Google smart-city spinoff folding over founder's health
Google parent company Alphabet is folding one of its subsidiaries back into Google as the startup's founder steps down to confront a neurological disease.
Dec 16, 2021
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US prosecutors argue Theranos founder chose fraud over failure
Prosecutors said Thursday fallen US biotech star Elizabeth Holmes chose fraud over admitting failure of her blood-testing startup Theranos, in their final pitch to jurors in her high-profile Silicon Valley trial.
Dec 16, 2021
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Internet
Meta targets 'cyber mercenaries' using Facebook to spy
Facebook parent Meta on Thursday banned a series of "cyber mercenary" groups, and began alerting some 50,000 people likely targeted by the firms accused of spying on activists, dissidents and journalists worldwide.
Dec 16, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Intel to invest $7.1B in Malaysia chipmaking expansion
Intel said it will invest 30 billion ringgit ($7.1 billion) to expand its manufacturing operation in Malaysia as chipmakers work to diversify their global supply chains that were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dec 16, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists invent energy-saving glass that 'self-adapts' to heating and cooling demand
An international research team led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a material that—when coated on a glass window panel—can effectively self-adapt to heat or ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
New smart-roof coating enables year-round energy savings
Scientists have developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer—without consuming natural gas or electricity. Research findings reported in the Dec. 17 edition ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Apple scraps office-return deadline without setting new date
Apple Inc., facing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and a fast-spreading new variant, is delaying its corporate return-to-office deadline from Feb. 1 to a "date yet to be determined."
Dec 16, 2021
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Other
Best of Last Year: The top Tech Xplore articles of 2021
It was a good year for technology research of all kinds as a team of computer scientists at Rice University demonstrated a CPU algorithm that trains deep neural networks up to 15 times faster than the top GPU trainers. The ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nanodiamonds are key to efficient hydrogen purification
Nanodiamonds may be tiny, but they can help with one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: climate change.
Dec 16, 2021
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Hardware
IBM and Samsung team up to design vertical transport field effect transistors
Officials from IBM and Samsung announced at this year's IEDM conference in San Francisco a collaboration on a new chip design that adds transistors vertically on a chip. As part of their announcement, they suggested that ...
