Technology

  Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. will reveal on Monday that irregularly sized batteries made by an affiliate caused the overheating and fires that eventually forced the cessation of its Note 7 smartphone line, a person familiar with the matter said. The world’s largest smartphone maker is scheduled to announce the results of an investigation into the fires that forced it ...

  WASHINGTON / AP Scientists are developing a robotic sleeve that can encase a flabby diseased heart and gently squeeze to keep it pumping. So far it’s been tested only in animals, improving blood flow in pigs. But this “soft robotic” device mimics the natural movements of a beating heart, a strategy for next-generation treatments of deadly heart failure. The key: ...

  Bloomberg The young entrepreneur credited as the brains behind Facebook Inc.’s virtual reality headset was accused in court of betraying a company that had worked with him to display the technology at a trade show. Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, whose startup was bought by the social media giant for about $2 billion in 2014 when he was 21, ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business The year 2016 was another eventful year for the consumer electronics industry with a number of exciting and sophisticated technologies advancing to fulfill their potential on the world stage. The year 2017 appears to see the continuation of these trends, as the products, which shape the world around us are improved to better suit evolving ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business Cyber security professionals have become more aware of the value of analytics and have moved beyond using analytics for detection and response to using analytics to measure and improve their overall risk posture, according to the results of SANS’ 2016 Survey on Security Analytics. “Traditionally, cyber security has been focused around protection and prevention. But ...

  Bloomberg Mark Zuckerberg, saying it’s the first time he’s testified in a trial, vehemently denied claims that the virtual-reality headset maker acquired by Facebook Inc. in 2014 had stolen technology for the Oculus Rift. Facebook’s co-founder and chief executive officer, who has hailed virtual reality as his company’s next big thing, was called to the witness stand by ZeniMax ...

    BOSTON / AP Imagine you’re behind the wheel when your brakes fail. As you speed toward a crowded crosswalk, you’re confronted with an impossible choice: veer right and mow down a large group of elderly people, or veer left into a woman pushing a stroller. Now imagine you’re riding in the back of a self-driving car. How would ...

  Bloomberg Facebook Inc. will open a startup incubator at Paris’s soon-to-debut entrepreneur campus created by billionaire Xavier Niel, as Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg vows to keep investing in France. The company will have engineers on the ground at incubator-campus Station F and offer workshops to entrepreneurs, Sandberg said at an event in Paris, alongside Niel, site director Roxanne ...

  Relaxnews Kaminario Inc., a flash-storage company that develops its products in Israel, closed a fundraising round of $75 million — nearly double the expected amount — and will use the money to expand in Asia and Europe and boost technology development to gain market share. The Needham, Massachusetts-based company competes with multinational giants such as Dell Technologies Inc. and ...

  Bloomberg Zhou Shuoji is not a bitcoin believer. He says the cryptocurrency will never replace its traditional forebears, and he calls most of its proponents fanatics. But for Zhou, a 35-year-old high-speed trader in Beijing, bitcoin is also too good to resist. His computers trade it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Using lightning quick orders, they ...