LF Edge, EdgeX Foundry celebrates 5M container downloads, releases new tool
LF Edge project EdgeX Foundry has announced reaching a milestone of more than 5 million container downloads and released a…
Edge Applications
News and analysis of the various programs that run at or near the network edge, including software applications, analytics and APIs, as well as the Platform-as-a-Service and middleware offerings that support them. Programs used by end users at the edge and those that enable them.
Fastly launches developer hub for edge innovation, files follow-on public offering
Fastly, a provider of CDN and edge computing services, has launched a developer hub for fast access to necessary tools…
Facebook has new price point for vox to text and an AR/VR data dump
Facebook, Inc. is pushing forward with two new ways to mimic human interface capabilities-voice and sight-in edge devices. In one…
Face mask recognition becomes latest test for video surveillance at the edge
Businesses are planning their reopening strategies as they’re trying to adapt to a new normal post-coronavirus. One that has made…
Verizon’s touchless retail experience points to future of edge infrastructure in smart retail
Verizon has introduced additional touchless options in retail stores amid COVID-19 to address the growing demand for contactless experiences and digital…
Sidewalk Labs’ project halted, but this won’t be the end of all edge-powered Smart City
Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs has put an end to the development of Quayside, a sustainable smart city ecosystem on the…
Amazon, analytics firm put edge systems through emergency paces
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has published a case study in which its Snowball edge compute-optimized devices are integrated into disaster-response…
Boston Dynamics experiments with a four-legged aid in a COVID-19 world
Mobile robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics is pushing edge computing to a new environment in an effort to aid medical workers…
Scale’s HC3 updates Goodwill systems, promises remote management
A California chapter of the employment-building nonprofit Goodwill Industries bought virtual hyperconverged edge infrastructure this week from Scale Computing and…
Rancher Labs’ top end grows to 2,000 Kubernetes clusters
It is all (or at least mostly) about scaling up with Rancher 2.4, which has been released by Rancher Labs…
