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U.S. stocks dive over 500 points amid tech stock slide, Apple worries
A broad sell-off in technology companies pulled U.S. stocks sharply lower Monday, knocking more than 500 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Apple, Amazon, Goldman Sachs and other big names fell. Banks and consumer-focused companies and media and communications stocks also took heavy ...
Water out of thin air: California couple's device wins $1.5 million XPrize
It started out modestly enough: David Hertz, having learned that under the right conditions you really can make your own water out of thin air, put a little contraption on the roof of his office and began cranking out free bottles of H2O for ...
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women: sources
Amazon.com Inc.'s machine-learning specialists learned something unexpected from the machine: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants' resumes, with the aim of mechanizing the search for top talent, five people familiar ...
U.S. clears hurdle to lifting ban on China telecom giant ZTE
The United States signed an agreement with ZTE Corp. that paves the way for the Chinese tech company to resume operations after a nearly three-month old ban on doing business with American suppliers, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday. The ban on China's No. ...
Tokyo blockchain conference looks to uses of technology beyond headline-grabbing cryptocurrencies
The rise of cryptocurrencies has shone the spotlight on their underlying technology, which is known as the blockchain. A wide number of startups are now pitching services using the technology, which is often touted as the next major development since the internet. This trend was visible ...
U.S. curbs on Chinese investments next front in trade row seen reaching point of no return
President Donald Trump this week is due to launch the next phase of his economic confrontation with Beijing, with new restrictions on Chinese investments to clamp down on access to sensitive American technologies. That could open U.S. firms like Apple and General Motors up to ...
Shadowy 'Man on the Curtain' projection aims to protect home-alone women in Japan
Behind an apartment curtain, a tough guy is boxing, throwing left and right hooks and jabs, and lunging forward, enough to make any passing criminal think twice before breaking in. The image is nothing more than a projected shadow but one that a Japanese apartment ...
U.S. commerce secretary: China 2025 plan to be tech nexus 'frightening'
China's plan to transform itself into the global technology nexus is a "frightening" one that puts American intellectual property at risk, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Tuesday. "It's a huge, huge problem," Ross told a gathering of fabric industry executives about the repeated theft ...
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to start selling vehicles in the U.S. in 2021 that can talk to each other using short-range wireless technology, the automaker said Monday, potentially preventing thousands of accidents annually. The U.S. Transportation Department must decide whether to adopt a pending proposal ...
SoftBank takes stake in Roomba-maker iRobot as part of tech grab: sources
SoftBank has taken a stake in Roomba-maker iRobot, people familiar with the matter said, as the Japanese company builds its holdings in robotics firms.
Can Fukuoka live up to the tech startup hype?
Three foreign members of the Fukuoka tech entrepreneur community discuss whether the city's efforts to style itself as an international startup hub are paying off.
Japan's rich: acutely aware of their wealth and not flashy with it
It's often said that in Japan you may live right next door to a millionaire and not know it, because his house looks just like yours.
