Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss dives into the news that Lego and Fortnite’s Epic Games are collaborating with the aim of creating a safe and fun metaverse experience targeted to children. Weiss explores the possibility that this move is perhaps a tempting carrot to later bring adults into the cloudy metaverse mix, along with a look what other brands are doing as we navigate the nascent stages of the metaverse and what’s ahead.
Ex-DeepMind Researchers Launch EquiLibre to Give Stock and Crypto Traders an Edge Using AI
Futurum analysts Todd R. Weiss and Jared Klee share their insights on the launch by three ex-DeepMind researchers of startup EquiLibre, which aims to use AI to give stock and crypto traders a valuable edge in making their equity trades.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper Takes Off With Heavy-Lift Rocket Launch Deals for its Low Earth Satellite Network Aiming to Increase Global Broadband Access
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss explores the news from Amazon’s Project Kuiper announcing the signing of contracts with three rocket companies to provide heavy-lift launch services of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites in what is being touted as the largest commercial procurement of launch vehicles in history. Amazon’s Project Kuiper expects to send some 3,200+ satellites skyward on about 83 launches over the next five years to get rural broadband services up and running across the globe, helping to address the digital divide in much-needed ways.
AMD’s $1.9B Acquisition of Pensando Aims to Help AMD Take Even More Workloads off CPUs for Increased Performance for Customers
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss explores AMD’s latest planned acquisition – the $1.9 billion purchase of Pensando Systems – and analyzes how the addition of the programmable packet processor and software specialist will also likely bolster AMD’s recent acquisition of FPGA chip maker Xilinx.
Docker Gets $105M in Series C Funding as Transformation from Enterprise Container Vendor to a Collaborative Developer Platform Continues After 2019 Restructuring
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss shares his insights about what the latest $105 million in Series C round funding means for collaborative application developer platform Docker as the company continues its rebound from its 2019 reorganization.
Intel Announced the Acquisition of Granulate, an Israeli Autonomous Optimization Software Vendor, to its Recent String of Acquisitions and Keeping Pressure on Competitors
Futurum Research analyst Todd R. Weiss takes a deep dive into Intel’s acquisition of real-time autonomous optimization software vendor, Granulate, and explores how the move is designed to deliver positive impacts for cloud and data center customers.
Biden’s Proposed $5.8 Trillion 2023 Budget Includes a $1B Cybersecurity Hike to Help Federal Agencies Bolster Defenses Against Global Cyber Threats
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss shares his insights about a planned $1B cybersecurity budget hike in the Biden administration’s proposed 2023 federal budget and how the additional funding will be a critical part of the nation’s ever evolving battle against cyberattackers.
UPS Expansion of Its Google Cloud Data Analytics Deal Points to UPS Garnering Even More Insights from Its Growing Data Tsunami
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how UPS is expanding its data analytics deal with Google Cloud so as to deepen its data analytics efforts as its package delivery services continue to grow, as well as what’s ahead as it relates to the use of RFID chips.
NVIDIA Innovations, Enhancements in NVIDIA Omniverse, Digital Twins and Industrial Robotics Technologies Are Driving New Possibilities for Enterprises
Futurum Research analyst Todd R. Weiss takes an in-depth look at NVIDIA’s GTC 2022 news, including the company’s bold enhancements to its Omniverse simulation and modeling platform, its digital twin capabilities, and its industrial robotics products and services showing the continual out-of-the box thinking that we’ve become accustomed to seeing from NVIDIA’s developers, engineers, and innovators.
NVIDIA GTC 2022 Keynote Unveilings: New Hopper GPU Architecture Replacing Ampere, New H100 Hopper-Based GPUs Debut and Grace CPU Superchips Make a Big Splash
The News: This week at the Spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2022, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared announcements about the company’s latest Hopper GPU accelerated computing architecture and its new NVIDIA H100 GPUs for AI. Check out all the Press Releases from NVIDIA’s Spring GTC 2022 in NVIDIA’s newsroom. NVIDIA GTC 2022 Keynote Unveilings: New Hopper GPU Architecture Replacing Ampere, …