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By Manuel Mogato | MANILA MANILA Southeast Asian countries have altered a statement to be issued at Saturday’s ASEAN summit to include references to militarization and island-building in the South China Sea, the latest draft shows, in a move likely to frustrate Beijing. Chinese embassy representatives in Manila had sought to influence the content of the communique by lobbying Philippine officials, two ASEAN diplomatic sources told Reuters. […]

It has been a long time since an HP business device made me sit up and take notice, but the latest Elitebook x360 has changed that. In a world where manufacturers continue to push tablets with keyboards as productivity devices, I’m increasingly convinced that convertible laptops are the superior option. The Elitebook x360 1030 G2 is first and foremost a very good laptop, and the ability to […]

MANILA A strong earthquake measuring 7.2 struck off the coast of Mindanao island in the Philippines on Saturday, and the country’s seismology agency advised people to stay away from coastal areas but expected no major damage. There were no immediate reports of destruction or casualties, but witnesses said the quake was very strong and shook the ground and walls. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was […]

A prominent Bahraini activist jailed for life for his role in anti-regime protests has been on hunger strike for two weeks to protest the treatment of prisoners, campaigners said Thursday. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who also holds Danish citizenship, is an outspoken critic of Bahrain’s Al-Khalifa monarchy, which has ruled the tiny Gulf archipelago for more than two centuries. Khawaja began the hunger strike on April 12 in a […]

By Jennifer Ablan and Stephen Nellis | NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO Growing tensions with North Korea should worry global electronics firms such as Apple Inc as they source key parts from South Korea, but investors are brushing off such concerns and snapping up shares in key exporters, heartened by robust earnings and big investment plans. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday in an interview […]

Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have devised a way to wirelessly power small electronic devices that can linger in the digestive tract indefinitely after being swallowed. Such devices could be used to sense conditions in the gastrointestinal tract, or carry small reservoirs of drugs to be delivered over an extended period. Finding a safe […]

SEOUL Strong memory chip earnings propelled tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) to its best quarterly profit in more than 3 years, the South Korean firm said on Thursday as its first-quarter results matched its earlier guidance. Samsung said in a regulatory filing its January-March operating profit was 9.9 trillion won ($8.75 billion), compared with 9.9 trillion won it estimated earlier in April. Revenue rose 2 […]

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Artist’s impression of a diamond quantum sensor Image: David A. Broadway/cqc2t.org Researchers at the University of Melbourne (UoM) have announced a boost to the development of future electronics, producing imagery of electrons moving in two-dimensional graphene. In the above image, the spotlight-like shine below the diamond represents light passing through the diamond defect and detecting the movement of electrons. Electrons are shown as red spheres, trailed by […]

No president likes being judged on his first hundred days in office, not least Donald Trump. It is, he tweeted last week, a “ridiculous standard” by which to be measured, even though he also claimed to have accomplished “a lot”. With his 100th day in the White House falling on Saturday, investors have more nuanced ideas. For much of 2017 financial markets have doubted the global “Trump […]

PepsiCo Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit as the company benefited from demand for its healthier drinks and snacks and kept a tight leash on costs. The company’s shares, which had risen 9.1 percent this year, were off 1 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday. PepsiCo and other processed-food makers are investing heavily to meet consumers’ increasing preference for healthier snacks such as unsweetened tea and […]

There are several rumors about the OnePlus 5 making the rounds. Some say it will be called the OnePlus 5 because of a Chinese fear of the number 4. Others say it will sport dual cameras. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip is apparently a shoo-in too as rumors suggest. While these give an idea of what the phone will be, that’s all they give — an idea. So far, […]

Wednesday 03:00 BST Overview Momentum from a buoyant Wall Street carried over into Asia trading as equities rallied while bonds and oil prices continued to slide. Hot topic Stock markets across the region took their cues from Wall Street, where on Tuesday the S&P 500 neared a record closing high and the tech-focused Nasdaq closed above 6,000 for the first time. In Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 was […]

The Nasdaq Composite breached the 6,000 level for the first time on Tuesday and extended its double -digit gain for the year as investors focus on owning companies with strong growth prospects. The tech-heavy benchmark climbed as much as 0.7 per cent to 6,022 early in the day after closing at a record high in the previous session. Renewed appetite for technology stocks and a rally in […]

Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) company has attained speeds of 1.1Gbps download and 165.6Mbps upload across its fixed-wireless network during a series of live trials in regional Victoria in partnership with Ericsson, NetComm Wireless, and Qualcomm. The tests were conducted in March at a Ballarat campus of Yuille Park Community College, which is situated 1km from the fixed-wireless tower used for the trial. To attain speeds in […]

Tuesday 12:30 BST What you need to know ● Stock markets extend rally on French election relief● Euro adds to gains as Paris’ bond yields steady ● Havens attract sellers, pushing down gold, the yen and Bund prices● Traders eye Nasdaq 6,000 as company earnings slip into fast gear● Brent crude prices higher as base metals firm——————- Hot topic The relief over the French election, which boosted […]

As prototypes and schematics of Apple’s upcoming premium smartphone, the iPhone 8, leak through various online channels, one of the biggest questions surrounding the device is its release date. There have been rumors that the iPhone 8 will see a significant delay of one month or two months, compared to the regular release schedule of Apple. A new note by famed Apple insider, KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, corroborates […]

ARM on Monday unveiled the Mali-C71, its first image signal processor (ISP) built from the ground up for the automotive market. ISPs process raw pixel data so it can be displayed to a driver or used for further processing by computer vision algorithms. ARM’s ISPs already offer high dynamic range, noise reduction and other features for devices like smartphones and videoconferencing systems, but cars require higher performance […]

Physicists have developed a photonic chip that makes it possible to carry out super-resolution light microscopy, also called ‘nanoscopy,’ with conventional microscopes. In nanoscopy, the position of single fluorescent molecules can be determined with a precision of just a few nano-meters, that is, to a millionth of a millimeter. (via WSJ)

Two of the biggest chipmakers are in for a potential high-stakes battle. With rumors about AMD’s Radeon RX Vega GPU making the rounds, a flurry of reports about Nvidia’s counterattack has also surfaced: a new GeForce GTX 20-series based on Volta Architecture. AMD Radeon RX Vega GPUs The Radeon RX Vega leaked recently via a teaser, offering the first look at the GPUs in addition to the limited-edition […]

Amidst the growing list of food recalls in recent months, McCain Foods is adding to the list as they voluntarily recall a few hash brown products from the shelves. The products in question were recalled due to contamination with golf ball pieces. Accidental Golf Ball Contamination As of April 21, McCain Foods is voluntarily removing two of their hash brown products from the shelves due to the possibility […]

Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images By Chloe Bryan, Tricia Gilbride, and Laura Vitto2017-04-23 13:09:48 UTC All dogs are good, but some dogs are the best. Using a unique and complex algorithm that we cannot disclose (just kidding, we picked 50 dogs from the American Kennel Club website, gave each a score out of 10, then argued with each other in the case of a tie), we have ranked […]

There have been several product recalls in April, especially for products that were contaminated by harmful bacteria, mislabeled, packaged with a foreign object (or life form), or present some form of danger to consumers regardless of proper usage. Now a well-loved snack brand just joined the list of companies that announced a product recall in April. On April 21, Frito-Lay published a news release on its website […]

In this photograph taken on Monday, April 10, 2017, Luminar CEO Austin Russell gestures while looking at a 3D lidar map on a demonstration drive in San Francisco. Russell, now 22, was barely old enough to drive when he set out to create a safer navigation system for robot-controlled cars. His ambitions are about to be tested five years after he co-founded Luminar Technologies, a Silicon Valley […]

ABU DHABI // An app that helps Syrian refugees find jobs in Turkey and a device that limits water consumption were named winners at the New York University Abu Dhabi Hackathon. Eighty students from universities across the globe participated in the seventh edition of the event. Ten teams were given 72 hours to produce technology that promotes a social good. With the Hiat application, recruiters and businesses […]

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