One case involved a Taiwanese unit of Idaho-based Micron Technology. On a spring day in 2016, a 41-year-old engineer for the unit opened his company laptop and, according to Taiwanese prosecutors, tapped into Google search: "clear computer use records."

Chinese e-commerce giants such as JD and Alibaba are currently trialing blockchain to perfect their huge supply chains. The AI blockchain combo also has a bright future in market analysis and forecasting.

One year after India introduced a consumption tax, the results have been mixed. Hailed as one of the biggest reforms by prime minister Narendra Modi, the goods-and-services levy has helped increase tax collections in a country where compliance is historically low.

Fresh seafood restaurant Robot.He is located in Alibaba's Hema Supermarket, and a combination of conveyor belts, a robotic arm, and mobile carts on waist-high counters handle almost all of the waitstaff "legwork." They're guided by a software system that uses customer-submitted QR codes to figure out seating, ordering, and payment, via the Hema app.

ZTE has appointed a new board of directors in a bid to have its US trade ban lifted. As expected, the new board has strong links to the government in Beijing, just like the company's old board of directors. However, three of the eight directors have a legal background, and include one lawyer based in Hong Kong and two women.

Nvidia launched its current generation of GeForce gaming GPUs more than two years ago, and we might just see the next generation, rumored to be named the GeForce GTX 11 Series, in August. While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the next GeForce GPUs would be "a long time from now recently, all signs now point toward next month for the launch of the GeForce GTX 1180.

Facebook has revealed which businesses it gave special rights to access users' data after it had shut others out. It listed the companies as part of a lengthy response to US politicians' questions about its practices, which it published at the end of last week. It said 61 companies had been given a temporary exemption to a block on apps accessing details about users' friends.

Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot of the UK's best talent in artificial intelligence, but now Facebook appears to be turning its eye to the country. TechCrunch understands that the social network behemoth is acquiring London-based Bloomsbury AI, a startup that has built natural language processing (NLP) technology to help machines answer questions based on information gleaned from documents.

Photos of an adapter labeled "engineering sample" surfaced this weekend on Chongdiantou.com, as spotted by Macotakara, and were reportedly taken by someone in Apple's supply chain.

If you're looking for a new super-compact Next Unit of Computing (NUC) from Intel, the company is gearing up to launch five new "Bean Canyon" models with eighth-generation processors. Dates and prices are unknown for now, but they will be more "mainstream" than the skull-bearing "Hades Canyon" NUC released at the beginning of the year.

The US government moved on Monday to block China Mobile from offering services to the US telecommunications market, recommending its application be rejected because the government-owned firm posed national security risks.

Lyft has announced it has acquired North America's largest bike-share operator, Motivate, for a reported US$250 million. The move comes just three months after archrival Uber took over Jump Bicycles, a smaller and flashier dockless electric bike-share company, for US$200 million. And thus, the urban transportation wars click into a higher gear, as the fight moves to the bike lane.

Tesla's news isn't all positive now that it has met its Model 3 production milestone. The company has confirmed to Bloomberg that senior engineering VP Doug Field has left the company. It's not clear why Field left or who his replacement will be.

Dell Technologies is going public again, five years after going private to transform itself amid slowing personal computer sales. Dell has certainly changed in those years, but it needs to change even more if it doesn't want to find itself back in the same position.

Chinese retailer and cloud infrastructure provider Alibaba is the latest company to think up its own design for processors that can run artificial intelligence software. It joins a crowded roster of companies already working on similar custom designs, including Alphabet, Facebook and Apple.

Apple will soon land a second supplier for the organic light-emitting diode screens used in high-end iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter, a key step in the US company's push to reduce iPhone costs and its dependence on Samsung Electronics.

Apple may choose to use modems manufactured by MediaTek instead of modems from Intel in future iPhones, according to an investor's note from Northland analyst Gus Richard that was shared by Bloomberg.

Samsung has sent out invitations for an event on August 9th for a new Galaxy device - and while it doesn't call out the Note 9 by name, the picture of a Note stylus plus the timing means it's almost certain we'll see the launch of the company's next flagship device.

Google devices and apps have experienced serious outages that lasted for more than 12 hours and affected millions of users. The issue affected Google Home and Google Home Mini - speakers that respond to voice commands - as well as Chromecast - a device that plugs into a television and allows people to watch video content.

Apple has started commercial production of the iPhone 6s in India since last week at the Bengaluru facility of its Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Wistron that has set up a new line for the handsets, two senior industry executives said.

President Donald Trump is coming to Wisconsin to officiate at Thursday's ceremonial groundbreaking for the massive Foxconn Technology Group project in Racine County - and to put his personal stamp on his vision of an American manufacturing revival.

ON Semiconductor plans to invest $51 million to support expansion of the Luzerne County facility. The ON Semiconductor Mountain Top location specializes in the manufacturing of semiconductor discrete devices used in power management applications across a wide variety of industries including automotive, industrial, communication and computing.

The decision to class gaming addiction as a mental health disorder was "premature" and based on a "moral panic," experts have said. The World Health Organization included "gaming disorder" in the latest version of its disease classification manual.

Google parent company Alphabet is in discussions to spin out a molten-salt energy storage project in a transaction with Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a US$1 billion fund devoted to energy research, MIT Technology Review has reported. It is unclear if a deal has been finalized or how much money may be involved.

Uber's appeal against the decision not to renew its licence in London will begin on Monday. The hearing will be held at Westminster magistrates court and will last for several days. Transport for London (TfL) told the taxi-hailing app firm in September last year it would not renew its licence due to concerns over public safety and security.

WinFuture says it has obtained details surrounding SDM1000 (possibly Snapdragon 1000), a previously hinted-at CPU that would be designed from the start for PCs. It would have a relatively huge design compared to most ARM designs (20mm x 15mm) and would consume a laptop-like 12W of power across the entire system-on-a-chip. I

Samsung is already in hot water for cancelling the Galaxy Note 9's biggest upgrade, and now new information reveals Samsung will slash a major feature from the Galaxy S10.

Apple just launched a free repair program for users with faulty keyboards on some MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. Some users have complained about those computers, specifically calling out how keys can get stuck or don't register when tapped.

A federal jury in Texas ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $400 million to a South Korean university for infringing one of fundamental patents related to double gate FinFET transistors. The same jury found that Globalfoundries and Qualcomm had infringed the same patent, but the two companies were not ordered to pay damages.

Samsung reportedly sniffed around AMD and Nvidia as potential GPU suppliers, but nothing came of it. Now it may follow in the footsteps of Apple and have design the second major component of a chipset in-house.

Intel could avoid the most severe effects of a new list of Chinese tariffs proposed by US President Donald Trump by shifting its production among its facilities, analysts said Monday.

Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology have all confirmed that Chinese government officials visited their offices, without providing details of the probe. Chinese regulators haven't disclosed precisely what they are looking for or what evidence they have uncovered.

Qualcomm has denied rumors that the company is considering exiting the data center processor business.

Broadcom said it had laid off about 1,100 employees across its businesses to cut costs after its merger with Brocade

The ruling clears an antitrust roadblock caused by trade tensions between the US and Beijing

"China's government has been trying to break the country's addiction to ever-rising debt."

Once again European lawmakers are set to vote on a bill that promises to change the internet as we know it.

A bunch of new Microsoft hardware codenames and information are circulating. Here's what could be in the works and when new devices may arrive.

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