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Also: be careful with that screen cover
The Verge
Mobile telecom equipment maker Ericsson reported a bigger that expected rise in first-quarter operating earnings on Wednesday, adding that it saw particularly strong growth in North America.
CNBC
Apple has held talks with at least four companies as possible suppliers for next-generation lidar sensors in self-driving cars.
Reuters
Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday settled an acrimonious two-year legal dispute. Shortly afterward, Intel Corp said it will exit the smartphone modem chip business.
Reuters
Huawei has revealed that none of the 40 commercial contracts it has won for 5G equipment are from mainland China.
The Financial Times
Intel Corporation today announced the acquisition of Omnitek, a leading provider of optimized video and vision FPGA IP solutions.
Company release
This is likely why Apple and Qualcomm settled
The Verge
As part of the settlement, Apple will make a payment to Qualcomm for an undisclosed amount.
The Verge
The console will have an SSD and a graphics card that supports ray-tracing.
engadget
Writing for Thurrott, Brad Sams reports that the earbuds are codenamed "Morrison" and that a 2019 launch seems "plausible but is not guaranteed."
Fast Company
Smart speakers' global installed base is on track to top 200 million by the end of this year, according to a report out today from analysts at Canalys.
TechCrunch
"On May 7, meet a new hero."
ZDNet
The chairman of Foxconn said on Monday he plans to step down in the coming months to pave the way for younger talent to move up the company's ranks.
Reuters
Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou said the iPhone will go into mass production in India this year, a shift for the largest assembler of Apple's handsets that has long concentrated production in China.
Bloomberg
According to the ministry, the state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency will help local fabless and foundry firms find potential clients through their offices around the globe.
Yonhap News
The new CPUs would cost roughly half of Xeon Platinum
The Tech Spot
Microsoft is about to launch an even cheaper Xbox One S.
TechCrunch
Samsung's unique flagship phones are getting closer to launch.
ZDNet
The bank expects iPhone sales to decline 12.4% in 2019 after dropping 3.2% in 2018.
CNBC
The security breach was worse for some than others
The Verge
Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed at ensuring fair compensation for the European Union's $1 trillion creative industries.
Reuters
"The suggestion that we were somehow victim of a national conspiracy is wrong. The facts of the matter are that we were robbed by a handful of our own employees based in Silicon Valley, who had broken the law to enrich themselves. All of this occurred several years ago. We found this out by ourselves and immediately sought legal action in public court in 2016. This was reported on in several publications after our victory in November 2018," said ASML president and CEO Peter Wennink.
Company release
Something fundamental has changed in the battle between Huawei and Washington in the last two weeks.
Forbes
China's chip equipment makers are seeing an uptick in domestic demand thanks to the trade war, giving them an opportunity to finally gain ground on global rivals like Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron.
Nikkei Asian Review
A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands.
Bloomberg
Yahoo could pay $117.5 million to settle massive data breaches that compromised personal information, including email addresses and passwords.
CNN
Due to appear in May, the 3D XPoint and storage combo is aimed at the thin laptop market.
ZDNet
Forty-four companies are now in the program, Apple said on Thursday, including Foxconn and TSMC.
Reuters
Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin - so we went looking for them
The Verge
For the past few months, all signs have pointed to Google creating a 10-inch Assistant smart display as the next step up from the Google Home Hub.
9to5Google
The China semiconductor industry had sales of $97.3 billion last year, says China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Electronics Weekly
Samsung Display has begun mass production of the foldable OLED panels that will go into the Galaxy Fold smartphone.
ZDNet
At Google Cloud Next 2019 in San Francisco today, Google announced Cloud Run, the newest member of its serverless compute stack, in beta.
Venturebeat
The global economy is at what the International Monetary Fund's chief economist calls a "delicate moment".
BBC News
Shipments of mobile phones to China fell 6 percent in March compared with the same year-earlier month, official figures showed on Wednesday, as slowing economic growth took a toll on the sector.
Reuters
Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled a new chip for speeding up artificial intelligence work.
Reuters
An earlier report suggested Google was shifting away from new hardware
The Verge
Samsung might shake things up in a big way this year with the release of the Galaxy Note 10.
Mashable
Cheap Sonos speakers, or expensive IKEA accessories?
engadget
The Nighthawk AX4 is also the first Intel-based WiFi 6 router.
engadget
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