Sony, the leader in the image sensing market ever since it pioneered CCD development, is hoping that 3D image sensors will revive the flagging smartphone industry which is estimated to have fallen about 3% this year Sony’s sensor boss, Satoshi Yoshihara (pictured), says the company will ramp up 3D sensor production in later summer 2019 in ...
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In a move which could be seen as a Chinese initiative to defuse the trade war, China’s Supreme Court has said it will now hear IP-related cases. The decision takes effect on January 1st. Up to now, cases concerning IP have been decided at the district court level. The lack of legal protection for IP ...
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Dell went back onto the New York stock exchange on Friday nearly six years after Michael Dell (pictured) took the company public. The complicated deal saw a group led by Michael Dell pay a Dell subsidiary $24.4 billion for control of Dell – a valuation which infuriated activist investor Carl Icahn who says the company ...
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On April 1, Toshiba’s SCiB li-ion battery business will be transferred from Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation (TISS) to will become an independent business unit within Toshiba. The move is part of the Toshiba Next Plan and positions the battery business as a new growth business. Positioning the business as an independent operation will ...
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At half past midnight tonight NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft (pictured) flies past Ultima Thule which, at four billion miles, is the most distant object a man-made object has seen. Because of the distance, it will take ten hours for the first images of Ultima Thule to reach Earth. However NASA is showing footage of events ...
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Face recognition technology has received a boost from the decision in Rivera v Google in a Chicago District Court. The plaintiffs alleged that Google’s Photo service violated their rights by collecting and storing biometric data from people’s photographs using facial recognition software without their permission. The judge decided that Google’s photo sharing and storage service ...
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