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| TikTok to partner with Oracle instead of Microsoft |
9/15/2020 |
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Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is unusual among tech executives for his public support of Trump, hosting a fundraiser for him in February at his Rancho Mirage, California, estate. The company also hired a former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence; its CEO, Safra Catz, also served on Trump’s transition team.
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| USDA found a better way to inspect eggs |
9/14/2020 |
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“Requiring egg product plants to develop food safety systems and procedures similar to meat and poultry requirements is a significant milestone in modernizing our inspection system," FSIS Administrator Paul Kiecker said.
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| VW truck subsidiary to cut 9,500 jobs |
9/14/2020 |
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MAN said the planned package of measures is intended to improve the company's operating result by about $2 billion, and will involve a "fundamental restructuring" of all areas of its business.
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| New plant-based energy storage device can charge an EV battery in minutes |
9/11/2020 |
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While batteries can store large amounts of charge per unit volume, supercapacitors are much more efficient at generating a large quantity of electric current within a short duration. This burst of electricity helps supercapacitors to quickly charge up devices, unlike batteries that can take much longer.
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| Rising number of laid-off workers now say they regard their job loss as permanent |
9/11/2020 |
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Hiring has slowed since June, and a rising number of laid-off workers now say they regard their job loss as permanent. The number of people who are continuing to receive state unemployment benefits rose last week, after five weeks of declines, to 13.4 million, evidence that employers aren't hiring enough to offset layoffs.
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| U.S. ban on SMIC to create tight supply for foundry capacity |
9/11/2020 |
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TSMC, UMC and VIS have already seen their 8-inch fabrication lines run at full capacity utilization, and it remains to be seen whether these Taiwan-based foundries will be able to handle the additional orders transferred from China.
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| Amazon to host a total of 25,000 employees at the Seattle hub |
9/10/2020 |
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Since 2016, the company has been leasing space in the tony Eastside suburb about 10 miles east of downtown Seattle, just across Lake Washington. Amazon now hosts about 3,000 workers there and has been growing its presence steadily in Bellevue’s robust downtown corridor, which will soon be connected with a Link light-rail station.
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| New flaw surfaced in Boeing 787 Dream Liners |
9/10/2020 |
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Boeing said Tuesday it is inspecting part of the tail of the two-aisle 787 after finding that pieces were clamped together too tightly, which could lead to premature fatigue of a part called the horizontal stabilizer.
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| Coronavirus pandemic affects landscape on Germany's machinery industry |
9/9/2020 |
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Orders for machinery, a major German export, were down 16% in this year's first seven months compared with a year earlier, while production declined 14%, the VDMA association said. It cited the effects of the pandemic, protectionism in international trade, and change affecting the auto industry — a key customer.
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| Samsung to develop 5G network infrastructure for Verizon |
9/9/2020 |
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“Samsung has demonstrated their commitment to collaborating with us to drive innovation in 5G,” New York-based Verizon said in a statement. “We are excited to expand our relationship with them and benefit from a long-term strategic agreement.”
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| China’s export growth accelerated |
9/9/2020 |
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Exports rose 9.5% over a year earlier to $235.2 billion, up from July’s 7.2% growth, customs data showed Monday. Imports declined 2.1% to $176.3 billion, compared with the previous month’s 1.4% contraction.
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| China’s SMIC denies military tide |
9/9/2020 |
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“We have no relationship with the Chinese military,” the company said in a statement. It said SMIC products are “solely for civilian and commercial end-users and end-uses.”
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| Britain breaks ground on $140 billion high-speed railway project |
9/8/2020 |
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps defended the HS2 project, which has its “shovels in the ground" moment just as the country is wondering whether the over-budget and often-delayed project offers good value at a time when the the COVID-19 pandemic has enshrined the idea of working from home.
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| $5.7 million NASA grant to improve urban air mobility |
9/8/2020 |
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Ranging from drone delivery services to air metro services to air taxis, urban air mobility refers to in-air transportation within urban areas. It is expected to be a commercially viable market by 2030. However, this will require aircraft to be built in much higher quantities and frequencies than currently being produced.
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