From Tom's Hardware: IBM announced last week that it has discovered a breakthrough new battery technology without heavy metals and with superior characteristics as lithium-ion batteries. Instead, the new battery is based on three new materials that can be extracted from sea water, leading to...

From EETimes: Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a quantum chip 1,000 times smaller than current quantum configurations. Led by Professor Liu Ai Qun of NTU’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and associate professor Kwek Leong...

From CNET: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media companies collect a trove of data about their users. That's no surprise. We provide our birthdays, phone numbers and email addresses along with where we work and went to school. These tech giants know way more about you than you might...

From CNET: Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former CEO of Uber, will resign from the company's board of directors by the end of the year. This comes after he sold more than $2.5 billion of company stock since early November. His departure will be effective Dec. 31.

"Uber has been a part of my...

From Forbes: Bridgestone Corp., the world’s largest tire and rubber manufacturer and a company with roots more than a century old, is participating in CES 2020, its first-ever Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas in January.

That’s a sign electrification, Internet connectivity, and autonomy are...

From PC Mag: China is getting an early lead in the race to 5G, according to new data from research firm M Science: Chinese carriers are selling almost 17 times the number of 5G phones that US carriers did from the week ending Nov. 2 to the week ending Dec. 7.

M Science creates actionable...

From G.Skill Press Release: G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd. is excited to announce an all-new high-capacity, low-latency DDR4-3200 CL14-18-18-38 memory kit specification based on 32GB modules across the Trident Z RGB, Trident Z Royal, and Trident Z Neo series. Available in 256GB (32GBx8)...

From AnandTech: Western Digital has started partner sampling of its 18 TB and 20 TB energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) drives. The HDDs utilize WD's up and coming EAMR tech to further improve their storage density, allowing hyperscalers and similar customers to continue improving the desity...

From The Verge: Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is leaving the company a little more than one year after the first of two fatal crashes involving the company’s 737 Max aircraft, the company announced Monday. Boeing says Muilenburg resigned in its press release, though it also says that the board of...

From Tom's Hardware: An Intel Tiger Lake Engineering Sample (ES) CPU has reportedly hit a clock speed of 4.0 GHz turbo on all of its cores and a single core turbo of 4.3 GHz. While still below Intel's mature 14nm mobile Comet Lake processors, which go up to 4.9 GHz, It would mark a sharp improvement...