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Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oliver Taylor, a student at England's University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Online profil...
Jul 15, 2020
‘Hands free’: Automakers race to next level of not quite self-driving cars
By Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Automakers have many names for new systems that allow for hands-free driving, but no safety or performance standards t...
Jul 15, 2020
Tele2 says Huawei remains a ‘viable vendor’
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish telecom operator Tele2 sees China's Huawei as a "viable vendor", although that could change in the future, its top chief said on Wednesday. U.K Prime Minister Boris Johns...
Jul 15, 2020
Japanese robot to clock in at a convenience store in test of retail automation
By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - In August, a robot vaguely resembling a kangaroo will begin stacking sandwiches, drinks and ready meals on shelves at a Japanese convenience store in a test its maker, T...
Jul 15, 2020
ASOS to reject UK govt bonus for bringing back furloughed staff
LONDON (Reuters) - British online fashion retailer ASOS on Wednesday joined peers Primark and John Lewis in saying it would not take advantage of a British government scheme to pay employers for bring...
Jul 15, 2020
Google buys 7.7% of Reliance’s digital unit Jio for $4.5 billion
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Reliance Industries on Wednesday said Alphabet Inc's Google will buy a 7.7% stake in its digital unit for $4.5 billion, winning the backing of another U.S. tech giant aft...
Jul 15, 2020
EU court scraps EU order to Apple to pay $15 billion in Irish taxes
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Europe's second-top court on Wednesday rejected an EU order to iPhone maker Apple to pay 13 billion euros ($14.78 billion) in Irish back taxes. "The General Court annuls the con...
Jul 15, 2020
SMIC’s Shanghai listing tests if money alone can bring chip dominance to China
By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's biggest chipmaker SMIC is set to follow its staggering $6.6 billion share sale with its Shanghai market debut on Thursday, just as Sino-U.S. tension widens...
Jul 15, 2020
Trump on UK’s Huawei ban: ‘I did this myself’
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said that he was responsible for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to ban Huawei from Britain's 5G network from the end of 2027. On Tuesday, Johnso...
Jul 15, 2020
Over 2,500 games removed from Apple’s China App Store after loophole shuts: data firm
By Pei Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than 2,500 mobile games were removed from Apple's China app store in the first week of July, four times as many in the same period in June, after Apple closed a lo...
Jul 14, 2020
