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Cisco Systems Inc. wants to do for the network what Intel Corp. did for servers and personal computers. At a livestreamed event today in San Francisco, Cisco Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins (pictured) unveiled Silicon ONE, a chip architecture five years in the making …
Twitter plans to fund ‘Bluesky,’ an open, decentralized social network standard
Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said today that the company will fund the development of an open-source and decentralized social network standard in an attempt to address the shortcomings of current platforms. Dorsey, in a series of tweets, detailed that …
Entering lidar market, Intel debuts industry’s smallest high-resolution camera
Intel Corp. is jumping into the lidar market. The chipmaker today took the covers off a new RealSense camera that it describes as the smallest and most power-efficient entry into the high-resolution lidar sensor category. The device, the RealSense LiDAR Camera L515, …
New ‘Plundervolt’ exploit affecting Intel chips uses electricity to steal data
A group of cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a vulnerability in Intel Corp. central processing units that can potentially be exploited to steal sensitive data and compromise otherwise secure applications. The researchers, hailing from three European universities, named the bug Plundervolt, in a …
Real-time database startup Imply bags $30M round led by Andreessen Horowitz
Database startup Imply Inc. has raised $30 million in what it describes as an “opportunistic” funding round to build on the eightfold revenue increase it logged over the past two years. The investment, announced today, was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Khosla …
Apple accused of snooping on employees after suing former iPhone chip architect
Apple Inc. and a former top processor engineer who left the company to start a server chip startup are exchanging claims of illegal conduct in a court battle that came to light Monday evening. The startup in question, Nuvia Inc., exited stealth mode just last …
Xerox pitches up to $1.5B revenue growth to HP investors as proxy fight heats up
Xerox Holdings Corp. wants to convince HP Inc.’s shareholders that its proposed $33.5 billion hostile takeover of the company is a good idea. Today, Norwalk, Connecticut-based Xerox released an investor presentation in which it makes the case for a deal to happen. …
Intel hails new cryogenic control chip as milestone toward ‘quantum practicality’
While Alphabet Inc.’s researchers were working on achieving quantum supremacy, staff at an Intel Corp. lab in Ronler Acres, Oregon, have spent the past five years pursuing a different, no less important goal: “quantum practicality.” Intel today revealed the fruit of the Ronler Acres …
In court filing, Amazon charges pressure from Trump, ‘egregious errors’ led to loss of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI contract
In a court filing newly unsealed today, Amazon.com Inc. provided more details on its charge that “improper pressure” from President Donald Trump was behind the Defense Department’s decision to pass it over for the lucrative JEDI cloud computing contract and choose rival …
Report: Samsung’s Galaxy S11 will sport powerful 108-megapixel camera
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s next flagship smartphone will bring the biggest camera upgrade in the history of the Galaxy S family, Bloomberg reported today. The South Korean electronics giant is said to be readying a new rear camera for the upcoming Galaxy …