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In an internal memo, a male software engineer at Google argued the lack of women in top tech jobs was due to biological differences between men and women.
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Unlimiterhear provides Bluetooth solutions that customize music for your ears, provide dynamic volume protection, enhance speech clarity that place frequencies within your core listening range, and allow AI to be accessed on the go.
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Wall Street is braced for delays to the launch of the next iPhone, as supply shortages and manufacturing problems threaten to push the smartphone's release later than Apple's usual September debut.
Finacial Times
A new report from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities says LG will soon join the fray and supply Apple with OLED displays for the iPhone 8.
9to5Mac.com
The world is pushing back against China's foray into semiconductors.
Wall Street Journal
Western Digital said it will move forward with arbitration to get a say over Toshiba's sale of its chip unit after the Japanese company agreed to provide notice before closing.
Bloomberg
The US economy gathered speed in the second quarter of the year, growing at an annualised pace of 2.6%.
BBC News
To reduce costs, Seagate said it would lay off 600 employees, which could save the company about $90 million.
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Imagination Technologies has become a takeover target for a private equity fund backed by the Chinese government.
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Toshiba's board will meet on Wednesday to consider offers for its chip unit from Western Digital and Taiwan's Foxconn in addition to a bid from a consortium that was previously favorite, a source familiar with the matter said. Toshiba is scrambling to sell its flash memory unit to cover losses from its bankrupt US nuclear business Westinghouse.
Reuters
NXP Semiconductors will spend about US$22 million to expand manufacturing at its fabs in Texas and Arizona to make secure ID chips for US government programs, the company said.
EE Times
Valor Glass is a breakthrough glass container engineered for the storage and delivery of 21st century injectable drugs.
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The Snapdragon 845 hasn't surfaced much on the rumor mill, as the processor isn't due for another six months.
WCCF Tech
Samsung Electronics plans to triple the market share of its contract chip manufacturing business within the next five years by aggressively adding clients, a senior company executive said, as it targets new growth drivers for the chips business.
Reuters
Essential is planning its international foray with launches in the UK, western Europe and Japan, although it has yet to launch its minimalist $699 handset in the US.
The Financial Times
Advanced Micro Devices, in releasing the Zen architecture and the Ryzen product family for consumer PCs, started down a path of growth in the processor market that it had been absent from for a decade.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Intel has axed the division that worked on health wearables, including fitness trackers, according to a person familiar with the matter.
CNBC
Apple and its Asian contract manufacturers are hitting back at Qualcomm with legal claims that try to undermine the chipmaker's attempt to force them to pay licensing fees.
Bloomberg
Facebook already tailors its feed of news, sports scores and viral videos to show you what you want. Now Google is going to do it too. In a classic case of Silicon Valley "Anything you can do I can do better," the search giant on Wednesday updated its free Google app for iPhones and Android phones with a feed that uses artificial intelligence to show you things like news stories or movie trailers.
CNET
After six months of escalating legal battles and increasingly heated rhetoric between mobile market titans Apple and Qualcomm, the head of Qualcomm sounded more conciliatory on Monday.
Fortune
It is increasingly looking like the future belongs to artificial intelligence. Two of the hottest stocks in that industry are Nvidia and AMD. The strength of those stocks is largely attributable to the excitement around the artificial-intelligence capabilities of their processors.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Samsung recently bought ultraviolet lithography machines to make 7nm iPhone processors, The Korea Herald said on Tuesday. Sources claimed that one of Samsung's three co-CEOs, Kwon Oh-hyun, was central to winning the deal, and visited Apple's headquarters in June.
Apple Insider
IBM has unveiled IBM Z, the next generation of the world's most powerful transaction system capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day. The new system also introduces a breakthrough encryption engine that, for the first time, makes it possible to pervasively encrypt data associated with any application, cloud service or database all the time.
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AMD's new Ryzen processors offer quite a bit of bang for your buck, and have been a hot ticket item for the last few months. Unfortunately, scammers will find a way to take advantage people's eagerness to get their hands on a product no matter what. Reports from at least two users have indicated that counterfeit AMD Ryzen processors are being sold by Amazon or Amazon retailers, and the processors customers are receiving aren't even made by AMD at all.
Twinfinite
The Labor Department will not get access to the full details it has requested on 21,000 Google employees as part of its investigation of equal pay, an administrative law judge has ruled, saying that the agency's demand for data is too broad and could violate workers' privacy.
Washington Post
During California's Gold Rush, it was often the sellers of pickaxes and shovels who made the most money. In the frenzy to get rich quick from cryptocurrencies, some investors are calling computer chipmakers the modern-day equivalent.
Bloomberg
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