Technology

Bloomberg Apple Inc. disclosed a pair of issues affecting two of its more popular products: the iPhone X and the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant said the screen on some iPhone X units doesn’t respond or responds intermittently when touched. The company also said some units could have displays that react even when they aren’t touched. The ...

Bloomberg Dyson is considering developing a wearable air purifier that could double as a pair of headphones, hoping to tap demand from pollution-choked cities in Asia, people with knowledge of the project said. The UK company submitted patents for a “wearable air purifier” this year, according to filings to the UK Intellectual Property Office. The gadget is primarily an air ...

Bloomberg Apple and Amazon.com, two of the world’s most valuable technology companies, struck a deal to get the newest iPhones into the hands of Amazon customers. Amazon said it would begin selling the most-recent iPhone, iPad, Mac computer, Apple Watch and Apple TV models on its website, along with branded accessories and headphones from Apple’s Beats subsidiary. Apple introduced the ...

Bloomberg Baidu Inc.’s making a concerted effort to catch up in the driverless car race. The search giant showcased its “Apollo” self-driving technology in Beijing, unveiling a partnership with Hongqi — the “Red Flag” brand created to serve late Communist leader Mao Zedong — to develop a near-full autonomous vehicle in 2019. It’s also inked a deal to install the ...

Bloomberg Did Bill Ackman, John Overdeck and David Siegel give a bunch of money to get kids building robots, only to see those kids displaced by machines when they grow up? At a benefit for FIRST, the science and technology nonprofit they’ve supported, the answer was a resounding no, and it came from an authoritative source, Jeff Bezos, the guy ...

Bloomberg The staggering growth of cloud computing can’t go on forever. And reports from tech companies that make data-center hardware and sell the services suggest the industry’s expansion is cooling. Western Digital Corp., a maker of memory chips, neatly listed everything that is suddenly wrong with the technology industry when it gave a disappointing forecast. A boom in spending by ...

Bloomberg In Haidilao International Holding Ltd.’s hotpot restaurants, robots are replacing chefs and waiters. Asia’s biggest listed restaurant chain by market value is partnering with Japan’s Panasonic Corp. to open what the two companies say is the world’s first eatery with a fully automated kitchen on October 28 in Beijing. At the new Haidilao restaurant, robots will take orders, prepare ...

Bloomberg The only person in a kimono at a recent Japanese government meeting on flying cars was Kotaro Chiba, a former online-game executive turned fina- ncier of a very specific kind. For Chiba, 44, who wears the kimono on special occasions to show his pride in Japanese culture, is gathering money for what he calls the Drone Fund. It invests ...

Bloomberg Servers make the modern internet possible. Millions of these workhorse computers hum away in remote data centers of Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp running websites, sending information to smartphone apps and crunching data for cloud-based software programs. Privacy Labs Inc, a startup based near Microsoft headquarters just outside Seattle, wants to upend all this in the ...

Bloomberg Lam Research Corp. will be the first semiconductor equipment maker to report earnings and Wall Street is cautious. Lower spending from makers of memory chips due to elevated inventories has reduced estimates for equipment sales next year and a recovery isn’t likely until the second half of 2019, according to Evercore ISI analyst C.J. Muse. Makers of machinery used ...