China’s Didi Chuxing is preparing yet another market expansion after it inked an agreement with SoftBank, Uber’s largest shareholder, to introduce taxi-hailing services in Japan this year. Didi dominates the Chinese market — thanks in no small amount to its acquisition of second … | Continue reading

REVIEW: My new favorite aspect of Civilization is watching my empire’s symbol flash under a city as it prepares to transfer its Loyalty from its leader to me. I’m playing Proudmaker, the leader of the Cree, one of the great Native American peoples. Renown traders, I’ve built my e … | Continue reading

Tom Harrison outlines 4 principles that should inform the response to the consultation outlined in the Government's new green paper | Continue reading

 Nvidia’s successes are continuing to pile on as the company’s gaming and data center businesses drove revenues up 34 percent year-over-year. Nvidia shares were up around 10 percent after-hours following the company’s release of its fourth-quarter earnings report. The company rep … | Continue reading

 A day after Alphabet announced plans to roll Nest into its hardware team, cofounder Matt Rogers has announced that he’s exiting the company. The story was first noted by CNET and quickly confirmed by Rogers on Twitter. Could just be social media talk, but Rogers’ brief statement … | Continue reading

 The largest tech acquisition offer in history wasn’t enough. Qualcomm’s board of directors issued a statement on Thursday saying that they are turning down Broadcom’s $121 billion bid to buy the competing chipmaker. According to the release, Qualcomm “unanimously rejected” an “u … | Continue reading

Huawei: Shenzhen, China (ots/PRNewswire) - Gartner, ein renommiertes globales IT-Beratungsunternehmen, hat den Magic Quadrant (*) for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (**) veröffentlicht. In diesem Bericht wurde Huawei als "Challenger" benannt. Huawei sieht ... | Continue reading

 Media executives sometimes say that their companies are like a startup — but in the case of This Old House, that’s actually kind of true, since Time Inc. sold the 40-year-old brand (best known for the home improvement TV show of the same name) to Eric Thorkilsen and TZP Growth P … | Continue reading

Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress acknowledged that cryptocurrency mining contributed to the solid sales of graphics processing units (GPUs) during the company’s fourth fiscal quarter ended January 31. “[It is] difficult to quantify, but cryptocurrency accounted for a … | Continue reading

The building materials played a large role in creating an industrial feel for the Napa Valley house, consisting of wood and steel trusses, concrete, and galvanized steel. The metal reinforces the idea that this is the type of building one would have historically found on this sit … | Continue reading

Nvidia used to be synonymous with graphics chips for game machines. But now it is using those same chips to drive artificial intelligence calculations, and that is taking the company into new markets from servers to self-driving cars. For the fourth fiscal quarter ended January 3 … | Continue reading

 Deliv, the crowdsourced same-day delivery service which today partners with retailers like Macy’s, Best Buy, Petsmart and Walmart on various initiatives, today announced a new service to offer same-day delivery of prescription medications. At launch, Deliv Rx, as the service is … | Continue reading

ANALYSIS: As Qualcomm’s second annual 5G Day progressed yesterday, I officially went from “cautiously optimistic” about next-generation 5G cellular technology to “genuinely excited.” Qualcomm offered enough specific technical details and demo results to make the abstract idea of … | Continue reading

 The recent arrival of the Apple HomePod and Google Home Max have demonstrated, if nothing else, what a smart speaker can be when it’s music first. On the other hand, audio’s never been as much of a driver on Amazon’s Echo line, though the company did take a small step in that di … | Continue reading

Düsseldorf (ots) - Ein ganz normaler Tag in Syrien: Nahe der Hauptstadt Damaskus kommen bei schweren Bombardements durch Assads Luftwaffe auch Dutzende Zivilisten ums Leben.... | Continue reading

 Avid audiobook nerds tired of dealing with Audible’s nonsense or long library queues now have a new way to get get a steady stream of the good stuff. Scribd just announced that it will be reinstating an unlimited plan offering relatively unfettered access to ebooks, audiobooks, … | Continue reading

 The blockchain is the buzziest thing on the internet these days and now MIT professor and godfather of the Human Genome Project George Church wants to put your genes on it. His new startup Nebula Genomics plans to sequence your genome for under $1,000 (the current going rate of … | Continue reading