Microsoft is finally falling under pressure to allow an independent third-party to examine the potential result of making the tech giant’s devices easier to repair, and to adjust its work operations upon those findings by the end of 2022, according to Grist and the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow. The agreement came following the advocacy group As You Sow’s efforts in launching a shareholder resolution, requesting Microsoft to examine the impact it could have by ensuring an […]
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China is facing the worst power shortage in its history as the electricity crunch and authorities force manufacturers to cut down on production, an act that could unleash chaos within the tech supply chain. Companies are bracing themselves for what could be the pinnacle of production after COVID-19 merely ravaged the industry. Now, another factor […]
Determined to keep track of their guns, some U.S. military units have turned to a technology that could let enemies detect troops on the battlefield, The Associated Press has found. The rollout on Army and Air Force bases continues even though the Department of Defense itself describes putting the technology in firearms as a “significant” […]
Japanese automaker Toyota is revving up acquisitions in mobility technology, adding Renovo Motors Inc., a Silicon Valley software developer, to its Woven Planet team, which is working on automated driving. The addition, announced Tuesday, follows the purchase earlier this year of CARMERA Inc., a U.S. venture that specializes in sophisticated road mapping updates made cheaper […]
As China sets the stage for its imperial influence on the market, representatives from Washington, and European Union (EU) will gather on Wednesday to address critical geopolitical, economic, and technological difficulties to fortify their alliance against Beijing’s determination of overtaking the digital market. As global forces suffer from a semiconductor shortage, the Trade and Technology […]
Amidst Beijing’s latest regulatory wave to impose dominion on its tech sector, China’s Big Tech shares drastically dropped on Monday as the country’s watchdogs intend to break down Ant Group Co.’s Alipay, at a speed the U.S. and the European Union cannot fathom or dare to indulge in. Following a Financial Times report stating that Beijing is […]
Imagine you had the choice to pick one superhero ability, what would you pick? For researchers at Stanford Computational Imaging Lab, that ability would be to see inside a closed room, as they have developed a technique called “non-line-of-sight imaging” in which one laser light entering a room can showcase any physical objects sitting inside. […]
The wait is finally over. Apple’s iPhone 13 event will go into action on Tuesday, September 14th at 1PM ET, according to the smartphone giant. The event, under the name “California streaming,” will take place as a virtual event for the second year in a row from Apple Park. Similar to the size of the […]
Japan’s global chip manufacturing thrown is finally usurped as it fears U.S.’s tactics of pouring billions of dollars to deflect from China’s overtake of Japan’s semiconductor industry. The time has come, after three long decades overwhelmed with success in the chip manufacturing industry, Japan’s industry ministry announced that the nation’s share of the world’s chip […]
China’s tech sector hustles to free itself from trustbusters’ noose by self-correcting its behavior in a bid to get ahead of any impending regulatory rage from Beijing. The country’s tech sector has played its latest card in what seems to be a never-ending battle between authorities and the industry. Some of China’s biggest companies […]