WIRED –TOM SIMONITE – 21 February, 2019 – IN DECEMBER, MICROSOFT President Brad Smith urged lawmakers to set rules on facial-recognition technology to prevent a privacy-threatening “race to the bottom.” Now the
By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) – Shares of Japan’s Nintendo Co <7974.T> soared another 14 percent on Tuesday, more than doubling the firm’s market capitalization to 4.5 trillion yen ($42.5
By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Venture capital investments in startups rebounded in the second quarter, as a general stock market recovery helped restore confidence, according to a new
TOKYO (Reuters) – Shares of Japan’s Nintendo Co soared more than 20 percent after Friday’s surge, adding $7.5 billion to its market value in just two days, on hopes that
By Tova Cohen and Ari Rabinovitch TEL AVIV (Reuters) – In the high tech hub of Tel Aviv, where companies have been responsible for ground-breaking advances like the USB stick,
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese users of Microsoft products are criticizing the software company’s push to get them to mandatorily upgrade their Windows operating systems, the official Xinhua news agency reported
By Amy Tennery (Reuters) – Google’s <GOOGL.O> Android ran afoul of social media users on Wednesday after encouraging people to nominate a word starting with the letter “N” for the
By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that a dangerous financial bubble has formed in the technology industry – and Silicon Valley
(TECH CRUNCH) – Researchers often need to go beyond Google to find the kind of medical journal articles and flat data files necessary for their work. But many journal articles
(FORBES) – As IBM’s research division pursues a multi-year quest to build a universal quantum computer more powerful than any supercomputer in the world, it’s sharing its latest progress with smaller
