You can call me Al For a year that belongs in a Philip K Dick novella, now is not the time to welcome prophets of the technological future, and yet here comes Gartner, banging on the door with its Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle.…
Lees meerStartups encouraged to get busy with open-source 32-bit Shakti, 64-bit VEGA India has announced a national competition to foster the use of the nation's homegrown RISC-V microprocessor designs in the hope the tech will eventually replace imported pa…
Lees meerFirst step to self-driving vehicles on British roads RoTM Self-driving vehicles have taken a modest step forward towards legality, with the UK's Department for Transport (DfT) launching a Call for Evidence that will determine the safety and efficac…
Lees meerMr Watson, come here. I want to see you American chip designer Qualcomm has demonstrated what it claimed was the world's first high-bandwidth 5G data call using the n28 (700MHz) low-spectrum band.…
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Lees meerOne-year deal worth quarter of a million dollars The US Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $224,000 contract to Clearview AI to purchase “information technology components,” in a deal sealed this week.…
Lees meerChina wants to break free from reliance on those outside the homeland More than a hundred TSMC employees have fled the world’s largest semiconductor fab, by market cap, to join smaller, less well-known Chinese chip factories after being promised muc…
Lees meerHow beams of light can boss around smart speakers Boffins affiliated with the University of Electro-Communications in Japan and America's University of Michigan have devised a way to use lasers to inject audio commands into mic-equipped devices.…
Lees meerIf you think the quantum world is confusing, wait until you see the pricing Amazon Web Services has fired up a cloud quantum computing service.…
Lees meerDay one: We're worth half a billion! Day Two: We're nearly worthless A two-day-old decentralized cryptocurrency called YAM collapsed on Wednesday after its creators revealed that a software bug had effectively vetoed human governance.…
Lees meerPromises to ladle out more info on grand SRAM at Hot Chips Samsung Foundry has begun rollout of its latest 3D IC packaging tech, dubbed “eXtended-Cube” or “X-Cube*", which it claims can result in lower power consumption and faster overall speeds.…
Lees meerCEO says making cyber-cabbies employees would be a bridge too far Uber's CEO today threatened to suspend all of its dial-a-ride services in California should a judge not grant an emergency appeal to let it continue classifying its app's drivers as c…
Lees meerVerifying wandering voters in the world’s largest and most complex elections is the aim India has pondered how blockchain might enhance its elections with a high-level online gabfest concluding that the technology might have a role in making it poss…
Lees meerDeep-learning model pinpoints the pain in your AES DEF CON Convolutional neural networks can reveal which parts of an AES implementation are vulnerable to snooping, according to research by Googlers.…
Lees meerDon't panic... still in the testing phase The US Army Research Laboratory says it is experimenting with reinforcement learning algorithms to control swarms of drones and autonomous vehicles to overwhelm and dominate America's enemies.…
Lees meerPlus: Microsoft to dump support for Cortana on iOS, Android phones In brief Your Google Home speaker may have been quietly recording sounds around your house without your permission or authorization, it was revealed this week.…
Lees meerDon't worry, your job's safe... we think The UK government is setting up a dynamic purchasing system to help buy artificial intelligence services across the public sector with an estimated £200m on the table over four years.…
Lees meerYes, you read that right, an American exec is actually going to serve time... eventually. When he chooses Anthony Levandowski, the top engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing self-driving car trade secrets from Google, was sent down for 18 months in…
Lees meerBluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine Singapore will fit all incoming travelers with a wearable tracking device to prevent them from breaching their mandatory quarantine.…
Lees meerThird-party skills and smart speaker incarnations also discontinued Microsoft’s decided to restrict the roles its AI assistant Cortana is permitted to fill.…
Lees meerPlus: Latest hardware results from MLPerf and why so-called text deepfakes are dangerous In brief Rite Aid, an American drugstore chain, secretly deployed facial recognition cameras to spy on its shoppers across 200 stores for eight years.…
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