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Apple has filed a lawsuit today against virtualization company Corellium.
9to5Mac.com
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
Saudi Arabia's crude shipments to China have doubled in the span of a year. During the same period, its oil exports to the U.S. have dropped by nearly two-thirds.
CNBC
Nvidia's data center business is seeing revenue declines, while AMD is ascendant.
CNBC
It's the company's second round of layoffs within the past year, and the news Wednesday came on the heels of an earnings report that exceeded Wall Street expectations.
NBC News
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
Cisco beat on top and bottom lines.
CNBC
The yield curve is blaring a recession warning.
Fox News
Conversational AI is an essential building block of human interactions with intelligent machines and applications - from robots and cars, to home assistants and mobile apps. Getting computers to understand human languages, with all their nuances, and respond appropriately has long been a "holy grail" of AI researchers. But building systems with true natural language processing (NLP) capabilities was impossible before the arrival of modern AI techniques powered by accelerated computing.
Company release
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
Project Scarlett is about how games play.
CNET
AMD's new Navi RX 5700 graphics cards are great additions to the current GPU market, offering performance that strikes at the heart of Nvidia's midrange. For something that competes with top-tier cards such as the RTX 2080 Super and 2080 Ti, though, we'll have to wait until next year. But when the summer of 2020 rolls around, we could be in for something special, as AMD is working on a card that some internal staffers are calling the "Nvidia Killer."
Digital Trends
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
Steve Eisman, the investor of "Big Short" fame, says his biggest worry is the Hong Kong protests, which he says could endanger any kind of trade deal with China and hurt the global economy.
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
Hong Kong's airport authority has cancelled departure flights after thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators flooded into one of the world's busiest air travel hubs holding signs reading "Hong Kong is not safe" and "Shame on police."
The Guardian
Huawei has finally unveiled its own operating system, a move that could help shield the smartphone maker from the escalating US-China trade war.
CNN
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
Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 has more Microsoft in it than any other Android phone
The Verge
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
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