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The K-Pop band's purple phone and Buds launch July 9.
CNET
India reported more than 11,000 new cases of infection as of 8 a.m. local time on June 14, government data showed.
CNBC
Japan's Mitsubishi Electric said on Thursday it would buy part of a plant in western Japan from Sharp to meet growing demand for power management chips used in electric vehicles (EVs).
Reuters
A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced legislation that would require Republican President Donald Trump to more systematically punish China for stealing U.S. technology.
Reuters
Sony unveiled the PlayStation 5 game console design on Thursday.
CNBC
The EU's top Brexit negotiator has said the UK wants "the best of both worlds" in its future economic relationship with the bloc. The OSCE said the UK may feel the effects of the pandemic recession worse than EU members.
Deutsche Welle
Financial markets have tumbled amid fears that an uptick in coronavirus cases will hurt the economic recovery.
BBC News
Microprocessor guru Jim Keller unexpectedly leaves Intel
PC World
Microsoft has joined the list of tech giants that have decided to limit the use of its facial-recognition systems, announcing that it will not sell the controversial technology to police departments until there is a federal law regulating it.
Washington Post
Apple has shifted processor architectures in the Mac twice before. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
MacWorld
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill to provide more than $22.8 billion in aid for semiconductor manufacturers, aiming to spur the construction of chip factories in America amid a strategic technology rivalry with China.
Reuters
The Pixel 3 and 3a sold enough to earn Google a 0.4 percent market share.
Ars Technica
The 'Holy Grail' of smartphone designs has just gone into mass production, leaving Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy ranges to play catch-up.
Forbes
Intel's speculative execution flaws go deeper and are harder to fix than we thought.
Ars Technica
SoftBank Group-owned UK chip designer Arm and its Chinese joint venture issued contradicting statements on Wednesday over the removal of the local unit's CEO, a rare sign of tension at a key player in the semiconductor industry.
Nikkei Asian Review
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
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
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
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
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
Adios LGA2066
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 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
Other companies are canceling large conferences
The Verge
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