Qualcomm Inc. late Wednesday announced new products and tie-ups across the board as part of its ongoing push into artificial intelligence. The announcements followed reports Wednesday that the company may also be preparing to launch a new chip to support mixed-reality headsets. Heading a flurry of AI-related announcements, Qualcomm subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies Inc. announced the Snapdragon 710 ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has booked a record profit in its first quarter, primarily off its exit from the Russian and Southeast Asian markets, but under the hood the company’s cash burn rate has also taken a turn for the better. For the quarter ended March 31, Uber reported a $2.5 billion net profit thanks to onetime gains ...

A recently discovered form of destructive malware that targets routers is rapidly spreading worldwide in an apparent attempt to create a massive botnet. First detailed by security researchers at Cisco Talos Wednesday, the VPNFilter malware is believed to have originally been created by Russian state-sponsored actors to target routers in Ukraine but has since spread ...

Almost four months away from the announcement of Apple Inc.’s next range of iPhones, the news cycle has already begun with a report that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has started production on the chips that will be used in the new phones. The A12 chip, presuming Apple keeps its naming pattern, will use “a 7-nanometer design that can ...

Troubled electric car maker Tesla Inc. has made an interesting new hire that could hint at moves by the company to license its technology to other electric and self-driving car makers. Stuart Bowers, Snap Inc.’s vice president of monetization engineering, is joining Tesla as vice president of engineering to work on its Autopilot software and “other projects,” ...

The battle for next-level conversational artificial intelligence continues to heat up, this time via Microsoft Corp. The software and cloud giant today demonstrated the latest version of its Xiaoice chatbot complete with conversational capabilities similar to that of Google Inc.’s recently demonstrated Duplex platform. Underlying the seriousness tech companies are placing on the nascent market, Microsoft Chief Executive ...

China and the Trump administration look closer to resolving a dispute that saw electronics company ZTE Corp. banned from access to U.S. technology, although any deal may yet be impeded by Congress. The dispute relates to a seven-year ban imposed by the U.S. Commerce Department in April after ZTE was accused of breaching a settlement in ...

Roaming Mantis, a form of Android banking malware discovered in August, has been found to be rapidly evolving, adding new platforms, capabilities and even geographical targeting to its original form. The original form of the malware, also known as XLoader, was designed to attack via a domain name server hijack on an infected Wi-Fi router ...

Apple Inc. is hinting at changes to both its digital assistant Siri and its HomePod speaker lineup as its annual Worldwide Developers Conference approaches early next month. On the confirmed and perhaps quirky front, Apple users were reported Monday to be able to ask Siri “tell me about WWDC” and Siri responded with multiple answers. The first — ...

Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today revealed yet another Spectre vulnerability that uses some of the same methods used in the first three variants but with a slight twist. The Spectre and related Meltdown vulnerabilities, first revealed in January, give malicious actors access to data running through the central processing unit chip, meaning that potentially any data ...