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WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle startup, said on Friday it has become the first autonomous company to start fully driverless vehicle testing in China, as the world's biggest auto market accelerates development of autonomous technologies.
Reuters
Sony is taking a minority stake in Epic, in a strategic investment deal that expands on an existing relationship between both firms.
CNBC
Tesla will be able to make its vehicles completely autonomous by the end of this year, founder Elon Musk has said.
BBC News
BT and Vodafone have said their UK customers would face mobile phone signal blackouts if they are given three years or less to strip Huawei's equipment out of their 5G networks.
BBC News
Adding to other services like Philo
The Verge
Nvidia has overtaken Intel for the first time as the most valuable U.S. chipmaker.
Reuters
Today, Intel announced Thunderbolt 4, it's newest connectivity standard. You might recall that the company is actually letting go of Thunderbolt 3, with its 40Gbps speeds being offered up to USB 4.0.
Neowin.net
Qualcomm's flagship SoC gets a midcycle upgrade with the latest Wi-Fi standard.
Ars Technica
It could reduce costs but also help the environment
The Verge
The Fenix 6S gets an extra day and a half of life with the built-in solar panel.
engadget
You don't need an Apple TV box to sing along to Apple Music on your TV.
engadget
Ericsson is not sourcing products from Panda Electronics Group, one of the companies named by the United States as potentially controlled by the Chinese military, the Swedish telecom gear maker said on Tuesday.
Reuters
Europe's second top court on Wednesday cut Infineon Technologies' cartel fine by 7% to 76.87 million euros ($86.7 million), saying that the German chipmaker had fewer anti-competitive contacts with other cartel members than EU antitrust regulators had said.
Reuters
Arm, the world's leading supplier of CPU and GPU designs, just announced that it plans to transfer the IoT Services Group (ISG), which includes the IoT Platform and Treasure Data teams, to its parent company SoftBank.
Forbes
Nvidia's new A100 flagship GPU is powering a new family of Google cloud computing instances -- including one that provides access to 16 GPUs.
The Street
A new video-encoding technology that promises to cut data use by at least half has been announced, after three years of talks involving some of the tech industry's largest players.
BBC News
The phone giant becomes the latest company to move its product launch online as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
CNET
Microsoft took control of domains that lodged phishing attacks against some users.
CNBC
Walmart is launching Walmart+ in July, according to a report by Vox's Recode.
CNBC
AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies said it will raise 2.58 billion yuan ($367.76 million) in its Shanghai initial public offering after pricing the listing at 64.39 yuan a share.
Reuters
Researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) have unveiled the discovery of a new material, called amorphous boron nitride (a-BN), in collaboration with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and the University of Cambridge. Published in the journal Nature, the study has the potential to accelerate the advent of the next generation of semiconductors.
Company release
The U.K. government is drawing up plans to strip Huawei gear from Britain's 5G networks by the end of the year, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph newspapers reported.
CNBC
Verizon paused advertising with Facebook after seeing unacceptable Facebook content show up alongside of Verizon advertising, CEO Hans Vestberg said in an interview.
CNBC
The four leading technology stocks have all surpassed a one trillion dollar market cap, reaching a landmark first seen at the end of January.
CNBC
Nintendo has condemned alleged abuse by well-known competitive gamers as "absolutely impermissible".
BBC News
Huang waits by a workbench for the welder to pass the next metal tray. There's only a handful of staff in the factory. Half the building is in darkness.
BBC News
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) will raise 46.29 billion yuan ($6.55 billion) in a Shanghai share sale, more than double its initial target, pricing its offering following a surge in its Hong Kong-listed stock.
Reuters
At Samsung Electronics, demand for its chips from data centres bulking up to meet a surge in work-from-home traffic was not likely enough to offset muted sales of its smartphones in the second quarter, analysts said.
Reuters
Ship the chips
Tom's Hardware Guide
Amazon gave third-party sellers a placeholder date of the week of Oct. 5 for Prime Day, according to an email obtained by CNBC.
CNBC
Chipmaker Intel is the latest U.S. firm to invest a large sum of money in India's Jio Platforms.
CNBC
South Korea's LG Chem plans to start producing batteries for Tesla vehicles at a domestic factory this year after the U.S. electric carmaker raised orders to cope with demand, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Reuters
The head of the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI said there would not be a total ban on using equipment from Huawei in the rollout of the French 5G telecoms network, but that it was pushing French telcos to avoid switching to the Chinese company.
Reuters
Suddenly, the exclusive OLED market is getting pretty crowded.
Yahoo!News
Big tech companies including Google parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. face a swath of proposed European regulations aimed at curbing their alleged anticompetitive behavior, making them pay more taxes and compelling them to shoulder more responsibility for illegal content on their platforms, said a top European Union official.
MarketWatch
Apple is pushing its suppliers to cut production delays for its next-generation iPhone range after coronavirus lockdowns in China and the U.S. put the technology giant behind schedule.
CNBC
It's been on a multi-year tear, but the stock's advance could be far from over.
Motley Fool
Scientists around the world are racing to develop Covid-19 vaccines and there's news almost daily about steps forward -- this week, there was "encouraging" preliminary data for some vaccine candidates and word from top health officials that the United States could be on track to have a vaccine by the end of the year.
CNN
The Pixel 4A is still nowhere to be found
The Verge
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