Innovation and Competition Act aims to keep America ahead of China and passes with unusual bipartisan support The United States Senate has passed the Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, a sweeping stimulus program that seeks to secure supply cha…
Lees meerYup, just a Republican wanting a private business to be subjected to more government regulation Dave Yost, Ohio's top government legal eagle, has filed a lawsuit that asks the courts to declare Google Search a public utility and the company as a who…
Lees meerAdmits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant South Korean chip maker SK Hynix has admitted some of its DRAM components included defects, though it says accounts of the issue are overblown.…
Lees meerThe problem started when those ridiculous users ... oh, hang on. It started in the IT department Feature The concept of "shadow IT" is a familiar one. One of my favourite descriptions of it comes from security vendor Forcepoint, which says shadow I…
Lees meerSoftware porting efforts aim to make sure Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome work well ahead of time The Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) is working to build 2,000 laptops using the free and open-source RISC-V instru…
Lees meerDon't call it growth Global smartphone shipments recovered in the first quarter of this year following a dismal 2020 for the mobile hardware industry.…
Lees meerCloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow Snowflake Summit Cloudy data-wrangling outfit Snowflake has opened itself up to Java and Scala developers.…
Lees meerResidents near Western Digital, Seagate HQs deafened by popping of Champagne corks The launch of the cryptocurrency Chia has caused demand for hard disk drives in the European market to blow up, according to research firm Context.…
Lees meerFor now you have to cope with 100Gb/s and 400Gb/s over single-mode fiber, and brace for 100Gb/s over 80kms The Ethernet Alliance has wrapped up its 2021 Technology Exploration Forum and revealed it’s heading off in pursuit of speeds beyond 400Gb/s.…
Lees meerNot too difficult to get in, but component serialisation could still be a hurdle iFixit has published a preliminary teardown of the M1 iPad Pro, touted by Apple as a potential crossover, combining the portability of a tablet with the unbridled power…
Lees meerExtra performance wrung out, but we wouldn't rush to eBay The benchmarks don't lie. Apple Silicon is fast. The M1 processor outperforms Intel’s competing i5 and i7 chips in virtually every metric you would care to mention, from CPU performance to gr…
Lees meerTaiwan was COVID-free for almost a year. Now the virus is out and edging towards major silicon production centres The world’s leading provider of chip testing services, Taiwan’s King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), has suspended production for two days due…
Lees meerDonald, you're fired. Again Facebook on Friday announced that former US President Donald Trump will be banned from its platform until at least January 7, 2023, having deemed two-years the appropriate period of exile for statements interpreted as an …
Lees meerCoincidentally, it's the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Beijing Thirty-two years ago, on June 4, 1989, Chinese troops killed and arrested thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, putting an end to demonstrations…
Lees meerPlaintiffs claim they would've gone for cheaper cloud storage A US judge has approved a limited class action against Apple for breach of contract following allegations it used third-party servers including "cloud storage facilities belonging to Amaz…
Lees meerTwitter Blue only works properly on iOS and just one feature is useful First Look Twitter has announced its first subscription service.…
Lees meerLooks forward to nicely lowered costs as production ramps up, but they're still hyperscaler-only for now For about three years, disk-making giant Seagate has been talking up tech called “MACH.2” – a conventional disk drive that offers considerable s…
Lees meerRarely seen miscalculations now crop up frequently at cloud hyperscale Computer chips have advanced to the point that they're no longer reliable: they've become "mercurial," as Google puts it, and may not perform their calculations in a predictable …
Lees meerYou don't spend $5bn on a shiny glass Ive-designed HQ and leave it empty Tim Cook has issued a memo to Apple staffers warning that their days of shirking-from-home in the pandemic are over. From early September, employees will be expected to spend a…
Lees meerMobile provider Orange fingers 'technical issue' on a router A technical issue with French mobile provider Orange, fixed early this morning, resulted in members of the public being temporarily unable to contact the emergency services.…
Lees meerXi Jinping says it’s time the world learned Marxism works, socialism is good, and China is really nice Analysis Chinese state-controlled media have revealed that the nations’ rulers have decided it’s time for a charm offensive.…
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