Five years after arrest at LAX, Broadcom secret snatcher sent down A Chinese professor who stole trade secrets from a Silicon Valley semiconductor company has been sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined $476,835.…
Lees meerWhaddaya mean we’re all doomed? With a US presidential election nearly upon us, the past week has seen a worrying jump in the number of lies, misinformation and state-sponsored efforts to sow discontent.…
Lees meerKitchen table chat tries to sell you on the latest kit, AI devs might like it, too Nvidia launched its GeForce RTX 30 series last night, its latest family of real-time ray-tracing graphics processors aimed primarily at PC gamers.…
Lees meerSilicon Valley heavyweights demand access to review boards that can shoot down trolls just ahead of trial Intel is leading an effort to force the US Patent and Trademark Office to overturn a new rule said to favor litigious patent trolls.…
Lees meerInnocuous images deemed a threat, netizens silenced until twitterings terminated Netizens are being locked out of their Twitter accounts for tweeting innocuous posts and images, such as math equations, that trigger the social network's system that p…
Lees meerImagine everyone placing 30-minute orders for stuff all day. In fact, let's turn to those who have lived under it Amazon has won approval to deliver packages by drone across the United States, meaning that customers could soon receive orders within …
Lees meerUni bod accused of destroying evidence by agents investigating possible visa fraud, transfer of 'sensitive' data to Beijing A Chinese academic working as a university researcher in America has been charged with destroying evidence while under invest…
Lees meerPlus: Apple's new machine-learning residency program In brief What’s the best way to chop up a banana so that each piece will perfectly fit onto a slice of bread that has been spread with peanut butter to make a classic sandwich?…
Lees meer'The future's going to be weird' says startup's founder Elon Video In a late Friday evening reveal, Elon Musk updated the world on his Neuralink brain-to-computer interface startup, with the help of three little piggies. Specifically, his team anno…
Lees meerAI-backed gizmo, app will predict your future body if you don't start training, analyzes your voice for unhappiness Amazon has teased a smartphone app and wireless wristband that employ sensors and machine-learning algorithms to depict how fat you'l…
Lees meerGet ready to armor up these systems, scientists warn Non-shielded quantum computers may only be able to run for a few milliseconds before background radiation completely destabilizes the systems, according to lab experiments described in a paper pub…
Lees meerS-1 filing slams Silicon Valley as the real privacy-invading spies, too Reclusive data analytics outfit Palantir has filed to go public, giving a small glimmer of insight into the highly secretive company and its finances, or lack of them.…
Lees meerRight as the Japanese mega-corp seeks to flog the Brit CPU design house Arm has apparently decided against spinning off two of its Internet-of-Things businesses to its owner Softbank just as Softbank chairman Masayoshi Son searches high and low for …
Lees meerMachines are just better at finding alien worlds than us humans A machine-learning algorithm has sniffed out 50 highly likely exoplanets previously hidden in data collected by NASA’s now-defunct Kepler space telescope.…
Lees meerWhich probably means silicon, cloud and quantum tech Chinese president Xi Jinping has again urged the nation to develop more the technology it needs to develop its economy.…
Lees meerNot a Hollywood action flick by the looks of it The US Air Force has revealed a prototype of a flying car, something the American military has desired for at least a decade.…
Lees meerPlus: Formula One teamed up with AWS to rank top 20 race car drivers since 1983 In brief The US Department of Energy has set aside $21m (£16m) to fund the use of machine learning to advance fusion power.…
Lees meerWell, Maverick, you've lost that lovin' feeling and it's gone, gone, gone Video An AI bot defeated a human pilot in a series of virtual dogfights that unfolded in skies albeit within a flight simulator during a competition held by the US military r…
Lees meerAim is for tap-to-pay experience to replace cash, but with bonus pervasive surveillance China has confirmed it is conducting tests of a sovereign digital currency but has timeline for its widespread adoption.…
Lees meerDoJ, FAA, FCC, Homeland Security warning highlights legal mess The US government has warned against the use of anti-drone technology by private companies and even American states, saying it could break current wiretap and hacking laws.…
Lees meerThat's a spicy meatball MediaTek has successfully demonstrated a 5G data transfer using an Inmarsat Alphasat geostationary satellite, located 35,000 kilometres above the equator.…
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