From EETimes: Four former Applied Materials executives have been charged by the U.S. Justice Department in an alleged plot to steal trade secrets from their employer and use them in a competing startup in China.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI, the four men allegedly downloaded...

From CNET: Apple on Monday confirmed its acquisition of music recognition app Shazam, saying it's "thrilled" to be gaining one of the consistently most popular apps in its App Store.

"Apple Music and Shazam are a natural fit, sharing a passion for music discovery and delivering great music...

From AnandTech: Marvell introduces three products today (88W9068, 88W9064, 88W9064S), each catering different market segments from the enterprise down to use-case scenarios such as OTT set-top-boxes. All three products fully support OFDMA and MU-MIMO on both down- and up-link, as well as 1024-QAM...

From EETimes: Toshiba and Western Digital are nearing a settlement that end litigation between the firms which continues to be an obstacle to finalizing an $18 billion deal by Toshiba to sell its semiconductor business to a consortium led by private equity firm Bain Capital, according to a report by...

From Tom's Hardware: Security researcher Michael Myng announced that he uncovered a keylogging component in HP’s keyboard driver. The keylogging code seems to be from a debugging tool that HP forgot to take out before shipping the driver to customers. The company forgot to disable similar keylogging...

From PC Mag: If you are still considering which new iPhone to buy this year, it may be worth waiting until next year's iPhone refresh. I realize you can say that every time a new iPhone appears, but 2018 is different if KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is to be believed. Forget any new and novel features...

From CNET: Looking for a way to turn your home computer into a deep-learning AI super-monster? Nvidia has an expensive answer.

The new Titan V GPU promises a crazy amount of processing for deep learning and AI applications. It's nine times more powerful -- at 110 teraflops -- than last year's Titan...

From eWeek: The Bitcoin crypto-currency is one the biggest financial stories of 2017, increasing dramatically in value over the past 12 months from $1,000 in January to as high as $20,000 on Dec. 7. As Bitcoin's value has grown, so too have its risks, as sites struggle to remain both available and...

From The Verge: Designing specialized processing chips for artificial intelligence is becoming common for serious tech companies, and Tesla, it seems, is no exception. According to reports from both The Register and CNBC, CEO Elon Musk was talking up the company’s custom AI chips at machine learning...