From ComputerWorld: ARM has acquired Apical, a U.K. designer of embedded computer vision technology, and plans to incorporate that technology into future ARM microprocessor and system-on-chip designs, it said Wednesday.

The move will open up new opportunities for designers of autonomous vehicles...

From PC World: Nokia is back in the mobile phone business, after a fashion.

It has granted HMD Global an exclusive, 10-year license to the famous brand, allowing the Finnish startup to sell Nokia mobile phones and tablets.

Meanwhile Microsoft, which bought Nokia's mobile phone activities in 2013...

From CNET: Amazon's foray into brick-and-mortar outlets began last year in Seattle and continued this year with a package pick-up center at the University of Pennsylvania. That won't be the end of the effort, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said Tuesday.

"We're definitely going to open additional stores...

From PC World: SAP and Microsoft have expanded an existing partnership to offer new products to users of the Azure and Office 365 cloud services, focused on better integrating the two companies' offerings.

Azure customers will be able to use SAP HANA in Microsoft's public cloud, expanding the...

From CNET: On Monday, Apple rolled out version 9.3.2 of its mobile operating system to fix a small number of bugs. But the update itself has introduced a bug of its own -- one that affects the iPad Pro.

Users chiming in on MacRumors support forums, on Apple Support Communities and on Twitter say...

From PC World: Firefox now has more desktop users than both Microsoft's Web browsers combined -- but it's a rivalry that is increasingly irrelevant as Google Chrome has almost twice the share of Firefox and Microsoft together.

The latest figures from Statcounter show that Microsoft Edge and...

From InfoWorld: Google is promoting natural language understanding with the open-sourcing of SyntaxNet, a neural network framework, and Parsey McParseface, an advanced parser for English text.

Implemented in Google's open source TensorFlow machine intelligence library and released this month...

From PC World: Leaks, leaks, leaks, leaks, leaks. We’re coming up on the annual Steam Summer Sale, and as usual someone decided to not-so-accidentally disclose both the date and duration—supposedly.

If Steam Database is correct (and they usually are) then we can expect the Summer Sale to arrive on...

From CNET: The slow and inexorable slide to a world without Flash continues, with Google revealing plans to phase out support for Adobe's Flash Player in its Chrome browser for all but a handful of websites. And the company expects the changes to roll out by the fourth quarter of 2016.

While it...