Monthly Archives: September 2022

Global stocks tumble after shock US inflation data, while yuan nears 2-year low as Biden eyes China sanctions

Global stocks tumbled Wednesday after a shock CPI report rattled markets. Reuters / Cheryl Ravelo-Gagalac Asian and European stocks dropped Wednesday, as hotter-than-expected US inflation data rattled markets. Inflation rose in August, seen as making aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate hikes more likely. The Chinese yuan traded close to a two-year low on talk of…

6 former members of Congress describe the moment they decided it was time to quit Capitol Hill — while in their prime

Vicky Leta/Insider Insider spoke with six members of Congress about their decision to retire early. One compared the day-to-day in the 1990s to “a middle-school lunchroom fight.” Others pointed to incentives that can make some members stick around too long. Read more from Insider’s “Red, White, and Gray” series. Former Rep. Pat Schroeder of Colorado…

Tesla chair defends the company’s Shanghai factory, saying it needs manufacturing capacity on every continent to produce 20 million cars a year by 2030

Tesla is aiming to produce 20 million electric vehicles a year by 2030. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla chair Robyn Denholm said the company needs to be able to produce vehicles on every continent. The company aims to deliver 20 million cars a year by 2030. It produced 936,000 vehicles in 2021, half of which came…

Google fails to overturn EU Android antitrust ruling but reduces its fine by 5 percent

Google has failed to convince Europe’s General Court to overturn the Commission’s ruling on its Android antitrust case and its decision to slap the company with a €4.3 (US$4.3) billion fine. The General Court upheld the Commission’s original ruling back in 2018 that Google used its dominant position in the market to impose restrictions on…

Apple tipped to use 3nm chip tech in iPhone 15, 2023 Macs

A new report predicts that Apple will be looking to equipp even more efficient chipsets in its A and M-powered products from 2023, with development from one of its key suppliers underway for the next generation of processors.  It’s being reported that TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is developing 3nm-based processors, and that these will…

Intel once again teases Thunderbolt 5 with 80Gbits per second throughput

In 2021 Intel seeming accidentally revealed some details on Thunderbolt 5, namely the massive increase in transfer speed. Though it wasn’t officially named, the next iteration of Thunderbolt that’s set to replace Thunderbolt 4 is promising 80Gbps speed (double that of the 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4 is capable of).  Just recently during the Intel Tech Tour…

Ace Attorney’s forgotten game shows the strange place of fan localisations within fandom

After six years, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles got an official localisation in 2021. It was well received – Eurogamer gave it a recommended – and went on to sell half a million copies. By all accounts it was a success, and it finally aligned the Ace Attorney franchise’s releases inside and outside of Japan….