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Google Assistant to get more features in 2020
Google LLC today announced a raft of upcoming updates for its Google Assistant app, including the ability to schedule actions, a new “Read It” mode that reads website content in a natural voice and Smart Display features such as a speed dial and sticky notes. At the same time, Google said some 500 million people ...
SoftBank’s Vision Fund backs out of startup investments
SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund has reportedly backed out of investment deals involving three startups, just months after one of its most important portfolio companies, WeWork parent We Co., dropped its plans for an initial public offering. Axios reported that SoftBank walked away from investing in the three startups at an extremely late stage, having ...
Qualcomm pushes into self-driving cars with Snapdragon Ride Platform
Semiconductor maker Qualcomm Inc. is making a play for the automotive sector with the launch of its first self-driving car platform. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show today, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Ride Platform is designed to make it easier for automakers to transform their vehicles into self-driving cars. The platform includes everything needs to run an ...
NextMind shows off a brain-computer interface at CES
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 a developer kit for the brain-computer interface, which it will ship in the ...
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 Electronics Show in Las Vegas, noting they’re the first laptop processors its built ...
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 predecessor. Micron claims its DDR5 provides an 85% increase in memory performance, with ...
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 ban, which goes into effect Monday, relates to a 2018 law known as ...
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 to Xiaomi’s social media accounts by Chief Executive Officer Lei Jun Thursday. He ...
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 help speed up the adoption of self-driving vehicles, which has hit a roadblock ...
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 private investment firm Northern Private Capital will acquire MDA, which is best known ...