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| Lenovo caught installing spyware onto PCs |
8/17/2015 |
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The company was in hot water after reportedly shipping laptops with pre-installed software called "Superfish" that could let hackers steal passwords or other sensitive information when users accessed the web to shop, pay bills or check email.
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| Toshiba is developing QLC level NAND |
8/14/2015 |
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Many of today’s solid state drives use Triple Level Cell (TLC). This kind of flash can store 3 bits of data per cell. QLC, as the name implies, Toshiba’s technology boosts that to 4 bits per cell.
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| Qualcomm announce significant upgrade in Snapdragon 820 |
8/14/2015 |
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“We’re significantly enhancing the visual processing capabilities of Snapdragon to support next-generation user experiences related to computational photography, computer vision, virtual reality and photo-realistic graphics on mobile devices, all while maximizing battery life,”
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| New water bottle is made out of paper |
8/14/2015 |
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The manufacturing process saves both energy and water and enables a lower carbon footprint. The bottles can also be recycled into paper products or green building materials.
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| Intel includes Win 10 on Compute Stick |
8/13/2015 |
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The Intel Compute Stick is practically a Windows pico PC in an even more portable form. Powered by an Intel Atom Z3735F, with 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, it offers to get basic computing jobs done.
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| Semi wafer shipment up 2.5% |
8/13/2015 |
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Total silicon wafer area shipments were 2,702 million square inches during the most recent quarter, a 2.5% increase from the 2,637 million square inches shipped during the previous quarter resulting in a new quarterly volume shipment record.
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| U.S. Wind turbines are increasing |
8/13/2015 |
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Wind energy prices are at an all-time low and remain competitive with conventional power sources in many areas of the country.
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| Toshiba announced 16-die stack with TSV |
8/12/2015 |
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Traditional stacked NAND flash memories are connected together with wire bonding in a package, while TSV technology uses the vertical electrodes and vias to pass through the silicon dies for the connection. This enables high-speed data input and output, and reduces power consumption.
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| Google now own by a new holding company |
8/12/2015 |
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The new company will be called "Alphabet,". The new structure will provide more independence for divisions like Nest, which makes Internet-connected home appliances, and Calico, which is conducting cutting-edge health research.
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| Nano-size Yolk extends battery life |
8/11/2015 |
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Their invention, which houses a shape-changing aluminum "yolk" in a titanium dioxide cell, can go through charging cycles without degrading like the graphite electrodes
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| HTC lost some market on smartphone |
8/10/2015 |
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The company's revenue reached NT$33 billion ($1.04 billion) worldwide during the second quarter, or just half of its NT$65.1 billion revenue during the same period last year.
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| Manufacturers are behind in data security |
8/10/2015 |
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s 2015 CFO Outlook Pulse Survey found that 75 percent of manufacturing finance executives reported that formal data security plans were in place, while 86 percent of non-manufacturing respondents reported implementing those plans.
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| China wants to buy Marvell's Wireless division |
8/7/2015 |
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Marvell has drawn interest from Chinese firms Leadcore Technology Co. and Shanghai Pudong Science & Technology Investment Co. Marvell is said to value the business at about $1 billion, the sources said.
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