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Three Ways 5G Is More Than Just Fast Video Streaming

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In 2019, we will finally see commercial deployment of the much-anticipated 5G (fifth-generation) wireless network. 5G, particularly when coupled with cloud computing and artificial intelligence (A.I.), 5G, particularly when coupled with cloud computing and artificial intelligence (A.I.),

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Canada’s newest unicorn: Clio raises $110M at a $1.6B valuation for legal tech

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Clio last raised in September of 2019 when it brought in $250 million in a Series D financing. Newton was tight-lipped about the company’s financials, saying only that since its 2019 raise, the company has seen “explosive” growth. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity. Image Credits: Clio.

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AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones

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This service launched in Los Angeles in 2019 and starting today, it’s also available in preview in Boston, Houston and Miami. In addition, the company expanded its set of Local Zones , which are basically small extensions of existing AWS regions that are more expensive to use but offer low-latency access in metro areas.

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Whiskey Coffee, Immigration, AI: MassChallenge Austin 2019 Startups

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Austin —MassChallenge has picked the 74 early-stage companies that will eventually compete for a portion of $500,000 in cash as a part of its Austin accelerator program. They’re startups that are developing products in a wide range of sectors, including life sciences, agriculture, and artificial intelligence.

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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

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In Vegas, though, developers won’t be able to use relatively new services like Cloud Functions and Cloud Run yet. Some other features, including Cloud HSM and Secret Manager, are also not available yet. The company first announced the Vegas expansion in July 2019.

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

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The data set contained more than 70,000 orders dating between September 2015 and November 2019, and included customer names and email addresses, home addresses and order details. Each record also had the user’s IP address of the device they used to place the order.

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Cloudera, Hortonworks Plan To Merge As $5.2B Cloud Data Platform

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Palo Alto, CA-based Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR ) and Santa Clara, CA-based Hortonworks (NASDAQ: HDP ) said they expect the merger to close during the first quarter of 2019 if it passes an antitrust review. The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.