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Amazon offers cashierless tech to rival retailers

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

The US technology giant launched a new website to promote the offering, saying the installation can be done in "as little as a few weeks." Amazon said it would ...

Twitter strikes deal with investors, ending bid to oust Dorsey

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

The plan calls for a fresh $1 billion investment in Twitter by private equity group Silver Lake, and a pledge by the social media group to launch a $2 billion s...

Coronavirus triggers work-from-home trend in Seattle

Mar 06, 2020 (AFP)

Ten of the 12 US fatalities from the outbreak have been in the northwest state, leading to an emergency declaration by the state and proactive measures in the c...

A new model of vision

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

Scientists who study the brain have tried to replicate this phenomenon using computer models of vision, but so far, leading models only perform much simpler tas...

Twitter tests vanishing tweets to keep up with Snapchat, Facebook

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

The ability to send ephemeral tweets called "Fleets" is being tried out in Brazil, according to the San Francisco-based social media platform. If more widely im...

Harnessing ambient thermal emissions to enable passive 3D vision at night

Mar 03, 2020 (SPX)

To eliminate this vulnerability, DARPA announced the Invisible Headlights program. The fundamental research effort seeks to discover and quantify information co...

Americans wary of Facebook 'power,' survey shows

Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)

The "tech trust survey" for online technology news magazine The Verge found 72 percent thought Facebook's power was too extensive, even if their overall views o...

Apple agrees to $500 mn deal in iPhone-slowing suit

Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)

A federal judge in California presiding over a group of lawsuits will be asked to approve the proposed settlement at a hearing in early April, according to a co...

Social networks on back foot as digital campaigns expand tactics

Feb 29, 2020 (AFP)

The surge in questionable political content comes as online giants struggle to curb disinformation and foreign influence campaigns which came to prominence in t...

Baidu warns of big hit from coronavirus outbreak

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

The Beijing-based group has forecast a plunge of between five percent and 13 percent due to the economic uncertainty surrounding the new virus, which is rapidly...

Regulators move to fine telecoms for selling location data

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

The Federal Communications Commission proposed fining T-Mobile more than $91 million; AT&T some $57 million; Verizon $48 million, and Sprint $12 million. The wi...

Huawei to open European 5G factory in France

Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)

Huawei, which has become caught up in a bruising trade war between Beijing and Washington, has been attentively courting Europe as it tries to offset lost busin...

Facebook sues analytics firm for data misuse

Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)

New Jersey-based oneAudience paid software makers to install "malicious" software in their apps in order to "improperly" collect data about people at Facebook a...

Google pledges new $10 bn investment in US in 2020

Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)

The pledge comes on top of some $22 billion invested by the US tech giant unit over the past two years. "These investments will create thousands of jobs -- incl...

Internet giants fight spread of coronavirus untruths

Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)

Google, Facebook and other platforms are struggling to keep ahead of scammers, trolls, and others with ill intent who routinely use major tragedies or disasters...

Huawei loses legal challenge of US federal purchase ban

Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)

Huawei filed the suit last year and claimed Congress had failed to provide evidence to support a law that stopped government agencies from buying its equipment,...

Apple to miss revenue forecast as iPhone supply hit by coronavirus

Feb 18, 2020 (AFP)

The COVID-19 virus death toll now exceeds 1,800 in China, where it has infected more than 72,000 after emerging in the central province of Hubei in December. Th...

Apple shares skid on worries over coronavirus impact

Feb 18, 2020 (AFP)

Shares in Apple tumbled some 2.5 percent in early New York trade, as global financial markets reacted to news of the economic impact of the health crisis. Apple...

Kongsberg contributing to broadband connection for the International Space Station

Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)

February 14th the ESA Columbus Ka-Band Terminal (COLKa) started its journey to the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting earth. Here, the terminal will be ...

Apple says will not meet revenue forecasts due to virus

Feb 17, 2020 (AFP)

"We do not expect to meet the revenue guidance we provided for the March quarter," it said in a statement, adding that worldwide iPhone supply would be "tempora...