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Synaptics enables human presence detection in latest Dell and Panasonic mobile PCs
Synaptics Inc. announced today that Dell Technologies Inc. and Panasonic Corp. have launched the world’s first laptops that incorporate its Emza Visual Sense artificial intelligence technology. The technology enables what Synaptics calls “human presence detection” to allow the laptops to detect when the user walks away from the machine and conserve power until they return. ...
Airbus in talks to acquire minority stake in Atos’ cybersecurity business
Shares of the French information technology firm Atos SE rose higher today following a report that aeronautical giant Airbus SE is in talks to acquire a minority stake in the company’s nascent cybersecurity division. The report came from Les Echos via Reuters, citing anonymous sources familiar with the discussions. Airbus declined to comment on the ...
India’s Zomato loses its 4th senior executive in weeks as CTO steps down
Zomato Media Pvt. Ltd. co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Gunjan Patidar has resigned from the Indian food delivery startup, becoming the fourth senior executive to quit the company since November. Patidar, who had been with Zomato since it was founded almost 10 years ago, was the key executive in charge of building the company’s technology stack. ...
Meta delays decision on revoking Trump’s Facebook suspension until later this month
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is expected to delay making a decision on whether or not to allow former U.S. President Donald Trump to return to its social media platforms until later this month. That’s according to a report today from the Financial Times, which cites sources involved in the matter as saying that ...
Sales of computer graphics cards slump to lowest level in two decades
Demand for graphics processing units sank to a 20-year low in the third quarter of 2022, according to new data from the industry analyst Jon Peddie Research. The report shows that desktop graphics card sales during the quarter fell to their lowest level since 2005, bringing further misery to chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. and Advanced ...
Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang takes charge of cloud infrastructure business
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang Yong (pictured) announced today that he will directly oversee the company’s cloud computing business unit going forward, as it gears up for “aggressive development.” The change was announced as part of an annual leadership reshuffle at Alibaba. In an internal email sent to employees that was seen ...
New York signs weakened digital right-to-repair bill into law
New York has become the first U.S. state to sign into law a digital right to repair bill, putting a substantial measure of power back into the hands of consumers. Instead of paying for costly repairs, consumers will now be able to buy replacement parts for broken devices and fix them by themselves. The Digital Fair ...
German chipmaker Infineon to spend “billions” on acquisitions next year, CEO says
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG has earmarked “several billion euros” to spend on acquisitions in the coming year in order to boost its growth. In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Infineon Chief Executive Jochen Hanebeck (pictured) said the company is constantly looking out for suitable startups to acquire. “I see it in the range ...
US appeals court revives lawsuit accusing Google, YouTube and others of violating children’s privacy
A lawsuit that accuses Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC, YouTube and a number of other companies of violating the privacy of children was revived by a U.S. appeals court today. According to Reuters, the lawsuit alleges that the companies were tracking the activity of children aged under 13 for ad-targeting purposes, without their parental consent. In its ...
Mastodon founder vows to preserve platform’s nonprofit status
The microblogging platform Mastodon gGmbH claims to have rejected a number of big investment offers from venture capital firms over the past few months, as its founder says he wants to protect the social media platform’s unique nonprofit status. In an interview with the Financial Times today, Mastodon’s founder, the German software developer Eugen Rochko, ...