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What is a liquid neural network, really?

TechCrunch

The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. Everyone talks about scaling up their network,” Hasani notes. “We

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .

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Clerk bags new capital to improve in-store grocery shopping experience

TechCrunch

CEO Marlow Nickell founded Austin-based Clerk in 2016, and while he saw Amazon and Walmart plowing ahead in the marketing and product merchandising spaces, he saw a need from the rest of the space that didn’t have the capacity to innovate there. We saw companies raise more, but struggle to get hardware out there,” he added.

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Telefonica is working to help enterprises decarbonize their operations

CIO

Since 2016, we have reduced all our emissions by 51%, and in our primary markets, 100% of the electricity we consume comes from renewable sources. Being VMware Cloud Verified, and having earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction, it offers enterprises a complete portfolio of compute, storage, security and networking solutions.

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Zededa lands a cash infusion to expand its edge device management software

TechCrunch

The company raised $26 million in Series B funding, Zededa today announced, contributed by a range of investors including Coast Range Capital, Lux Capital, Energize Ventures, Almaz Capital, Porsche Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Juniper Networks, Rockwell Automation, Samsung Next and EDF North America Ventures. Image Credits: Zededa.

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Cybersecurity firm Fortanix secures capital to provide confidential computing services

TechCrunch

He’s CEO and co-founder of Fortanix , which aims to decouple security from network infrastructure to keep data secure even when the infrastructure has been compromised. ” Kumar founded Fortanix alongside Anand Kashyap in 2016. Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Turing Award laureate David Patterson retired in 2016. Article – the design of XPRS Article – the case for Networks of Workstations. Computer security Systems design Server Real-time computing Software deployment Elasticity and information technology Storage area network Workstation. He served for 40 years.