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Tech-Sponsored Study Criticises Plan to Exclude Non-EU Cloud Vendors

A proposed European Union cloud security label that could exclude Amazon, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and other non-EU cloud services providers from the bloc is discriminatory and could lead to retaliatory measures, a study commissioned by a tech lobbying group said. The European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) report, which was commissioned by the Computer […]

ChatGPT in the Metaverse: Better Call the Exterminator

Living in the digital era means living life with the expectation that someday the other shoe will drop, and we are in for a ride. Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, AI-based chatbots have taken the world by storm, effectively dividing the population between those who believe it will revolutionize every sector and those who […]

Exclusive - Broadcom Faces EU Antitrust Warning on $61 Billion VMware Deal - Sources

U.S. chipmaker Broadcom is set to receive a European Union antitrust warning about the possible anti-competitive effects of its proposed $61 billion bid for cloud computing company VMware in the coming weeks, people familiar with the matter said. The European Commission opened an investigation in December, saying the deal, announced last year, would allow Broadcom […]

Casio Teams with Finland’s Polar Electro on Smartwatch

Japanese watchmaker Casio Computer has partnered with Finnish heart rate monitoring pioneer Polar Electro for its latest fitness smartwatch, the two companies said on Tuesday. Casio launched what it called its first smartwatch in 2021 using Google’s Wear operating system, entering the wearables market dominated by Apple and Samsung. Casio will add Polar’s technology to […]

The Top Ten Assistive Technologies in our World

The world is moving towards inclusivity, be it including historically marginalized groups or adapting the world to the needs of people with health conditions or impairments. Humanity has tried to make the world accessible since the dawn of technology, starting in the early 1800s with the development of Braille, a universal reading and writing system […]

CSPs Need to Revamp Their Monetisation Strategies to Capitalise on the Trillion-Dollar B2B 5G Opportunity

The fifth-generation network (5G) is projected to generate a trillion dollars over the next decade, and the communications service providers (CSPs) who have spent billions of dollars rolling out the network are angling to capture as much of this new revenue as possible. Despite industry chatter about cloud gaming and the Metaverse being killer use […]

Chips, EVs Power Biden’s Big Bet on America’s Industrial Policy

A 77-year-old factory in a hard-luck Ohio town sputtered into high gear to produce a new line of electric garbage trucks. A short drive away, construction began on a $20 billion plant that will take pizza-sized silicon wafers and make them into computer chips used in everything from data centers to cars. The two Ohio […]

U.S. Manufacturers See Big Boost from Government Subsidies and Tax Breaks

A 77-year-old factory in a hard-luck Ohio town sputtered into high gear to produce a new line of electric garbage trucks. A short drive away, construction began on a $20 billion plant that will take pizza-sized silicon wafers and make them into computer chips used in everything from data centers to cars. The two Ohio […]

Factbox - Chinese Firms Working on Chatgpt-Style Technology

The global buzz around Microsoft chatbot ChatGPT has spread to China, shoring up stocks in artificial intelligence (AI) related firms and prompting a flurry of local companies to announce rival projects. Like Microsoft and Google,Chinese tech giants such as Baidu and Alibaba as well as smaller start-ups have been working on AI projects for years. […]

EU Eyes Big Tech as It Seeks Feedback on Who Should Pay Network Costs

The European Commission on Thursday launched a consultation on the future of Europe’s telecoms sector, starting a process that could lead to requiring Alphabet’s Google, Apple, Meta Platform and Netflix to pay some network costs. The move by the EU executive followed more than two decades of lobbying by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia […]