Technology

  Dusseldorf / DPA Drivers slam on their car brakes, children want to play with it and impressed pensioners ask if it can carry their shopping; when delivery robot Robbie goes on test runs, everyone’s agog. The six-wheeled delivery robot, designed by Estonian firm Starship and about the size of a lawnmower, is being trialled in London, in two German cities ...

  Washington / AFP After a seemingly endless barrage of cyberattacks, debate is heating up on hitting back at hackers where it hurts. Amid calls for ways to punish and deter hackers without sparking a so-called “cyber war,” a panel of experts assembled by the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security said in a report that US ...

  Relaxnews The 2016 edition of the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) show, the highly-anticipated automotive trade and specialty products event, open its doors on Tuesday in Las Vegas, and once again, it will showcase how to take vehicles from the ordinary to the extraordinary. In another collaboration with Hyundai, ARK Performance went through its parts bin to come up ...

  San Francisco / AFP The tablet market shrank in the recently-ended quarter, as shipments of bargain-priced computers with detachable screens hit a record high, according to market analysis firm International Data Corporation. Tablet makers shipped 43 million units in the quarter, down 14.7 percent from the number shipped in the same period a year earlier, according to an IDC ...

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. is offering up a new server design that it hopes will influence the rest of the data-center industry, a move that keeps pressure on hardware vendors like Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. to lower the price of cloud infrastructure. An earlier design by Microsoft now accounts for 90 percent of the company’s data center server purchases, underscoring ...

  Emirates Business BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest miner, is hot for electric vehicles. The Melbourne-based resources giant, which mines metals and coal used for both steelmaking and fueling power plants, is increasingly optimistic that there’ll be a surge in demand for some of its products as consumers opt for electric vehicles, or EVs, and other renewable energy technologies. ...

  SAN FRANCISCO / AP YouTube has emerged as a break-out star in Google’s cast of services as the online video site upstages cable television for a younger generation of viewers looking for amusement, news and music on their smartphones. The trend is contributing to an advertising shift away from traditional network television programming to the more eclectic and diversified ...

  Bloomberg Honda Motor Co. will spearhead its artificial intelligence efforts out of a new lab in Tokyo so that researchers can work closely with its engineers to commercialize the technology. Honda, based in Tokyo, will start the R&D center next year and combine existing AI teams in Silicon Valley, Europe and Japan at the downtown location, according to Yoshiyuki ...

  Relaxnews Microsoft made several announcements concerning its intention to bring 3D technologies to everyone at its latest Windows 10 event. The firm aims to bring affordable tools to the public at large, with a range of headsets and upcoming developments for Windows. The first step in Microsoft’s vision to bring 3D to everyone is to provide easy-to-use tools for ...

  Bloomberg IBM is teaming up with Slack Technologies Inc. to make it easier for companies to build custom chatbots into the startup’s workplace-messaging systems, the latest move by Big Blue to add more diverse business cases for its Watson artificial-intelligence technology. The two companies will release a developer toolkit that includes Watson technologies and can integrate easily into Slack, ...