South Korea's industry minister said Wednesday the government will step up support for large-scale research and development (R&D) projects to develop cutting-edge memory chips.

Are you ready for translucent phones? What about wood, or snakeskin? That's the promise of Gorilla Glass 6, Corning's newest generation of Gorilla Glass.

On Wednesday, the European Union is expected to rule that Google illegally used the market dominance of its smartphone software, Android, to stifle competition, hitting the Alphabet-owned company with a hefty fine and aiming to change some of its business practices.

The five-year agreement will leverage the full range of Microsoft's cloud solutions, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

Oracle joins IBM, SAP, and Microsoft in offering blockchain-as-a-service for companies hoping to deploy the distributed ledger technology without the expenses associated with embracing the technology in-house.

South Korea has warned that the trade war between the US and China could hit its exports of "intermediary goods" used in Chinese home appliances, computers and telecoms devices, fuelling concerns over the economic impact on third countries.

The US and China are in the early innings of a trade war, and prominent economist Stephen Roach says it's the United States that's on track to lose.

Australia is preparing to ban Huawei Technologies from supplying equipment for its planned 5G broadband network after its intelligence agencies raised concerns that Beijing could force the Chinese telco to hand over sensitive data.

The UK's data protection watchdog intends to fine Facebook 瞿500,000 for data breaches - the maximum allowed. The Information Commissioner's Office said Facebook had failed to ensure another company - Cambridge Analytica - had deleted users' data.

The US has ramped up its trade war with China, listing US$200 billion worth of additional products it plans to place tariffs on as soon as September. The move comes just days after the two countries imposed tit-for-tat tariffs of US$34 billion on each other's goods.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise boss Antonio Neri told a San Francisco audience Tuesday that "70% of the data generated today is at 'the edge," a concept that refers to distributed networks of devices like sensors, power grids, cars or other devices that aren't continuously connected to the Internet.

Speaking from a blockchain conference in Morocco over the weekend, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the Internet giant missed its chance to be at the forefront of blockchain technology. Brin, who currently serves as president of Google parent company Alphabet, joined blockchain technology leaders and researchers on a panel at Richard Branson's exclusive Blockchain Summit.

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee want Google and Apple sent letters on Monday to Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Larry Page, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, asking the tech giants to explain their data collection practices.

As reported by Forbes' Gordon Kelly, Apple is looking to introduce dual-SIM technology to the iPhone family this year. The technology, widely available on high- and mid-range Android handsets, will finally debut in the iPhone X Plus, Apple's most expensive handset.

Google could face a record penalty this month from European regulators for forcing its search and Web-browsing tools on the makers of Android-equipped smartphones and other devices, potentially resulting in major changes to the world's most widely deployed mobile operating system.

Samsung Electronics has formally opened a new factory in India, which the South Korean tech group says is the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturing plant, part of its plans to expand production in the world's fastest growing major mobile phone market.

Tencent has said that it will sell shares in the music unit on a US stock exchange. It didn't provide a time line or details on the size of the proposed stock offering, but recent reports have suggested the move could value Tencent Music at more than US$30 billion.

Shares of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi opened for trade down more than 2% on their debut in Hong Kong on Monday, following a disappointing pricing and a listing delay in mainland China.

Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has set up a new artificial intelligence company in California's Silicon Valley to improve its AI-based industrial internet capabilities.

Amazon Go is a welcomed consumer experience, and more importantly, it may just be the first step on the path to a new American retail experience that is no longer just the stuff of science fiction movies.

Google recently rebranded Android Wear to Wear OS, and ever since then, there have been rumours about an upcoming Wear OS watch. Samsung is reportedly planning to adopt Google's Wear OS for its next watch.

Companies including Mazda Motor Corp, Daihatsu Motor Co and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries kept work halted at factories as power and water supply in wide parts of Hiroshima and Okayama have been cut off.

During the Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2018, China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak) demonstrated the achievements of technological innovation based on Huawei's SingleRAN Pro, which effectively improves network capacity and user experience and reduces site power consumption and operations costs. This is the first deployment of SingleRAN Pro in Pakistan.

Ericsson has announced the launch of a 5G innovation lab in India, with the Swedish networking giant saying it will encourage collaboration on 5G technologies and applications between telecommunications carriers, industry, startups, and academia.

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries unveiled a fiber broadband system and said it will extend connectivity to 1,100 cities, stepping up its push to expand in the country's telecoms and Internet services sector.

IBM has secured a US$740 million agreement to become a central technology partner of the Australian government over the next five years. The contract will see services such as automation and blockchain provided to federal departments including defense and home affairs.

Intel will not be supplying Apple with radio chips in a future iPhone release, a report claims, with the chip producer said to have stopped development of parts that would have enabled 5G cellular communications on an upcoming version of Apple's smartphone.

Samsung Electronics is expected to post its smallest profit growth in more than a year in the second quarter, as lackluster sales of its premium Galaxy smartphones overshadow its highly profitable chip business.

After months of threats and skirmishes, the trade war between the United States and China is about to get serious.

At CEBIT 2018, Huawei and the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) announced that the Huawei AI Fabric Ultra-High-Speed Ethernet solution successfully passed EANTC's high-performance data center test, pioneering the ultra-high-speed network based on Ethernet.

For years, Facebook has insisted that it isn't a publisher or media company but rather is just a platform. That position appears to have changed in a recent court appearance. The Guardian pointed out the social media giant's legal defense referred to it as a publisher to bolster its case in a lawsuit.

Chinese tech darling Xiaomi, flush with cash from a private equity placement, thinks there's never been a better time to crack the US market. Senior VP Wang Xiang said it was developing US-specific smartphone models with a 2019 launch in mind, Reuters has reported.

Ericsson won a EUR600 million (US$700 million) contract to supply wireless equipment to Wind Tre, according to people with knowledge of the matter, dealing a blow to China's ZTE, which lost part of the deal after being barred from buying US technology.

Uber Technologies is in preliminary talks with rival Careem to combine their Middle Eastern ride-hailing services, Bloomberg has reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.

V2X communication is still in its early stages, but Hyundai is determined to ensure that it won't be left playing catch-up in the future.

As first detected by German publication WinFuture, Microsoft has pushed a "portable computing device" through to the US Federal Communications Commission - that's likely to be a new Surface tablet.

At the end of last November, Google announced that Diane Bryant, who at the time was on a leave of absence from her position as the head of Intel's data center group, would become Google Cloud's new COO. This was a major coup for Google, but it wasn't meant to last. After only seven months on the job, Bryant has left Google Cloud.

The US has said it will allow the Chinese tech giant ZTE to temporarily re-start some business activities as it considers lifting a seven-year ban imposed on the firm earlier this year.

One year after India introduced a consumption tax, the results have been mixed. Hailed as one of the biggest reforms by prime minister Narendra Modi, the goods-and-services levy has helped increase tax collections in a country where compliance is historically low.

Fresh seafood restaurant Robot.He is located in Alibaba's Hema Supermarket, and a combination of conveyor belts, a robotic arm, and mobile carts on waist-high counters handle almost all of the waitstaff "legwork." They're guided by a software system that uses customer-submitted QR codes to figure out seating, ordering, and payment, via the Hema app.