The Japanese imaging company, which makes most of its money from medical equipment, announced Wednesday that it will sell its camera business to Japan Industrial Partners, the company that acquired VAIO from Sony in 2014. The sale marks the end of Olympus’ consumer camera business that started in 1936, when …
Read More »Amazon Launches Cloud Service to Help Non-Encoders Build Applications
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during the WSJDLive Global Technology Conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 25, 2016 Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | fake pictures Amazon’s cloud unit announced Wednesday the introduction of Honeycode, a service that non-coders can use to write applications. The move …
Read More »ACLU files a complaint alleging the first known case of mistaken arrest based on facial recognition identification
According to the complaint, Robert Williams was entering the driveway of his home in Farmington Hills, Michigan, one January afternoon when a police vehicle suddenly stopped and blocked him. Officers jumped up and put Williams under arrest as his wife and children. He watched from his door and took him …
Read More »These are the factors and actions that will help you play in the COVID-19 market.
If we are currently in the first innings of a bull market, as some analysts think, how should you invest? There are big issues to consider: “working from home,” for example. And there are outstanding unique stocks, like Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.16%. But one approach that is in the middle …
Read More »China’s GPS rival Beidou is now fully operational after the launch of the final satellite
To date, there are only four main GNSS networks: GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russia), Galileo (European Union) and now Beidou. India and Japan operate smaller systems. Most people are familiar with GPS, which is used for everything from personal navigation on your smartphone to tracking aircraft and container ships around the …
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