
Honor scores deals with Intel and Qualcomm
Now it is free from Huawei
Chinese budget phone maker Honor has signed partnerships with major chip suppliers such as Intel and Qualcomm after being spun off from parent Huawei Technologies.

Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller out
Build hardware with microcontroller code
The Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller is now out.

Pat (Kicking) Gelsinger arranges his R&D cabinet.
Reveals outsourcing plans and right foot
Intel's new CEO, Pat (Kicking) Gelsinger is already causing a stir with Intel's current R&D teams.

DeLorean comes back from the future
Hope it starts this time
The DMC DeLorean has been out of production for almost 40 years, but the iconic vehicle might be coming back as an electric car.

Bullitt creates antimicrobial mobile phone
No bugs on the CAT S42
The UK-based Bullitt Group, makers of military-grade smartphones and the global licensee for CAT phones, has launched the first fully antimicrobial mobile phone - the CAT S42.

Google gives up on Project Loon
Ballooning costs
Google has given up on its decade long project which was supposed to bring the internet to inaccessible areas using balloons.

Pai goes out warning of “yellow peril”
Kicking and screaming back to the 19th century
The man who handed the internet to the US telcos has exited the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) muttering about the dangers of yellow peril.

Jack Ma appears to be alive
At least for 50 seconds
Billionaire Jack Ma’s 50-second video reappearance has done little to resolve Alibaba’s troubled relationship with regulators that is making some investors hesitate about owning the Chinese e-commerce giant’s shares.

Penn State thinks it has a cure for range anxiety
Lithium iron phosphate batteries
Range anxiety, the fear of running out of power before being able to recharge an electric vehicle, may be a thing of the past, according to a team of Penn State engineers who are looking at lithium ion phosphate batteries that have a range of 250 miles with the ability to charge in 10 minutes.

EU fines games makers over geo-blocking
$9.4 million in fines
A four-year antitrust investigation into PC games geo-blocking in the European Union by distribution platform Valve and five games publishers has led to fines totalling $9.4 million after the Commission confirmed today that the bloc's rules had been breached.