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Lees meerYou’re going to need new cables and learn to recognize revised logos The USB Promoter Group has announced version 2.0 of the USB4 spec and promises it can carry data at 80Gbps.…
Lees meerThey were asking for it, energy giant says Thousands of Xcel Energy customers in Colorado this week discovered they’d been locked out of their smart thermostats, unable to adjust their air conditioning systems as local temperatures rose about well a…
Lees meerHow Fog Data Science sells records of your whereabouts, according to the EFF For less than $10,000, and without a warrant, cops can buy large amounts of location data on private citizens and track people's movements over long periods of time.…
Lees meerIllinois, Arizona and Iowa are the big winners in connection plan The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it's ready to disburse nearly $800 million to fund rural broadband deployments in 19 states, with Illinois, Arizona and Iowa gettin…
Lees meer$15 billion Idaho facility is the first step as chip biz feeds on CHIPS Act US memory vendor Micron will spend $15 billion over the next decade to construct what it claims is the first memory fab built by a US manufacturer in America in the last 20 …
Lees meerLooks like the bird site didn't need Musk's money to get the feature added, after all Twitter's long-awaited edit button is being tested internally, and in the coming weeks will be available to Twitter Blue subscribers before a wider rollout, the so…
Lees meerNot a great look for the state that just vowed to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of battery-powered ones One week after announcing plans to phase out autos powered by gasoline, California energy authorities are facing a heat wave so severe resi…
Lees meerSubsea Cloud boasts 1MW of capacity for up to 90% lower costs compared to landlubber facilities A company called Subsea Cloud is planning to have a commercially available undersea datacenter operating off the coast of the US before the end of 2022, …
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Lees meerAffixes magnetically attached Bluetooth unit instead of soft keyboard after feedback Lenovo has exhibited an updated version of its ThinkPad X1 Fold portable, a device that is a mash-up of a folding-screen tablet and a Windows laptop, with a sleeker…
Lees meerBuy a new phone or pay food and household energy bills? Shipments to crash in 2022 Smartphone shipments are forecast to shrink globally by 6.5 percent this year as many households feeling the pinch of inflation decide to prioritize paying for food, …
Lees meerMakes Nvidia tense with ban on Tensor tech that could cost it $400m this quarter alone As part of ongoing efforts to restrict China and Russia accessing advanced American technology, the US government last week banned AMD and NVIDIA from selling som…
Lees meerBritish chip designer unhappy with how one of its key customers is using lucrative blueprints Arm is suing Qualcomm, one of its key customers, in a row over the latter's Nuvia custom CPU cores.…
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