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
07 Jul 2021 | 55
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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
15 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
30 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
26 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
26 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
20 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
01 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
30 Sep 2020 | 11
Japan unveils new scheme to speed up adoption of cashless payments
Already curiously slow to get into e-payments, nation hopes avoiding a certain virus will prove an impetus
29 Sep 2020 | 14
US finds new Huawei to hurt China with new sanctions at top chip maker SMIC
Alleges silicon has military applications so puts more products on 'get a license before exporting' lists
28 Sep 2020 | 14
TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content
Seemingly ignorant of the fact that Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter already operate a similar project
23 Sep 2020 | 1
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
21 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
18 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
18 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
17 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
15 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
14 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
11 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)
11 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
09 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 ...
07 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
07 Sep 2020 | 43
Taiwan tightens rules around local tech firms sharing tech with China
Will vet even outbound investments under new rules
04 Sep 2020 | 5
India bans a further 118 Chinese apps as physical and online tensions escalate
PUBG, Alipay, Baidu and more exiled
03 Sep 2020 | 4
