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Apple orders 10 percent reduction in iPhone production plans
Apple Inc.’s current misery looks like it could be extended into the new year, as new reports say the company has asked its iPhone suppliers to cut production of new devices for the next three months by about 10 percent. The report today from Nikkei Asian Review comes about a week after Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook ...
Baidu open-sources OpenEdge, a platform for building edge applications
Chinese technology powerhouse Baidu Inc. is positioning its public cloud for edge computing applications. The company today announced an open-source “intelligent edge” computing platform called OpenEdge that it says developers can use to build “light, secure and scalable edge applications.” With OpenEdge, developers can deploy all manner of edge computing systems and deploy them on ...
G Suite admins will now get alerts when someone’s trying to steal company data
Google LLC has rolled out more security updates to G Suite, a collection of productivity tools that includes commercial versions of services such as Docs, Drive, Gmail and Sheets. The updates are targeted at administrators who monitor access to G Suite features via the security center. New features include a security alert that’s triggered whenever ...
IBM will use data from aircraft and smartphones to improve weather forecasts
IBM Corp. says it has come up with a better system for predicting the weather in more isolated parts of the world. During a presentation at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas today, IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty outlined the company’s new Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System. The system, she said, would be particularly useful ...
Alibaba and Intel to partner on 3-D athlete tracking for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is working with Intel Corp. on a new “athlete tracking technology” powered by artificial intelligence that the Chinese cloud computing and e-commerce giant says could be a “game changer” in terms of audience engagement. The technology, built to run on the Alibaba Cloud platform, is intended to provide “complex real-time biomechanical data” ...
Intel shows off first 10-nanometer processors for AI, 5G and other next-gen workloads
Intel Corp. took to the stage at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas Monday in order to showcase its first central processing units built using its 10-nanometer process. Dubbed Ice Lake, the processors for personal computers are based on Intel’s recently unveiled Sunny Cove microarchitecture, which makes use of instruction sets designed to ...
First Apple, now Samsung says it’s expecting a massive drop in profit
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has added to the doom and gloom surrounding technology stock markets after posting preliminary fourth-quarter earnings today that came in way below expectations. The culprit, according to Samsung, is a drop in demand for its memory chips and strong competition in smartphones. The company said it’s expecting an operating profit for the ...
GitHub opens up access to private repositories for free users
Microsoft Corp. today offered some good news for nonpaying users of its software code repository platform GitHub. Previously, free users were forced to host their code in public repositories but that’s no longer the case. Now those users can have private repositories if they so desire. According to Microsoft, free users can now host an ...
Qualcomm demos cellular driver warning system at CES
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. stepped up its efforts to become a leader in the automotive sector today by demonstrating its new cellular vehicle-to-everything platform in vehicles made by Audi AG, Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A and Ford Motor Co. C-V2X is a new short-range communication technology developed by Qualcomm and others that allows both connected cars and roadside ...
Open-source software support provider Tidelift raises $25M
Open-source software company Tidelift Inc. is heading into the new year with renewed momentum after snagging a $25 million round of funding. The Series B round announced today was led by the investment firms General Catalyst and Foundry Group, as well as former Red Hat Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Matthew Szulik. The three investors ...