This is the life memoir of a young start-up employee, who offers clues as to how and why at the height of 2010 start-up boom they were ubiquitous and now they seem to have disappeared. Uncanny Valley gives an insight with a time-lapse of the past seven years in Silicon Valley- from giddy days of…
Foxconn, an Apple lead assembler and depends on Apple for 50 per cent of its revenue, is venturing into electric cars with Fiat, Chrysler Automobiles. Hon Hai, Precision Industry, as the world’s largest contract manufacturer is in talks to set up a business the Italian-American carmaker both holding 50 per cent stake, to make cars…
Amazon and Google have hired lots of floor space at CES to spotlight products that tie into their virtual assistants. LG display says it has a 65in ceiling mounted screen that can be rolled up when not in use. Min-LED involves using smaller light-emitting diodes than normal to illuminate a screen’s colour pixels which allowed…
Google has overhauled its global tax structure and consolidated all of its intellectual property holdings back to the US, putting an end to the winding-down of a loophole estimated to have saved the US groups hundreds of billions of dollars. The company said this week that the move was designed to simplify its corporate tax…
Huawei has reported sales surge by 18 per cent compared to 19.5 per cent in 2018, shrugging off the intense effort by Trump administration to weaken the Chinese technology group and shut it out of western markets, as it shipped 240m smartphones in 2019 up from 206m the previous year. After the US banned exports…
Russia has successfully tested a country-wide unplugged internet alternative to the global internet, its government announced. Experts remained concerned about the trend for some countries to dismantle the internet. “It means people will not have access to dialogue about what is going on in their own countrym as they will be kept within their own…
International Rights Advocates (IRA), a human rights group in class action lawsuit has claimed Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Tesla have all “aided and abetted” a supply chain for cobalt metal critical for smartphones and electric vehicles that forces children to work in dangerous conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Apple, Alphabet, Dell, Microsoft,…
Chinese tech companies are at an advanced stage of shaping facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN, as they aspire to dominate markets in the developing world for their designs. China Telecom, ZTE, Dahua are among companies proposing global standards in the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for facial recognition, video monitoring, city and…
A regulation announced in September 2019, was due to come into effect on Sunday when all people in China are required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of hundreds of millions of internet users. China has for years been trying to…
Mr Bootle the chairman of Capital Economics argues that the automation and advances in AI will be a huge positive influence in our lives in the coming future and economic effects of artificial intelligence may not be as different from those of previous technological transformations as many suppose, that the speed with which the changes…