On Friday, Qualcomm said in a federal court hearing that Apple owes the chipmaker US$7 billion in unpaid patent royalty payments, according to a Reuters report. This allegation is just the latest in a string of accusations since this epic legal battle between the two companies started almost 2 years ago.

The UK's data watchdog has levied the maximum possible fine against Facebook for its failure to protect user's personal information in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Pichai said 48 employees have been terminated for sexual misconduct over the last two years.

Google's third quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations.

Researchers say they have developed tiny readers that can detect information in light spirals

Like foldable smartphones, Samsung is collaborating with display makers to develop laptops with foldable displays that will not just simply fold in and out but create new value and user experience, amid the changing market trends for laptops.

Apple is beginning to talk with programmers about what it's willing to pay to carry shows and movies, sources told The Information. As expected, original Apple shows should be free, but people will be able to pay for subscriptions to third-party networks. Content should vary from country to country, reflecting the complicated licensing landscape - HBO for example licenses it shows to services like Sky in the U.K.

Nvidia, one of the world's best known manufacturers of computer graphics cards, released its autonomous driving safety report on Tuesday. The Santa Clara-based company, which for several years has been engaged in a high-stakes venture to build the "brains" that power self-driving cars for major automakers like Volvo, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler, is only the fifth company to delivery its voluntary safety report to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The process of AMD ramping up its EPYC efforts involves a lot of ?？irst-step' vendor interaction. Having been a very minor player for so long, all the big guns are taking it slowly with AMD's newest hardware in verifying whether it is suitable for their workloads and customers. The next company to tick that box is Oracle, who is announcing today that they will be putting bare metal EPYC instances available in its cloud offering.

Qualcomm has announced with Samsung Electronics that they are working together to develop 5G small cells - opening the door for massive 5G network speed, capacity, coverage and ultra-low latency.

Super Micro Computer says it will review its hardware for any proof of malicious chips as alleged in a recent media report.

Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, has announced he is leaving Facebook. Iribe is leaving Facebook following some internal shake-ups in the company's virtual reality arm last week that saw the cancellation of the company's next generation "Rift 2" PC-powered virtual reality headset.

Nidec Corp, a Japanese supplier to Apple, and Germany's Schaeffler AG are among bidders competing for Taiwanese components maker Precision Motion Industries Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.

Apple late Monday sold out of launch day iPhone XR supply in the US and beyond, with orders placed through the company's online storefront now showing estimated delivery dates pushed out to November.

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It's the latest and strongest of denials from Apple in response to the October story in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Samsung Electronics has announced its acquisition of Zhilabs, known for its AI-based network and service analytics, to further enhance its 5G capabilities. The acquisition lays the foundation for Samsung to foster its 5G offerings of automation and network analytics to finely tune the customer experiences in the 5G era.

Semiconductors are key components for the IoT, connecting the real with the digital world now evolving to cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) functionality.

Huawei will begin manufacturing mobile phones in India from next year as the US$150 billion Chinese giant plans to open 1,000 company-branded stores across the country.

Taiwanese PC giants, such as Acer, Asustek Computer, Compal Electronics and Quanta Computer might expect setbacks in production due to the CPU shortage.

Mobile telecom equipment maker Ericsson has reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter sales figures, boosted primarily by high activity levels in North America. In posting its third consecutive quarter of progress toward reaching its 2020 financial targets, the company saw its net sales jump by 9% year-on-year and 8% since the last quarter.

Amid struggles to deliver its 10nm technology, the technology and manufacturing group will be split into three parts.

The Mate 20 series is powered by the Kirin 980 SoC manufactured with the advanced 7nm process incorporating the Cortex-A76-based CPU and Mali-G76 GPU.

Apple will recruit TSMC to manufacture chips for its upcoming Apple Car starting in 2023 to 2025, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, who now works for TF International Securities.

Murata Manufacturing expects shortages of tiny ceramic components to last for another two years, its CEO said, in what could be a bottleneck in the advancement of the global automotive market.

Arm is introducing something called the Arm Neoverse, a cloud-to-edge infrastructure to support a world with a trillion intelligent devices.

"This not only reflects the great importance Qualcomm attaches to the Chinese market, but also shows our strong support for China's further opening-up," Meng said.

Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe, leading the company to charge a licensing fee for the Play Store and other Google apps for the first time.

Xilinx, Huawei and NGCodec have announced the development of China's first cloud-based high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) solution, which is enabled by Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs and NGCodec's H.265 video encoder.

Synopsys has announced a collaboration with TSMC to develop a broad portfolio of DesignWare Interface IP, Logic Libraries and Embedded Memories for the TSMC N7+ FinFET process.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on Monday afternoon.

Preliminary results for the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18) show that shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled nearly 67.4 million units, marking a decline of 0.9% in year-on-year terms, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Unlike 2Q18, which grew, the 3Q18 results nonetheless outperformed the forecast which called for a decline of 3.0% due to several factors.

The Ascend 910 will be available from the second quarter of 2019 and the 310 is already on shelves.

Huawei has kitted out an Audi Q7 with its Mobile Data Center to showcase intelligent self-driving capabilities.

You can also get a snapshot of your day on your phone.

The federal government will tighten rules on foreign investment in sensitive industries like technology and telecommunications next month.

Micron Technology said on Wednesday it planned to invest up to $100 million in startup companies working on artificial intelligence technologies for use in self-driving vehicles, factory automation and other growing fields.