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Screenly makes it easier to build interactive apps for its digital signage platform
Screenly has long offered developers ways to build applications for the kiosks and checkout systems that use its Screenly Box hardware (or a Raspberry Pi, for the DIY crowd). Its customers include the
Gremlin can now automatically find common reliability issues
Gremlin, the reliability testing startup best known for its chaos engineering tools, today announced the launch of its Detected Risks feature. With this, Gremlin can now automatically identify high-pr
Quantum Machines’ next-gen quantum control solution that can scale beyond 1,000 qubits
Tel Aviv-based Quantum Machines today announced the OPX1000, the latest iteration of its quantum controller. Built for large-scale quantum computers, the OPX1000 can control 1,000 qubits and more, wel
Google Cloud announces the 5th generation of its custom TPUs
At Cloud Next, its annual user conference, Google Cloud today announced the launch of the fifth generation of its tensor processing units (TPUs) for AI training and inferencing. Google announced the f
Google Cloud’s new Cross-Cloud Network makes it easier to connect applications across clouds
Most large businesses now leverage a number of cloud providers. At its Cloud Next conference today, Google Cloud announced Cross-Cloud Network, a new feature that will make life easier for these busin
Google’s Cloud Spanner Data Boost is now generally available
At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of Cloud Spanner Data Boost. Data Boost is a fully managed serverless service that allows users to analyze th
Google’s new A3 GPU supercomputer with Nvidia H100 GPUs will be generally available next month
Despite their $30,000+ price, Nvidia’s H100 GPUs are a hot commodity — to the point where they are typically back-ordered. Earlier this year, Google Cloud announced the private preview lau
Angry Miao’s AM AFA R2 is part sculpture, part keyboard
Whether you love their keyboards or not, there can be no doubt that Angry Miao doesn’t do things halfway. The AM 65 Less is an exercise in building a high-quality 65% keyboard that replaced the
How Google Cloud learned to embrace its partner ecosystem
Google Cloud’s annual Next event is happening in San Francisco next week (and we’ll be on the ground to cover all of the announcements), but ahead of the event, Google Cloud today put a sp
Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
Microsoft today announced the public preview of Python in Excel, which will allow advanced spreadsheet users to combine scripts in the popular Python language and their usual Excel formulas in the sam
Grip Security raises $41M to help enterprises manage their SaaS identity risk
Grip Security, which provides businesses with the tools to protect their SaaS applications and describes itself as the “industry’s first SaaS security control plane,” today announced
SUSE goes private again
SUSE, the German Linux vendor and acquirer of enterprise tools like Rancher and NeuVector, has had its fair share of owners since it was founded in 1992. There was Novell, which acquired it in 2003. T
Configu raises a $3M pre-seed round for its configuration-as-code platform
Nobody loves managing configuration files for their applications, and as systems get ever more complex and distributed, errors — and the potential security issues that come with them — can
Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy
The fallout from Red Hat’s recent decision to make it harder to access the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues. A number of Linux distributions, in
Sweet Security raises $12M seed round for its cloud security suite
Sweet Security, a Tel Aviv-based cloud security startup, today announced that it has raised a $12 million seed round led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from CyberArk Ventures and a num
Google launches Project IDX, a new AI-enabled browser-based development environment
Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment for building full-stack web and multiplatform apps. It currently supports
GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository
GitHub Copilot has changed how developers write their code. However, it can also create issues when it creates code similar to what’s already available in another public repository. In 2022, Git
Tetrate’s Istio-based Service Express service mesh is now generally available on AWS
Service mesh specialist Tetrate today announced that Tetrate Service Express (TSE), the company’s service mesh solution for Amazon’s EKS container service, is now generally available. TSE
Google brings contextual search suggestions, trending searches and more to Chrome on mobile
Google wants you to search more, and to do that, it’s launching a number of updates to Chrome on mobile today that will, among other things, highlight potential search queries related to a page
OurCrowd teams up with Airwallex to let its investors back startups in their local currency
Over the course of the last few years, venture investment platform OurCrowd has become Israel’s most active venture investor, with over 400 portfolio companies across 42 funds. The platform allo