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Huawei Technologies will begin selling smartphones capable of running its self-designed operating system next year, as it seeks to keep its consumer business going without Google Android and other U.S. suppliers. 
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C'est un investissement surprenant pour Xavier Niel. Le patron de Free et copropriétaire du journal "Le Monde" a acquis, via son école, un fort napoléonien au cœur d'une forêt sur l'île d'Oléron. C'est Sud Ouest qui assure que le dirigeant de l'opérateur de téléphonie mobile aurait fait l'acquisition de ce site de 25.600 m² datant de 1818. Des informations confirmées à Capital par une source proche du dossier. C'est en réalité son école, l'École 42, qui a acquis ces locaux d'exception. On ne sait pas encore s'il s'agit de créer une annexe à ces écoles du numérique ou un centre de vacances pour ces étudiants formés pour être développeurs. Les trois établissements 42 délivrent des certifications professionnelles labellisées Grande École du Numérique et font partie de l’association à but non lucratif dont Xavier Niel est le président. Sud Ouest précise que le ministère de la Défense avait publié une annonce et procédé à un appel à candidatures pour choisir parmi les possibles acheteurs qui avaient jusqu'au 29 octobre pour faire leur offre. Le journal local évoque "80 candidatures, dont 15 solides". Le projet d'école du numérique de l'École 42 de Xavier Niel semble donc avoir séduit le ministère. Si le montant de l'achat n'a pas été révélé, le bâtiment est été évalué aux alentours de 850.000 euros par la Direction régionale des finances publiques de Bordeaux. Ce fort s'étend sur un terrain de 3.200 mètres carrés au cœur d'une forêt de 645 hectares. Un lieu reculé qui, après avoir été garnison et prison, servait de lieu de colonie de vacances pour les enfants de militaires et du personnel civil des armées au 20e siècle, avant de fermer en 2012. Construit de 1810 à 1818 en face de Fort Boyard pour consolider les lignes de défense française face aux Anglais, il accueillera donc peut-être bientôt des étudiants du patron de Free que ce soit pour des vacances ou des formations. Un projet important pour le dirigeant qui déplore "un ascenseur social qui ne marche pas en France" et a la volonté de "passer le relais" et de "donner leur chance à des jeunes défavorisés ou qui ne savent pas ce qu’ils veulent faire en les poussant vers l’entrepreneuriat".
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Oléron, la pampa française ? La tendance pour les milliardaires de la Tech à investir, au delà des media, dans l'immobilier, le foncier, et parfois à très grande échelle, n'épargne pas les français.
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At 2AM, in the dark morning hours of June 28th, Mark Zuckerberg woke up and got on a plane. He was traveling to an aviation testing facility in Yuma, AZ, where a small Facebook team had been working on a secret project. Their mission: to design, build, and launch a high-altitude solar-powered plane, in the hopes that one day a fleet of the aircraft would deliver internet access around the world.Zuckerberg arrived at the Yuma Proving Ground before dawn. “A lot of the team was really nervous about me coming,” Zuckerberg said in an interview with The Verge. A core group of roughly two dozen people work on the drone, named Aquila (uh-KEY-luh), in locations from Southern California to the United Kingdom. For months, they had been working in rotations in Yuma, a small desert city in southwestern Arizona known primarily for its brutal summer temperatures.On this day, Aquila would have its first functional test flight: the goal consisted of taking off safely, stabilizing in the air, and flying for at least 30 minutes before landing. “I just felt this is such an important milestone for the company, and for connecting the world, that I have to be there,” Zuckerberg says.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
141 Feet wingspan, 900kg, 2000 Watts, 2 years only : #hardwareisnotdead ...
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Nestled in the French Alps, Grenoble may be hard to get to, but it has consistently made strong and established contributions to the tech industry.
In European terms, Grenoble is a pioneering cluster. Long before cities like London, Berlin, Moscow and even Paris aped the Silicon Valley model and defined themselves as centers for urban hipsters and entrepreneurs, the French government funded schemes to bring research, academia and industry together.
The city is also known for its expertise in micro- and nano-technology. Established companies and market leaders such as STMicroelectronics and NXP Semiconductors are based in the city. The reason for the prevalence of these technologies is partly due to Inria, a government-funded public science and technology institution established in France in 1967. It has eight research centers located across France, a €264 million budget and the Grenoble and Lyon research Centre, established in 1992. The Inria Grenoble–Rhône-Alpes centre has 34 research teams and 250 PhD students, 45% of whom come from overseas. Since 1998 it has created more than 20 startups in industries such as road traffic management, 3D cinema and communication infrastructure management. In recent times, brands like smart window company Hilabs and advice systems company SysFera have emerged from its Grenoble center.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Great Mashable feature, echoing http://cdcQNAbstract France indeed has an impressive array of Tech Hubs that deserve to be made much more visible !
Larry's comment,
November 13, 2013 2:15 AM
Don't forget Kalray, the first 256 core cpu and massively parallel computing sdk working for 1/100th of energy
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As the novel coronavirus continues to take a human and economic toll across the world, the lucrative business of tech conferences is not immune. The direct economic loss from the cancellation from nine major tech conferences including Google I/O, Facebook’s F8 event, Mobile World Congress and now SXSW over coronavirus has already surpassed $1 billion, according to estimates the data intelligence company PredictHQ pulled for Recode. That number doesn’t even include what event organizers like Facebook itself would have made from the event. The figure just covers the losses to airlines, hotels, restaurants, and transportation providers that would normally make money from attendees’ purchases. Some $480 million — the biggest loss — came from the cancellation of Mobile World Congress, which was supposed to host more than 100,000 attendees in Barcelona last month. That’s followed by SXSW, an Austin tech, music, and movie conference that had approximately 280,000 attendees last year and whose newly announced cancellation could result in $350 million in direct losses according to PredictHQ. The Game Developers Conference, a 30,000-person event that was scheduled for March but has been postponed, could incur $129 million in losses. Google I/O, a 5,000-person developer conferencehas a direct loss estimate of nearly $20 million. While a number of events, including Facebook F8 and Adobe Summit, will still have an online component, that effort does not stave off the significant economic loss from canceling the physical event.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
PredictHQ said there was a 500 percent increase in major event cancellations and postponements last month, and the International Air Transport Association this month increased previous estimates for airline travel losses from the coronavirus outbreak to up to $113 billion. Oxford Economics estimates that business conferences generate more than a trillion dollars in direct spending annually; so far these canceled tech conferences haven’t put a major dent in that. Still, both tech companies and consumers will be responsible for bearing the brunt of their losses, as most major insurance companies exclude communicable disease losses from reimbursement.
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Google will open an AI research center in Accra later this year, the company announced. Its the company’s first in Africa.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Meet #AfricaTech
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Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn't always been this way. A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men. But in 1984, something changed. The percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even as the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising. What happened?
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Unexpected and very interesting answer to why girls do not code (anymore). First time I see this parity issue covered backwards.
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Mike Butcher at TechCrunch has done a remarkable work of spotting very well known as well as emerging and promising conferences with a focus on Europe, but also the unmissable suspects in SF Bay Area or Austin
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Avoir son propre (design de) processeur semble indispensable pour les acteurs de la #Tech chinois et américains. Il semble que le système d'exploitation soit la prochaine étape.
A la table des négociations l'Europe serait-elle réduite à figurer au menu ? Thierry Breton nous sauvera-t-il ? L'open source est-elle une piste avec RISC-V International ou Open Compute Project Foundation ? Aurions-nous raté une marche depuis l'apparition d'un chapitre "Souveraineté" dans le rapport trop vite enterré de la Mission Lemoine ?