Profits for America’s tech firms continue to soar and there are few signs they will face tougher rulesIf anyone needed convincing that the pandemic would turbo-charge sales at America’s largest tech firms and send profits soaring, this week’s quarterly…
Alphabet crushes Q2 earnings estimates as Google Cloud cuts losses, grows 54%
Today after the bell amidst a deluge of major technology company earnings reports, Alphabet reported its own second-quarter performance.
Microsoft bests earnings estimates as Azure posts 51% growth; shares fall
Microsoft shares fell after the news, perhaps due to its results missing so-called whisper numbers; that it has traded at or near all-time highs recently puts the 3% after-hours drop into context.
German startup Aleph Alpha raises $27M Series A round to build ‘Europe’s OpenAI’
With Microsoft now being an investor in OpenAI the field now more open for new insurgents into the open-source AI arena. Now a German company hopes to take on the next AI mantle and produce something akin to the success of the GPT-3 AI model. German AI startup Aleph Alpha has now raised €23 million […]
Despite controversies and bans, facial recognition startups are flush with VC cash
If efforts by states and cities to pass privacy regulations curbing the use of facial recognition are anything to go by, you might fear the worst for the companies building the technology. But a recent influx of investor cash suggests the facial recognition startup sector is thriving, not suffering. Facial recognition is one of the […]
DirectStorage API、Windows 10 バージョン 1909 以降で利用可能に
Microsoft は 6 月に Windows 11 を発表した際、DirectStorage テクノロジーが Windows 11 限定で提供されると説明していたが、Windows 10 でも利用可能になるようだ( DirectX Developer Blog の記事、 BetaNews の記事、 Ars Technica の記事、 Ghacks の記事 )。
DirectStorage はストレージテクノロジーの進歩に合わせ、ゲームデータのロードを高速化する DirectX ファミリーの A…
エルゴノミクスキーボードのおすすめ9つ厳選！【2021年版】
長時間のキーボードを使用していると、どうしても手首の疲れや肩こりに悩まされがちです。実は、こうした疲労の原因の一つは、「キーボードやマウスを使う動作が、人間の体にとって負担であるため」なのです。 キーボード使用時の負担を […]