The world’s largest chip maker, TSMC, has seen chip sales plummet in the past month. Therefore, Apple’s main chip supplier failed to meet analyst expectations for the second quarter in a row. Experts see the figures as a sign of continued weakness in global demand for electronics. The Taiwanese group […]
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Oracle Releases Java 20 With Thousands of Improvements
Oracle has announced a new version of Java, one of the world’s most widely used programming languages and development platforms. According to the developer, Java 20 (Oracle JDK 20) offers “thousands of improvements” in performance, stability and security. The latest features of Java 20 are being showcased these days at […]
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iPhone Maker Foxconn’s Revenue Plummets Despite Restart in China
iPhone producer Foxconn reported a sharp decline in revenue last month, despite increased sales following the reopening in China. In February, its turnover fell by almost 12 percent to 12.2 billion euros after conversion, according to the Taiwanese company yesterday. The company’s massive iPhone assembly complex in the Chinese city […]
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Users Report Problems to Twitter Shortly After Round of Layoffs
Twitter is experiencing an outage that prevents users from seeing their usual stream of posts. The Dutch site allestoringen.nl, among others, shows a peak in the number of reports of problems with the social medium. Its international version, downdetector.com, registered more than 4,000 reports of a malfunction on Wednesday morning. […]
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Pakistan Bans Wikipedia
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has banned Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia maintained by volunteers. That reports the BBC. The website had been blocked since Saturday after Wikipedia was given 48 hours to remove allegedly blasphemous content. “Wikipedia has been unblocked as instructed by the Prime Minister,” said PTA spokesman Malahat Rab. […]
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Apple Wants to Roll Out Its Own Displays From 2024
Technology giant Apple plans to use its own displays in its mobile devices from 2024. That writes financial news agency Bloomberg based on anonymous sources. Apple plans to equip its most expensive smartwatches with its own displays at the end of next year and later roll them out to its […]
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Google Wants to Decipher Doctor’s Notes
The tech giant says it is working on a technique that can automatically recognize the handwriting on doctor’s notes to extract the diagnoses and prescribed medicines. Doctor’s handwriting is known for its illegibility, but Google sees this as a challenge. So the company now wants to decipher doctors’ notes automatically […]
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Facebook Parent Company Must Sell Giphy From British Regulator
The American multinational Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will then have to sell the GIF website Giphy. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the British market regulator, has decided this. Meta appealed the decision, but that has now failed. Meta acquired Giphy in May 2020 in exchange […]
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Allianz: Chip Shortage Costs European Car Industry 100 Billion Euros
The shortage of chips will cost the European car industry around 100 billion euros in 2021 and this year, credit insurer Allianz Trade has calculated. The chip shortage has resulted in approximately 18 million fewer vehicles being produced worldwide. According to Allianz, the European automakers were particularly hard hit. The […]
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Apple Wants to Unveil New iPhones on September 7
Tech company Apple is expected to unveil its new iPhone 14 line on September 7. The maker of the popular smartphones traditionally does this with a special event. Apple is very dependent on iPhones. The devices typically account for half of the company’s revenue. In addition to the iPhones, a […]