Gun with a chip: U.S. Army contracts may lead to a smarter firearm (Fri, 18 Oct 2019)
A carbine that can call in an airstrike. A computer-aided scope on a machine gun that can turn just about anyone into a marksman.Even firearms that measure and record every movement, from the angle of the barrel to the precise moment of each shot fired, which could provide law enforcement with a digital record of police shootings.
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Snakes and ladders: SoftBank Vision Fund's climbing, sliding valuations (Fri, 18 Oct 2019)
The $100 billion Vision Fund of Japan's SoftBank Group Corp has in just over two years burned through much of its capital investing in money-losing, late-stage tech startups in areas as varied as autonomous driving, healthcare and finance.
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Indonesia issues rules to block illegally imported mobile phones (Fri, 18 Oct 2019)
Indonesia has issued regulations to allow authorities to block smartphones purchased on the black market, in a bid to encourage investors to produce mobile phones in the country, a minister said on Friday.
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Zuckerberg defends Facebook's approach to free speech, draws line on China (Fri, 18 Oct 2019)
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday defended the social media company's light regulation of speech and lack of fact checking on political advertising, while citing China's censorship as a roadblock to operating in the country.
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Martin Luther King's daughter tells Facebook disinformation helped kill civil rights leader (Fri, 18 Oct 2019)
Disinformation campaigns helped lead to the assassination of Martin Luther King, the daughter of the U.S. civil rights champion said on Thursday after the head of Facebook said social media should not factcheck political advertisements.
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