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• Fuji Xerox to buy CSG for $141M

  23-10-2019 23:41
  ​Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific has entered into an agreement to acquire publicly listed print and business technology solutions provider, CSG for $140.8 million.
  
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• WeWork's Claure warns layoffs are coming

  23-10-2019 23:35
  WeWork's new executive chairman Marcelo Claure wrote in a memo to employees on Wednesday that layoffs were in the works at the U.S. office-space sharing start-up following a $9.5 billion rescue financing deal with SoftBank Group Corp.
  
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• WeWork plans to lay off 4,000 staff - FT

  23-10-2019 23:35
  Office-sharing startup WeWork is planning to cut as many as 4,000 jobs as a part of a turnaround plan put in place by top shareholder Japan's SoftBank Group after it took control of the company this week, Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
  
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• Google unveils quantum computer breakthrough; critics say wait a qubit

  23-10-2019 23:23
  Alphabet Inc's Google said on Wednesday it had achieved a breakthrough in computing research by using a quantum computer to solve in minutes a complex problem that would take today's most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to crack.
  
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• Technology is remaking the theatre experience - Al Jazeera English

  23-10-2019 23:05 via aljazeera.com
  Technology is remaking the theatre experience  Al Jazeera English
  
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• China factory production key as Tesla reports third-quarter results

  23-10-2019 23:05
  Tesla Incis conducting trial production runs at its new $2 billion China factory for the past several weeks and will sell some of the first cars from the plant to its employees, sources told Reuters.
  
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• Explainer: Google hails 'quantum supremacy', but don't chuck out your PC just yet

  23-10-2019 23:04
  Researchers at Google say they have achieved 'quantum supremacy', in which a computer harnessing the properties of sub-atomic particles did a far better job of solving a problem than the world's most powerful supercomputer.
  
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• IBM questions Google's quantum computing 'supremacy' claims

  23-10-2019 22:47
  Google claims to have achieved a breakthrough in computing research by using a quantum computer to solve in minutes a complex problem that would take today's most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to crack.
  
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• Lexus’s first autonomous EV has drones and ‘artificial muscle technology’ - Engadget

  23-10-2019 21:34 via engadget.com
  Lexus’s first autonomous EV has drones and ‘artificial muscle technology’  Engadget
  
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• American drivers warming to self-driving cars - survey

  23-10-2019 21:24
  About 40% of adult Americans drivers are leaning more to buying self-driving cars in the future as they look to snack, chat on their phone or catch up on email while the car drives itself, a survey by Adobe Analytics showed on Wednesday.
  
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• U.S. tech firm Maxar taps startup's software for moon mission

  23-10-2019 20:16
  (This October 22 story has been refiled to correct headline to say software rather than robotics, first paragraph to clarify that the Olis software would run on a Maxar robotic arm, paragraphs 2 and 3 to state that the robotic arm belongs to Maxar, and paragraph 4 to remove reference to Olis building the robotic arm)
  
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• The most important marketing-technology executives in 2019 - Business Insider

  23-10-2019 19:40 via businessinsider.com
  The most important marketing-technology executives in 2019  Business Insider
  
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• Intel files antitrust case against SoftBank-backed firm over patent practices

  23-10-2019 18:17
  Chipmaker Intel Corp has filed an antitrust lawsuit against a SoftBank Group Corp-owned investment company alleging the firm stockpiled patents to hold up technology companies with numerous lawsuits.
  
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• How will Amazon deliver in its second biggest market?

  23-10-2019 17:51
  Every half an hour, 50 vans sweep into Amazon's distribution center in Mannheim, Germany and sweep out again with up to 200 parcels and a precise delivery plan in each.
  
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• U.S. Justice Department bolsters antitrust staff to work on online platform probe

  23-10-2019 17:28
  The Justice Department beefed up its online platforminvestigation team on Wednesday by adding Ryan Shores, formerly a partner with an international law firm, to help oversee its probe of Alphabet's Google, Facebook and other big tech firms.
  
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• Google claims quantum supremacy over supercomputers

  23-10-2019 17:10
  Google says its new quantum computer takes less than three-and-a-half minutes to solve a problem that would take a supercomputer about 10,000 years.
  
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• Russia's Yandex to test driverless cars in U.S. from next summer

  23-10-2019 16:51
  Russian internet firm Yandex will begin testing its driverless cars in the United States next summer, the company said on Wednesday.
  
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• SoftBank adds to financial burden with $10 billion WeWork deal

  23-10-2019 16:29
  SoftBank Group Corp's financial strains escalated on Wednesday as it agreed to spend more than $10 billion to take over office-space sharing startup WeWork, knocking the Japanese tech conglomerate's already weakened shares.
  
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• Honda brings forward goal to be fully electrified in Europe to 2022

  23-10-2019 16:23
  Japanese carmaker Honda has brought forward a goal to only sell electric and hybrid cars in Europe by three years to 2022, a leading company executive said on Wednesday.
  
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• Agile starts with leadership, not a textbook

  23-10-2019 16:00
  Embracing agile ways of working at SiteMinder, which for years had established itself as a global market leader through technical innovation and pace-to-market, has represented a fundamental shift in how we work.
  
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• Portugal plans auction of 5G frequencies next year

  23-10-2019 15:45
  Portugal's telecommunications market regulator Anacom plans to hold an auction between April and June next year to allocate next-generation 5G frequencies to national operators, it said on Wednesday.
  
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• Technology Will Keep Us From Running Out of Stuff - WIRED

  23-10-2019 15:00 via wired.com
  Technology Will Keep Us From Running Out of Stuff  WIRED
  
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• Vodafone and MasMovil deny holding tie-up talks in Spain

  23-10-2019 14:53
  Both Vodafone and MasMovil denied a report by the El Confidencial news website saying the Spanish mobile operator was working with Goldman Sachs to buy the British telecom's business in Spain for 6 billion euros ($6.67 billion).
  
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• Factbox: In Germany, competition heats up between two logistics giants

  23-10-2019 14:19
  Amazonis not only a major customer of logistics companies like Deutsche Post DHL, FedEx and UPS. It is a growing rival.
  
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• NeuralDx is raising $1.5 million to commercialise its brain disorder detecting technology - Stockhead

  23-10-2019 13:07 via stockhead.com.au
  NeuralDx is raising $1.5 million to commercialise its brain disorder detecting technology  Stockhead
  
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• 'Molecular spintronics': new technology offers hope for quantum computing - The Conversation UK

  23-10-2019 12:36 via theconversation.com
  'Molecular spintronics': new technology offers hope for quantum computing  The Conversation UK
  
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• Trump Officials Battle Over Plan to Keep Technology Out of Chinese Hands - The New York Times

  23-10-2019 11:01 via nytimes.com
  Trump Officials Battle Over Plan to Keep Technology Out of Chinese Hands  The New York Times
  
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• The Antique Technology Still Taking the Ocean's Pulse - Hakai Magazine

  23-10-2019 09:06 via hakaimagazine.com
  The Antique Technology Still Taking the Ocean's Pulse  Hakai Magazine
  
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• Empowering children to use technology to be active and creative - The Sector

  23-10-2019 09:00 via thesector.com.au
  
  Empowering children to use technology to be active and creative  The Sector
  
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• Created with Sketch. Innovation Empowering children to use technology to be active and creative Games have - The Sector

  23-10-2019 09:00 via thesector.com.au
  
  Created with Sketch. Innovation Empowering children to use technology to be active and creative Games have  The Sector
  
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• Telstra strikes 5G edge deal with Cradlepoint

  23-10-2019 07:07
  Telstra will work with US company Cradlepoint to develop a ‘5G for Business’ offering that integrates with a 5G cellular modem and an edge router.
  
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• Nike 2019: CEO Matt Parker resigns, new era of technology - NEWS.com.au

  23-10-2019 01:45 via news.com.au
  Nike 2019: CEO Matt Parker resigns, new era of technology  NEWS.com.au
  
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