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Chipmakers helping to give computers a visual cortex

Samsung, Qualcomm, ARM, Broadcom, and a bunch of other technology companies want your computer to see. To that end, they banded together at the Khronos Group to try to standardize some elements of machine vision technology. It’s the kind of thing that could make it easier to write an augmented reality app for a mobile phone or sign-recognition software for …

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Nokia approves Microsoft sell

Nokia shareholders have approved the sale of the Finnish company’s mobile phone division to Microsoft. Meeting today at an extraordinary general meeting in Helsinki, 99.7 per cent of shareholders gave the green light to the €5.44bn (£4.5bn) sale, according to the Financial Times. After flogging the mobile phone part of the business and licensing its related patents to Microsoft, Nokia …

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