French 3% tax on internet giants could yield €500 million yearly, says finance minister Le Maire
A 3 percent tax on the French revenue of large internet companies could yield €500 million per year, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday. Le Maire told Le Parisien newspaper the tax is aimed at companies with worldwide digital revenue of at ...
Huawei units plead not guilty in Seattle court to T-Mobile trade secret theft
Huawei Device Co. Ltd. and Huawei Device USA Inc. pleaded not guilty on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle on fraud, trade secrets conspiracy and other charges, the Justice Department said. The units of China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. were arraigned and Chief U.S. ...
Thirty years after U.S. curbs on exports to China were eased, two giants' politics and tech collide
"U.S. eases curbs on exports to China" read a Reuters headline on March 1, 1989, when Washington lifted long-standing restrictions on technology shipments to China. On that day, U.S. commerce officials talked warmly of improving ties with China and of the need to help its ...
New York beats out San Francisco to be world's best tech city
Amazon.com Inc. might have the right idea: A new study shows New York City is the best place on the planet for technology. New York ranked first in an index measuring 30 global tech-heavy cities analyzed by real estate brokerage Savills PLC, with San Francisco ...
Japanese software lets cancer and ALS patients get their voices back
Sapporo radio personality Kazuya Yonezawa takes to the airwaves once a month, speaking to his listeners in a calm and low voice. But the 60-year-old's words aren't coming from his vocal cords. They are being reconstructed by a speech synthesis software called Voistar. Yonezawa has amyotrophic ...
Huawei gear pulled from $3 billion U.K. police phone network
Huawei Technologies Co. gear will be ripped out of the core part of a U.K. communications network for police and other emergency responders by the company delivering the £2.3 billion ($3 billion) project, BT Group PLC. BT has been pulling equipment from the Chinese tech ...
NTT Docomo to launch world's 'thinnest and lightest' phone in November
For years, electronics giants have been developing smartphones with increasingly larger screens. Bucking the trend for phones to be bigger and flashier is a handset set to debut next month from NTT Docomo Inc. that can fit in your business card case. Docomo, the country's ...
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women, say sources
Amazon.com Inc.'s machine-learning specialists learned something unexpected from the machine: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants' resumes, with the aim of mechanizing the search for top talent, five people familiar ...
Cafe to showcase robot waiters steered from afar by people with ALS, other debilitating diseases
A temporary cafe that will use remotely controlled robots as waiters is set to open in Tokyo's Akasaka district in November to show how machines can act as proxies for people with severe physical disabilities. The cafe, which will be open on weekdays between Nov. ...
U.S. clears hurdle to lifting ban on China telecom giant ZTE
The United States signed an agreement with ZTE Corp. that paves the way for the Chinese tech company to resume operations after a nearly three-month old ban on doing business with American suppliers, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday. The ban on China's No. ...
Tokyo blockchain conference looks to uses of technology beyond headline-grabbing cryptocurrencies
The rise of cryptocurrencies has shone the spotlight on their underlying technology, which is known as the blockchain. A wide number of startups are now pitching services using the technology, which is often touted as the next major development since the internet. This trend was visible ...
Nagoya firm's high-tech service aims to prevent sudden infant death syndrome at nursery schools
Unifa Inc., an IT venture firm in Nagoya, has begun offering a monitoring service that can alert nursery school teachers to the warning signs of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of death among babies at day care facilities. The high-tech solution for ...
