Tag Archives: Computing

The fast-food restaurant of the future may be able to detect your order in advance, cook it just the way you like it, and have it ready when you arrive (or bring it to your house). That’s if partnerships like the one between The Wendy’s Company (WEN) and Alphabet Inc.’s (GOOGL, GOOG) Google Cloud deliver on a data-based future aided by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). As reported in The Wall Street Journal, on Oct. 12, 2021, Wendy’s and Google announced a deal that… Source link

BERLIN (AP) — Google said Tuesday that it is investing 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy. The internet giant said it plans to add new cloud computing centers in the Berlin region and in the town of Hanau, close to the DE-CIX data exchange in Frankfurt. Google said it would purchase more than 140 megawatts of electricity from the German subsidiary of French utility company… Source link

BERLIN (AP) — Google said Tuesday that it is investing 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy. The internet giant said it plans to add new cloud computing centers in the Berlin region and in the town of Hanau, close to the DE-CIX data exchange in Frankfurt. Google said it would purchase more than 140 megawatts of electricity from the German subsidiary of French utility company Engie over the… Source link

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) torched analyst forecasts again for the second quarter, in large part fueled by robust demand for chips for gaming consoles, PCs and servers.  “The demand for computing is just exploding everywhere,” AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said on Yahoo Finance Live. “I think whether it’s in PCs where you are working from home, schooling from home or returning to office, people want better devices and particularly in the data center, where there is just an incredible need for more… Source link

Alphabet, the parent company of search giant Google (GOOG, GOOGL) blew away Wall Street’s second quarter estimates on Tuesday, bolstered by strength in advertising and cloud computing. Here were the main results from Alphabet’s report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Thanks to the tech giant’s linchpin, Google Search, ad revenues skyrocketed by 69% from the comparable year ago quarter. Overall total revenue soared by 62% from Q2 of 2020. During the quarter, “there was a… Source link

As Google continues to pour billions into building new data centers across the globe, the public cloud and search giant says it will shift the data processing for things like Google photos and YouTube videos to data centers where green power is more available. Starting in 2021, Google’s “carbon-intelligent computing” will move workloads from data center to data center based on availably of renewable energy for more than one-third of its non-production workloads. “By 2030, we plan to… Source link

Twitter is expanding its use of Google Cloud, moving more of its computing infrastructure from its own data centers to the cloud platform and using more of Google’s data tools to empower more of its staff to innovate. Google announced that the two are taking their few-years-long relationship to a new level Thursday. Related: Twitter Will Use AWS to Power User Feeds “As Twitter continues to scale, we’re excited to partner with Google on more… Source link

Bloomberg NYC Apartment Landlords Getting Burned in Gentrification Crash (Bloomberg) — New York’s apartment investors are suddenly waist-deep in distress.By December, they were behind on $395 million of debt backed by mortgage bonds, almost 150 times the level a year earlier, according to Trepp data on commercial mortgage-backed securities. Tenants in rent-stabilized units owe at least $1 billion in rent and wealthier ones are fleeing the city, leaving behind vacancies and pushing… Source link

GlobeNewswire Millennial Silver and 1246768 B.C. Ltd. Provide Maiden Resource for Wildcat and Mountain View Projects Global Pit Constrained Inferred Resource of 1.203 Million Ounces Au and Exploration Target showing the potential of 500,000-700,000 Ounces Au Table 1 Summary of oxidized inferred 2020 Mineral Resources at Wildcat Project, Sensitivity to Gold Prices Table 2 Summary of oxidized inferred 2020 Mineral Resources at Mountain View Project, Sensitivity to Gold Prices Figure 1 Location… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks with Over 9% Dividend Yield Markets ended 2020 on a high note, and have started 2021 on a bullish trajectory. All three major indexes have recently surged to all-time highs as investors seemingly looked beyond the pandemic and hoped for signs of a rapid recovery. Veteran strategist Edward Yardeni sees the economic recovery bringing its own slowdown with it. As the COVID vaccination program allows for further economic opening, with more people getting back to… Source link