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Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform
Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric). The new platform centers around Microsoft’s OneLake data l
Microsoft’s cloud-hosted developer workstations will soon be generally available
Microsoft today announced that its Dev Box, a cloud-hosted Windows-based developer workstation in the cloud, will become generally available in July. These machines will now come in a wider variety of
Microsoft bakes its Bing/ChatGPT bot into Windows 11
Microsoft is building its ChatGPT-based Bing experience right into Windows 11 — and adding a few twists that allow users to ask the chatbot to change their Windows settings, too. The new Windows
Microsoft puts a spotlight on AI in its Windows app store
In its early days, the Microsoft Store (which was previously known as the Windows Store), had a bit of a middling reputation, in part because it was full of low-quality tools. With the launch of Windo
Adobe brings Firefly’s generative AI to Photoshop
Photoshop is getting an infusion of generative AI today with the addition of a number of Firefly-based features that will allow users to extend images beyond their borders with Firefly-generated backg
Firmbase raises $12M to modernize financial planning for startups
Firmbase, a startup that offers a modern financial planning and analysis platform for startups, has raised a $12 million seed round led by S Capital, with Meron Capital and numerous angel investors al
Ampere launches a new cloud native processor family with its first custom-designed cores
Over the course of the last few years, thanks to its Altra and Altra Max processors, Ampere made a name for itself as one of the premier suppliers of Arm-based chips to large cloud services providers.
Google will disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in Q1 2024
Google’s Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage their interests and grouping them into cohorts based on similar brow
Traefik Labs launches Traefik Hub, a Kubernetes-native API management service
Traefik today announced the general availability of Traefik Hub, its cloud-native API management solution for publishing, securing and managing APIs. Founded in 2016 by Emile Vauge, Traefik Labs had a
Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte
Union AI, a Bellevue, Washington–based open source startup that helps businesses build and orchestrate their AI and data workflows with the help of a cloud-native automation platform, today announce
Kubernetes and sigstore founders raise $17.5M to launch software supply chain startup Stacklok
After being instrumental in launching the Kubernetes open source project, Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda left Google to launch Heptio in 2016. They then sold the company to VMware
Entro raises $6M for its end-to-end secrets security solution
Entro, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a security platform that helps enterprises manage and protect their secrets like account credentials, certificates and API keys, today announced that i
Visual Layer helps enterprise manage the massive visual datasets they need to build AI models, raises $7M
Training machine learning models for computer vision use cases takes massive amounts of images. Often, those images are mislabeled, broken or duplicated, leading to sub-par model performance. But with
With over 1M published apps, Google’s Flutter expands its support for web apps and WebAssembly
Flutter, Google’s open source multiplatform application framework, has been seeing quite a bit of momentum lately, with both Google’s internal teams betting on it for projects like the new
Building Wear OS watch faces just got easier
At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced a new way for developers to build Wear OS watch faces, along with overall updates to the Android Wear platform, including Wear OS 4. With this u
Google launches ML Hub to help AI developers train and deploy their models
At its I/O developers conference, Google today announced its new ML Hub, a one-stop destination for developers who want to get more guidance on how to train and deploy their ML models, no matter wheth
Android Studio gets a built-in coding bot
Android Studio, like so much of Google’s product portfolio, is getting its infusion of AI today at the company’s annual I/O developer conference. Android Studio Hedgehog, the upcoming vers
Google brings AI and more to the Play Store
Google is bringing its AI technology to the Play Store. At this week’s developer event, Google I/O, the company announced several new ways for developers to use its AI to build and optimize thei
Google’s Firebase gets AI extensions, opens up its marketplace
Firebase, Google’s backend-as-a-service platform for application developers, is getting its fair share of new features at the company’s I/O developer conference today, but the marquee upda
Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor
At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions a