China’s chipmaking industry descended into chaos last week, with at least four top executives associated with a state-owned semiconductor fund arrested on corruption charges. It’s an explosive turn of events that could force the country to fundamentally rethink how it invests in chip development, according to analysts and experts. On July 30, China’s top anticorruption…
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Illustration by Maria Chimishkyan When Apple introduced passkeys, its implementation of FIDO Alliance’s password-less secure authentication technology, the company did it in the most Apple way possible. It made an icon and printed a very on Apple brand-looking “Passkeys” next to it, complete in the San Francisco font. And if you’ve watched only part of…
South Korea is headed for the moon. Last night, the country launched its first-ever lunar mission—in fact, its first-ever mission beyond low Earth orbit. Formerly called the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), the mission, managed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), is now named Danuri, a play on the Korean words for “moon” and…
A team of scientists in China claim to have replicated the performance of Google’s Sycamore quantum computer using traditional hardware, thereby undermining the suggestion the company has achieved quantum supremacy. As reported by Science magazine, the scientists used a system comprised of 512 GPUs to complete the same calculation developed by Google to demonstrate it…
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Getty Images Lumber prices traded lower again Friday amid continued signs of a housing-market cooldown. Prices fell as much as 5%, to $474 per thousand board foot. Lumber is extending losses that hit a new record low for the year earlier in the week. Lumber plummeted Friday, extending losses that marked a new 2022 low…
Ricky Willden was sentenced to two years in prison for assaulting police on January 6, 2021. US attorney’s office in Washington, DC Ricky Willden, a self-proclaimed Proud Boys member, admitted to assaulting police on January 6. A judge sentenced him to two years in prison — a term six months shorter than what prosecutors suggested….
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appears during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Andrew Harnik/AP Photo US stocks closed mixed on Friday after July’s strong jobs report fought back recession worries.The US added 528,000 new jobs in July, about double expectations as the unemployment rate fell to…
Editing text messages is coming to your iPhone with iOS 16. Hollis Johnson You can edit text messages on your iPhone for up to 15 minutes after sending. To edit a text message on your iPhone, tap and hold your finger on it and select “Edit.” This feature is new in iOS 16, and it’s…
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