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Lees meerRobots aren't hard. 5G in a room full of metal is. So is explaining why you need a bot to look at blinkenlights Fujitsu Japan will trial a local 5G network as the sole connectivity option for a robot charged with inspecting a datacenter and reportin…
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Lees meerMeanwhile, India workers in reported 90% purge In a sign that laying off half the company may not have been the best idea, "dozens" of Twitter employees given notice on Friday were reportedly asked to return over the weekend.…
Lees meerUS government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead The Biden administration has carved off a supercomputer’s worth of cash from the Inflation Reduction Act to upgrade the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) national laboratories.…
Lees meerJust in time for the holidays, a bunch of firing talk to worry Facebook crew More Silicon Valley layoff rumors are swirling and this time it's Meta that might be planning the first broad reduction in the company's history.…
Lees meerThe UK chip designer is suing another firm that has an interest, so IPO it is? Remember when Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK hynix were floated as potential buyers of UK chip designer Arm? Well, it seems that we can now count them out, which means …
Lees meerThe two not explicitly linked together but USA still working hard to hurt China semiconductor imports As Washington tries to persuade allies to join its China chip technology export ban, Japan is preparing for a joint research project with the US on…
Lees meerEven 2022 can't muster this much madness – or can it? Opinion The stupid is strong right now. In politics, economics and climate, crass madness is the order of the day. Commerce has its own flagships of farce, the Ford Edsels and New Cokes of compa…
Lees meerBuyers told of longer wait times for shiny new phones that don't do a lot more than last year’s model Apple has warned that a COVID outbreak in Zhengzhou, China, has impacted production of the iPhone 14 and will mean customers wait longer than antic…
Lees meerCustomers just love taking risks on pricey new tech, right? Analysis If one thing was abundantly clear from Supermicro's Q1 earnings call this month, it's that the server maker really needs Intel, AMD, and Nvidia's next-gen datacenter components to…
Lees meerTo help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose Analysis With a major downturn in revenue and profitability over the past six months, Intel has some tough decisions ahead as it seeks to make billions of dollars in…
Lees meerEricsson's VoIP biz used 'a panoply of hurdles' to keep customers on the hook Vonage has agreed to cough up $100 million to customers for making it nearly impossible to cancel their internet phone service, according to a proposed court order.…
Lees meerMusk-owned companies have now faced 3 WARN Act lawsuits alleging the same thing The great Twitter cull of '22 is expected to begin today, but a group of tweeps have preempted the event by filing a class action lawsuit against Twitter for violating t…
Lees meerJust hang on while we convince the rest of the world, Commerce Sec tells makers US companies that build chipmaking equipment have been told to tough it out as they face a ban on selling to customers in China, while their rivals elsewhere in the worl…
Lees meerWatchdog claims add-ons to computer purchases appeared to be discounted but did not reflect the standalone RRP Dell's Australian business is in trouble with the country's consumer watchdog for allegedly misleading buyers about the price of displays …
Lees meerWhat forced the change in attitude? The impact on 40,000 broadband connections possibly The Communication Workers Unions (CWU) claims BT Group has agreed to re-enter negotiations to find a solution to the protracted pay dispute that has caused thous…
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Lees meerA weighty lens, placed off-centre on a lightweight smartphone – what could possibly go wrong? Chinese smartphone darling has shown off a phone with a full camera lens bolted to its back – which looks very dorky, but thankfully is only a concept devi…
Lees meerExecs say enterprise hardware biz is flying – don't mention the sub-one-percent profit In February 2022 Lenovo shared a slightly special number: $17 million. That's the first profit made by its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) since its predeces…
Lees meerThis is the chiplet-based RNDA 3 GPU fans have been waiting for AMD has come out swinging at Nvidia with new flagship Radeon graphics cards that are cheaper than its rival's fresh GeForce RTX products.…
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