Techmeme: AWS rolls out new EC2 high memory instances for in-memory databases like SAP HANA, with 6, 9, and 12 TB memory, plans instances with 18 TB and 24 TB for 2019 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:

AWS rolls out new EC2 high memory instances for in-memory databases like SAP HANA, with 6, 9, and 12 TB memory, plans instances with 18 TB and 24 TB for 2019 — Amazon Web Services Inc. today offered some revved-up cloud computing instances aimed at customers running resource-intensive “in-memory” databases such as SAP SE's HANA.

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Didi Chuxing launches a taxi-hailing service in Osaka, Japan that links passengers with drivers from 10 local taxi companies — China's Didi Chuxing is fighting fires at home around passenger safety, but overseas the ride-hailing giant has moved into another new market after its taxi-booking service began operations in Japan.

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Butterfly, maker of ultrasound-on-a-chip device iQ that produces clinical-quality images uploaded to the cloud via iPhone, raises $250M at a $1.25B valuation — In the decades following the deployment of the first clinical ultrasound machine in 1956, the high-frequency scanners have become …

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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Google says it will now include creator and credit metadata in photos it displays on Google Images and will add copyright notice metadata in the coming weeks — Google hasn't always had the best of relationships with photographers, but today it announced a small measure that should go some way toward appeasing image rightsholders.

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

FCC limits the time local authorities get to review 5G applications to 90 days, caps annual fees to $270 per small cell, unless cities can prove higher costs — FCC orders cities and towns to slash permit fees for 5G equipment. — The Federal Communications Commission today finalized …

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