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With Facebook under fire, could a new social network rise from the ruins? Facebook’s (FB) scandals have caught up to its executives and to its shareholders, who have collectively lost billions since the company disclosed slowing user…

Computer scientists develop algorithms that control everything from unmanned aerial vehicles to desktop computers to the cellphones in our pockets. But it can be complicated to match the code they develop to hardware systems that…

Qualcomm is yet to announce its next-generation smartphone silicon. We have seen some of the competition launch their chips in recent months. Huawei’s Kirin 980 is already shipping in devices and so is Apple’s A12 Bionic in iPhones.…

The chip, which works with standard programming languages, could be particularly useful on phones, watches or other devices that rely on high-performance computing and have limited battery life. The chip, based on a technique called…

Two chip CEOs said Tuesday that they didn’t believe it was practical for China to insert spying chips into servers bound for US companies. NXP CEO Richard Clemmer and Renee James, the former president of Intel and current CEO of data…

Trendy news on Computing Technology Intel has just released two new processors from the Xeon lineup, both built for the data centre business. The two chips in question are the 48-core Cascade Lake Advanced Performance (AP), and the…

Latest breaking news on Cyber security Security researchers have unveiled details of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips embedded in millions of access points and networking devices used by enterprises around…

Trendy news on Computing Technology Chip-making giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has predicted weak demand for processors from cryptocurrency miners in the fourth quarter of this year. TSMC, the primary supplier for…

Breaking Tech Industry news from the top sources With Gartner estimating that there will be 150 billion connected devices by 2030 — many of them mission critical, such as powering major national infrastructure — the risk and realisation…

Contactless payments have become the most popular form of card transaction in the UK for the first time, new figures have revealed. The latest figures from payment processor Worldpay say that contactless has now overtaken Chip & Pin…