Motorola demoed a bracelet smartphone
Still no closer to hitting the shops
Motorola has demoed a bendable, bracelet-like smartphone that can wrap around your wrist.
Amazon has 181 million European users
First transparency report
In its first store transparency report, Amazon said it has more than 181 million users in the European Union and employs more than 150,000 people directly.
Boffins declare open season on Apple Safari
It’s easy, like Sunday morning
Apple’s Safari browser is a doddle to knock over, and a team of boffins have gotten it to spill the beans on passwords, Gmail message content, and other secrets.
Microsoft admits mobile mistakes
Exit could have been handled better
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the third chief executive of the software giant to admit the company made severe mobile mistakes.
General Motor’s autonomous vehicle banned in California
Risk to public safety
California's auto regulator has suspended General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle deployment and driverless testing permits, saying it had misrepresented information related to the safety of the autonomous technology.
Trick or Treat
Apple has announced a Mac event for 30 October with the caption "Scary Fast" in which it is expected to exhume its M3 series MacBook Pro models to the illiterate cawing of the Tame Apple Press ravens.
US ICE monitoring social media posts
Want to know if you don’t like the US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used a system called Giant Oak Search Technology (GOST) to help the agency analyse social media posts determine if they are "derogatory" to the US.
Atom Computing has a 1,180-qubit quantum computer
Available next year
A startup called Atom Computing announced that it has been doing internal testing of a 1,180 qubit quantum computer and will make it available to customers next year.
Security company gutted after security breach
Okta loses $2 billion
Since disclosing a security breach of its support systems, Okta has shed more than $2 billion from its market valuation.
Qualcomm Oryon CPU beats Apple M2 Max in a single thread
Matches i9-13980Hx in multi-thread
Qualcomm's CEO Christiano Amon just announced the Qualcomm Oryon CPU, a part of the Snapdragon X PC platform. This twelve-core 4nm CPU is based on Nuvia architecture and should be a very efficient design.