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A kit and AI digital assistant "Rosie" guides users through a daily care plan.
engadget
IFA will be the the first big in-person tech event post-lockdown.
engadget
North picked up where Google Glass left off, and now it's a part of Google.
Ars Technica
Apple will close 30 additional stores in the United States by Thursday.
CNBC
Elon Musk's electric car business exceeds the value of almost every company in the S&P 500, including some iconic American companies.
CNN
'Nearby Share' beta test is running already
The Verge
The updates to Nvidia's vGPU software could help organizations remotely leverage virtual reality or better collaborate on computer-aided design.
ZDNet
Intel has stopped supplying its products to Inspur, China's largest maker of computer servers.
Caixin
Are there any Wear OS manufacturers and customers left to buy Qualcomm's new chip?
Ars Technica
Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday it was establishing a new space unit called Aerospace and Satellite Solutions.
CNBC
Telecoms can no longer use federal funds to purchase their equipment
The Verge
It has been a rough quarter for the US economy, with the country plunging into a pandemic-fueled recession. Yet the stock market is alive and kicking - in fact, it's having its best quarter in more than 20 years.
CNN
Promising new features for smart home developers and users
The Verge
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Tuesday visited Samsung's semiconductor equipment subsidiary SEMES, surveying the very foundation of the chip industry amid the country's ongoing efforts to reduce dependence on Japan.
The Korea Herald
Xilinx raised its revenue forecast for its fiscal first quarter Monday, citing better-than-expected revenues for its wired and wireless group and its data center group as well as accelerated orders ahead of new US restrictions on sales to Chinese tech firm Huawei.
The Street
Beijing is pushing back on a decision by India to ban dozens of Chinese mobile apps as tensions between the countries continue to rise.
CNN
The Trump administration's new restrictions come in response to a new national security law that will extend China's influence over Hong Kong.
The New York Times
A group of US senators last week proposed yet another bill to revive the domestic chip industry, the American Foundries Act of 2020 (AFA). This new bipartisan proposal is the second such measure in a month, following the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) act, introduced on June 10. The two initiatives highlight the effort by the US government to localize the electronics supply chain and rebuild the domestic semiconductor industry now that most of the world's production has shifted to Asia.
EE Times
Yangtze Memory Technologies, China's top memory chipmaker, will roll out its first-ever storage products lineup in the second half of 2020.
Nikkei Asian Review
"Although many countries have made some progress, globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a virtual news conference.
CNBC
Sony's image sensor business aims to replicate PlayStation's success to address its reliance on a handful of manufacturers in the fickle smartphone market: It plans to sell software by subscription for data-analyzing sensors in situ.
Reuters
Might be named the Xbox Series S
The Verge
Nearly all of the largest U.S. banks said Monday that they performed well enough on the Federal Reserve's most-recent stress test to maintain their current quarterly dividend.
CNBC
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said big questions remain over the outlook for the economy, particularly in light of ongoing efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
CNBC
Hundreds of thousands of people and businesses have been locked out of accounts linked to Wirecard after Britain's financial watchdog ordered the collapsed digital payments company to suspend UK operations.
CNN
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
BBC News
Almost every tech giant has its sights on gaming. Even Apple and Google, predominantly known for their hardware and operating systems, have made big bets in games.
CNN
As face coverings become the norm amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese startup Donut Robotics has developed an internet-connected "smart mask" that can transmit messages and translate from Japanese into eight other languages.
Japan Today
Zoox was valued at over $3 billion in 2018, but has struggled with management turnover in its efforts to develop a self-driving car.
CNBC
Microsoft on Friday announced it will permanently close its 83 Microsoft Store retail locations.
CNBC
DRAM designed in Japan by a team of 100 will help combat US sanctions
Nikkei Asian Review
Huawei has got the green light to build a chip research and development center in Cambridgeshire.
CNBC
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday introduced a measure aimed at strengthening chip manufacturing in the United States, adding to efforts to champion the sector and lure high tech supply chains back into the United States.
Reuters
China sent the last satellite to space on Tuesday to complete its global navigation system that will help wean it off U.S. technology in this area.
CNBC
Dell owns about 81% of VMware.
CNBC
Apple previously released a similar feature on iPhones and MacBooks
The Verge
Facebook must comply with an order by Germany's antitrust watchdog to curb data collection from users, a top German court ruled on Tuesday, in a setback for the U.S. social network company that could set a wider precedent.
Reuters
The biotech giant says, it will soon begin clinical trials for a different version of the same experimental drug, remdesivir, which might make it easier to administer outside of a hospital or ICU wing.
Fortune
The $3 trillion French economy grew this month for the first time since February, as coronavirus restrictions were eased and domestic consumption ticked up, according to a closely-watched survey.
CNN
Microsoft wants Teams for consumers to be seen as more than just a chat app
The Verge
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