It has been a rough quarter for the US economy, with the country plunging into a pandemic-fueled recession. Yet the stock market is alive and kicking - in fact, it's having its best quarter in more than 20 years.

Promising new features for smart home developers and users

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Tuesday visited Samsung's semiconductor equipment subsidiary SEMES, surveying the very foundation of the chip industry amid the country's ongoing efforts to reduce dependence on Japan.

Xilinx raised its revenue forecast for its fiscal first quarter Monday, citing better-than-expected revenues for its wired and wireless group and its data center group as well as accelerated orders ahead of new US restrictions on sales to Chinese tech firm Huawei.

Beijing is pushing back on a decision by India to ban dozens of Chinese mobile apps as tensions between the countries continue to rise.

The Trump administration's new restrictions come in response to a new national security law that will extend China's influence over Hong Kong.

Yangtze Memory Technologies, China's top memory chipmaker, will roll out its first-ever storage products lineup in the second half of 2020.

"Although many countries have made some progress, globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a virtual news conference.

Sony's image sensor business aims to replicate PlayStation's success to address its reliance on a handful of manufacturers in the fickle smartphone market: It plans to sell software by subscription for data-analyzing sensors in situ.

Might be named the Xbox Series S

Nearly all of the largest U.S. banks said Monday that they performed well enough on the Federal Reserve's most-recent stress test to maintain their current quarterly dividend.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said big questions remain over the outlook for the economy, particularly in light of ongoing efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

Hundreds of thousands of people and businesses have been locked out of accounts linked to Wirecard after Britain's financial watchdog ordered the collapsed digital payments company to suspend UK operations.

Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.

Almost every tech giant has its sights on gaming. Even Apple and Google, predominantly known for their hardware and operating systems, have made big bets in games.

As face coverings become the norm amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese startup Donut Robotics has developed an internet-connected "smart mask" that can transmit messages and translate from Japanese into eight other languages.

Zoox was valued at over $3 billion in 2018, but has struggled with management turnover in its efforts to develop a self-driving car.

Microsoft on Friday announced it will permanently close its 83 Microsoft Store retail locations.

DRAM designed in Japan by a team of 100 will help combat US sanctions

Huawei has got the green light to build a chip research and development center in Cambridgeshire.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday introduced a measure aimed at strengthening chip manufacturing in the United States, adding to efforts to champion the sector and lure high tech supply chains back into the United States.

China sent the last satellite to space on Tuesday to complete its global navigation system that will help wean it off U.S. technology in this area.

Dell owns about 81% of VMware.

Apple previously released a similar feature on iPhones and MacBooks

Facebook must comply with an order by Germany's antitrust watchdog to curb data collection from users, a top German court ruled on Tuesday, in a setback for the U.S. social network company that could set a wider precedent.

The biotech giant says, it will soon begin clinical trials for a different version of the same experimental drug, remdesivir, which might make it easier to administer outside of a hospital or ICU wing.

The $3 trillion French economy grew this month for the first time since February, as coronavirus restrictions were eased and domestic consumption ticked up, according to a closely-watched survey.

Microsoft wants Teams for consumers to be seen as more than just a chat app

U.S. President Donald Trump suspended the entry into the United States of certain foreign workers on Monday, a move the White House said would help the coronavirus-battered economy, but which business groups strongly oppose.

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China Standards 2035 is an ambitious 15-year blueprint that will lay out Beijing's plans to set the global standards for the next-generation of technologies.

For the first time, an ARM-based system is number one spot on the Top500 list.

The clarification from Shenzhen-based ZTE came at a time when China is doubling down on efforts to build up its chipmaking capability

Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Monday it planned to sell down its 40.2% stake in flash memory chips firm Kioxia Holdings and will return a majority of the net proceeds to shareholders.

Samsung Electronics is planning to shift much of its display production from China to Ho Chi Minh City this year, Vietnamese state media reported on Friday, although the South Korean tech giant said those reports were untrue.

Cut of up to 30% charged by app stores obstructs fair competition, claims Brad Smith

This month's outbreak of coronavirus in Beijing has prompted concerns that a second wave of the pandemic could upset China's nascent economic recovery.

With states continuing to lift coronavirus restrictions, people across the U.S. have felt more comfortable traveling, taking transit, eating out and even moving to a new home.

Apple reopened dozens of stores across the United States last month, after shutting them because of the coronavirus. Now, it is closing some of them again.

Intel today introduced its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio, enabling customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data center, network and intelligent-edge environments.