Orange Pi takes on Raspberry Pi with new computer boards

From PC World: Raspberry Pi may be the most well-known board computer, but rival Orange Pi is rolling out a much larger range of boards at a furious pace and at cheaper prices.

The number of board computer users is growing, with Raspberry Pi's shipments passing 10 million units last year. Orange Pi...

BlackBerry wins something for once: $815M from Qualcomm

From CNET: BlackBerry won an $814.9 million award from chipmaker Qualcomm refunding royalty payments, the phone maker said Wednesday.

The award, the result of an arbitration process to settle their case, effectively ends the licensing dispute between the two companies. They were fighting over...

Apple is developing its own power management chips, says analyst

From PC World: It appears that Apple is developing its own power management chips, according to a report from German private bank Bankhaus Lampe. The release of the report Tuesday led to a sharp drop in the shares of Dialog Semiconductor, the current supplier of these chips to the iPhone maker....

Foxconn said to offer $27B for Toshiba's memory chip business

From InfoWorld: Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer best known as the maker of iPhones and iPads for Apple, is said to be preparing a $27 billion bid to acquire Toshiba's computer chip assets.

Toshiba is most commonly recognized for making NAND flash and memory chips, with all of its...

​Roku TVs now track what you watch to suggest streams, target ads

From CNET: Roku TVs are CNET's favorite entry-level televisions, with the best built-in streaming platform on the planet and good-enough picture quality for the price.

I also love how they keep getting updated with new features and functionality, such as a recent add-on that lets antenna users...

Raspberry Pi 3 gets Microsoft Cortana with Windows 10 Creators Update

From PC World: You will very soon be able to use Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant with the Raspberry Pi 3 and make cool devices that can accept voice commands.

But for that, you'll need to upgrade the popular developer board, which can run Windows 10 IoT Core, to the Creators Update of the OS...

AT&T fuels 5G ambitions with $1.6B Straight Path buy

From CNET: AT&T just made its 5G ambitions a little closer to reality.

The telecommunications giant said on Monday that it had acquired Straight Path Communications. The little-known company holds a swath of nationwide high-frequency radio licenses in the 39 gigahertz and 28 gigahertz band.

That...

EBay folds Indian operation into local retailer Flipkart

From PC World: Facing fierce competition from Amazon.com, eBay has sold its Indian operation to local retailer Flipkart, while joining Tencent and Microsoft in investing US$1.4 billion in the Indian company.

In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay will make a $500 million cash investment...

Android Gboard smartens up with federated machine learning

From InfoWorld: Google has begun using a machine learning approach to learn from user interactions with mobile devices.

Currently under testing in the Gboard on Android keyboard, Federated Learning lets smartphones collaboratively pick up a shared prediction model while keeping training data on the...

US Department of Labor accuses Google of underpaying women

From PC World: The U.S. Department of Labor says Google discriminates against female employees in pay at a level that's even worse than the tech industry as a whole.

The department has found "systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce," Labor Department...

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