Newcastle University adds intelligence to a prosthetic hand so that it grips objects automatically, with guidance from built-in camera feed-back.

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The ferocious battle between Apple and Qualcomm over royalty payments may get a new twist with reports from Bloomberg that Qualcomm is to ask the International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban Apple’s phones from import into the USA. Last week Apple stopped paying its sub-contractors royalties owed to,Qualcomm resulting in a possible $500 million hit …

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Responding to President Trump’s call for job-creation in the USA, Apple is to set up a $1 billion fund to promote “advanced manufacturing”. The first investment of the find is to be announced later in May. “A company should have values because a company is a collection of people, and people should have values,” says …

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Qualcomm, China’s Datang Telecom and Jianguang Asset Management (JAC) of Beijing are to combine in a project to develop smartphone chips which cost $10. Last year JAC was a part of consortia which bought NXP’s standards products division and RF power unit. Datang and JAC will hold over 50% of the jv which is to …

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Women returning to work after childbirth have an important role to play in technology industries, says Seoul Semiconductor.

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Tech businesses could suffer as a result of changes to immigration laws, according to Northern digital trade association Manchester Digital.

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Computers will be able to learn psychologically plausible models of individuals simply by observing them, according to researchers from Aalto University, who have got computers to learn to explain the behaviour of individuals by tracking their glances and movements. “Despite significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, it has been notoriously hard for computers to understand why …

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60 years ago a company was founded to make small, but powerful, computers. In 1970 it sold 600,000 of them. The company became the second largest employer in the State of Massachusetts. One of the company’s engineering teams managed to get all the guts of a computer into a format the size of a TV. …

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Imagination says it has started a dispute resolution procedure with Apple after failing to achieve a negotiated settlement following Apple telling Imagination it will stop using Imagination’s GPU IP in 12-15 months’ time. Imagination believes that Apple will still need to keep using Imagination IP when Apple makes its GPUs in-house and wants Apple to continue …

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Imagination is selling its MIPS and Ensigma units which together brought in £21 million or 29% of Imagination’s revenues last quarter. Imagination bought MIPS for £60 million in 2012. Imagination once saw MIPS it as a way into the mobile CPU market which is dominated by ARM. However, recently Imagination scaled back its ambitions for …

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