Western Digital’s CEao has weitten to Toshiba objecting to the presence of Hynix in the winning for Toshiba’s menory business, reports the New York Times. “I must make it clear that Western Digital will not consent to a transaction with the proposed consortium,” says WD CEO Stephen Milligan in a letter sent to Toshiba’s board ...
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Plug-in electric vehicles are now being introduced globally and this is driving the demand for smart charging solutions. As a result smart charging has become a developer and investment opportunity, according to a recently published report by IoT market research firm ON World. The survey of 2,000 EV users in California found that over half ...
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Jaguar Land Rover is to begin trials of self-driving cars on the streets of Coventry and Milton Keynes by the end of this year after reaching a key milestone in its autonomous vehicle research. A Range Rover Sport fitted with prototype technology that enables it to operate autonomously through a city, obeying traffic lights, T-junctions ...
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The House of Commons says it is working with the National Cyber Security Centre, which was set up last year as part of GCHQ, and has shut down MPs’ remote access to the parliamentary email system. The system was hit by a hacking attack which resulted in MPs’ passwords being sold on-line. “We’ve seen reports ...
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Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a technology to retrieve similar disease cases from a computed tomography (CT) database of previously taken images. The technology works by retrieving similar cases of abnormal shadows expanding in a three-dimensional manner. Technologies already exist to retrieve similar cases based on CT images for such diseases as early-stage lung cancer, in ...
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Production of electronics has been accelerating in the last several months, contributing to strong growth in the semiconductor market, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. China’s electronics production growth moved from below 10% for most of 2016 to 14.5% in April 2017. China’s April growth rate is the highest in over five years. US electronics production ...
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. Drone startups are transforming the way data is collected, property is inspected, and goods are delivered, says CB Insights, citing 70 drone start-ups with 32 in Q1 valued at $113 million. Terrestrial imagery, infrastructure inspection, and delivery have emerged as some of the primary use cases for drone technology, says CB Insights. The 70 ...
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An email sent to Uber employees asks them to ask the board to bring back Travis Kalanick. Here it is: Kalanick could bring himself back, if he felt like it, because he and a few friends control the voting rights on the shares through an unusual structure which gives their shareholdings ten votes for ...
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