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Apple announces new iPad mini, available to order now and in stores on Oct. 23
Apple iPad Mini 2024 Apple Apple announced a new iPad mini on Tuesday, offering the first update to its smallest tablet since 2021. The new iPad mini comes with a faster A17 Pro processor, the same chip that was in last year’s iPhone 15 Pro. That means it supports Apple Intelligence, the company’s new suite […]
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Nvidia heads for record close as AI chipmaker’s market cap tops $3.4 trillion
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during an event in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday, June 2, 2024. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia shares headed for a record close on Monday as Wall Street gears up for earnings season and updates from all of the chipmaker’s top customers […]
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AMD launches AI chip to rival Nvidia’s Blackwell
AMD launched a new artificial-intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia’s data center graphics processors, known as GPUs. The Instinct MI325X, as the chip is called, will start production before the end of 2024, AMD said Thursday during an event announcing the new product. If AMD’s AI chips are seen by […]
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TikTok’s use of casino-like virtual currency to allegedly exploit children faces scrutiny in DC lawsuit
A view shows the office of TikTok after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app or face a ban, in Culver City, California, March 13, 2024. Mike Blake | Reuters Of the many allegations […]
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Google ordered to open Android app store in Epic Games trial
Character actors from the Epic Games Fortnite video game dance during the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, on June 12, 2019. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images A U.S. judge issued a permanent injunction on Monday that will force Google to offer alternatives to its Google Play store for downloading apps on […]
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As Apple enters AI race, iPhone maker turns to its army of developers for an edge
A view of Apple’s new iPhone 16 at an Apple Store on the Regent Street in London, United Kingdom on September 20, 2024. Rasid Necati Aslim | Anadolu | Getty Images As Apple prepares Apple Intelligence to jump into Silicon Valley’s AI race, it’s relying on one of its strongest advantages: Its army of 34 […]
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Mark Zuckerberg is now world’s second-richest person, ahead of Jeff Bezos
At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has surpassed Jeff Bezos as the world’s second richest person. Zuckerberg’s net worth reached $206.2 […]
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India to fabricate its first chip in two years as Nvidia, AMD and Micron pledge to expand to the country
Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles Shri Piyush Goyal is talking to media on EU-India trade relations. India will waive tariffs on industrial imports from four European nations for a $100 billion investment over 15 years, ending nearly 16 years of negotiations. Thierry Monasse | Getty Images […]
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East and Gulf Coast ports strike, with ILA longshoremen walking off job from New England to Texas, stranding billions in trade
Shipping containers sit stacked in the Port of Newark on September 30, 2024 seen from New York City. A massive strike shutting down ports across the East and Gulf coasts began at midnight as members of the International Longshoremen’s Association continue to make salary and other demands to the United States Maritime Alliance, which controls […]
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East Coast port strike: Truckers, rails scramble to move billions in cargo before ILA union midnight shutdown
Shipping containers stacked at a storage yard outside of the APM Terminals yard at the Port of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama, US, on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Micah Green | Bloomberg | Getty Images With a potential strike at ports up and down the East Coast and along the Gulf Coast set to begin after […]
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