A new report from KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that Apple is preparing to launch a smart speaker powered by Siri at WWDC.

Apple has announced the dates for this year’s annual WWDC conference, as revealed on Apple’s website.

Matt Stonie shocked competitive eating by upsetting Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut at the fourth-of-July hot-dog-eating contest at Nathan’s Famous, in Coney Island, thwarting Chestnut’s bid for a ninth straight victory.

Microchip maker Intel is buying chip designer Altera in a deal worth about $16.7bn (€23.2bn).

USA: Referring to “this ridiculously stupid winter”, the Ithaca website suggests visiting the Florida Keys this week and returning “when things thaw out.”

Poor food and rude waiters can create a restaurant experience that is literally traumatic, scientists have discovered.

A new chapter in the story of Anne Boleyn worthy of an episode of Wolf Hall has been unveiled, thanks to facial recognition technology. Henry VIII’s attempt to erase his second wife from history after chopping off her head may have been thwarted after more than 470 years.

A leading American climate scientist has said he felt “scared” when a shadowy organisation claiming to represent the CIA asked him about the possibility of weaponised weather.

People cease to be ‘kidults’ at aged 25 as they take responsibility

People in their 20s could accurately be described as “kidults”, according to research that suggests adolescent effects on the brain extend far beyond the early teens.

Print out your treasured photos or risk losing them as digital technology could turn the 21st century into a new dark age lost to history, a leading internet pioneer has warned.

Stephen Hawking has warned against plans to beam radio messages to possible alien civilisations on distant planets. A number of scientists have supported Messages to Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

SLIDING RATINGS

Any possible sale of either PayPal or EBay will be watched closely in Dublin and Dundalk, where the two employ almost 3,000 staff.

A jury has decided that Samsung infringed Apple smartphone patents and awarded $120m (€86.5m) in damages to the California company.

The father of a 15-year-old boy who stowed away in a jetliner’s wheel well has arrived in Hawaii, officials said.

Two winning tickets to split $636m US lottery

A jury in Silicon Valley has ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple $290m (€215m) for copying vital iPhone and iPad features.

Apple is set for a replay of a court fight against Samsung in which the iPhone maker may seek to recoup more than the $411m (€305m) in damages a judge cut from a $1.05bn jury award in 2012 over patents.

One of Cork’s hi-tech leaders hopes to triple its staff numbers and develop a European research and development centre over the next few years.

eBay finished 2012 with a flourish as bargain-hunting festive shoppers flocked to its internet shopping centre and digital payment service to help lift the company’s fourth-quarter earnings above analyst projections.

Electronics giant Apple has revealed a smaller version of its hit iPad tablet computer which comes with a screen about two-thirds the size of the full model.

Apple has given a US judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the US market.

A South Korean court ruled today that technology giants Apple and Samsung infringed each other’s patents, and ordered a partial ban of their products in the country.

Samsung has launched a super-size version of its Galaxy Note smartphone, the latest salvo in its battle with Apple for the multibillion-euro handheld market.

Samsung faced two options to compete in the booming mobile phone market after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to critical acclaim in 2007 — innovate or copy, an Apple lawyer told a US court yesterday.

Bitter rival Samsung faced two options to compete in the booming mobile phone market after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to critical acclaim in 2007 - innovate or copy, an Apple lawyer told a US court.

Lawyers for technology giants Apple and Samsung will fire the first shots in the firms' "rip-off" court battle today.

EBay more than doubled its second-quarter net income thanks to higher revenue from its PayPal online payments business and its e-commerce websites.

A man has stripped naked at a US airport as a protest against airport security screeners, police said.

Yahoo is suing Facebook over patents, weeks before the social-networking heavyweight is due to cash in with its initial public offering of stock.

Yahoo sued Facebook yesterday over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the web, the first major legal battle among big technology companies in social media.

Ireland is eyeing up the next wave of foreign direct investment by signing a bilateral agreement to boost the budding cleantech sector and secure future jobs.

Facebook is already trading like a public company as insiders and wealthy investors use private marketplaces to buy and sell stock in the social networking company, ahead of its initial offering.

PRE-TAX profits at the Irish arm of US technology firm Xilinx increased almost threefold to $28m (€22m), new figures show.

EBAY, the world’s largest online marketplace, forecast fourth-quarter sales and profit last night that missed some analysts’ estimates as it spends more on marketing products to woo developers and strengthen its payment services.

The top-ranked competitive eater in the world and reigning king of the World Bratwurst Eating Championship successfully defended his title in Cincinnati, Ohio, washing down 35 sausages in 10 minutes.

Fourteen people have been arrested in the US for allegedly mounting a cyberattack on PayPal’s website in retaliation for suspending the accounts of WikiLeaks.

AN Irish-based subsidiary of US online giant eBay sustained a pre-tax loss of €2.7 million last year in spite of revenues increasing by 37% to €53.4m.

San Jose: Google was sued by PayPal, the fastest-growing unit at online marketplace EBay, over claims it misappropriated trade secrets from PayPal’s mobile-payment business.

THURSDAY afternoon, San José, California.

JOBS could be at risk if a Gaeltacht village loses its post office.

AN Irish-based subsidiary of US online giant eBay sustained a pre-tax loss of more than €9 million last year, despite increasing its turnover to €50m.

One of the world’s leading technology firms is to axe more than a quarter of its workforce at its European headquarters in Dublin, it was revealed today.