We want to keep American tech dominance

The Trump administration met with top tech executives to discuss ways to “ensure American dominance” of innovation and the future of high tech jobs.

10nm will be Chipzilla's bridging tech

Chipzilla’s much delayed and underused 10nm process might end up being a holding technology for a more successful 7nm process which will arrive quicker than expected.

This is getting serious

China has formally demanded the release of a senior executive at tech giant Huawei Technologies after she was detained in Canada on extradition charges to the US.

It turns out it was another sop to help telcos again

Earlier this week we wondered what had fallen into FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s cornflakes after it was announced that it was cracking down on annoying robocalls and automatic text messaging.

Dead as a dodo by next year.

Google is going to kill off its chat app Allo by the middle of next year.

AlphaZero upgrades

IBM’s AI supreme intelligence DeepMind has created a system that can quickly master any game including chess, Go, and Shogi, and do so without human guidance.

ITU figures

The United Nations agency for information and communication technologies the ITU has been asking around and estimates that at the end of 2018, 51.2 percent of the global population, or 3.9 billion people, will be using the internet.

Taiwan IoT Technology and Industry Association warning

Taiwan IoT Technology and Industry Association (TwIoTA). Chairman Frank Huang has warned that it will take years before 5G applications to become popular.

The market is no longer flat

New statistics suggest that smartphone use is not just flat, but is in total decline.

Apparently, they were in favour of it

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has admitted that around 500,000 comments submitted during the net neutrality public comment period were linked to Russian email addresses.