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| MediaTek to use TSMC’s 6-nanometer technology for 5G smartphones |
1/21/2021 |
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Taiwan’s MediaTek appears to be one of the first high-volume customers for the technology and is among a handful of companies with modem technology to connect phones to mobile data networks, competing against Qualcomm Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
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| Jack Ma broke silence after 2 months of disappearance |
1/21/2021 |
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The normally voluble Ma disappeared from public view after he irked regulators by criticizing them in an Oct. 24 speech at a Shanghai conference. Days later, regulators suspended the planned multibillion-dollar stock market debut of Ant Group.
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| Trump pardoned Google engineer who stole company car secret |
1/21/2021 |
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Before leaving, Levandowski downloaded a trove of Google’s self-driving car technology, leading eventually to 33 counts of intellectual property theft against him. He plead guilty to one count and was sentenced to 18 months in prison last summer.
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| Signs are the country is on the cusp of a kind of boom |
1/20/2021 |
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“If the economy is improving substantially by spring or early summer, that might actually help Biden get more of his agenda done ... because success can beget success," said Jason Furman, who was top economist for the Obama administration.
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| Janet Yellen warned of a deep pandemic-induced recession |
1/20/2021 |
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“Without further action, we risk a longer, more painful recession now — and long-term scarring of the economy later,” Yellen said in testimony prepared for her confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee.
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| Virgin Orbit succeed on air-launched rocket from a Boeing 747 |
1/19/2021 |
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A 70-foot-long (21.34-meter-long) LauncherOne rocket was released from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747 carrier aircraft off the coast of Southern California, ignited moments later and soared toward space. The two-stage rocket carried a cluster of very small satellites known as CubeSats developed and built as part of a NASA educational program involving U.S. universities.
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| Renault's "Le Car" model turns electric |
1/19/2021 |
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The company unveiled a prototype electric vehicle based on the R5, the subcompact — known as Le Car in the U.S. — that drew a cult following during its initial runs from the 1970s to the mid-90s.
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| Google overcame antitrust argument to acquire Fitbit |
1/18/2021 |
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Google makes most of its money by selling ads based on information it collects about its billions of users’ interests and whereabouts. Privacy watchdogs feared it might exploit Fitbit to peer even deeper into people's lives.
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| traffic death toll rises in the middle of lockdown |
1/18/2021 |
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 28,190 people died in traffic crashes from January through September of last year, up from 26,941 in the same period of 2019. Final statistics for the full year won't come out until fall. Authorities blamed the increase on risky driving behavior that developed when there were few vehicles on the road early in the pandemic.
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| Machine Artificial Intelligence will get out of scientist hands one day |
1/15/2021 |
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Using theoretical calculations, an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, shows that it would not be possible to control a super-intelligent AI. The study was published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
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| Layoffs spiked in November |
1/14/2021 |
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Layoffs spiked in November compared with the previous month and the number of job openings slipped, signaling that the job market has stalled as the resurgent coronavirus has brought about another wave shutdowns of restaurants and bars and hobbled consumer spending.
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| Apple to work with Hyundai on “Project Titan” |
1/14/2021 |
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Apple expects to sign a deal with Hyundai to make its cars. The initial version of the article, according to Reuters, indicated that the companies planned to make 100,000 vehicles per year either at the automaker’s existing Kia plant in Georgia or at a new factory.
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| MediaTek revenue climbed 30.8% |
1/13/2021 |
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MediaTek contracts mainly TSMC to fabricate its 5G mobile chips, and has landed orders for major China-based brands' new models slated for launch in the first quarter.
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