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The Motorola One Fusion Plus is coming to Europe later this month for ??99
The Verge
Researchers fit tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses onto a single chip.
PC Magazine
Report claims internal Apple testing has seen "sizable improvements" over Intel.
Ars Technica
Study finds Chinese company owns the most essential technology
Bloomberg
Senate report blasts FCC and other agencies for two decades of inaction.
Ars Technica
The agency's rules will further limit the power of municipalities as carriers deploy 5G.
CNET
IBM disclosed Monday it will no longer offer facial recognition or analysis software in a letter to Congress calling for new efforts to pursue justice and racial equity, new Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said.
Reuters
That's over the course of its lifetime, not per charge.
engadget
The international lender says that never before have so many countries entered a recession at once
Wall Street Journal
Huawei is currently the second-largest smartphone maker in the world ahead of Apple and behind Samsung.
CNBC
A court in Seoul has denied an arrest warrant request for Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, after prosecutors accused him of accounting fraud and stock manipulation.
BBC News
Ericsson expects to take a second-quarter writedown of about 1 billion crowns ($109 million) on product inventory in China, the Swedish telecoms gear maker said on Monday.
Reuters
The plans will be rolled out in the coming weeks
The Verge
Bank claims that it will face reprisals in China if Huawei is banned from the UK's 5G network
The Telegraph
Official statistics suggest the unemployment rate has barely ticked up since the start of the pandemic, but the data fail to account for large parts of the population
Wall Street Journal
Middle east fund joins roster of marquee investors
Finacial Times
Overseas shipments in May fell 3.3% from a year earlier, after a surprising 3.5% gain in April, customs data showed on Sunday.
CNBC
U.S. stock futures and Asian shares advanced on Monday after a surprise recovery in U.S. employment gave further confidence of a quick economic recovery after many weeks of lockdowns aimed at controlling the coronavirus pandemic.
Reuters
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Tom's Hardware Guide
Broadcom on Thursday forecast current-quarter revenue with a midpoint slightly below analysts' estimates, in part caused by a delay at a "large North American mobile phone" customer that analysts believe is Apple.
Reuters
Data center server maker Super Micro Computer Inc is looking to open a new site in the United States to assemble computers, possibly in Oregon, the East Coast or Midwest, Chief Executive Officer Charles Liang told Reuters on Thursday.
Reuters
An IR temperature sensor lets a smartphone do fever screening for COVID-19.
Ars Technica
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned American investors against fraudulent accounting practices at China-based companies and said the Nasdaq's recent decision to tighten listing rules for such players should be "a model" for all other exchanges around the world.
Reuters
The plan seeks to eliminate consumer anxiety over range.
engadget
The European Central Bank on Thursday said it would expand its massive bond-buying program to combat the shock from the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN
Taiwan is dangling incentives to attract more than NT$40 billion ($1.3 billion) of annual investments in research and technology, creating a seven-year blueprint to safeguard the island's lead in semiconductors and other cutting-edge fields.
Bloomberg
British officials have discussed supplies of 5G networking equipment with companies in South Korea and Japan as part of a bid to develop alternatives to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
CNBC
The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to decline 11.9% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units.
IDC
Though technically, Intel still has the lead.
Tom's Hardware Guide
Apple is sending a clear message to people who've stolen iPhones from its stores: You're "being tracked."
CNN
Other companies are canceling large conferences
The Verge
SoftBank created a $100 million Opportunity Fund that will invest only in companies led by people of color.
CNBC
Ericsson shares hit a high for the year after the Swedish telecom equipment maker increased its footprint in Canada by winning a 5G contract from Bell Canada, beating out China's Huawei.
Reuters
NetEase is planning a secondary listing for its shares on Hong Kong's stock market next week as scrutiny of Chinese companies on Wall Street intensifies and wider US-China tensions rise.
CNN
The company, best known for big-screen televisions, wants to make a bigger mark in smartphones.
CNET
Volkswagen has closed on its $2.6 billion investment in Argo AI, a Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle start-up.
CNBC
India launched a $6.65 billion plan on Tuesday to boost electronics manufacturing, saying it would start by offering five global smartphone makers incentives to establish or expand domestic production.
Reuters
China is using telecoms giant Huawei to try to drive a wedge between Britain and the United States, Republican senator Tom Cotton told British lawmakers on Tuesday.
Reuters
China's largest contract chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has filed for a listing in Shanghai that will raise 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion).
CNBC
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