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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
"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
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
China's central bank will launch a state-backed cryptocurrency and issue it to seven institutions in the coming months, according to a former employee of one of the institutions who is now an independent researcher.
Forbes
China's Huawei has begun talks with Russia about installing Russian operating system (OS) Aurora on 360,000 of its tablets to conduct Russia's population census next year, two sources told Reuters.
Reuters
China is willing to resolve its trade dispute with the United States through "calm" negotiations and resolutely opposes the escalation of the conflict, Vice Premier Liu He, who has been leading the talks with Washington, said on Monday.
Reuters
Cook appears to be the first tech CEO to speak out about the fires.
CNET
The desire to cut reliance on foreign chips and become a global leader in the semiconductor industry has never been stronger in Beijing than it is now
South China Morning Post
Scientists in the United States and Singapore have developed an organ-on-chip platform that uses bio-electrical sensors to measure the electrical properties of heart cells in three dimensions.
Xinhuanet
Trump is expected to drop his threatened wine tariff.
engadget
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted last Friday that America will hike tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods to 30% from 25%. Beijing unveiled new tariffs last Friday on $75 billion of U.S. goods.
CNBC
"Contractors in Cork [Ireland] were expected to each listen to more than 1,000 recordings from Siri every shift, before Apple suspended the practice last month"
Forbes
Hours after China announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods on Friday, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. companies to "start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.".
Reuters
China will fight back against the latest U.S. step to increase tariffs on Chinese goods, the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily said on Sunday amid an escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies.
Reuters
Huawei announced the commercial availability of its artificial intelligence chip the Ascend 910.
CNBC
A court has granted a partial reprieve from a US antitrust ruling.
engadget
Semiconductor sales fell 30 per cent, while exports to China fell 20 per cent, suggesting joint headwinds of global electronics slowdown and US-China trade war
South China Morning Post
China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding has delayed its up to $15 billion listing in Hong Kong amid growing political unrest in the Asian financial hub, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Reuters
HP CEO and president Dion Weisler is stepping down due to a "family health matter," the company announced on Thursday.
CNN
New Confidential Computing Consortium will promote the use of TEEs (trusted execution environments).
ZDNet
HMD said it's making a "value" flagship 5G smartphone with a launch date set for 2020.
Digital Trends
The "Mad Money" host breaks down and gives recommendations on 11 stocks in the cloud-based software space.
CNBC
Everyone uses Bluetooth. Perhaps they shouldn't.
Mashable
Intel's innovative Foveros chip-stacking technology will debut in unusual new laptops with dual screens.
CNET
All the rumors and leaks for one of the most exciting phones this year.
CNET
Qualcomm said on Tuesday that it has entered into a new five-year patent license agreement with LG to develop, manufacture and sell 3G, 4G and 5G smartphones.
Reuters
It's happened. Startup Human Inc. has cut the cord on a pair of over-ear headphones. We go hands-on with the Human Headphones.
CNET
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