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Hewlett Packard Enterprise stock rose on Tuesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended on July 31.
CNBC
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.
BBC News
A minor fire on the grounds of the Tesla Inc factory in California on Thursday evening was contained by the Fremont fire department, a Tesla spokesperson told Reuters.
Reuters
The robotic pooches cost about as much as some of the most sought-after purebred dogs at US$2,899. That's the price of Sony's First Litter Edition, which includes the Aibo, dog toys, commemorative dog tags, and a three-year cloud plan, which allows it to upload and access its memory.
Fortune
HP reported better-than-expected fiscal third quarter earnings on Thursday, but the stock dipped in extended trading. Revenues in the period rose 12% from a year earlier.
CNBC
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.
The Verge
Russian manufacturing firm Kalashnikov has wheeled out a retro-looking electric car it says will give Elon Musk's Tesla a run for its money. The firm behind the famous AK-47 assault rifle presented the eggshell-blue prototype vehicle, the CV-1, at an event near Moscow.
BBC News
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.
BBC News
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.
BBC News
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.
Venturebeat
It will work nicely with the company's next-gen modems.
engadget
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.
Reuters
Under its current framework agreement with Microsoft, Israel pays more than 100 million shekels ($27 million) a year for the procurement of Office desktop software, Windows and server software for ministries and government offices.
Reuters
MEMS sensors manufactured by Murata in Finland are used in applications such as car safety systems and pacemakers.
Company release
$1,199 for Nvidia's fastest GeForce card
The Verge
Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, plans to establish semiconductor-related operations in Zhuhai under a pact it signed on Thursday with the southern Chinese coastal city's government.
South China Morning Post
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.
The Verge
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.
Gizmodo
ARM's now-public roadmap represents its first processors that are designed for the PC space. ARM claims its chips will equal and potentially even surpass Intel's in single-threaded performance.
PC World
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.
engadget
The computer processing giant has acquired Vertex.AI, a startup that had a mission of making it possible to develop "deep learning for every platform," building a deep learning engine called PlaidML to do this.
TechCrunch
Applied Materials shares fell 3.7% in the extended session Thursday after the company beat on the top and bottom line but issued weaker-than-expected guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter.
MarketWatch
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 New York Times
Sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum dried up faster than expected, Nvidia has said. For a second quarter in a row, investors ignored Nvidia's growth in its main markets and ditched the stock, which fell about 5% in extended trading.
Bloomberg
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.
Company release
More than 30 years after it served as the setting for the birth of the semiconductor foundry industry with the founding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in 1987, Taiwan shows no sign of relinquishing its stranglehold on the US$62 billion global business.
EE Times
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.
MarketWatch
Intel's newly-minted graphics group has set up a new twitter account (Intel Graphics), and in a bit of marketing glory, the first tweet features a video revealing a shadowy new discrete GPU that should arrive in 2020.
Tom's Hardware Guide
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.
engadget
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.
The New York Times
Cabot Microelectronics has agreed to buy KMG Chemicals for US$1.2 billion in cash and stock, making its largest acquisition ever in an effort to strengthen its position as a supplier to the semiconductor industry.
Bloomberg
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.
ZDNet
Intel on Tuesday disclosed three more possible flaws in some of its microprocessors that can be exploited to gain access to certain data from computer memory.
Reuters
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.
USA Today
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.
CNBC
Infineon Technologies and JD group have signed a strategic partnership agreement aimed at creating a smart IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem.
Company release
Mobile revenues will account for more than 50% of the nearly $138 billion global games market this year, according to global market intelligence group Newzoo.
Variety
Samsung's new SmartThings Wifi router uses artificial intelligence and mesh networking to optimize whole-home Wi-Fi coverage while it also functions as a smart home hub.
Digital Trends
Chinese researchers are claiming an organic solar cell record - 17.3% efficiency under standard sunlight conditions from a solution-processes structure - as opposed to more-complex vacuum processing.
Electronics Weekly
Using the Von Neumann architecture for artificial intelligence applications is inefficient. What will replace it?
Semiconductor Engineering
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