Gartner forecasts public cloud spending will grow 20.7% to $591.8B in 2023, including SaaS spending up 16.8% to $195.2B and PaaS spending up 23.2% to $136.4B (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

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New Jersey-based Sitetracker, which offers a cloud service to manage critical infrastructure projects, raised a $96M Series D, $66M in equity and $30M in debt  —  Startup Sitetracker Inc. today announced that it has secured $96 million in financing to broaden the adoption of its namesake cloud platform …

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Singapore-based cloud HR management service Atlas Technology raised a Series B of up to $200M from Sixth Street Growth, after raising $20M in 2020  —  Atlas Technology Solutions Inc., a startup with a cloud-based human resource management platform, today announced that it has secured …

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Meta rolls out its Precision Time Protocol to its data centers, upgrading on the Network Time Protocol, aiming to sync its networks down to nanoseconds  —  Meta Platforms Inc. today detailed an internal initiative years in the making that focused on upgrading its data centers’ timing protocol …

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Google announces a beta release of Simple ML, a no-code ML add-on for Google Sheets, that enables users to apply machine learning to their data  —  Google LLC today launched a new tool that will enable users to develop artificial intelligence models in Google Sheets.  —  The tool, dubbed Simple ML, is available in beta.

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Google debuts Code as Policies which uses AI models to generate code for robots to perform a variety of tasks, under an open-source license on GitHub  —  Google LLC today debuted an internally developed software tool that can reduce the amount of effort involved in training a robot to perform new tasks.

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Micron reports Q4 revenue down 25% YoY to $6.64B, from $8.27B, plans to cut total capital spending by 30% YoY and wafer-fab equipment spending by nearly 50% YoY  —  Reporting its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings today,Micron Technology Inc. warned investors that it’s planning to take drastic measures …