Windows, Gates and a firewall: Microsoft's delicate castle in China
Microsoft, which is in talks to buy part of Chinese video app TikTok, is one of the few US tech titans that have managed to succeed in China.
Aug 8, 2020
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Business
Google, Gates Foundation join digital payments initiative
A new nonprofit charity unveiled plans Wednesday to promote digital payments for people outside the financial system, with support from Google and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
May 6, 2020
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Software
Video app Zoom rockets to fame, with some hiccups, amid pandemic
What does British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have in common with virtual happy hour celebrants and thousands of students around the world?
Apr 4, 2020
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Business
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates leaves board
Microsoft on Friday announced that co-founder Bill Gates has left its board of directors to devote more time to philanthropy.
Mar 14, 2020
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Computer Sciences
A model to design logic gates inspired by a single-cell organism
Natural phenomena and biological mechanisms can be great sources of inspiration for scientists developing mathematical approaches, computer systems and robots. Over the past few decades, research has repeatedly proved the ...
Engineering
Research continues showing gains in DNA computing
For the uninitiated in biological computing, the ZDNet headline may have suggested a language processing experiment gone haywire: "Test tube DNA computer calculates the square root of 900."
Business
Disrupting the disruptor: Disney+ signs up 10 mn in day
Walt Disney Co.'s new streaming television service Disney+ got off to a roaring start by signing up 10 million subscribers on its first day, the company announced Wednesday.
Nov 13, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Some apps give discounts and let you skip the line. But is that really fair?
When visitors drive over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to get to Sausalito, they find that technology has taken over.
Oct 24, 2019
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Engineering
The future of 'extremely' energy-efficient circuits
Data centers are processing data and dispensing the results at astonishing rates, and such robust systems require a significant amount of energy—so much energy, in fact, that information communication technology is projected ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Engineering
Energy-efficient power electronics: Gallium oxide power transistors with record values
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) has achieved a breakthrough with transistors based on gallium oxide (ß-Ga2O3). The newly developed ß-Ga2O3-MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) provide a high breakdown ...
Aug 27, 2019
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