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Samsung Electronics has started building a $220 million research and development center in Vietnam, the South Korean tech giant's local unit said on Monday.
Reuters
China's largest tech company taps its HiSilicon division
Bloomberg
The Vatican joined forces with tech giants Microsoft and IBM on Friday to promote the ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI) and call for regulation of intrusive technologies such as facial recognition.
Reuters
Vietnam will quarantine all arrivals from South Korea to guard against the new coronavirus, the Southeast Asian country said Friday, a policy move sure to hamstring the operations of South Korean corporate giants like Samsung Electronics that have a heavy presence in the nation.
Nikkei Asian Review
The company has said the new virus has affected demand from Chinese customers and production capabilities in the country.
CNET
Clearview AI has been suspended from Apple's developer program for flouting its policies, the latest controversy to hit the face recognition app.
CNN
Organizers hope to host another event in the summer.
engadget
It'd offer a familiar design at a much better price.
engadget
The US Food and Drug Administration has contacted dozens of medical device manufacturers whose facilities in China may be at risk of creating shortages in the supply chain -- and indeed, some facilities have already been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.
CNN
The shutdown might do harm beyond LG.
engadget
And potentially pay satellite operators billions for the trouble.
engadget
Intel's security plans sound a lot like "we're going to catch up to AMD."
Ars Technica
Microsoft's revenue guidance for the More Personal Computing unit had already been wider than usual to account for impact from the health situation in China, where the coronavirus had first been identified.
CNBC
The company will also launch an online store there this year.
CNET
Most of the company's customers are law enforcement agencies.
engadget
The problem is the U.S. can't offer an alternative and it doesn't have any coherent policy around 5G.
CNBC
Cisco's new platform aims to give businesses better visibility across their security portfolio via analytics and workflow automation.
ZDNet
Salesforce announced the $1.33 billion acquisition of Vlocity in addition to the departure.
CNBC
The LPDDR5 chips are 30 percent faster and use less power.
engadget
Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier ASM International expects first-quarter revenue to fall from the guidance-beating levels seen in the previous three months, it said on Tuesday.
Reuters
German Facebook users would want the social media platform to pay them about $8 per month for sharing their contact information, while U.S. users would only seek $3.50, according to a study of how people in various countries value their private information.
Reuters
There are at least 70 phones in the works using Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 technology for 5G phones.
CNET
With MWC canceled, the Chinese phone maker is revealing details on Twitter.
CNET
People want to see more regulation as global trust in technology erodes.
CNET
It's what under the hood that counts.
engadget
And there's a new feature called Smart Delivery
The Verge
Intel on Monday launched new microprocessors, including a second generation Xeon processor for data centers and a 10nm chip for wireless 5G base stations.
Reuters
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella touted the new India cloud partnership with Reliance Industries as he shared center-stage with its chairman Mukesh Ambani at an event in India's financial capital on Monday.
Reuters
Though Lenovo is playing coy with the exact specifications, it looks like you'll have the option to buy AMD's latest Ryzen 4000 Mobile across Lenovo's ThinkPad laptop lineup.
PC World
The first Mac chip designed by Apple was previously rumored for 2020.
CNET
The United States Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to Apple in a decade-long legal battle over whether the iPhone maker infringed on another company's patents.
CNN
Huawei has refreshed its MateBook X Pro in snazzy green, made a powerful speaker and a 5G tablet with a stylus. And they'll all be on sale in Europe.
CNET
Google has warned people not to circumvent the ban on Google apps that affects newer Huawei phones.
BBC News
Sony has revealed its latest flagship smartphone and there are plenty of unexpected details, from the name to the audio technology to the inclusion of 5G.
Forbes
Finance chiefs of the world's top 20 economies vowed to monitor the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on global growth and act if needed, as they said loose monetary policy and easing trade tensions would prompt a pick-up in 2020 and 2021.
Reuters
The last time a coronavirus outbreak hit China in 2003, the global economy emerged relatively unscathed. Now, nearly two decades later, the growth-damping effects of a similar pathogen threaten to ripple around a world transformed by China's boom.
Wall Street Journal
Investor Paul Meeks is bracing for a bear market in technology.
CNBC
Nearly half of the planet's 5G smartphones were shipped to China last year, a new report finds.
CNET
It could wipe out resistant bacteria strains.
engadget
Too bad there's only one.
engadget
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