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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Smith said Huawei’s use of Microsoft products would not pose any kind of security risk Microsoft’s president has called on the US to end a ban on it supplying Huawei with Windows software for the Chinese company’s computers. Huawei was blacklisted by the Trump administration in May over […]

Illustrations by Michael Haddad Jim Balsillie is a former chairman and co-CEO of Research In Motion, where he commercialized Canadian intellectual property in more than 150 countries. It’s impossible to pinpoint exactly when Canada’s policy-makers started positioning the country as a cheap labour pool for multibillion-dollar foreign tech companies, but we know when it went […]

Virginia Tech and its students are pushing back against a fashion company that debuted a hoodie referencing the 2007 campus shootings at New York City Fashion Week. The hoodie, posted on Instagram by the company Bstroy, which describes itself as a “neo-native menswear design house,” is maroon and emblazoned with Virginia Tech across the chest. […]

Mr. Murphy said, however, that there was not a monolithic view among the university’s faculty, especially since many of the professors hadn’t been trained at the University of Chicago. “They would probably agree more with what Luigi is saying compared to what I’m saying,” he said. But Mr. Zingales said the tech industry’s network-driven business […]

from the more-of-this-please dept San Francisco has already banned the use of facial recognition tech by local law enforcement. Oakland did the same thing a couple of months later. Pretty soon, it’s not going to matter where you are in California. If you’re a law enforcement agency, facial recognition tech is off-limits. Here’s the latest […]

Remember how Google paid the Fossil Group $40 million for its secret smartwatch tech and R&D personnel? At the time Fossil and Google told Wareable that Google had acquired “new product innovation that’s not yet hit the market,” that would sit within the Wear OS family. Well, this may be our first look at that […]

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You don’t see a startup get a $50 million seed round all that often, but such was the case with Vianai, an early-stage startup launched by Vishal Sikka, former Infosys managing director and SAP executive. The company launched recently with a big check and a vision to transform machine learning. Just this week, the startup […]