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China’s Chang’e 5 mission has successfully landed on the moon

China has just landed a new spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The mission, Chang’e 5, will collect lunar rocks and soil to bring back to Earth, as part of China’s first-ever sample return mission.& What happened: China launched Chang’e...

Microsoft Teams now supports Apple CarPlay, saves call recordings, and identifies spam calls

Microsoft Teams gets Apple CarPlay support, saving call recordings to OneDrive and SharePoint, spam call identification, and call merging.Read More

HPE beats estimates with Q4 revenue of $7.2B, flat YoY, vs. est. of $6.88B, High Performance Compute and Mission Critical Systems revenue of $975M, up 25% YoY (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)

Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: HPE beats estimates with Q4 revenue of $7.2B, flat YoY, vs. est. of $6.88B, High Performance Compute and Mission Critical Systems revenue of $975M, up 25% YoY& —& Hewlett's forecast for profit for the year ahead...

Amazon debuts Trainium, a custom chip for machine learning training in the cloud

Amazon unveiled Trainium, a custom chip for machine learning training workloads. It'll be available to AWS customers in H2 2021.Read More

Salesforce reports Q3 revenue of $5.42B, up 20% YoY, vs. $5.23B est., net income of $1.08B vs. a $109M loss YoY, ups FY21 revenue guidance to $21.1B, up 23% YoY (Wallace Witkowski/MarketWatch)

Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: Salesforce reports Q3 revenue of $5.42B, up 20% YoY, vs. $5.23B est., net income of $1.08B vs. a $109M loss YoY, ups FY21 revenue guidance to $21.1B, up 23% YoY& —& Salesforce.com Inc. shares decline...

HPE announces it will relocate its headquarters from San Jose, CA, to Houston, TX, that it's constructing a new campus there, and no layoffs come with the move (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: HPE announces it will relocate its headquarters from San Jose, CA, to Houston, TX, that it's constructing a new campus there, and no layoffs come with the move& —& - Hewlett Packard Enterprise is relocati...

Amazon unveils Monitron, a service for monitoring factory workers and machines with low-cost sensors, as it looks to push into the industrial sector (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

Dave Lee / Financial Times: Amazon unveils Monitron, a service for monitoring factory workers and machines with low-cost sensors, as it looks to push into the industrial sector& —& Sensor and computer vision hardware come as tech gi...

Salesforce announces it's buying Slack in a $27.7B deal (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: Salesforce announces it's buying Slack in a $27.7B deal& —& Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Sl...

Roku hires Brian Pinkerton, who was Apple's chief architect of Siri until November and was previously the CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Roku hires Brian Pinkerton, who was Apple's chief architect of Siri until November and was previously the CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative& —& Roku Inc. has hired a Siri executive at Apple Inc. to lead a...

Flock Freight raises $113.5 million to consolidate truck freight shipments with algorithms

Flock Freight, a startup developing a platform that matches freight with ground transportation, has raised $113.5 million.Read More

Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

In factory farms, pigs are sometimes locked in crates the width and length of their bodies, so they can’t even turn around.& | Getty Images These are the most effective charities for reducing animal suffering. If you...

AWS launches a range of new services for contact and call centers, including Amazon Connect real-time analytics, customer profiles, and machine learning tools (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)

Larry Dignan / ZDNet: AWS launches a range of new services for contact and call centers, including Amazon Connect real-time analytics, customer profiles, and machine learning tools& —& Amazon is stepping up its contact center servic...

AWS announces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for Microsoft SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS announces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for Microsoft SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud& —& AWS today announced a new database product that...

Amazon unveils DevOps Guru, which spots and recommends fixes for issues that might cause outages, such as missing or misconfigured alarms and code changes (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon unveils DevOps Guru, which spots and recommends fixes for issues that might cause outages, such as missing or misconfigured alarms and code changes& —& Amazon today launched SageMaker Data Wrangler...

AWS unveils an appliance called AWS Panorama, which can transform existing on-premises cameras into computer vision-enabled surveillance devices (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: AWS unveils an appliance called AWS Panorama, which can transform existing on-premises cameras into computer vision-enabled surveillance devices& —& AWS has launched a new hardware device, the AWS Pano...