Elastic Views, a new tool to let developers move data from one store to another.
At the AWS re:Invent keynote, CEO Andy Jassy announced Glue Elastic Views, a service that lets programmers move data across multiple data stores more seamlessly.
The new service ca
AWS goes after Microsoft’s SQL Server with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft’s SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper — for SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud. The new service is Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL. The tagline AWS CEO Andy Jassy used for this
AWS brings ECS, EKS services to the data center, open sources EKS
Today at AWS re:Invent, Andy Jassy talked a lot about how companies are making a big push to the cloud, but today’s container-focused announcements gave a big nod to the data center as the company announced ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, both designed to let you run these services on premises
Find out how we’re working toward living and working in space at TC Sessions: Space 2020
The idea of people going to live and work in space, outside of the extremely unique case of the International Space Station, has long been the strict domain of science fiction. That’s changing fast, however, with public space agencies, private companies and the scientific community all lookin
SoftBank, Volvo back Flock Freight with $113.5M to help shippers share the load
Everyday thousands of trucks carry freight along U.S. highways, propelling the economy forward as consumer goods, electronics, cars and agriculture make their way to distribution centers, stores and eventually households. It’s inside these trucks — many of which sit half empty — where Flo
AWS launches Trainium, its new custom ML training chip
At its annual re:Invent developer conference, AWS today announced the launch of AWS Trainium, the company’s next-gen custom chip dedicated to training machine learning models. The company promises that it can offer higher performance than any of its competitors in the cloud, with support for
Lucid Motors completes $700M factory to produce its first electric vehicles
Electric automaker Lucid Motors has completed the initial phase of its $700 million factory, a milestone required to begin production of its first luxury all-electric Air sedan this spring.
The factory, which is located about halfway between Tucson and Phoenix off Interstate 10, has the capacity to
China’s Chang’e-5 lunar lander successfully lands on the moon
Chinese state news agencies are reporting a successful landing of the Chang’e-5 lunar robotic lander, which will seek to return lunar rock samples back to Earth. The launch took off on November 23, and attained lunar orbit on November 28. It launched the lander vehicle on November 30, and the
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US shopping app downloads on Black Friday reached a record 2.8M installs
Many U.S. consumers spent this year’s Black Friday sales event shopping from home on mobile devices. That led to first-time installs of mobile shopping apps in the U.S. to break a new record for single-day installs on Black Friday 2020, according to a report from Sensor Tower. The firm estima
Facebook’s self-styled ‘oversight’ board selects first cases, most dealing with hate speech
A Facebook-funded body that the tech giant set up to distance itself from tricky and potentially reputation-damaging content moderation decisions has announced the first bundle of cases it will consider.
In a press release on its website the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) says it sifted through mor
BlackBerry shares rocket upwards on AWS deal to integrate sensor data in vehicles
BlackBerry shares shot up in early trading on news that the company will partner with Amazon Web Services to jointly develop and market its vehicle data integration and monitoring platform, IVY.
BlackBerry stock was up 35%, or $2.11, at the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange. It’s a