Apple wants to ensure that it is able to lay its hands on enough supplies of cobalt – the key ingredient for batteries and this has forced the tech company to engage in discussion for purchasing long-term supplies of cobalt. The company wants to purchase the metal directly from the mines for the first time.…
The on-device AI-enabled user experiences on some specific Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile platforms would be enhanced as Qualcomm Technologies has launched its Qualcomm Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine. This engine is composed of a number of hardware and software components to enhance user experience. The Snapdragon 845 mobile platforms would have the cutting-edge on-device AI processing while…
The conviction on charges of bribery for the chairman of South Korea’s Lotte Group last week has resulted in the chairman resigning from the post of chief executive of its Japan-based holding company. The Lotte Group said in a statement that chief executive Shin Dong-bin’s resignation was accepted by the board of Lotte Holdings after…
After disappointing reports for online sales figures during the Christmas period by Walmart, the stocks of the company saw their largest drop in over three decades. Even though there was an increase of 23 per cent in the online sales in the three months to December compared to the earlier quarter, the figure was less…
A revival plan that will be worth $2.8 billion in fresh investments and planned to be implemented through a period of ten years has bene proposed by General Motors for the turnaround of its loss-making business operations in South Korea. This was reported in Sought Korean media citing information gathered from a government official there.…
Users can now make payments at retail stores with the use of any android run smartphone with NFC support by Google’s new payment app. The app, called Google Pay, can be downloaded free of charge but is only now available in the US and the UK. A number of characteristics of the current Android Pay…
There was a sharp fall in the share prices of Daimler AG following a new report in a German newspaper about a potential investigation in the United States where allegedly a software has been detected in the diesel cars of its Mercedes-Benz brand which could have been only specifically designed and used in the cars…
Thousands of small satellites are planned to be put to use to provide high-speed internet to the world by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. And that plan is moving a bit closer to becoming a reality this week. On Wednesday, a rocket is slated to be launched by the company from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.…
The price of a painkiller has been increased to almost $3000 a bottle by an Irish drugmaker. The company had acquired the drug in late 2013 and compared to its price then, it is 22 times more expensive now. And adding to this astronomic price increase for Horizon Pharma’s Vimovo drug is the fact that…
It would be tens of millions of years before a crash down on the surface of Earth or Venus would happen for the Tesla car that was sent out into space by Elon Musk. This was analyzed by Czech and Canadian researchers. During the next million years, there is a 2.5 per cent probability for…
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