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Toyota, SoftBank announce new driverless vehicles joint venture, MONET
We're in the MONET: Two of Japan’s biggest names, SoftBank and Toyota, have announced an autonomous vehicles joint venture.
The companies will team up to...
Arm debuts first-gen machine learning processor at Hot Chips
NEWSBYTE Semiconductor specialist Arm debuted its first-generation machine learning processor this week at the annual Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California.
The Trillium architecture brings...
Vulnerable people easily manipulated by humanoid robots, find new studies
Malek Murison and Chris Middleton report on a brace of new humanoid robotics studies that reveal just how easily human beings can be influenced...
ARM hunts for IoT riches with Treasure Data buy | Analysis
ARM Holdings, the UK-based chipmaker owned by Japanese technology and investment conglomerate SoftBank, is on the cusp of buying US data analytics start-up Treasure...
Toyota ploughs $1bn into ride-hailer Grab, while Uber goes Lite
Toyota has agreed to buy a $1 billion stake in South East Asia’s Grab, in a deal that is thought to be the biggest...
SoftBank Pepper robot “astonishingly insecure”, potential “cyber weapon”
One of the world’s most popular humanoid robots, Pepper, from Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank, can easily be hacked and turned into a “cyber and...
Retail IoT: Why the future is about connecting with the customer
Scott Thompson reports on a retail sector in flux, with IoT and other cutting-edge technologies paving a new way forward.
“The high street has to...
SoftBank, Ericsson bring machine learning to mobile network design
Japanese technology giant SoftBank has partnered with Swedish telecoms provider Ericsson to trial new radio technology that uses machine learning to design networks and improve performance.
SoftBank,...
Walmart $16bn Flipkart deal: SoftBank uncertain, Google circling
US retail giant Walmart confirmed this week that it is taking a majority stake in Flipkart, India’s leading ecommerce brand. As announced, the deal...
Sprint, T-Mobile plan to merge in $26bn deal | Analysis
UPDATED US wireless companies Sprint and T-Mobile have announced that they are to merge in an all-stock deal which values the combined company at...
Amazon launching new ‘Vesta’ domestic robots in 2019: report
Retail and Web services giant Amazon is said to be working on a new breed of domestic robots, in a project codenamed ‘Vesta’ –...
Retail: Walmart aims for majority stake in India’s Flipkart
US retail giant Walmart is reportedly closing in on purchasing a majority stake in Flipkart, India’s leading ecommerce brand and its most valuable startup.
The predicted...