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Intel: $3.5B investment is critical to microchip future

Intel will be investing $3.5 billion in its New Mexico plant to manufacture what executives said Monday will fuel “a new era of innovation” and advanced computing as demands increase for the tiny microchips used in nearly all modern devices. Intel executives were joined by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and other politicians at the plant […]

Microsoft buying speech recognition firm Nuance in $16B deal

Microsoft, on an accelerated growth push, is buying speech recognition company Nuance in a deal worth about $16 billion. The acquisition will get Microsoft deeper into hospitals and the health care industry through Nuance’s widely used medical dictation and transcription tools. Microsoft will pay $56 per share cash. That’s a 23% premium to Nuance’s Friday […]

Endless opportunities at the Intelligent Edge

In the past 24 months we’ve seen Artificial Intelligence (AI) go mainstream with consumers and enterprises. Today you can find AI in automobiles, appliances, wearables, speakers, buildings, industrial systems, and just about everything in between.  These advancements are truly remarkable, and yet we have an insatiable appetite for even better and faster technologies. As more […]

Demand for tech talent turning up throughout U.S., CompTIA analysis finds

U.S. technology employment continued to expand in March, contributing to the strongest month for hiring the country has experienced since last August, according to an analysis by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce. Tech sector companies added 9,700 jobs in March, a combination of technical and non-technical positions, data […]

Microsoft server hack has victims hustling to stop intruders

Victims of a massive global hack of Microsoft email server software — estimated in the tens of thousands by cybersecurity responders — hustled Monday to shore up infected systems and try to diminish chances that intruders might steal data or hobble their networks. The White House has called the hack an “active threat” and said […]

AI panel urges US to boost tech skills amid China's rise

An artificial intelligence commission led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is urging the U.S. to boost its AI skills to counter China, including by pursuing “AI-enabled” weapons – something that Google itself has shied away from on ethical grounds. Schmidt and current executives from Google, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon are among the 15 members […]

Google funds Linux kernel developers to focus exclusively on security

Google and the Linux Foundation said Wednesday they are prioritizing funds to underwrite two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development, Gustavo Silva, and Nathan Chancellor. Silva and Chancellor’s exclusive focus is to maintain and improve kernel security and associated initiatives to ensure the world’s most pervasive open-source software project is sustainable for decades to […]

Microsoft-HPE Spaceborne computer project among cargo delivered to ISS spacecraft

It’s been a busy week for NASA, with early Monday morning seeing the docking of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus N-G15 resupply mission spacecraft to the ISS, which includes thousands of pounds of food and science experiments, including a joint HPE/Microsoft collaboration to bring advanced computing power and AI to the station with the Spaceborne Computer-2. […]

Microsoft keeps chugging as pandemic continues

As the pandemic raged through the U.S., Microsoft’s business continued chugging ahead and beat Wall Street expectations for the last three months of 2020, powered by ongoing demand for its workplace software and cloud computing services as people worked from home. The company on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $15.5 billion, up 33% from […]