Dawson says lack of diversity in tech is down to education
Industry leaders join diversity call
Carolyn Dawson, Managing Director of the UK’s leading technology event London Tech Week is calling for more young girls to get into tech.
Nvidia releases budget friendly mobile Turings
GeForce GTX 1650, GeForce GTX 1660, and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Nvidia, named after a Roman vengeance demon, has launched a new family of more budget-friendly Turing graphics chips for gaming laptops .
Phone users are not bothering to upgrade
Old style is still the best
A report from Verizon has confirmed that smartphone users are hanging on to their old phones much longer.
Tim Cook calls for more technology regulation
Protect privacy
The supreme dalek of the Apple cargo cult, CEO Tim Cook, has called for more government regulation to protect privacy.
Samsung invests $116 billion in non-memory chips
Gunning for TSMC and Qualcomm
Samsung plans to invest $116 billion in non-memory chips through 2030, to cut its reliance on the volatile memory chip market and develop chips for self-driving cars and AI-enabled gear.
UK allows Huawei 5G use
Just not in some critical parts
Theresa May and her senior ministers have approved the participation of Huawei in some non-core parts of Britain’s 5G data network, but have banned the Chinese company from more sensitive core parts of the project.
T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer warns 5G is pants
Can only be used in small pockets of dense urban environments
T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray has warned that 5G mobile networks are going to be a waste of cash because will never materially scale beyond small pockets of 5G hotspots in dense urban environments.
US spooks claim Huawei is funded by Chinese intelligence
Still no proof
US intelligence has accused Huawei Technologies of being funded by Chinese state security.
Huawei builds 5G for automotive industry
5G car module with “high speed and high quality”
China’s Huawei has released the world’s first 5G communications hardware for the automotive industry.
BT out on a limb over Italian Job
It was only supposed to blow the bloody doors off
Inspector Mario of the Milan Yard is investigating accounting fraud inside British Telecom’s Italian unit and found more evidence of the involvement of senior executives in artificially inflating the division’s financial performance.