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CE China 2018, a global IFA brand, successfully started today with trade visitors and consumers experiencing international as well as Chinese brands showcasing their latest products and innovations at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center. Shenzhen/Berlin, 3 May 2018 – A major element on day one was the premier of IFA Retail University, jointly hosted by Chinese retail giant Suning. While attracting specialized retailers and experts, it provided deep insights from leading global brands into their newest developments, strategies and market stats. Eleven companies in total performed on stage, including GfK,…

The University of Surrey is developing a revolutionary technology that will allow people to act as their own “power source” by wearing clothing such as “smart” shirts and shoes that harvest and store electricity. The wearable power sources are Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs), energy harvesting devices, which convert the movements of materials that produce static charge into usable electricity. When someone wears a TENG while walking or running, it harvests the mechanical energy from the movement and converts it into electricity. This can then be stored in batteries or supercapacitors, and…

Check Point Threat Intelligence and research teams recently discovered a high volume Chinese threat operation which has infected over 250 million computers worldwide. The installed malware,  Fireball, takes over target browsers and turns them into zombies. Fireball has two main functionalities:  the ability of running any code on victim computers–downloading any file or malware, and  hijacking and manipulating infected users’ web-traffic to generate ad-revenue. Currently, Fireball installs plug-ins and additional configurations to boost its advertisements, but just as easily it can turn into a prominent distributor for any additional malware.…

The new chip and a cloud-based machine-learning supercomputer will help Google establish itself as an AI-focused hardware maker. If artificial intelligence is rapidly eating software, then Google may have the biggest appetite around. At the company’s annual developer conference today, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new computer processor designed to perform the kind of machine learning that has taken the industry by storm in recent years (see “10 Breakthrough Technologies: Deep Learning”). The announcement reflects how rapidly artificial intelligence is transforming Google itself, and it is the surest sign yet that…

After months of talks with India, Apple is now ready to make iPhone phones in this country as of the end of April. That’s according to Priyank Kharge, information technology minister for the Indian state of Karnataka, who discussed the plans in a Bloomberg interview late Thursday. The move into the world’s fastest-growing major smartphone market comes at a time when iPhone sales have slowed in key markets such as China. “Apple’s iPhone devices will be made in Bangalore (Karnataka) and all devices will be designed to the domestic market,…

PORTLAND, Oregon, November 2, 2016 – Citifyd, (www.citifyd.com), the smart city technology company connecting people to parking providers and merchants, announced today an agreement with smart city development company P3GM (www.p3gm.com) to facilitate private parking sharing in the city of Pasadena, California through the Citifyd shared parking solution. The Citifyd platform will allow private commercial parking spot owners to list their unused and available spaces for a period of time and price of their choosing. Residents and visitors will then be able to book and pay for parking using the…