It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept - first developed by the Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in the 1920s - was mainly an inspiration for writers.

Singapore's economy contracted by 5.8% in the third quarter compared to a year ago - coming in better than initial estimates, the country's Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Monday.

The Shenzhen-based company filed 8,607 wireless patents in the January to October period

Corning has announced a new breakthrough in glass-ceramic technology, Corning Guardiant. Under test methods approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), paint and coatings containing Corning Guardiant were shown to kill more than 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The Wolverine V2 costs $100 and it's available today.

The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon are nearly identical to Intel-powered Macs.

More than 30 major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalisation in one of the world's most cash-loving countries, the group's organising body said on Thursday.

Verizon and Apple are teaming up on another sales pitch for the 5G iPhone 12 - and this time, they're aiming at business customers.

China is cashing in on fears that the West's faltering economic recovery will keep interest rates near record lows for a long time.

The NUC M15 is a premium productivity laptop meant to compete with the XPS and Spectre computers of the world

German chipmaker Infineon Technologies is relatively well insulated from geopolitical tensions between the United States and China thanks to its focus on power-management chips, CEO Reinhard Ploss said on Wednesday.

Google and AMD will be among the first clients for TSMC's new SoIC chips, which use a new 3D technology to stack and link different types of chips in one package. The new chip packaging approach is meant to make the chipset smaller but more powerful and energy efficient.

SoftBank doubled its internal target for selling down assets this year in preparation for a potential "worst case scenario" in the next two to three months as coronavirus cases spike, CEO Masayoshi Son said.

Tsinghua Unigroup, a major government-backed player in China's technology race, has defaulted on a 1.3-billion-yuan ($197.96 million) bond, three sources said, as several high-profile delinquencies by state firms rattled the country's bond market.

German industrial robot-maker Hahn Automation plans to invest millions of euros in new factories in China over the next three years, keen to capitalise on an economy that's rebounding more rapidly than others from the COVID-19 crisis.

City officials in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday unanimously voted to authorize a development agreement with chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co that would provide $205 million in city funds for infrastructure such as roads and water improvements for a planned $12 billion semiconductor factory in the city.

Apple said it was protecting degrading batteries

Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm will all support Microsoft Pluton

The region is grappling with a second wave of infections and a subsequent new round of lockdowns and social restrictions.

U.S. retail sales increased less than expected in October and could slow further, restrained by spiraling new COVID-19 infections and declining household income as millions of unemployed Americans lose government financial support.

New cars and vans powered wholly by petrol and diesel will not be sold in the UK from 2030, prime minister Boris Johnson has said.

Nation's leadership pours money into grooming semiconductor talent and building new facilities, citing need for self-sufficiency

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors on Tuesday said it had entered a strategic relationship with Amazon.com's cloud computing unit to help cars communicate with data centers.

IBM announced today it would acquire TruQua Enterprises, a finance and analytics company in the IT and SAP industries. That becomes the latest purchase geared toward enhancing IBM's offerings in the hybrid cloud.

Samsung Electronics is pouring US$116 billion into its next-generation chip business that includes fabricating silicon for external clients, betting it can finally close the gap on industry leader TSMC as soon as two years from now.

A key witness involved in the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou two years ago has decided not to testify in the Canadian court as part of Meng's ongoing witness cross-examination, the court heard on Monday.

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems' non-profit group Noyb alleges Apple's use of a tracking code on iPhones breaches European law.

Playing video games may improve your mental health and make you happier, according to a scientific study that used industry data from gaming companies to analyze players' wellbeing.

The latest version of Nvidia's flagship A100 server GPU packs twice as much high-speed memory as its predecessor.

Huawei is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers in a bid to keep it alive, the company and the consortium said on Tuesday.

Tesla will be added to the S&P 500 index on Dec. 21. Based on its market value Monday, the electric car maker would be one of the top 10 companies in the benchmark index upon entry.

It even supports AirPlay 2 and Wireless DeX.

Ford Motor has reversed course and is now considering making its own battery cells as sales volumes of electric vehicles rise around the world, the automaker's top executive said on Friday.

Qualcomm on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.

For the past two months inventor Yezin Al-Qaysi has been riding the Toronto subway in Canada wearing a huge black "mad helmet".

Microsoft is directing shareholders' attention to revenue from games and gaming services, which includes sales of games for a variety of devices, including the PlayStation.

China's bureau for regulating monopolies, the State Administration for Market Regulation or SAMR, released draft rules that define for the first time what constitutes anti-competitive behavior.

Amazon on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia.

Cisco beat expectations while delivering the fourth consecutive quarter of revenue declines on an annualized basis.

The tablet had its best October ever, ahead of the next-gen launches