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Huawei has finally unveiled its own operating system, a move that could help shield the smartphone maker from the escalating US-China trade war.
CNN
But the iPhone won't be the only foldable. The iPad may be the first of Apple's devices to bend to the trend.
CNET
Austrian sensor specialist AMS triggered a bidding war for Osram on Sunday, saying it was ready to pay $3.8 billion for the German lighting group's shares, 10% more than finance investors Bain Capital and Carlyle have already offered.
Reuters
The country may use it to create stability.
engadget
Researchers at Bitdefender claim that "every machine" that uses an Intel processor and that runs Windows, Linux or FreeBSD is impacted by the vulnerability, which comes just months after the hugely damaging Spectre and Meltdown scares.
Tech Radar
Facebook lost a federal appeal on Thursday in a lawsuit over facial-recognition data. That could lead to the company paying massive fines over its privacy practices.
Fox News
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday released the second generation of its processor chip for data centers and said that it had landed Google and Twitter as customers.
Reuters
Japan has approved shipment of a high-tech material to South Korea for the first time since imposing export curbs last month, but doubled down on political pressure and warned it could broaden restrictions on deliveries to its Asian neighbor.
Japan Today
Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 has more Microsoft in it than any other Android phone
The Verge
Chipmaker Broadcom is in advanced talks to buy Symantec enterprise business, according to people familiar with the matter.
Reuters
Samsung Electronics has begun mass producing 250-gigabyte (GB) SATA solid state drive (SSD) that integrates the company's sixth-generation (1xx-layer) 256-gigabit (Gb) three-bit V-NAND for global PC OEMs.
Company release
Toshiba Memory has announced XFMEXPRESS, a new technology for removable PCIe attached, NVMe memory devices.
Company release
The physical appearance and some headlining features of the Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL have already been confirmed by Google itself, but there are still plenty of specs that Google still hasn't said anything about.
9to5Google
SoftBank's massive tech fund is pulling in big profits.
CNN
Apple's first foldable iOS device could launch in 2021, according to analysts at UBS.
Business Insider
'Just for the record, zero truth to this rumor. I love AMD and the best is yet to come,' AMD CEO Lisa Su says in response to a report stating that she plans to leave the chipmaker later this year.
CRN
The Trump administration on Wednesday took a tactical step in its trade confrontation with China, by releasing a rule that restricts government agencies from doing business with Huawei, the giant Chinese maker of telecommunications equipment and smartphones.
The New York Times
China has told India not to block its Huawei Technologies from doing business in the country, warning there could be consequences for Indian firms operating in China, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Reuters
China has said it is prepared to fight, if necessary. And it has one hugely powerful weapon up its sleeve: it's the American government's biggest creditor.
CNN
Japan's Toshiba reported on Wednesday a 10-fold jump in first-quarter operating profit as it stepped up cost cuts across divisions, but the profit missed analyst estimates.
Reuteres (via Extreme Tech)
The device is due to be announced on September 6th
The Verge
Wide availability by the end of the month
The Verge
Lisa Su has denied this story.
WCCF Tech
Lenovo and Intel outlined a multi-year collaboration pact revolving around high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence.
ZDNet
HTC has stopped offering its phones for sale in the UK while it is involved in an intellectual property dispute.
BBC News
The trade war between the United States and China entered a more dangerous phase on Monday, as Beijing allowed its currency to weaken, Chinese enterprises stopped making new purchases of American farm goods and President Trump's Treasury Department formally labeled China a currency manipulator.
New York Times
After so many years of meh
PC World
Shares of chipmakers, retailers, Apple and Wynn Resorts tumble on fears that the U.S. and China's trade war is escalating.
CNBC
But don't expect to hitch a ride in the machine for several years.
engadget
Investors are so nervous about the trade war with China that they are frantically scooping up US government bonds and pushing yields sharply lower in the process.
CNN
IBM announced on Monday a new blockchain network aimed at improving manual and cumbersome supply chain management.
Reuters
List of vulnerable products purchased by the DoD includes Lexmark printers, GoPro cameras, and Lenovo computers.
ZDNet
The Trump administration on Monday designated China a "currency manipulator," after the country's central bank allowed its currency to weaken amid the ongoing trade dispute.
CNN
Foxconn is exploring the sale of its new US$8.8 billion display panel factory in China, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as demand for the product wanes amid an intensifying US-China trade war.
Reuters
Japan will remove South Korea from its list of trusted trade partners, deepening a bitter row between the two countries.
BBC News
Japan's Sharp will eventually withdraw from the business of manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for smartphones. The company lost the competition with Korean and Chinese display makers.
BusinessKorea
Shares of Apple supplier Sharp tumbled 14% on Friday given concerns about an escalating China-U.S. trade war, even as the Japanese firm said a day earlier that it would build a plant in Vietnam to ease any impact on its business.
Reuters
You won't be able to buy Bitcoin with your Apple Card, and you'd better not hack the iPhone associated with your account.
CNET
New tariff plan wipes out $41 billion in market cap, as analyst sees as much as $3 billion hit to earnings
MarketWatch
There's a sense of panic within Japan Inc and the government - the world's No. 3 economy doesn't have enough experts in artificial intelligence and it's time to do something about it.
Reuters
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