'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that' The head of WhatsApp will not compromise the security of its messenger service to bend to the UK government's efforts to scan private conversations.…
Lees meerCX and marketing teams seem to have borne the brunt of it Oracle employees have taken to social media to reveal many have been laid off by the database and applications giant.…
Lees meerTablet sales tumble, too – except at Amazon Chromebook shipments in Q2 2022 fell by 51.4 percent compared to the same period in 2021, according to analyst outfit IDC, but the slump does not reflect the reality that Google has built a sustainable nic…
Lees meer'One common trait is that they have zero regard for the privacy of the individual' Nearly three billion profiles and other pieces of data belonging to "actively pregnant" women or those "shopping for maternity products" worldwide are up for sale by …
Lees meerLaw firm hired to look into lawsuit allegations, sources tell us Exclusive IBM's board of directors has started an investigation into claims that its sales numbers were manipulated, leading to executives securing big bonuses. If the board fails to …
Lees meerRumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius Memory vendors Samsung and SK Group could be the latest casualties in America's efforts to derail China’s domestic semiconductor industry.…
Lees meerKV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week SK hynix is developing a computational storage device with the US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that will focus on accelerating indexing capabilities to spee…
Lees meerThe hope? Killing diesel backup gennies in the name of carbon reduction Microsoft has successfully tested a hydrogen fuel cell system with 3MW capacity, and plans to install a similar system at a research datacenter to test the feasibility of replac…
Lees meerThe biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped Analysis Intel is ending its Optane product line of persistent memory and that is more disastrous for the industry than is visible on the surface.…
Lees meerSinger and actor was a trailblazer on and off the screen OBIT Nichelle Nichols, who long ago achieved immortality in her role as Uhura on Star Trek, has died at the age of 89.…
Lees meerBarrier to building homes in overcrowded city? An overdrawn electricity grid Housing in London, western Europe's largest city, is famously in short supply, but it seems there is a new barrier to building more homes in England's capital – the electri…
Lees meerShould we be worried? Well, size isn't everything Opinion After decades trailing the rest of the world in leading-edge chip making, Chinese sand stamper Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has quietly got into the 7nm busin…
Lees meerThere's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels... Who, Me? Welcome to an episode of Who, Me? in which a race between office chairs results in an unexpected escalation rather than the lifting of a trophy.…
Lees meerSomething Hunter Biden probably wishes computers had ages ago Samsung has added a "repair mode" to its Galaxy smartphones, hiding users' data when they entrust an ailing device to a technician.…
Lees meerLocal manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers India's ambition to become self-sufficient in hardware has taken a small step forward after the nation's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) contracted a local manufact…
Lees meerWait, what's an eye pad? On the one hand, Apple Mac and iPad revenues are shrinking and the tech goliath is doing less business in China and Japan.…
Lees meerPopcorn stocks soar The legal showdown between Twitter and Elon Musk is finally set to go to trial on October 17 and will last five days, according to a court schedule published this week.…
Lees meerWith $52 billion on the table, everyone wants their fair share Micron wants a piece of the $52 billion in chips subsidies approved by US Congress this week. The company Friday promised to ramp up domestic memory production over the next few years.…
Lees meerPower transmission bottlenecks could delay Northern Virginia DC projects into 2026 Updated The largest datacenter market in the US is running into trouble: There isn't enough power transmission capacity in the region to handle all the bit barn proj…
Lees meerAmazing how you find the money when military needs a reliable supply Google has linked up with chip fabrication company, SkyWater Technology, on an open source chip technology program with funding from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to build a r…
Lees meerForget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data More thought – or at least some thought – needs to be given to privacy protection in the promised metaverse of connected 3D virtual-reality worlds, experts have con…
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