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Robots still suck. It's all they can do to stand up – never mind rise up

Feature Simultaneous localisation and mapping is hard so for the foreseeable future ’bots will remain bolted down

AI + ML07 Jul 2021 | 55

India's Big Four services champions want to become software vendors

Feature Can they pull it off? They sure know how to code. Straddling the agnostic position of consultants with the ardor of a vendor may be harder

Software15 Mar 2021 | 6

Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard

Feature Lithium-ion had a lucky break early on. Successors will need billions of dollars to catch up – if they don't flame out first

Science30 Dec 2020 | 183

Yes, we have a 5G iPhone now. But that doesn't mean 5G has arrived

Feature And please forget about that 4th industrial revolution because most networks only have NSA 5G

Networks26 Oct 2020 | 51

Lee Kun-hee, who transformed Samsung into a global electronics titan, dies at 78

Chaebol's second CEO once set a bonfire of dud fax machines to teach the company a lesson in quality control

On-Prem26 Oct 2020 | 14

Intel offloads NAND business to South Korea's SK Hynix for a cool $9bn

Deal sees $7bn paid now, $2bn in 2025 when Intel hands over key IP and FAB workers

Storage20 Oct 2020 | 11

US comms watchdog calls for more scrutiny of submarine cables that land in 'adversary countries'

And then mentions China 18 times and calls for dedicated agency to regulate international data links

Networks01 Oct 2020 | 17

Google sees signs of success in its campaign to water down Australian pay-for-news plan

Regulators apparently sympathetic to calls for revision of arbitration process to set payments

On-Prem30 Sep 2020 | 11

US cybersecurity agency issues super-rare emergency directive to patch Windows Server flaw ASAP

Government sysadmins given weekend to fix ZeroLogon elevation of privilege bug, rest of us given stern warning

Security21 Sep 2020 | 13

Apple 'proud to support Indian customers and their communities' – but maybe not so much for COVID-slammed retailers

Online Apple store comes to India even as millions remain in containment zones

Personal Tech18 Sep 2020 | 2

Pakistan to smartphone-makers: Come for the low tax, stay to create your replacements

Floats industry plan that requires ramp-up of locally made components and complete tech transfer

Legal18 Sep 2020 | 6

Fake Zoom alerts and dodgy medical freebies among COVID-cracks detected by Taiwan's CERT

Phishers claimed to be from 'National Health Commission', which exists in mainland China but not Taiwan

Security17 Sep 2020 |

Mozilla says India's planned data harvest law is 'blunt' and should be caste aside

Warns that plan could lead to 'dangerous inferences' about user identity, suggests GDPR is a better model

Legal15 Sep 2020 | 9

UK and Japan agree to free trade deal that excludes data localisation requirements

Template for post-Brexit bilateral deals excludes algorithmic disclosures too

Legal14 Sep 2020 | 55

India makes buying a used cow easier than buying a used car

Aadhaar-adjacent app will put beasts' full history in farmers' hands

Software11 Sep 2020 | 19

What a time to be alive: Floating Apple store bobs up in Singapore

Only accessible through underwater tunnel attached to Casino (and a few years behind the back-blocks of Cambodia)

Personal Tech11 Sep 2020 | 23

Hyperscalers shopped for at least 540,000 extra servers, additional 75 exabytes of storage in Q2

Revenue dips regardless as big enterprise players struggle during lockdown

On-Prem09 Sep 2020 |

No Huawei, America: Samsung scores $6.6bn for 5G at US giant Verizon

Remember how established carrier vendors were going to clean up after Huawei bans? Not so much, maybe ...

Networks07 Sep 2020 | 12

US ponders tech export ban on SMIC, China's biggest chipmaker

Company reacts with 'complete shock and perplexity' and says it's a law-abiding citizen

Legal07 Sep 2020 | 43

Taiwan tightens rules around local tech firms sharing tech with China

Will vet even outbound investments under new rules

Legal04 Sep 2020 | 5

India bans a further 118 Chinese apps as physical and online tensions escalate

PUBG, Alipay, Baidu and more exiled

Software03 Sep 2020 | 4

India's telecoms given ten years to pay $22bn in back taxes they've already disputed for a decade

Vodafone's Indian outpost has a $10bn bill all by itself and may struggle to pay

On-Prem02 Sep 2020 | 10

Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content

Calls for more moderation to stop video nasties reaching local eyeballs

Personal Tech01 Sep 2020 | 15

Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable

There be dragons, say US authorities, so first planned US-HK cable darkens its last leg

Networks31 Aug 2020 | 31

Fairphone thinks its fair to offer a not-very-major and slightly-more-recycled new model

More capable cameras, less new plastic. Same opportunity for a warm inner glow

Personal Tech28 Aug 2020 | 17

Google wants to listen in to whatever you get up to in hotel rooms

Disrupting clock radios and concierges with plan to let Nest Hub devices take orders for fresh towels

Personal Tech27 Aug 2020 | 115

Taiwan and US make joint declaration to only use 'clean' 5G kit

It's all about transparency, yet China didn't rate a mention

Networks27 Aug 2020 | 2

India anoints little-known Zoom clone as its home-grown videoconf tool of choice

Alappuzha's Techgentsia Software has a golden ticket for government work

Software21 Aug 2020 | 4

Nvidia's data centre biz tops gaming as lead revenue source – and it should enjoy being king while it lasts

Buying Mellanox has paid off, gamers are still the bigger prize

On-Prem20 Aug 2020 | 3

Amazon makes 850,000m2 bet that its people will get off the kitchen table and back to an office

Cloud and e-commerce boom mean it needs more desks and people that originally planned

On-Prem19 Aug 2020 | 21

Trump backs Oracle as potential TikTok buyer

Larry Ellison hailed as 'terrific guy' but Big Red stays shtum on its intentions

Software19 Aug 2020 | 30

Former HP CEO and Republican Meg Whitman – who split HP with mixed success – says Donald Trump can't run a business

Vows to vote for Democrat Joe Biden instead - as will ex-HP chief Carly Fiorina

On-Prem18 Aug 2020 | 95

Facebook to take board seat at Linux Foundation after signing as Platinum member

Already a big mover in Foundation projects like Presto, GraphQL, Osquery and ONNX, so why not go all-in?

Software17 Aug 2020 | 15

Softbank confirms talks to offload Arm as it posts rebound profit

Might float chip-designer, sell it all or sell chunks. Whatever happens, server CPU sales are the upside

On-Prem12 Aug 2020 | 23

China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers

And needs a very blunt instrument to do the job, because the protocol works as planned

Security11 Aug 2020 | 55

Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers

First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM Fellow

Software10 Aug 2020 | 11

Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite

Chinese giant suggests current Kirin SoC could be last of its kind

Personal Tech10 Aug 2020 | 21

China re-shapes its silicon industry to boost production

The smaller the manufacturing process, the bigger the subsidies

On-Prem06 Aug 2020 | 16

China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US

Beijing accuses America of working to destroy businesses it doesn't like

Security05 Aug 2020 | 74

China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs

Gotta catch 'em all

Software04 Aug 2020 | 36

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

Bluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine

Science04 Aug 2020 | 15

Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies

Doug Engelbart had the idea. Bill English did the engineering and made the first ever mouse

Personal Tech03 Aug 2020 | 31

World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18%

Apple leads in shipments, but also records the slowest growth among branded fondleslab-flingers

Personal Tech03 Aug 2020 | 9

Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars

Three big upgrades since 2018 suggests it's far from terminal

Software31 Jul 2020 | 56

Legendary Li-ion battery boffin John Goodenough to develop gel power packs with South Korea's SK Innovation

Won't degrade. Won't catch fire. Will be a fine fit for electric vehicles

Personal Tech31 Jul 2020 | 16

Samsung cops COVID-19 coronavirus crunch and gets run over by Huawei in handsets for first time

Between football, new gaming consoles, Indian low-end-handsets and cloud computing, life is complex for Korean giant right now

Personal Tech30 Jul 2020 | 4

Qualcomm signs new IP licencing deal with Huawei despite US-China trade tensions

The cash will come in handy after COVID kicked a colossal hole in Q3 revenue

On-Prem30 Jul 2020 | 3

Virgin Galactic reveals giant mirror feature in cabin design for Beardy Branson's space bus

Passengers will be able to watch themselves float while bathed in Earthlight and surrounded by tasteful colours

Science29 Jul 2020 | 43

Arm China brands itself a 'strategic asset', calls for Beijing's help in boardroom dispute with Brit HQ

Updated 'We just wanna design chips without distractions', say staff in open letter

On-Prem29 Jul 2020 | 21

Gone in 15 minutes: Qualcomm claims new chargers will fill your smartmobe in a flash

Not so fast - Quick Charge 5 does its best when using new dual-battery tech

Personal Tech28 Jul 2020 | 35

Tencent set to slurp Sogou, China's second largest search engine, and snaffle its super-popular text editor

Half a billion users for $3.5bn - bargain!

Software28 Jul 2020 |

SAP to list Qualtrics, less than two years after convincing it not to list

Plans to retain sales and dev umbilical cord to CX outfit

Software27 Jul 2020 | 5

Wipro buys 4C worth of extra Salesforce expertise

Slurps quote-to-cash specialist to boost Cloud business unit that's already big with SAP and Oracle

Software24 Jul 2020 | 2

Alibaba's financial arm, Ant, files for monster IPO ahead of march on the world's merchants and shoppers

Payments giant could be worth $200 billion

On-Prem21 Jul 2020 | 4

Fujitsu re-orgs Fujitsu Japan by making more parts of Fujitsu Fujitsu

Domestic companies to be mashed together in the service of digital transformation, 5G and cloud

On-Prem20 Jul 2020 | 2

Philippines to install 23,000 free public Wi-Fi hotspots

To help plague time working and learning, even though schools are to remain closed until a vaccine is found

Networks20 Jul 2020 | 6

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries says it's built its own 5G kit and hopes to sell to all comers

Seemingly offers Huawei alternative and challenges old-school telco vendors. Now to prove its chops by building an Indian 5G net for Jio Platforms

Networks17 Jul 2020 | 14

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Robots still suck. It's all they can do to stand up – never mind rise up

India's Big Four services champions want to become software vendors

Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard

Yes, we have a 5G iPhone now. But that doesn't mean 5G has arrived

Lee Kun-hee, who transformed Samsung into a global electronics titan, dies at 78

Intel offloads NAND business to South Korea's SK Hynix for a cool $9bn

US comms watchdog calls for more scrutiny of submarine cables that land in 'adversary countries'

Google sees signs of success in its campaign to water down Australian pay-for-news plan

Japan unveils new scheme to speed up adoption of cashless payments

US finds new Huawei to hurt China with new sanctions at top chip maker SMIC

TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content

US cybersecurity agency issues super-rare emergency directive to patch Windows Server flaw ASAP

Apple 'proud to support Indian customers and their communities' – but maybe not so much for COVID-slammed retailers

Pakistan to smartphone-makers: Come for the low tax, stay to create your replacements

Fake Zoom alerts and dodgy medical freebies among COVID-cracks detected by Taiwan's CERT

Mozilla says India's planned data harvest law is 'blunt' and should be caste aside

UK and Japan agree to free trade deal that excludes data localisation requirements

India makes buying a used cow easier than buying a used car

What a time to be alive: Floating Apple store bobs up in Singapore

Hyperscalers shopped for at least 540,000 extra servers, additional 75 exabytes of storage in Q2

No Huawei, America: Samsung scores $6.6bn for 5G at US giant Verizon

US ponders tech export ban on SMIC, China's biggest chipmaker

Taiwan tightens rules around local tech firms sharing tech with China

India bans a further 118 Chinese apps as physical and online tensions escalate

India's telecoms given ten years to pay $22bn in back taxes they've already disputed for a decade

Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content

Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable

Fairphone thinks its fair to offer a not-very-major and slightly-more-recycled new model

Google wants to listen in to whatever you get up to in hotel rooms

Taiwan and US make joint declaration to only use 'clean' 5G kit

India anoints little-known Zoom clone as its home-grown videoconf tool of choice

Nvidia's data centre biz tops gaming as lead revenue source – and it should enjoy being king while it lasts

Amazon makes 850,000m2 bet that its people will get off the kitchen table and back to an office

Trump backs Oracle as potential TikTok buyer

Former HP CEO and Republican Meg Whitman – who split HP with mixed success – says Donald Trump can't run a business

Facebook to take board seat at Linux Foundation after signing as Platinum member

Softbank confirms talks to offload Arm as it posts rebound profit

China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers

Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers

Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite

China re-shapes its silicon industry to boost production

China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US

China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies

World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18%

Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars

Legendary Li-ion battery boffin John Goodenough to develop gel power packs with South Korea's SK Innovation

Samsung cops COVID-19 coronavirus crunch and gets run over by Huawei in handsets for first time

Qualcomm signs new IP licencing deal with Huawei despite US-China trade tensions

Virgin Galactic reveals giant mirror feature in cabin design for Beardy Branson's space bus

Arm China brands itself a 'strategic asset', calls for Beijing's help in boardroom dispute with Brit HQ

Gone in 15 minutes: Qualcomm claims new chargers will fill your smartmobe in a flash

Tencent set to slurp Sogou, China's second largest search engine, and snaffle its super-popular text editor

SAP to list Qualtrics, less than two years after convincing it not to list

Wipro buys 4C worth of extra Salesforce expertise

Alibaba's financial arm, Ant, files for monster IPO ahead of march on the world's merchants and shoppers

Fujitsu re-orgs Fujitsu Japan by making more parts of Fujitsu Fujitsu

Philippines to install 23,000 free public Wi-Fi hotspots

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries says it's built its own 5G kit and hopes to sell to all comers

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