Intel has begun narrowing its search for a new chief executive officer and could bring in an outsider to lead the world's second-biggest chipmaker for the first time.

A promising sign for cross-platform VR

Facebook has accused BlackBerry of stealing its voice-messaging technology in its instant messaging app.

Uber is to block customers in Australia and New Zealand from its ride service if they have a low passenger rating. The move is aimed at improving passenger behaviour, the company said.

Typhoon Jebi on Tuesday struck the heart of one of Japan's largest metro areas, killing 10 people and shutting down Osaka's main international airport indefinitely. The storm also shuttered shops, factories and amusement parks.

The international pact - the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, known as the so-called "Five Eyes" group of nations - quietly issued the memo last week demanding that providers "create customized solutions, tailored to their individual system architectures that are capable of meeting lawful access requirements."

LG Electronics is looking to significantly increase its global automotive component sales by targeting growth segments such as autonomous driving. Company CEO Jo Seong-jin, speaking at the IFA 2018, said he was considering joining forces with US electronics company Nvidia to expand in the self-driving sector.

The giveaway comes from GalaxyClub digging into the database of popular benchmarking software GFXBench. It discovered Samsung is already testing Android 9.0 Pie on the Galaxy S9 Plus less than a month after the software was released by Google.

Got an iPhone 8 - not iPhone 8 Plus - that's acting up on you? Maybe it's crashing, the screen is freezing, or won't even fire up? Well, you might be in luck because Apple has just kicked off a repair program.

Amazon executive Daniel Rausch stood onstage before a crowd of hundreds at Berlin's IFA tech show Saturday to share a few big numbers about Alexa.

Vodafone's Australian operations will become part of a new telecoms giant. Under a US$11bn merger Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG Telecom will create a mobile, fixed-line and broadband provider with the scale to rival Telstra and Optus.

SoftBank reportedly won't buy into next month's IPO by electric car maker Nio Inc. The Japanese electronics giant explored investing as much as US$200 million in the Chinese car maker whose US headquarters is in San Jose, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The headline change to the Pixel 3 is the jump to a 5.5-inch 2:1 aspect ratio display, which is 10% longer than the 5-inch panel in the Pixel 2. There's also an increase in pixels from 1920 x 1080 to 2060 x 1080 to support the elongated panel.

San Francisco dealt a blow to the largest shared-scooter companies on Thursday, awarding two smaller startups exclusive rights to rent the electric-powered vehicles for a year in a decision that could change the course of the nascent market.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has bought a stake in India's largest digital payments company, Paytm. Berkshire confirmed "the investment was made" in One97 Communications - the parent company of Paytm.

Reports have long suggested that Apple has been working on a trio of new iPhones for 2018, and now we know when we'll actually get to see them.

We always see major products launched at IFA and it looks like this is going to be another year absolutely packed with announcements.

Apple has acquired a startup focused on making lenses for augmented reality glasses, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a signal Apple has ambitions to make a wearable device that would superimpose digital information on the real world.

Production at China's ZTE is back to normal after the lifting of a U.S. ban and its carrier network business will return to a standard growth track in 2019, according to the firm's newly elected chairman and chief executive.

More than 98 percent of internet users in China have smartphones, according to a state-backed report.

While Intel's new Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake mobile Core chips differ from their predecessors mainly in terms of available boost speed, Intel's marketing spin will emphasize something else: Notebooks and tablets sold with these new 8th-gen U- and Y-series chips will be labeled as "optimized for connectivity."

LG is embracing Google's Android One program not in the way you might have expected. It's launching the G7 One, a device that melds the G7 ThinQ's core design with Android One's streamlined app loadout and focus on timely security updates.

Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing has issued a public apology, blaming "ignorance and pride" for safety lapses that led to the rape and murder of a female passenger. Executives said they would stop using growth to measure the firm's success and prioritize safety instead.

The Pixel 3 and 3 XL leaks keep coming, and today, 9to5Google reports additional details on both devices' camera setups. The report says that both devices' rumored dual, front-facing cameras will house one wide-angle sensor, so users can take "Super Selfies." These cameras would also ship with an improved portrait mode. Google seems to be sticking with the single, rear-facing camera.

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei says the Australian government has banned it from providing 5G technology for the country's wireless networks. It said fellow communications firm ZTE had also been banned, reportedly due to national security concerns.

The US and China are expected to impose fresh tariffs on US$16 billion of each other's goods on Thursday as their tit-for-tat trade war rages on. The second round of tariffs will see a total of US$50bn worth of goods from each side that will now be taxed.

Nokia today disclosed its licensing fee for 5G standard essential patents: EUR 3 (U.S. $3.48) per device, a flat rate notably lower than 5G licenses announced by rivals Ericsson and Qualcomm.

It will work nicely with the company's next-gen modems.

Japan is aiming to force wireless carriers to cut their monthly fees and stop bundling the cost of smartphones with wireless services, a senior telecoms ministry source said on Tuesday, in a move that is likely to hit Apple Inc.

At the end of July, Amazon quietly removed its Kindle Voyage from its storefront, and appears to have discontinued the line of eBook readers, according to TheEbookReader and GoodEReader.

An Apple store in Amsterdam's Leidseplein square was briefly evacuated after an explosion believed to be the result of an overheating iPad battery resulted in leaking vapors, Dutch broadcaster AT5 as well as Dutch blog iCulture reported.

Sony has announced that it has sold 3 million PlayStation VR (PSVR) headsets as of the end of July, showing that its popularity has declined little since the fall 2016 launch.

Hundreds of Google employees, upset at the company's decision to secretly build a censored version of its search engine for China, have signed a letter demanding more transparency to understand the ethical consequences of their work.

The award recognizes Corning for its market-leading innovation of data center cabling infrastructure designed to offer a competitive advantage and minimize costs for data center operators.

Panasonic Corporation of North America, Colorado Department of Transportation, Ford Motor Company and Qualcomm Technologies have unveiled the first real-world application of C-V2X technology connecting the vehicle, the roadways and a regional traffic management center in Denver, demonstrating a new level of data-driven situational awareness that will achieve a dramatic improvement of safety on the road.

The employee Tesla is suing for theft of proprietary information has tweeted photos and other details, perhaps in an attempt to back up some of the claims he made against the automaker.

On Wednesday, Uber posted a loss of US$891 million for the second quarter, compared with a loss of more than US$1 billion during the same period a year earlier.

Microsoft and Amazon finally are making available to the public their promised Cortana and Alexa integration across Windows 10 PCs and Echo devices in early preview form.

Sprint is getting ready for the 5G future, partnering with LG to bring what it says will be the first 5G smartphone to the U.S. capable of tapping into its faster, next-generation cellular network.

Apple has a team exploring a custom processor that can make better sense of health information coming off sensors from deep inside its devices, job listings show.