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French startup NextMind SAS turned a few heads at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today with the debut of a “real-time brain-computer interface” that translates signals from the visual cortex into digital commands. The company also announced plans to release …
AMD unveils Ryzen 4000 laptop chips at CES
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today unveiled its latest Ryzen 4000-series mobile processors, which the company says will be used to power a new generation of laptops this year. AMD Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su announced the new chips onstage at the Consumer …
Micron delivers first samples of its next-generation memory chips
Micron Technology Inc. said today it has begun sampling its first batch of Double Data Rate 5 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory-based dual in-line memory modules with select customers. DDR5 is a next-generation DRAM technology that delivers substantial performance improvements over DDR4, its …
US restricts export of AI software used to analyze satellite images
The United States government says it will limit the export of certain types of artificial intelligence software that’s used to analyze images from satellites in order to keep it out of the hands of foreign rivals such as China. Reuters said the …
China’s Xiaomi plans to invest $7B in AI, 5G and IoT technologies
Leading Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. says it plans to invest over 50 billion yuan, or just over $7 billion, on artificial intelligence, 5G and “internet of things” technologies over the next five years. The investment was revealed in an announcement posted …
Bosch teases low-cost lidar sensors for self-driving vehicles
Automotive technology supplier Robert Bosch GmbH said today it has developed a low-cost version of a Light Detection and Ranging sensor that lets autonomous vehicles “see” a three-dimensional view of the world around them. The company told Reuters the internally developed sensor could …
Space robotics firm Maxar sells Canadian subsidiary MCA for $765M
Space technology company Maxar Technologies Inc. said today that it’s selling MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Corp., a Canadian subsidiary that’s focused on space robotics, for $1 billion CAD, or about $765 million US. Reuters said a consortium of companies led by the …
Tesla employees take delivery of first ‘made in China’ cars
Electric car maker Tesla Inc. has delivered the first 15 cars made at its Chinese Gigafactory less than a year after it first broke ground on what is its first manufacturing facility located outside the U.S. Reuters said in a report Sunday …
India says Huawei can participate in its 5G network trials
India’s government has given its approval for Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to participate in a test run of its next-generation 5G network. The upcoming 5G trials will take place in January, unnamed officials told Reuters today. Officials from India’s telecoms …
Huawei slams report that China’s government subsidized its global rise
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has gone on the defensive again, lashing out at a report this week that claims it received billions of dollars in financial aid from the Chinese government to secure its position as one of the world’s leading telecommunications …