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The N3 program aims to develop wearable devices that let soldiers to communicate directly with machines.
IEEE Spectrum
A patchwork of state laws and self-regulation is not cutting it
The Tech Spot
Qualcomm illegally suppressed competition in the market for smartphone chips by threatening to cut off supplies and extracting excessive licensing fees.
Reuters
ARM instructed employees to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with Huawei and its subsidiaries to comply with a recent US trade clampdown.
BBC News
A top business lobby group representing American firms in China said they have "real concerns" over how Beijing may respond to US action taken against Huawei. Speaking to the BBC, AmCham China chairman Tim Stratford said its members were worried about Beijing's response.
BBC News
Chinese President Xi Jinping ramped up his rhetoric by saying China is embarking on a "new Long March, and we must start all over again!"
CNBC
Commentary: Although the US government slightly relaxed its order to ban Huawei, the phone-maker's future with Google is still undecided.
CNET
Available now from $260, they all have 4K HDR with Dolby Vision, Google Chromecast and Apple AirPlay 2. And the specs get better from there.
CNET
Nokia Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said on Tuesday the company could benefit from a U.S. clampdown on Chinese rival Huawei as the race to roll out 5G services heats up.
Reuters
Google has announced a new version of its business-focused Glass augmented reality headset.
The Verge
"Our acquisition of Avera enables us to offer the complete spectrum of product architectures spanning standard, semi-custom to full ASIC solutions"
Tom's Hardware Guide
Chipmaker halts deliveries to review impact of curb on Chinese tech giant
Nikkei Asian Review
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi reported better than-expected quarterly revenue on Monday due in part to steady growth in sales outside its home market.
Reuters
The U.S. government on Monday temporarily eased some trade restrictions imposed last week on China's Huawei, a move that sought to minimize disruption for the telecom company's customers around the world.
Reuters
The acquisition will cost $1.3 billion.
engadget
The removal of China's biggest telecoms company from semiconductor customer ledgers is leading Qualcomm stock lower.
The Street
The true impact to Huawei may be enormous.
BBC News
Chipmakers including Intel, Qualcomm, Xilinx and Broadcom have told their employees they will not supply Huawei till further notice, according to people familiar with their actions.
Bloomberg
China's central bank will use foreign exchange intervention and monetary policy tools to stop the yuan weakening past the key 7-per-dollar level in the near-term, three people familiar with the central bank's thinking said.
Reuters
Google has cut phone maker Huawei off from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a blow to the Chinese firm. New Huawei smartphones will also lose access to popular Google apps.
BBC News
The search and mobile giant's apparent move follows President Trump's executive order that effectively bans Huawei in the US, according to Reuters.
CNET
HiSilicon has been secretly developing back-up products for years in anticipation of the unlikely scenario that Huawei may one day be unable to obtain advanced chips and technology from the United States.
Reuters
Don't worry, the console wars are probably here to stay.
Ars Technica
"Nvidia is back on an upward trajectory," said Jensen Huang
Company release
It's a big day for the future of wireless internet connectivity.
CNN
Huawei said Thursday it has not ruled out legal action to resolve a growing crisis with the Trump administration following the Commerce Department's decision Wednesday to place the Chinese tech giant on a trading blacklist.
CNN
After months of speculation, President Trump has signed an executive order giving the federal government the power to block US companies from buying foreign-made telecommunications equipment deemed a national security risk.
The Verge
Today's announcement covers the new D77 which is an evolutionary upgrade to the D71.
Anandtech
The company has mentioned that date to prospective hires for an in-house 5G modem team, says a report.
CNET
The streaming platform is number one in the US, UK, Germany, India and Japan.
engadget
President Donald Trump urged the Fed on Tuesday to match China's central bank by cutting rates. "It would be game over, we win!" Trump tweeted.
CNN
Nvidia looks set to respond to AMD's upcoming Navi generation of graphics cards with some tweaks to its existing GPU lineup.
Digital Trends
Scientific breakthrough leads to record low costs for essential battery ingredient
South China Morning Post
"It could cost Cisco a lot of money."
BBC News
Seemingly overnight, Intel's Clear Linux became a distribution with an eye toward not just Cloud environments, machine learning applications, data science and power users, but the broader desktop user as well.
Forbes
Struggling Japanese engineering firm Toshiba on Monday reported improved full-year net profit thanks to the sale of its chip business, but said operating profit was sharply down.
Japan Today
On Monday, WhatsApp admitted a major cybersecurity breach that has enabled targeted spyware to be installed on phones through voice calls.
Forbes
Microsoft has taken another step toward creating a secure identification platform that will allow users to own their personal data and keep it from the prying eyes of marketers and others.
Computerworld
Hands-on with Lenovo's PC prototype with folding screen
The Verge
An entire class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips allows attackers to steal data directly from the processor, according to new reports from a group of cybersecurity researchers from around the world.
Gizmodo
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