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Okta unveils $50M in-house venture capital fund

April 14, 2019

Identity management software provider Okta, which went public two years ago in what was one of the first pure-cloud subscription-based company IPOs, wants to fund the next generation of identity, security and privacy startups.

At its big customer conference Oktane, Continue reading →

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ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ, blockchain, Chief Operating Officer, computing, Cryptocurrencies, greylock, identity management, Khosla Ventures, machine learning, microsoft, ML, Okta, oracle, Sequoia, Symantec

AI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investors

January 11, 2019

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UK AI chip startup Graphcore has announced a $200 million Series D round today that’s jointly led by an existing investor, European VC Atomico, along with new investor Sofina, an investment holding firm.

Graphcore says the Series D values the Continue reading →

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ai, artificial intelligence, Atomico, BMW, Bristol, chipset hardware, Dell Technologies Capital, Graphcore, machine learning, microsoft, sequoia capital, Sofina

The Elite Microsoft Hacker Team That Keeps Windows PCs Safe

June 17, 2018

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One of them jailbroke Nintendo handhelds in a former life. Another has more than one zero-day exploit to his name. A third signed on just prior to the devastating Shadow Brokers leak. These are a few of the members Continue reading →

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computers, Cybersecurity, microsoft, pcs, security, windows

Microsoft Charts Its Own Path on Artificial Intelligence

May 17, 2018

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Time was software companies left inventing new hardware to others. Google’s search and ads empire was built on infrastructure assembled from commodity components, for example. But the growing competition among tech companies in artificial intelligence has convinced some software makers Continue reading →

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artificial intelligence, Business, chips, facebook, google, microsoft

Microsoft needs to update HoloLens badly

May 13, 2018

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HoloLens needs a major hardware upgrade to blur reality.

Image: raymond wong/mashable

Two years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens, a futuristic holographic headset it said would usher in future of computing: A “mixed reality” where Continue reading →

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augmented-reality, hololens, innovations, microsoft, microsoft-build, mixed-reality, tech

The Hidden Toll of Fixing Meltdown and Spectre

January 25, 2018

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In the early days of 2018, the engineering team at the mobile services company Branch noticed slowdowns and errors with its Amazon Web Services cloud servers. An unexpected round of AWS server reboots in December had already struck Ian Chan, Continue reading →

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amd, bugs, computers, Intel, microsoft, security, vulnerabilities

Microsoft acquires Avere Systems to further hybrid computing mission

January 16, 2018

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In a world shifting to the cloud, Microsoft has carved out a place trying to help companies caught between two worlds — on-prem legacy solutions and the public and private cloud. To help further that hybrid mission, the company announced Continue reading →

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Avere Systems, Azure, hybrid cloud, microsoft

The battle for control of data could be just starting

December 15, 2017

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Companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon happily take our data in exchange for convenience, lower prices or free services, but individuals and businesses are beginning to understand the value of controlling their data instead of simply handing it over to Continue reading →

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amazon, data ownership, facebook, GDPR, google, microsoft

AI hype has peaked so whats next?

October 10, 2017

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Tom Rikert is a partner at Next World Capital.

Microsoft and Facebook’s big undersea cable is now complete

September 23, 2017

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Marea cable headed towards the ocean

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More than 17,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, there now lies the “most technologically advanced subsea cable,” providing up to 160 terabits (Tbps) of data per second — beating Google’s alternative, now Continue reading →

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big-tech-companies, facebook, microsoft, social-media-companies, spain, tech, underwater-cable, virginia