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The biggest question that had traders in chip stocks buzzing this week is finally resolved, with Intel flatly denying the rumor it licensed AMD's graphics technology.
CNBC
The return of the Nokia name to the smartphone world stopped being a romantic dream earlier this year when HMD Global announced the Nokia 6 during CES. The excitement built as the Nokia 6 was joined by the Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 handsets at Mobile World Congress. All of them were focused on delivering excellent value and power to the mid-range market.
Forbes
A cyber-attack that has hit 150 countries since Friday should be treated by governments around the world as a "wake-up call", Microsoft says. It blames governments for storing data on software vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers.
BBC News
Motley Fool
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has become widely known in investment and technology circles following the launch of its popular Vega and Ryzen chips. But the chipmaker also runs a lesser known ARM-based server chip project, that has been nothing but a drag on its financial resources since its inception in 2013.
Seeking Alpha
Nvidia revealed Wednesday at its GPU Technology Conference that Toyota will use Nvidia's Drive PX AI automotive platform to power advanced autonomous driving systems planned for market introduction.
EE Times
LG Innotek, the parts unit of LG Group, will supply facial recognition camera modules for the upcoming iPhone, tentatively called the iPhone 8, Korea Economic Daily reported on May 11.
The Investor
Toshiba's business partners are preparing for a scenario in which the company seeks to reorganize under Japanese bankruptcy laws, with consequences for the global nuclear-power and electronics industries.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Apple has stopped paying its iPhone manufacturers for royalties owed to Qualcomm for the first quarter, Qualcomm said on Friday. Apple sued Qualcomm in January, saying that the royalties were excessive, and will now be withholding payments until the legal battle is resolved.
Fortune
Twitter is working with media firm Bloomberg to create a 24-hour rolling news channel for the messaging service. The live video stream will be made up of original programming as well as feeds from Bloomberg bureaus.
BBC News
Facebook has denied it is targeting insecure young people in order to push advertising, amid a row over a leaked document.
BBC News
Samsung Electronics' flourishing components business helped the South Korean technology giant notch up its highest quarterly profit in more than three years, as the company said that it would not adopt a holding company structure after a monthslong internal review.
Wall Street Journal
When Nvidia makes investments in AI startups, it's probably a good idea to sit up and take note: The GPU maker has essentially enabled modern AI in many ways, and so it's probably seen the gamut of potential applications of its technology over the years, and should know better than most what's likely to work out and what isn't. Six new companies have garnered not only attention, but funding from Nvidia, via its GPU Ventures investment arm.
TechCrunch
AMD's new Ryzen chips based on the company's Zen CPU architecture are winning some accolades for providing good performance at competitive pricing. The high-end Ryzen 7 series were the first to ship, and the midrange Ryzen 5 series chips have also hit the market.
Digital Trends
The Mali-C71 is the first development to come out of ARM's 2016 acquisition of Apical, which gave ARM the capabilities in imaging and computer vision necessary to meet the automotive market's needs.
ZDNet
Apple has hired former NASA employees, robotics experts and ex-Tesla staffers to form part of its driverless car teams, according to official documents released to two media outlets.
CNBC
Eight years and two million miles after Google began to build self-driving car technology, it's ready for passengers.
USA Today
here's a lot of buzz around virtual reality (VR) right now and its potential to transform how we interact with technology and video content and as a catalyst for an entirely new computing platform, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has suggested.
Motley Fool
4K streaming is the future of TV and a number of content providers have started to offer 4K content, allowing users to take advantage of their 4K TVs. There are, however, a number of other pieces to the puzzle - including streaming devices like the Nvidia Shield TV, and services like Google Play Movies and TV.
Digital Trends
Toshiba has announced it will split up its four main businesses into separate wholly owned subsidiaries. The spinoffs will begin in July and 19,000 employees will be transferred to the new companies.
Nikkei Electronics Asia
Those anxiously awaiting the redesigned iPhone, however, may have to wait because supply constraints could mean the device isn't readily available until one or two months after the typical fall introduction.
Bloomberg
Rambus revealed Monday (April 17) that the company, in collaboration with Microsoft researchers, has succeeded in prototyping cryogenic memory. The new technologies will be essential to data centers, "currently the fastest growing consumer of memory" in the industry, Craig Hampel, chief scientist at Rambus, told EE Times.
EE Times
BlackBerry's $815 million arbitration award in a dispute with Qualcomm is a positive for the company and it's likely to use the money to seek acquisitions to bolster its business, analysts said Wednesday.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Taiwan's Foxconn has asked for SoftBank Group's cooperation in its bid for Toshiba Corp's prized memory chip unit, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday.
Reuters
Tech Central
Company release
There is growing concern that many of the algorithms that make decisions about our lives - from what we see on the internet to how likely we are to become victims or instigators of crime - are trained on data sets that do not include a diverse range of people.
BBC News
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