Huawei announces Kirin 970 smartphone chipset bound for the upcoming Mate 10, with a dedicated neural processing unit
Huawei's Kirin 970 smartphone chipset features mobile artificial intelligence with a dedicated neural processing unit, an 8-core CPU, and a 12-core GPU, along with 5.5 million transistors.
Seven months after inauguration, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology still has no members; Trump admin says it'll resume work soon
Months later, there's still no one sitting on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
China bans companies from raising money through ICOs, asks local regulators to inspect 60 major ICO platforms
- Chinese regulators are about to start a campaign related to the country's initial coin offerings (ICO), according to a Caixin report — In a document, authorities …
900K totally wireless headphone units were sold in US in 2017; AirPods accounted for 85% of dollar sales in the US
So far, 2017 has been a great year for headphones. Through July, U.S. dollar sales and average prices increased 22 percent, and 18 percent, respectively, over the same period a year ago.
Paris Hilton backs ICO of Lydian, an AI marketing service, joins other celebrities getting involved in the cryptocurrency hype
Paris Hilton is getting in on the ICO hype. — Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, are the hottest new fundraising tool in tech right now.
SEC: Roku files for up to $100M IPO; Roku had $399M revenue in fiscal 2016, up 25% from 2015
Streaming device company Roku filed for a public offering on Friday, looking to raise up to $100 million. — Roku has benefited from the explosive popularity of over-the-top TV platforms like Netflix...
Carpooling service Via raises funding round, source says of $250M, led by Daimler, for European expansion; Mercedes Benz investing $50M in a JV with Via
As outsized ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to build out their taxi-style marketplaces largely based around connecting …
Tinder hits top grossing app in the App Store on heels of Tinder Gold launch
Tinder has hit number 1 in the App Store's top grossing category for the very first time. — Claiming top spot in the App Store likely has to do with the global launch of Tinder Gold, which lets user...
A challenge for Roku's IPO: Netflix and YouTube are huge on Roku, but they don't make Roku any money
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Access to stolen contact info of Instagram users sold for $10 per search via a now-offline site; Instagram now says non-verified users may have been impacted
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Sources: Sequoia and IDG Capital to invest in Beijing-based Bitmain, the world's largest bitcoin mining organization, which is raising a $50M round
Bitmain is said to raise $50 million for AI expansion — Bitmain produces bitcoin mining machines, runs mining pools
Jury awards iLife Technologies $10M in damages after finding that Nintendo's Wii infringed on iLife's motion-sensing accelerometer patents; Nintendo will appeal
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A real estate agent was flooded with 700 robocalls per day, halting her business for 5 days; at 2.4B robocalls/mo. in US, it's a major problem with no quick fix
Kim France gets a lot of calls—but nothing prepared her for receiving 700 a day. — As a real estate agent … Tweets: @arstechnica Tweets: @arstechnica : “My initial thought was this is definitely jus...
Amazon, Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple lead S&P 500 in R&D spending, with Amazon at #1 with $16.1B spent last year
Amazon is No. 1. — Tech companies lead top U.S. companies in R&D spending. — That's notable because spending on research and development is a key indicator …
Expedia leads $26M Series B in Alice, a hotel operations software provider, becoming a majority shareholder in the startup
In April 2017, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi visited the Alice headquarters near Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is pictured here with the startup's founders.
How Nvidia's decade-old bet on GPUs for general-purpose computing is helping the company ride the ongoing AI boom
Nvidia, a maker of graphics processing units, is riding an artificial intelligence boom to put its chips in drones, robots and self-driving cars. Tweets: @nytimes and @semil Tweets: @nytimes : An arti...
Qualcomm announces C-V2X chipset focused on handling vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, and vehicle-to-pedestrian communications
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At a KFC outlet in Hangzhou, China, Alipay launches “Smile to Pay”, the first commercial system to use facial recognition to identify payers
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TravelBank raises $25M Series B for its travel expense and booking app that rewards employees and businesses for saving on trips
Sources describe how some Instagram employees are selling account verification through intermediaries for thousands of dollars, but process is getting harder
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Google's ARCore SDK is just a simplified version of Tango SDK, which, in many ways, puts it on par with Apple's ARKit
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German insurance tech startup Coya raises $10M seed round led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, plans to launch to the public in 2018
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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