LAUREN GOODE GEAR 01.09.19 07:00 AM WHEN VERIZON CEO Hans Vestberg delivered his keynote address at CES in Las Vegas on Tuesday evening, his speech was shaded with prophecy. 5G will change everything, he said. 5G will even power the fourth industrial revolution. Vestberg was hardly alone in his predictions for the gains the emerging high-speed […]
LAUREN GOODE GEAR 01.17.19 05:58 PM HERE COMES A Pixel … sport watch? Google and the Fossil Group announced earlier today that the tech giant is acquiring some of Fossil’s smartwatch intellectual property, suggesting Google may be making its own competitor to the Apple Watch, or, as wishful pundits refer to it, a Pixel watch. It’s not an […]
By Natasha Singer Jan. 18, 2018 Greetings, I’m Natasha Singer, your resident privacy reporter. And I’m writing to you from wintry New York City as the government shutdown increases financial pressure on federal workers and the tech elites jet off to Davos, Switzerland, to hobnob at the World Economic Forum. For the last few years, the […]
There’s a clear rift among the tech giants over how to protect Americans from unchecked face surveillance. A top Google executive recently sent a shot across the bow of its competitors regarding face surveillance. Kent Walker, the company’s general counsel and senior vice president of global affairs, made it clear that Google — unlike Amazon and […]
WASHINGTON/DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it will pursue the extradition of the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s [HWT.UL], arrested in Canada in December.FILE PHOTO: Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer (CFO), is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters December […]
