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Our reporting uncovers a Mate X delay, and the possibility of more displays
Techradar
Microsoft is warning Windows 10 users to update their operating system immediately because of two "critical" vulnerabilities.
CNN
Samsung is testing how fifth-generation wireless networks can speed up connections at its chip-making factory in Austin, Texas.
Wall Street Journal
Nvidia's data center business is seeing revenue declines, while AMD is ascendant.
CNBC
Japan has $1.12 trillion Treasury securities, and China, $1.11 trillion.
CNBC
Industrial production in China grew just 4.8% in July compared to a year earlier, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. That's the worst growth for that sector in 17 years.
CNN
China has severely restricted imports of gold since May, bullion industry sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in a move that could be aimed at curbing outflows of dollars and bolstering its yuan currency as economic growth slows.
Reuters
The yield curve is blaring a recession warning.
Fox News
Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
The Guardian
The $600 million supercomputer will be the world's fastest.
CNET
He suggests Skyworks Solutions, Texas Instruments, Best Buy and Hasbro will be among the biggest winners from the tariff delay.
CNBC
You can learn of good replies without sifting through the trash.
engadget
Europe is Apple's second-largest market.
Motley Fool
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is prepared to break up major technology companies if necessary by undoing past mergers, Chairman Joe Simons said in an interview with Bloomberg published on Tuesday, as the regulator probes anti-competitive practices in the sector.
Reuters
Those tariffs will now be delayed until December 15.
New York Times
Singapore's economy contracted 3.3% in the second quarter of 2019, final official data showed on Tuesday, and the government cuts its full-year growth forecast range.
Reuters
To Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, the current economic environment doesn't feel like the pre-crisis days of August 2007. But he identifies at least one thing that could cause the economy to go off track: The trade war.
CNN
South Korea is removing Japan from a list of trusted trading partners, escalating a dispute with its neighbor that is already disrupting the global supply chain for big tech companies.
CNN
Bank of America sees a greater than 30% chance of a recession in the next year, based on recent data.
CNBC
Globalfoundries has taped-out an Arm-based 3D high-density test chip that will enable a new level of system performance and power efficiency for computing applications such as AI/ML and high-end consumer mobile and wireless solutions.
Company release
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
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)
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
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