Company says it needs to be “leaner” to accomplish ambitious goals. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A man attending this week’s CES show in Las Vegas says that a lidar sensor from startup AEye has permanently damaged the sensor on his $1,998 Sony camera. Earlier this week, roboticist and entrepreneur Jit Ray Chowdhury snapped photos of a car at CES with AEye’s…

The simplest answer to a problem is not necessarily always the best answer. If you ask the question, “How do I get a voice assistance to work on a crowded subway car?”, the simplest answer is to shout into a microphone but we don’t want to ask Siri to put toilet paper on the shopping…

There’s nothing wrong with the ‘no license, no chips’ accusation at the heart of the government’s case against the mobile chipmaker, Steve Mollenkopf argues. …read more Source:: CNet

Lucas Matney writes via TechCrunch: Improbable is taking a daring step after announcing earlier today that Unity had revoked its license to operate on the popular game development engine. The U.K.-based cloud gaming startup has inked a late-night press release with Unity rival Epic Games, which operates the Unreal Engine and is the creator of…

In a wide-ranging interview with Mark Spoonauer from Tom’s Guide, CTO and president of LG Electronics, IP Park, said his company is working on both rollable and foldable smartphones, regardless of whether there’s demand for them or not. Here’s an excerpt from the report: Are you looking into rollable and foldable phones as well? We…

Commentary: I watched Netflix show Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, but reject her advice to pare down my vast book collection. Trendy quest to declutter, be damned. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s day 21 of the US government shutdown, and the tech industry is starting to feel the heat. …read more Source:: CNet

Not much fun back in the West for SpaceX, tho: Staff decimated Pics and vid China’s Chang’e lunar lander has beamed back its first pictures of the far side of the Moon.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Amazon Dash buttons have been ruled illegal in Germany for making it too easy to buy Amazon products. Germany consumer advocacy group, Verbraucherzentrale NRW, “complained that Amazon’s terms enable the company to switch out an ordered product with something else, and the buttons break laws protecting shoppers from buying things they are not fully informed…