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China will exempt Tesla electric vehicles from its purchase tax, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday, a concession made amidst trade tensions with the United States.
Reuters
China's massive manufacturing industry unexpectedly expanded last month, according to a closely watched private survey. But the country's economic outlook is still cloudy as the US-China trade war intensifies.
CNN
Japan Display OLED iPhone screens could still be at least two years away, according to a new report today.
9to5Mac.com
Although slower than DRAM, Baidu says the swap will lower its costs.
ZDNet
South Korea's exports tumbled in August for a ninth consecutive month, on sluggish demand from its biggest buyer, China, and depressed prices of computer chips globally, government data showed on Sunday.
Reuters
Germany loves Ryzen
The Tech Spot
Stocks in Asia were mixed on Monday as the latest round of U.S. and China tariffs kicked into effect over the weekend, while investors digested better-than-expected Chinese manufacturing activity.
CNBC
China plans to provide more support for its economy, including investing in infrastructure projects and regional development, while maintaining a prudent monetary policy with "reasonably" ample liquidity, the State Council said on Sunday.
Reuters
Intel announced on Thursday that it had begun shipments of the first of its 10nm Agilex FPGAs to early access customers, including Microsoft.
Tom's Hardware Guide
Japan's curbs on exports of high-tech materials to South Korea could backfire in the long run, eroding its dominance over a key link in the global chip supply chain, suppliers and experts say.
Reuters
Samsung has quietly confirmed it will soon launch a new and smaller smart speaker, the Galaxy Home Mini, to take on the Google Home Mini and Amazon Echo Dot.
Digital Trends
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
Space is "the next war-fighting domain," says the president.
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
National security concerns could mean trouble for the nearly 8,000 mile long Pacific Light Cable Network, according to The Wall Street Journal.
CNET
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
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a criminal indictment against ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski.
CNBC
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
Nvidia and VMware today announced their intent to deliver accelerated GPU services for VMware Cloud on AWS to power modern enterprise applications, including AI, machine learning and data analytics workflows.
Company release
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
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