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Alphabet’s Wing gets FAA approval to begin US drone deliveries
Wing Aviation LLC, Alphabet Inc.’s drone delivery subsidiary, today announced that it has received regulatory authorization to make commercial flights in the United States. Securing the approval required the group to get certified as an air carrier by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. As part of the process, Wing developed safety procedures, created training materials and ...
Intel refreshes consumer portfolio with 40 new laptop, desktop chips
Following up the enterprise-grade laptop chips it introduced earlier this month, Intel Corp. today launched no fewer than 40 new central processing units aimed at consumer machines. The CPUs are all based on the 14-nanometer manufacturing process that the company has used for its last few product generations. The main highlight is a set of ...
Censinet launches with $7.8M in funding to help hospitals keep hackers at bay
For hospitals, cybersecurity can be a matter of life and death. The notorious WannaCry ransomware outbreak of 2017 hit an estimated 70,000 medical devices in the U.K. alone, while researchers recently showed it’s possible for hackers to alter MRI scans before doctors examine them. Boston-based Censinet Inc. is looking to help hospitals mitigate the growing array ...
Samsung pushes back Galaxy Fold launch after display issues
Following reports of malfunctioning test units, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that it won’t launch its Galaxy Fold handset on Friday as originally planned. The news is hardly unexpected. A couple hours before the official announcement, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Samsung is postponing the release of the Galaxy Fold in the ...
Report: Apple has inked a five-year, $1.5B cloud contract with AWS
The relationship between Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. is one of the most prominent examples of the so-called coopetition that has permeated the tech industry. Apple competes with the online retail giant in a growing number of markets, while also hosting a sizable portion of its infrastructure on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud. A report ...
Reports: FTC may hold Zuckerberg accountable for Facebook’s privacy problems
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering a plan to hold Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg accountable for the company’s privacy blunders, according to two new reports. The Washington Post and NBC News today cited sources as saying that FTC officials are looking at Zuckerberg’s public statements in connection with an effort to determine whether to levy ...
Mozilla launches its WebThings smart home platform from incubation
In addition to developing Firefox and Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundation runs a raft of other, lesser-known technology projects. Among the more technically ambitious of these is WebThings, an open-source smart home platform that launched from incubation on Thursday. WebThings provides software modules for building and managing internet-connected devices. It consists of two components that serve ...
Microsoft acquires IoT operating system maker Express Logic
Microsoft Corp. has acquired Express Logic Inc., a relatively low-profile but influential software maker whose technology helps power a big chunk of the world’s internet-connected devices. The terms of the deal, which the companies announced today, weren’t disclosed. But it’s reasonable to assume that the price tag was quite substantial given Express Logic’s prominent role in ...
Facebook says it ‘unintentionally’ harvested 1.5M users’ email contacts
Another month, another Facebook Inc. privacy scandal. Following an exposé from Business Insider, the social networking giant today said that it has “unintentionally uploaded” the email contacts of 1.5 million users to its systems. The affected group includes people who signed up for Facebook from May 2016 to March 2019 and shared their email passwords with ...
Report: Facebook is developing an AI voice assistant
Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa and Google LLC’s Home voice assistants may soon face some new competition. CNBC reported today that Facebook Inc. has been quietly working on a rival voice assistant since early 2018. The network’s sources said that development is being carried out by Facebook Reality Labs, the division behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality ...