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NASA ex-chief’s ‘KnuEdge’ to make neural microchips
07 Jun 2016
Just coming out of ‘stealth mode’, KnuEdge is working on a brain-like chip that will make the ‘bus’ connecting memory and processor in current computers redundant, and take voice technology to new levels
NASA ex-chief’s ‘KnuEdge’ to make neural microchips
07 Jun 2016
Just coming out of ‘stealth mode’, KnuEdge is working on a brain-like chip that will make the ‘bus’ connecting memory and processor in current computers redundant, and take voice technology to new levels
Move over smartphones, AI is almost here
03 Jun 2016
At the Code conference in California, speaker after speaker – from Microsoft founder Bill Gates to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Google’s Sundar Pichai – almost relegated smartphones to the dustbin of history as they waxed eloquent about artificial intelligence
Thoma Bravo to buy business intelligence and visualization software maker Qlik for $3 bn
03 Jun 2016
Xiaomi acquires 1,500 patents from Microsoft
02 Jun 2016
Court rules Michael Dell, Silver Lake underpaid for 2013 Dell acquisition
01 Jun 2016
A US court yesterday ruled that Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners underpriced their $30-billion acquisition of computer maker Dell Inc in 2013 by about 22 per cent
N Korea linked to hack attacks on Asian banks
28 May 2016
Security researchers have linked the recent raft of hack attacks on Asian banks to North Korea, in what they say appeared to be the first known case of a nation-state has gone in and stolen money using hack attacks
Google wins court battle against Oracle over Java
27 May 2016
A US jury ruled that Google’s use of elements of Oracle’s Java technology to develop its Android software did not violate copyright law
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