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According to Reuters, informed informants have information that senior officials from the Trump administration have agreed on new measures to limit global shipments of chips purchased by the Chinese company Huawei Technologies.
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The game Half Life: Alyx finally came out, and thousands of gamers are already plunged into a world that has been “idle” without new projects for more than ten years. Virtual reality transformed the world of Half Life, and some found curious possibilities in it.
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The COVID-19 pandemic violated the already not perfect work of the global economy, causing not only human but also financial losses. Wall Street bigwigs are busy trying to assess the consequences of shutting down production, destroying supply chains and quarantines imposed around the world.
Continue reading “According to Morgan Stanley, the COVID-19 pandemic will crush US GDP growth in the second quarter of 2020 to -30%”
According to a source, in 2019, American chip manufacturers retained their leadership in the global market. This applies to both companies that have their own production, and those who order production from contract manufacturers. In the first segment, American companies accounted for 51% of sales, in the second – 65%. As a result, the total market share occupied by US companies is 55%.
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Counterpoint Research and the NPD Group report that only 1% of phones sold in the US last year support fifth-generation 5G networks. Sales of 5G smartphones were much lower than expected.
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The magazine was published for 66 years.
Executive Director of Playboy Enterprises Ben Cohn, which publishes Playboy magazine, has announced that the company is discontinuing its print version in the United States. The latest print issue of the magazine in the US came out this week.
So far, only in the USA.
Opera browser, although based on the same engine as Chrome, still offers many original features and technologies. For example, Opera was the first browser with a built-in crypto wallet.
The complaint was filed by the Irish company Neodron.
According to the source, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) said yesterday that it would open an investigation against global technology giants, including Samsung and Apple, in connection with a complaint about patent infringement related to the operation of touch screens.
El Capitan will be used for nuclear weapons tasks.
AMD today published a press release in which it talked about the El Capitan supercomputer and its features. Recall, this is an exascale system (1018 floating point operations per second), which is created by order of the US Department of Energy by Cray.
If Huawei succeeds, it could seriously harm Google.
As it became known, Google turned to the US government with a request to allow it to cooperate with the Chinese company Huawei.
In mid-December, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) managed to get the court to suspend the sale of Gram tokens from the Telegram messenger until the circumstances of “transparency of their sale” were clarified. A new court ruling in New York extends this “freeze” indefinitely, although the ban is still called temporary.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported that due to the ransomware attack, an unnamed gas pipeline operator ran into a problem: a compressor unit for natural gas malfunctioned, causing the operator to be paralyzed for two days. When exactly this incident occurred, it is not reported, but the government warns other operators of critical infrastructure not to forget about safety measures.
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According to a source, as part of a program to upgrade supercomputers in the United States, the Cray Shasta system will be deployed in the US Navy’s supercomputer center, with a theoretical peak performance of 12.8 PFLOPS
Continue reading “The basis of the Cray Shasta supercomputer for the US Navy will be AMD EPYC processors with a total number of cores 290 304”
The design of the bracelet includes 24 ultrasonic emitters.
The phrase “the walls have ears” has found a new sound in our time, because people are increasingly surrounded by smart devices that constantly listen to whether a voice command sounds. In order to eavesdrop on a conversation, bugs are no longer needed: a smart speaker, a webcam, a smartphone or a bracelet – all of them can hear what is said and pass it on to interested persons.
The company received another temporary license.
Huawei continues to be under US sanctions, and this is unlikely to change in the near future. In 2019, the Chinese giant, despite this, managed to significantly increase both sales in general and smartphone shipments.
US authorities arrested and indicted 36-year-old Larry Harmon from Ohio. He is accused of organizing the work of the Helix cryptocurrency mixer service, which operated on a darknet and helped criminals to hide the origin of transactions with bitcoins.
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Russian hackers? 🤔
Baghunter Nitesh Surana discovered mining malware on a Jenkins server owned by the US Department of Defense. The researcher reported this through the official bug bounty program of the Ministry of Defense on HackerOne.
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Samsung is a leader in the global smartphone market. At the same time, in the United States, Apple often manages to circumvent its sworn “enemy.” But in the home appliance market, the Korean giant in the US has no equal.
Continue reading “For 15 consecutive quarters, Samsung is the market leader in the United States.”
This is a response to U.S. tariff adjustments.
China has decided to lower additional tariff rates on imported goods from the United States starting February 14th. This move affects goods worth about $ 75 billion to ease Sino-US trade tensions.
ZDNet writes that a well-known government contractor, Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), an electronics company, was victimized by Ryuk ransomware last week. According to the official EWA website, the company works with the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of Justice.
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Problems are observed in Europe and the USA.
Over the weekend, users of the most popular social network in the world of Facebook faced various problems, according to the Downdetector website, which tracks such crashes.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross told Bloomberg that the government is working on new rules to ban Huawei more US technology.
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“What the hell is going on?” You just stole the Star Trek logo. ”
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump proudly presented to the public a new emblem of the Space Forces – a special type of US armed forces designed for military operations in outer space.
Residents and guests of the United States at the moment can purchase an extremely current smartphone of the Apple iPhone family at a very attractive price.
Continue reading “iPhone XR drops in price below $ 300”
“Today we are making an important step in the future of fair and mutual trade”
US President Donald Trump and Vice Prime Minister Liu He signed the first phase of the trade agreement. He did not put an end to the 18-month trade dispute, but was an important step towards solving the problem that affected a huge number of companies in the US and China.
US warns that all the consequences of the advent of the 5G era are extremely poorly understood.
The UK government is preparing to decide whether to allow Huawei to participate in the creation of a key part of the national 5G infrastructure.
Pressure on Huawei is part of a more general US-China conflict.
US Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill that would prohibit the transfer of US intelligence to countries that will use equipment manufactured by Huawei Technologies in 5G networks.
Defect caused by a software bug.
Mazda has filed a notice with the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) about a safety defect identified in some Mazda3 vehicles of model year 2019 and model year 2020. A defect causes the vehicle to stop unexpectedly while driving due to the unintentional activation of the Smart Braking System (SBS).