After the acquisition of Broadcom by Avago a few days and that of Freescale by NXP a couple of months ago, Intel has announced that it is buying Altera for a cool $16.7 billion (about £11 billion, AU$22 billion). The deal, which began life as a rumour back in March and dwarfs Intel’s previous big acquisition (that of McAfee five years ago), will allow reinforce its data centre and internet
Updated: Sony CEO, Doug Morris, has moved to clear up confusion over whether Jay-Z’s Tidal could lose the rights to high-def versions of Beyoncé’s music. “Jay-Z is a friend and business associate for many years. I have always admired his business acumen, his entrepreneurship and his passion for music,” reads Morris’ statement. “All of our content, including Beyoncé, is available through the Tidal service, and we have announced no plans
Huawei is teasing an announcement for June 8 and the stars are aligning for an Honor 7 announcement. All the rumours suggest there will be two versions of the Honor 7 that will share the same hardware and design; the differences will be in storage and RAM. Both are rumoured to have 5-inch 1080p displays with Kirin 935 chipsets sat under the hood, while there will be a 13MP sensor
Age: 27 Company: Pebble Best known for: Creating the Pebble smartwatch Quote: “It turns out people really like using Pebble as a watch. It makes sense. It’s been 100 years that people have been putting watches on their wrist. It has to solve that problem.” Before Android Wear, before the Apple Watch – even before the Galaxy Gear – there was the Pebble. The monochrome smartwatch was one of Kickstarter’s
Everyone’s favourite plummy-voiced adventurer, Lara Croft, is back in Rise of the Tomb Raider and there’s a new teaser trailer that’s just dropped today. Featuring the same voice actor as the latest Tomb Raider reboot, Camilla Luddington gives us a rousing speech about, y’know, raiding tombs and righteous exploration. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=77&v=vF07oLpHEBw Yeah, so when we say ‘teaser’ we’re not messing around. There’s nothing really new in this latest CGI-fest,
Intel Corp agreed to buy Altera Corp for $16.7 billion as the world’s biggest chipmaker seeks to make up for slowing demand from the PC industry by expanding its line-up of higher-margin chips used in data centers. By combining with Altera, Intel will be able to bundle its processing chips with the smaller company’s programmable chips, which are used, among other things, to speed up Web-searches. Intel said on Monday
By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The legal authority for U.S. spy agencies’ collection of Americans’ phone records and other data expired at midnight on Sunday after the Senate failed to pass legislation extending their powers. After debate pitting Americans’ distrust of intrusive government against fears of terrorist attacks, the Senate voted to advance reform legislation that would replace the bulk phone records program revealed two years
By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO(Reuters) – Google increased privacy controls for users and rolled out a website on Monday that answers frequently asked questions in response to increasing concern over how the search giant collects and uses its massive amounts of data. Google’s new website answers frequently asked questions, such as whether the company sells personal data and what information is given to advertisers. In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified
For Easton LaChappelle, a 19-year-old from Colorado in the United States (U.S.), the difficulty with robotics has never been the technology itself – something he says he managed to master in a matter of months from his bedroom in his parent’s house – but the cost. The technology used by most robotic arms and hands on the market – and many more of those in development – typically comes with
BlackBerry Ltd and television host Ryan Seacrest’s keyboard company Typo Products have agreed to settle a patent dispute over the sale of smartphone keyboards of a certain size, the Canadian smartphone maker said on Monday. Under the terms of the settlement, Typo will stop selling keyboards for smartphones and other devices with screens smaller than 7.9 inches, BlackBerry said. In February, a U.S. district court sanctioned Typo, co-founded by “American