Information Technology
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Consumer Reports: Tesla's automatic lane-changing feature is 'far less competent' than a human driver
May 25, 2019 1:00 am - The latest version of Tesla's automatic lane changing feature may actually be less safe than a human driver, according to Consumer Reports. An April update to Tesla's au...
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Huawei insists it's the victim this time of stolen trade secrets
May 25, 2019 1:00 am - Huawei Technologies Co. may be fighting allegations around the world that it's stolen technological know-how from other companies, but in a Texas court case the Chinese ...
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Ford's way to finish driverless deliveries: Package-carrying robots
May 25, 2019 1:00 am - It's a headless robot in a driverless car. Ford is working on a way to resolve what self-driving researchers refer to as "the last 50-foot problem." If an autonomous del...
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Will U.S.-China trade war help end China's dependency on Western tech?
May 25, 2019 1:00 am - The geopolitical clash between the United States and China hinges on the tiniest of technologies, chips and other components that are essential to nearly every smartphon...
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Huawei has tiny presence in US, huge global footprint
May 25, 2019 1:00 am - Brittney Jones is something of a rarity among U.S. smartphone users. She prefers Huawei. She is part of such a small group that the 27-year-old Olympia, Washington, resi...
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Amazon is working on a device to read human emotions
May 25, 2019 1:00 am - Amazon.com is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions. The wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in inte...
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Both Democrats, Republicans blast facial-recognition technology in a rare bipartisan moment
May 25, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Facial-recognition technology endured fierce resistance in Washington on Wednesday as both Democratic and Republican lawmakers criticized the artificial-int...
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Lawmakers join labor, business in call for data center tax incentivesMay 23, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A group of upstate and downstate Republicans and Democrats joined labor and business interests Wednesday to call on the General Assembly to pass a bill tha...
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Zebra to acquire data analytics company ProfitectMay 20, 2019 1:00 am - LINCOLNSHIRE - Zebra Technologies Corp. said it intends to acquire Profitect Inc., a privately-held provider of prescriptive analytics for the retail and consumer packag...
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Review: Real potential in foldable screen on Lenovo laptop
May 19, 2019 6:22 am - The folding-screen trend just leaped from phones to laptops. On Monday, Lenovo unveiled what it's calling the world's first "foldable" laptop, and I got to spend a littl...