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With two fans designed to make it easier to breathe
The Verge
Samsung Electronics plans to allow some workers in South Korea to work from home in September under a pilot programme, a company official said on Thursday, as the country battles a resurgence in novel coronavirus cases.
Reuters
Kioxia Holdings, the world's second-largest maker of flash memory chips, will list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 6 in an initial public offering worth up to $3.6 billion, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.
Reuters
The United States is considering new restrictions on exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and associated software tools, lasers, sensors, and other technology to prevent them from falling into the hands of U.S. adversaries like China.
Reuters
China is likely to import at least $300 billion worth of semiconductors for the third year running, an industry association official said, in a sign of continuing reliance on foreign know-how despite efforts to gain local capability.
Reuters
China's Alibaba Group has put on hold plans to invest in Indian companies, two sources aware of the plans told Reuters, amid souring business relations and rising political tension between the two nations after a clash on their Himalayan border.
Reuters
Global smartphone sales dropped 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to data released Tuesday from Gartner.
CNBC
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma could be about to pull off a record-breaking IPO for the second time.
CNN
BabbleLabs takes out unwanted background noises in real-time. The technology will be integrated in Cisco's collaboration portfolio.
ZDNet
The government is funding basic research in AI, too.
CNET
The pandemic has spurred consumers to buy a ton more PCs than in the previous quarter.
PC World
Chip company Arm Holdings said on Monday it has put the brakes on the proposed transfer of two of its software businesses to its Japan-based parent SoftBank Group.
Reuters
The eye-catching dome will be part of the Marina Bay Sands resort.
engadget
Industry executives say government seeking to phase out Chinese equipment without formal ban
Finacial Times
Google Cloud is investing $100 million into Amwell, formerly known as American Well, in a concurrent private placement with its IPO.
CNBC
A group of carmakers and tech firms is urging US regulators to take further action against chipmaker Qualcomm over its sales practices.
BBC News
A cloud contract effort designed for governments outside the U.S. could launch later this year.
CNBC
Russia is ready to co-operate with China and its Huawei on 5G technology which Moscow is currently trying to develop, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, citing Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Reuters
The latest round of trade talks between Britain and the European Union has concluded without a breakthrough, leaving negotiators just two months to reach a deal and avoid further damage to businesses that have already been slammed by the coronavirus recession.
CNN
Apple is apologizing after it found itself in yet another controversy this weekend over its app store.
CNN
Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays, of up to several months, in getting this year's most crucial back-to-school supplies: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Washington Post
The coronavirus crisis will see the world's biggest firms slash dividend payouts between 17%-23% this year or what could be as much $400 billion, a new report has shown, although sectors such as tech are fighting the trend.
Reuters
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown into sharp focus the role of government in supporting the economy during periods of crises.
CNBC
From manufacturing to the service sector, robots are playing a bigger role in China
South China Morning Post
As the U.S.-China "tech war" widens, investors are betting on China's efforts to replace U.S. technologies with indigenous applications to run networks in the state sector.
Reuters
China's economy has bounced back from the Covid-19 outbreak in China's Wuhan province. That's great news for Alibaba, the e-commerce and cloud giant. But the company also acknowledged the threat of being caught up in the burgeoning trade war between the United States and China.
CNN
Nvidia forecast third-quarter sales above expectations on Wednesday, but results from the data center business of the rising semiconductor industry star disappointed some investors, pressuring shares.
Reuters
Technology is shaping the future of the automotive industry and it's creating a big opportunity in the semiconductor space, Vincent Roche, chief executive of chipmaker Analog Devices, told CNBC Wednesday.
CNBC
China said on Tuesday it firmly opposes U.S. suppression of Huawei, after the Trump administration announced it would further tighten restrictions on the company.
Reuters
Oracle's bid for Chinese-owned social media app TikTok might not be as odd as it first seems.
CNBC
A huge expansion for the Google Stadia rival.
engadget
More than 47,000 games were removed
The Verge
The US is placing further restrictions on Huawei Technologies in a bid to limit the company's access to electronic components, preventing the company from buying computer chips made using US technology even if they were not designed specifically for Huawei.
BBC News
CEO Jensen Huang will kick things off with a keynote.
engadget
Canada has released as much information as it legally can about the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, the government's lawyers said on Monday, as she sought more confidential documents relating to her 2018 detention.
Reuters
Xe LP graphics in Tiger Lake laptops are only the first part of the story.
Ars Technica
The escalating battle between Apple and Epic Games has already resulted in Fortnite being unavailable to download on phones around the world.
CNBC
IBM announced on Monday a new processor chip for data centers that it says will be able to handle three times the workload of its predecessor.
Reuters
You might not get software updates again.
engadget
The world's third-largest economy shrank 7.8% in the second quarter compared with the previous quarter, the country's Cabinet Office said on Monday.
CNN
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