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

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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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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

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It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. And as was hinted at back in 2017, automakers are looking to make the ‘in-cabin experience’ a real thing.

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

Did you get hacked in 2017? And if you want to level up your two-factor security, get a YubiKey (or similar hardware key), and learn how to use it too. That includes the operating system, the programs and apps that run on it, and the aforementioned Internet of Things. While two-factor is not hacker-proof, nothing is.

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Fragmentation likely to hinder Android P’s security chops

The Parallax

But even locking down a long-criticized Android privacy flaw won’t help the operating system beat its biggest security flaw: its own success. To that end, Google has been contractually mandating its Android hardware-manufacturing partners, including Samsung and LG, to push security updates to all supported devices. “We

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How to use your Android as a 2FA key

The Parallax

They are considered to be more secure than two-factor codes sent by SMS or generated by apps, but many consumers have balked at paying $20 to $50 for an additional piece of hardware they’d have to carry around. So far, separate hardware authentication keys are not known to be affected by malware. How to FBI-proof your Android.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

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Since launching on WeChat in 2017, HTML5 games, or what the Tencent-owned messenger calls “mini games,” have become a hit in China. The boom caught the eye of hardware makers like Vivo, which partnered up with Cocos to make its equivalent of mini games. The mini game renaissance.

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Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev

TechCrunch

As engineers at Deis, and then DeisLabs once Microsoft acquired it in 2017, their team explored the container landscape and built the package manager Helm as well as Brigade and other tooling. Fermyon set out to build a suite of tools that enables developers to build, deploy, and then operate WebAssembly binaries in a cloud context.”

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