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After 14 years, iPad will finally get a built-in Calculator app, sources say
At Apple's WWDC in June, iPadOS 18 is expected to include a built-in Calculator app for all compatible iPad models.
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This could finally be the year the iPad gets a built-in calculator app
Itâs been over a decade since the release of the very first iPad â and it may finally get Appleâs Calculator app. MacRumors reports that Apple plans to introduce its native calculator in iPadOS 18, which Apple will likely introduce during its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10th . For ye...
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Apple Seeds Third Beta of visionOS 1.2 to Developers
Apple today released the third beta of an upcoming visionOS 1.2 update to developers, allowing them to test new features ahead of the software seeing a public launch. The third âvisionOSâ 1.2 beta comes one week after the release the second beta . The âvisionOSâ beta can be downloaded by going to...
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Apple Seeds Third Beta of watchOS 10.5 to Developers
Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming watchOS 10.5 update to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming a week after the release of the second beta . To install the âwatchOS 10.5 update, developers need to open the Apple Watch app, go to the Software Update section under "Ge...
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Apple Finally Plans to Release a Calculator App for iPad Later This Year
Apple is finally planning a Calculator app for the iPad, over 14 years after launching the device, according to a source familiar with the matter. iPadOS 18 will include a built-in Calculator app for all iPad models that are compatible with the software update, which is expected to be unveiled du...
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Apple confirms next iPad event for May 7: Here's what to expect
Ahead of WWDC in June, virtual invitations for the rumored iPad event with a May 7 date are officially out.
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Appleâs next product event happens on May 7, and itâs probably iPads
Reports point to a new OLED iPad Pro with M3 and a big-screened iPad Air.
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Apple will host a virtual event on May 7th, ahead of WWDC
Appleâs next event will be all about iPads. Apple has gone and announced a spring event for May 7th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. While the company didnât say what the event is about, the Apple Pencil in its graphic suggests weâre finally about to hear about new iPads â but which ones? Well, almost certa...
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iPads, probably.
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Apple has set the date of May 7 for its next hardware reveal event. This show will focus on the iPad, particularly the new tablet with an OLED screen . Read more...
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Apple just dropped an invite for its next event. Scheduled for May 7, the âLet Looseâ presentation appears to be happening exclusively online â something that became standard fare for the company during the pandemic. Over the last couple of years, however, Apple has returned to in-person events, ...
After kicking off 2024 with the launch of the Vision Pro , the next act in Appleâs 2024 script is a May product launch event. Apple has started inviting members of the media to a âspecial Apple Eventâ on May 7th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. The inviteâs image includes the Apple Pencil, making it abundan...
Apple has announced it will be holding a special event on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. Pacific Time (10 a.m. Eastern Time), with a live stream to be available on Apple.com and on YouTube as usual. The event invitation has a tagline of "Let Loose" and shows an artistic render of an Apple Pencil, sugge...
Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.5 update to developers, with the software coming a week after Apple released the second beta . Registered developers can opt-in to the beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Note that an Apple ID associ...
Apple today seeded the third betas of upcoming iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple released the second betas . Registered developers are able to opt into the betas by opening up the Settings app, going to the Software Up...
Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming tvOS 17.5 to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming a week after the release of the second beta . Registered developers are able to download the tvOS 17.5 update by opting in to the beta through the Settings app on the Apple TV . A r...
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ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics Fiber optics of the future may be manufactured in space if the results of a recent ISS experiment prove its feasibility.âŠ
House of the Dragon returns in June , and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knightâaka â Dunk and Egg ââis moving full speed ahead. But despite the hunger for Game of Thrones projects, HBO is still being selective about its spin-offs. Among the shows left in the lurch: that Naomi Watts-st...
If you're looking for serious speed and you don't want to go with a lightweight desktop, Fedora 40 will not disappoint.
Many of us have moved on from the Vision Pro less than three months after its buzzy launch, but Apple can not. The company slashed its 2024 and 2025 sales expectations for the Vision Pro to nearly half what the market expected for this year, according to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on ...
Apple has dropped the number of Vision Pro units that it plans to ship in 2024, going from an expected 700 to 800k units to just 400k to 450k units, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo . Orders have been scaled back before the Vision Pro has launched in markets outside of the United States, w...
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The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their involvement in cyberattacks against the U.S. government, defense contractors, and private companies. [...]
The National Police Agency in South Korea issued an urgent warning today about North Korean hacking groups targeting defense industry entities to steal valuable technology information. [...]
Home internet for when youâre not at home. T-Mobile has announced two new home internet plans: Home Internet Plus and Away. Well, technically thatâs one home internet plan and one anywhere-but-home plan. These new flavors of T-Mobileâs 5G-powered internet service aim to address different custome...
Tech companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon committed today to reviewing their AI training data for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and removing it from use in any future models. The companies signed on to a new set of principles meant to limit the proliferation of CSAM. T...
Samsung broke notification categories, but not completely.
Metaphor: ReFantazio is the inscrutable name for Atlusâ next RPG project. The company launched a new trailer and a 30-minute video introducing players to the story, gameplay, and social elements of the game, and at first blush, it looks pretty damn intriguing. Check out the gameplay video below....
The good news: Finding your favorite music and controlling all your Sonos devices is about to get much easier. The bad news: bye-bye, desktop app.
The new home screen aims to make searching for music easier.
Spotify has launched a colorful personality quiz designed to help K-pop fans determine their persona . For those unfamiliar with the K-pop term or its Jungian roots , a âpersonaâ refers to the distinct, public-facing role of each member of a band. The feature leans into K-popâs status as a major...
Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts Seagate has joined Western Digital in increasing the prices of hard drives, with rising demand due to the huge data requirements of AI taking the blame. AI is also behind a rapid growth in orders for Enterprise solid state drives (SS...
The best trailers are the ones that tell you absolutely nothing and thatâs exactly what you get with the first trailer for Blink Twice. Directed by ZoĂ« Kravitz and starring a whoâs who of awesome actors, itâs some kind of murder mystery cult thing thatâs either supernatural or just weird rich whi...
Cody Two Bears attends the Stand With Standing Rock Benefit at ABC Home & Carpet on December 15th, 2016, in New York City. A coalition of 14 tribes received $135,580,000 for solar energy, part of a Biden administration program to help more households run on renewable energy. The Mandan, Hidatsa ...
We rounded up the best smart gardens with built-in tech and sensors that help make growing herbs and vegetables indoors easier this spring.
Luminarâs new Halo lidar sensor is expected to be less than one inch thick. Luminar is shipping out orders of its lidar sensors to Volvo as the automaker is preparing to start production of its EX90 electric vehicles, the company said today. Volvo will use the laser sensor to enable safety and s...
On the cusp of whatâs expected to be a very not-good earnings report , Tesla decided to shuffle its search results a bit with the reveal of the 2024 Model 3 Performance, with a specially tuned chassis and a 2.9 second 0â60 mph acceleration time. Interestingly, Tesla did not give this updated Mod...
"We're pretty much seeing everything we had hoped for, and that's always good news.â
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have been something of a pleasant surprise . They make videos, take photos, livestream and act as an adequate replacement for headphones, all while looking like a normal pair of sunglasses. However, everyoneâs been waiting for the addition of multimodal AI after ear...
The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on its back. Yes, the Thermonator, which was announced late last year , is finally available for purchase in the United States. Shockingly, the product ca...
It's still $50, would have a new remote, and will hopefully not have 8GB of storage. 
Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse Workplace safety data reported to the US government for 2023 indicates that SpaceX's injury rate continues to surpass the industry average.⊠
Both Amazon and Best Buy are selling unlocked models of Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra with 256GB of storage for $200 off the list price. That brings the smartphone down to $1,100 and marks the lowest price we've seen yet (outside of trade-in and carrier offers). Last month , all three handsets in th...
Amazon is back with a big sale on the newest 24-inch M3 iMac , including both 256GB and 512GB models. This time around, the deals do not require any sort of coupon in order to see the final discounted price. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a pur...
The The VWFNDR Keirin camera concept. This past weekend, a local startup held an exhibition not too far from where I live in Tokyo to show off its idea for an entirely new take on camera hardware. Thatâs not the sort of thing that happens every weekend, even in Tokyo, so I biked on over to take ...
Pack up like you're movingâwith a little help from your friends.
Deadpool & Wolverineâs new trailer yesterday didnât really give fresh details on what the filmâs going to be about, beyond the vague threat of multiversal shenanigans and Wade and Loganâs team-up. But it did give us our first really good look at one of the several villains the movie is playing wi...
After asserting itself as an overshadowing presence in retail, Amazon is still experimenting with ways to leave a similar mark in groceries. The companyâs latest tweak to its service lowers the minimum price for free grocery deliveries to $35. However, most customers using the service will also n...
If you're in the market for a new mechanical keyboard with some retro flair, here's a deal worth noting: the 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard is down to $70 at Amazon subsidiary Woot. That's the lowest price we've tracked. This offer has been live for a few days, but it comes in $30 below 8BitDo'...
For production designer Howard Cummings, Fallout wasnât just the name of his most recent project â it also became a verb. As he was working on Amazonâs live-action adaptation of the game series , Cummings and his team used the word Fallout as a shorthand to describe the particular retrofuturisti...
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Tesla has officially revealed a new Performance variant of the recently-refreshed Model 3 sedan as the company looks to fight off receding demand. The new version of the Model 3, which starts at $52,990, has a new active damping system and adaptive suspension for better handling and comfort, 296 ...
What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway? Mir-based tiling window manager Miracle-WM version 0.2.0 is here, building on the basis of the initial release. Will Mir bring peace and harmony and convergence after all?âŠ
Falloutâs first season took the bold step of jumping a good chunk beyond the events of any game in the beloved post-apocalyptic RPG series so far, to tell its own story. But that didnât stop fans of one of the more beloved entries in the gaming franchiseâthe iconic Obsidian spinoff, Fallout: New ...
You may be able to give those plastic Rock Band guitars you have stuffed away in the attic a new lease of life. Fortnite Festival (a Rock Band-style mode that debuted in Fortnite in December ) now supports several Rock Band 4 controllers across PlayStation, Xbox and PC, as detailed in a blog post...
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Alex Popken was a longtime trust and safety executive at Twitter focusing on content moderation before leaving in 2023. She was the first employee there dedicated to moderating Twitterâs advertising business when she started in 2013. Now, sheâs vice president of trust and safety at WebPurify, a c...
The buzzy AI-native search company Perplexity has joined the Unicorn club. The company has raised another $62.7 million in its fourth round of funding, at a $1.04 billion valuation. The companyâs total is now $165 million. The funding round was led by Daniel Gross, the former head of AI at Y Com...
Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, is a hot property at the moment. TechCrunch has learned that the company is currently raising at least $250 million more at a valuation of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion. The news comes on the heels of two other big fundraises that have seen companyâ...
Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war , bringing the total number of terminated staff to more than 50, a group representing the workers said. Itâs the latest sign of internal turmoil at ...
Google fired at least 20 more employees on Monday evening related to the April 16 sit-in protests of the companyâs cloud computing contracts with Israel, No Tech For Apartheid organizers tell Gizmodo. Google confirmed the additional firings in a statement, noting the company has concluded its inv...
X just announced a smart TV app for streaming video . Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named X TV wants to be âyour go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.â By high...
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is launching a dedicated TV app for videos uploaded to the social network soon. X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced on Tuesday that the new app will bring âreal-time, engaging content to your smart TVs.â The appâs interface looks quite similar to YouTubeâs, a...
The newest update for Meta's smart glasses adds the ability to share your view on WhatsApp and Messenger video calls as well.
Thereâs a new cat-eye frame called the Skyler. Meta just announced a slew of new updates for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg just dropped an Instagram reel showing off a new cat-eye frame style for the glasses and a video calling feature. You can also now connect the glasses ...
News that the former founder of HeadSpin is headed to prison for fraud was further evidence that the last boom in the paired worlds of startup and venture capital led to more than just a little bit of fraud. Manish Lachwani, founder in question, is getting prison time and a massive fine for lying...
This lifetime license bundle deal gives you access to the entire Microsoft Office Pro 2019 suite and Windows 11 Pro for just $50.
Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up Two New Jersey drivers claim they now pay more for their car insurance because General Motors (GM) and its OnStar app snooped on their driving behavior without their consent and sent metrics to "various ...
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This gaming laptop combines the display of your rich friend's TV and the chassis of a Macbook Air with a powerful graphics card and a beefy battery.
Popular accessory maker Nomad today announced the launch a second-generation glow in the dark band designed for the Apple Watch, with the new version featuring a much more pronounced glow than before. Nomad says that its Glow 2.0 Sport Band is three times brighter than the prior-generation versio...
The Glow Sport case for the iPhone 15 Pro and Glow 2.0 band for the Apple Watch are on sale today, but you'll have to act fast if you want one.
Star Wars: Andor: The Complete First Season is io9's most-coveted among the Disney+ series getting collectorâs edition Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases April 30 âno offense to Marvelâs The Falcon and the Winter Soldier or Moon Knight, or Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, which are also part of the drop. Read...
A new experimental mission by NASA is ready to set sail in orbit, using photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes. Read more...
It charges compatible smartphones and earbuds while also adding a night light with three touch-controlled brightness levels.
Donât kick yourself if you missed out on Samsungâs free TV preorder promo from earlier this month. The company is now offering a much better cash discount on one of its most notable new models: the glare-free Samsung OLED S95D TV . The smallest TV in the lineup, the 55-inch model starts at $2,29...
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Lawmakers have long grappled with data privacy as it pertains to our devices and vehicles. But thereâs a new battleground emerging in the privacy battles: our brains. Governor Jared Polis signed a bill that protects brain waves as sensitive information under the Colorado Privacy Act. Under the l...
On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather. The color-coded system added magenta, a fifth-tier of heat severity, beyond red, to communicate extreme hea...
Free VPNs can come with security risks. But there are solid limited-service free VPNs provided by reputable companies that may fit your needs -- here's what to know.
Weâre quickly approaching the advent of Googleâs annual spring developer conference, and as a result, rumors of the companyâs next mid-range smartphone are loudly percolating. What will the Pixel 8a look like? Will it arrive soon? Will it offer more RAM at its supposedly slightly higher price poi...
Epic: "We want emotes to be a source of good vibes..."
âThe Department of State has started imposing visa restrictions on mercenary spyware makers and peddlers, prohibiting their entry into the United States, as announced earlier in February. [...]
From first place to third as local brands grow iPhone sales in China - the world's largest smartphone market - slipped by 19.1 percent in Q1 year-over-year while many domestic brands rose, pushing Apple from first to third place.âŠ
Meta is using a tried-and-true strategy to compete with the Apple Vision Pro.
The Ugreen 5,000 mAh wireless power bank is super-slim and light, providing an all-day charge without adding extra bulk to your iPhone.
Overall, pulling out your phone is still faster, but it is handy for identifying things when youâre out and about. It can be handy, confidently wrong, and just plain finicky â but smart glasses are a much more comfortable form factor for this tech. Continue reading⊠
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In a major win for the Dutch tech industry, chip giant ASML intends to remain and further expand in the Netherlands. The chip machine manufacturer has signed a non-binding letter of intent with the City Council of Eindhoven, eyeing a potential expansion at the Brainport Industries Campus (BIC), w...
Fisker says itâs planning more layoffs less than two months after cutting 15% of its workforce, as the EV startup scrambles to raise cash to stay alive. Fisker expects to seek bankruptcy protection within the next 30 days if it canât come up with that money, according to a U.S. Securities and Exc...
Apple is promoting its upcoming "Let loose" event using six artistic logos amid the expectation that a new Apple Pencil is to be announced. The six different logos cycle through randomly upon refreshing Apple's homepage . In 2018, Apple promoted its "There's more in the making" event that saw the...
Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline Microsoft claims the latest incarnation of its lightweight Phi-3 Mini AI model rivals competitors such as GPT-3.5 while being small enough to be deployed on a phone.âŠ
A smaller model isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Razer has rolled out the Viper V3 Pro , its latest high-end wireless gaming mouse. What makes a gaming mouse âhigh-end,â you might ask? Mainly, itâs super lightweight and packed with impressive wireless and sensor tech, all of which makes it extremely responsive in competitive games. Iâve had one...
The white Razer Viper V3 Pro next to its large bundled HyperPolling Wireless Dongle. Does your gaming mouse track its own position 8,000 times per second? If youâre the kind of person who cares, I suspect you might also want that mouse to track that fast out of the box â instead of having to buy...
Everyoneâs a little freaked out about AI right nowâthe ramifications of unregulated tech bro start up culture smashing into industries across the board, from journalism, to science, to entertainment, being turned upside down by the hot new trend. But together, Jennifer Lopez and Netflix boldly as...
Navigating any terrain I threw at it, and imprinting beautiful lines, the Luba 2 convinced me to leave the lawn to a bot.
North Korean hackers have been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus to plant backdoors on big corporate networks and deliver cryptocurrency miners through GuptiMiner malware. [...]
Increasingly, our cars will be controlled by a small number of powerful computers.
A 28-year-old motorcyclist died in Washington State on Friday afternoon because a dipshit Tesla driver rear-ended him at speed . A Snohomish man, 56, was commuting in his 2022 Tesla Model S when he activated the carâs camera-based advanced driver assist system and according to his statements to p...
When their husbands died suddenly about three years ago, a mutual friend connected Eloise Bune and Karine Nissim on Instagram. They got to know each other and became part of one anotherâs support system as they navigated the aftermath of being widowedâand the effect that grief has on doing everyd...
Residents clean debris of their destroyed houses at the Khaung Dote Khar Rohingya refugee camp in Myanmarâs Rakhine state on May 15th, 2023, after Cyclone Mocha made landfall. No other region on Earth experiences more climate, weather, and water-related disasters than Asia, according to a new re...
Amazon is bringing back free(ish) grocery deliveries for orders over $35 in the form of a new monthly subscription program the company announced today . Itâs $9.99 per month for Prime members and includes unlimited one-hour grocery delivery where itâs available, as well as unlimited 30-minute gr...
Electricity goes both ways as bit barns in Dublin aim to cut emissions and boost the bank Datacenter biz Digital Realty is to let facilities in Ireland feed energy back to the electricity grid when needed, helping to smooth out variability in supply, cut CO 2 emissions and provide an additional r...
Keep wildfire smoke, smog, and allergens out. We tested standard and HEPA models to find the right one for your home.
The UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that it paid a ransom to cybercriminals to protect sensitive data stolen during the Optum ransomware attack in late February. [...]
Yesterday, the EU issued TikTok an ultimatum. The Chinese-owned social media app was given just 24 hours to outline the mental health risks related to its new app TikTok Lite or face huge daily fines. This is the EUâs second probe into TikTok under the Digital Service Act (DSA). The DSA is a new ...
By now, Iâm assuming that weâve made our way through all eight episodes of the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixinâs The 3 Body Problem (and by we, I mean sci-fi nerds). The series is packed with scienceâmuch of it way over the topâbut it grounds itself in quantum mechanics and astrophysics. Read mor...
At first glance, Netflixâs upcoming action thriller Atlas , starring Jennifer Lopez, seemed like it was going to be a rather serious movie about a mech pilot fighting to survive on an inhospitable planet. That could still be the case, but the movieâs latest trailer makes it out to be a bit more ...
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Although many students in the United States enter community colleges intending to transfer to four-year universities, only 16% of those students receive bachelorâs degrees within six years. But Campus, an online alternative to traditional community colleges, has an approach that aims to change th...
The whole-home power backup system, now available in North America, can store solar energy.
If you can afford this home, you can probably afford Ankerâs whole-home battery backup solution. Nearly a year since it was first announced , Anker is finally selling its Solix whole-home battery backup solution in North America. The Solix X1 is just 5.9 inches thick and attaches to a wall like ...
Even tighter requirements mean it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS Microsoft's war on old PCs appears to have intensified as the latest builds of Windows 11 will not boot if your CPU does not support the SSE4.2 instruction set.âŠ
Itâs been 23 years since Brian Helgeland gave us A Knightâs Tale âand the directorâs been thinking about ways it couldâve continued ever since. But once he settled on an idea, he apparently went to Netflix to make the pitch... only to find that the streamerâs algorithmic overlords disagreed. Read...
Mophie today announced the launch of Juice Pack battery cases that are designed to work with the iPhone 15 lineup. Like Mophie's prior Juice Pack cases, the latest version attaches to the iPhone to provide a little extra battery life during daily use. The case comes apart in two pieces so that th...
Apple is said to be developing its own AI server processor using TSMC's 3nm process, targeting mass production by the second half of 2025. According to a post by the Weibo user known as " Phone Chip Expert ," Apple has ambitious plans to design its own artificial intelligence server processor. Th...
If you were hoping that all your cultish rituals and stuck voodoo dolls would make the iPhone FineWoven cases meet an untimely end, then you donât know Apple. After one Apple tipster asserted that the maligned iPhone cases would soon be as dead as the Dodo, we may instead be looking at a whole ne...
Chinese universities and research institutes recently obtained high-end Nvidia artificial intelligence chips through resellers, despite the U.S. widening a ban last year on the sale of such technology to China. A Reuters review of hundreds of tender documents shows 10 Chinese entities acquired ad...
Thousands of exposed files on North Korean server tell the tale.
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