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"With HDR emerging as one of the most important technologies for ultra-high picture quality, our HDR10+ format enables every image to be accurately displayed on screen just as the creator intended," said Hyogun Lee, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics.
Company release
The ISM U.S. manufacturing PMI declined to 49.1% in August, the lowest reading in more than three years.
CNBC
It could be thinner and more affordable than the Galaxy Fold.
engadget
Huawei plans to spend more than $300 million a year in research funding for universities, a senior company executive said on Tuesday, even as the Chinese firm fights a U.S. trade ban from that has hurt its business and academia tie-ups.
Reuters
Huawei claims the U.S. government is "using every tool at its disposal" to disrupt the Chinese telecommunications company's business operations, including harassing its employees and using cyberattacks against its computer systems.
CBS News
With improvements to Wi-Fi 6 and its successor, Qualcomm is working to boost speeds and overcome congestion on wireless networks.
CNET
More than half of the country's state attorneys general are readying an antitrust investigation into Google's advertising practices, with an announcement of the probe set for next week in Washington, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
CNN
Intel's upcoming 3D-stacked processor, codename Lakefield, has recently popped up in the 3DMark database. Chip detective TUM_APISAK managed to take a screenshot of the 3DMark entry.
Tom's Hardware Guide
The United States and Poland believe suppliers of 5G network equipment should be rigorously evaluated for foreign government control, a joint declaration signed on Monday said, as Washington pressures allies to exclude China from 5G networks.
Reuters
A feud between two South Korean battery makers escalated on Friday as SK Innovation said it plans to sue bigger rival LG Chem in the United States over alleged patent infringement related to electric vehicles.
Reuters
China has lodged a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over U.S. import duties, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said on Monday.
Reuters
China will exempt Tesla electric vehicles from its purchase tax, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday, a concession made amidst trade tensions with the United States.
Reuters
China's massive manufacturing industry unexpectedly expanded last month, according to a closely watched private survey. But the country's economic outlook is still cloudy as the US-China trade war intensifies.
CNN
Japan Display OLED iPhone screens could still be at least two years away, according to a new report today.
9to5Mac.com
Although slower than DRAM, Baidu says the swap will lower its costs.
ZDNet
South Korea's exports tumbled in August for a ninth consecutive month, on sluggish demand from its biggest buyer, China, and depressed prices of computer chips globally, government data showed on Sunday.
Reuters
Germany loves Ryzen
The Tech Spot
Stocks in Asia were mixed on Monday as the latest round of U.S. and China tariffs kicked into effect over the weekend, while investors digested better-than-expected Chinese manufacturing activity.
CNBC
China plans to provide more support for its economy, including investing in infrastructure projects and regional development, while maintaining a prudent monetary policy with "reasonably" ample liquidity, the State Council said on Sunday.
Reuters
Intel announced on Thursday that it had begun shipments of the first of its 10nm Agilex FPGAs to early access customers, including Microsoft.
Tom's Hardware Guide
Japan's curbs on exports of high-tech materials to South Korea could backfire in the long run, eroding its dominance over a key link in the global chip supply chain, suppliers and experts say.
Reuters
Samsung has quietly confirmed it will soon launch a new and smaller smart speaker, the Galaxy Home Mini, to take on the Google Home Mini and Amazon Echo Dot.
Digital Trends
The inquiries into the Chinese telecommunications giant overlap with findings from a Wall Street Journal investigation
Wall Street Journal
The United States and China gave signs on Thursday that they will resume trade talks as the two economic superpowers discussed the next round of in-person negotiations in September ahead of a looming deadline for additional U.S. tariffs.
Reuters
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's latest maneuver to push through Brexit has been described by opponents as a "coup" and a "constitutional outrage." For investors, it's a warning sign: Ignore Brexit at your risk.
CNN
South Korea's top court on Thursday ordered a retrial of Samsung's de facto leader Lee Jae-yong, reigniting a bribery case that could send the technology heir back to prison.
CNN
The best-quality studies of radiofrequency radiation consistently show no evidence of negative health effects.
CNET
Space is "the next war-fighting domain," says the president.
CNET
"The geopolitical risk is a major uncertainty," says Lung Chu of SEMI China, an industry association.
CNBC
Starting with Pixel 3A phones as early as this year
The Verge
Huawei plans to forge ahead with the launch of new high-end smartphones in Europe even though it may not be able to offer Google's official Android operating system and widely used apps such as Google Maps, company executives told Reuters.
Reuters
Musk's presence at the important Beijing-endorsed AI symposium lends credence to China's vision of becoming the world leader in the technology by 2030 and comes as Donald Trump wages a campaign to rein in the world's No. 2 economy.
Yahoo! Finance
National security concerns could mean trouble for the nearly 8,000 mile long Pacific Light Cable Network, according to The Wall Street Journal.
CNET
It's the manufacturer's first phone in the US since it was slapped with sanctions.
engadget
Apple apologized on Wednesday for letting contractors listen to commands that users give to its voice assistant Siri. The company is now promising changes.
CNN
The company has announced assembly of the first qubit material component of its 12CQ room-temperature qubit processor, touting nanometre precision.
ZDNet
Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents
The Guardian
The U.S. Commerce Department has received more than 130 applications from companies for licenses to sell U.S. goods to China's Huawei Technologies, three sources said, nearly two months after President Donald Trump said some sales would be allowed.
Reuters
Qualcomm on Tuesday announced a new range of Wi-Fi chips designed to work with Wi-Fi 6, the newest version of the technology and one that Qualcomm hopes will help boost sales of its separate 5G chips.
Reuters
The 7th-gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon is one of the first Athena-ready devices to hit the market.
BGR
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