What just happened? In a post-earnings call with industry analysts last week, Dell's COO Jeffrey Clarke warned that the company's PC business for commercial and premium consumers was affected by CPU supply shortages at Intel's end, and as a result, it would have to lower its revenue forecast for 2019.

Intel's been in a tough spot lately, and things seem unlikely to improve for the company anytime soon. On the one hand, there's the business of selling

A hot potato: Despite the dangers and possible legal consequences, many people still use their smartphones while driving—and most get away with it. In the Australian state of New South Wales, authorities could have come up with a solution: the world’s first AI-powered mobile phone detection cameras.

Transport for NSW says the cameras, which are both fixed and trailer-mounted, will operate day and night in all weather conditions to identify drivers using their mobiles.

The system uses artificial intelligence to determine if someone

In a nutshell: This holiday season is off to a record start. Thanksgiving Day set a new high in online spending with consumers making more than $4.2 billion in purchases from e-retailers. Black Friday also busted previous sales records but fell slightly shy of analysts' predictions.

Adobe Analytics recorded over one trillion visits to more than 4.500 online vendors since November 1 with completed transactions totaling $68.1 billion, far short of analysts' predictions of $143.8

A hot potato: Under orders from the Singapore government, Facebook has labeled a post by alternate news website States Times Review as containing lies. The post in question, which remains available, contained “scurrilous accusations against the elections department, the prime minister, and the election process in Singapore” according to the government.

The post claims a whistleblower who allegedly exposed a political candidate’s Christian “extremist” affiliations was arrested for fabricating fake news, and the government deleted his Facebook account. The Singapore government denies both counts

WTF?! For their annual Black Friday stunt, Cards Against Humanity set man and machine against each other to see who could write the most wicked jokes. Over a 16-hour livestreamed competition, customers were able to buy new $5 card packs written in real-time from the regular writers or an AI, with whoever raking in the most profits getting to keep their job.

By the sixteenth hour locked in a small room, the humans had devolved into mumbling coffee pots while the AI trundled on, unrelenting

In context: In a world where smartphone makers and PC OEMs say 5G is the future of connectivity, Intel lost the ability to compete with Qualcomm because of the latter's anticompetitive licensing deals. That means there's less competition in the modem space, which is terrible news for both consumers and manufacturers.

Earlier this year, Apple poached Intel's lead 5G phone modem developer, which is widely believed to have prompted the latter's exit from that market. In July, news broke that Intel