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Despite the sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia imported more than $1 billion worth of high-tech American and European chips in 2023. According to a Bloomberg report citing classified data from the Russian customs service, the aggressor imported chips from American manufacturers Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices and Analog Devices Inc. and European […]
Elon Musk considers Chinese electric car manufacturers “extremely good” and thinks they “will have significant success outside of China.” According to AUTO-Consulting, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that Chinese automakers would “demolish” most other car companies in the world if there were no trade barriers. “In our observation, Chinese automakers are the most competitive automotive […]
Beijing can take possession of records from Ukrainian cities, frontline regions and strategic enterprises, the article says. Thousands of surveillance cameras in Ukraine transmit information to servers controlled by a Chinese manufacturer. This conclusion was reached by journalists of the Schemes project. We are talking about cameras from the Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua, which […]
Apple will be the first company to receive chips manufactured using TSMC’s upcoming 2-nanometer process, DigiTimes reports. According to the publication’s sources, Apple is “considered to be the first customer to use this technological process.” TSMC is expected to start producing 2nm chips in the second half of 2025. Terms such as “3nm” and “2nm” […]
In one of the episodes of the Berlin series, Netflix streaming service showed a security system being hacked through the Ajax keypad. The company reassured us and explained why we shouldn’t trust what we saw in the movies. Ajax noted that hacking is usually performed in three stages: searching for a keypad, gaining physical access […]
The TikTok app has a new feature that can automatically scroll through a video feed, freeing the user’s fingers from unnecessary movements. Gizmodo writes about it. As you know, TikTok loops videos. If the user puts the smartphone down, the video will play indefinitely. Autoscroll disables looping and automatically skips to the next video. It […]
WhatsApp is preparing for a multi-platform future: soon it will be possible to write to users of Telegram, Discord, and other messengers. In the latest beta version of WhatsApp for iOS, a new section called Third-party Chats has been added to allow you to add chats from other messengers. The feature is already being tested, […]
Microsoft Corporation on Tuesday, January 24, reached a historic market valuation of $3 trillion, reflecting market optimism about artificial intelligence. This was reported by Bloomberg The shares rose by 1.3% to $403.95, bringing the market capitalization to $3 trillion. Microsoft is now in second place after Apple, which has a capitalization of $3.02 trillion. Much […]
US startup Normal Computing has created a thermodynamic computer that uses the laws of thermodynamics to perform calculations. The founders of Normal Computing, former leading developers of artificial intelligence and quantum platforms at Google Brain and Alphabet X, developed this thermodynamic computer as a transitional option in the field of computing. Normal Computing has already […]
Engineers at Cornell University have presented an innovative lithium battery that can charge in less than five minutes, which will set a record. This technological innovation maintains consistent performance over long charging and discharging cycles, which is designed to eliminate “range anxiety” among electric vehicle drivers. Linden Archer, professor of engineering and dean of the […]