Month: December 2021

The United States Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has filed a lawsuit to block Nvidia from acquiring Arm in a deal worth $40 billion. According to the FTC, the deal would give Nvidia, one of the largest chip companies, control over computing technology and designs that rival firms rely on to develop competing…

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A supply chain report from Taiwanese publication DigiTimes claims that Apple’s chipmaking partner TSMC has started test-producing M3 chips built on its 3nm process node called N3. Continue reading ? Go to Source Author: Chandraveer Mathur

Facebook, now a Meta subsidiary, said it would mandate two-factor authentication (2FA) for accounts that are more likely to be attacked by hackers and bad actors. Continue reading ? Go to Source Author: Chandraveer Mathur

Tears of Joy continued to be one of the most popular emoji used worldwide in 2021, according to the Unicode Consortium’s list of the top emoji used throughout the year. The ? emoji accounts for over five percent of all emoji use, and the only other emoji that comes close is the heart emoji (??)….

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Amazon today announced that its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service is now offering a “preview” of M1 Mac mini instances in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions of U.S. East and U.S. West, with other regions to be available when the instances are fully released. An “instance” is a virtual server available for rent through…

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A new report says that iPhone processor manufacturer TSMC has begun pilot production of 3-nanometer chips, and expects to be producing them in volume at the end of 2022.Having already been finalizing a 3-nanometer processor manufacturing process, TSMC is now said to have moved beyond its initial “risk production.”According to Digitimes, unspecified industry sources have…

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Users of Amazon’s AWS cloud service will now be able to use M1 Apple Silicon Mac mini devices, in selected areas.Apple’s M1 Mac miniFollowing its introduction of Intel Mac mini devices to its cloud-baed service in December 2020, Amazon is now making M1 Apple Silicon ones available too. Read more… Go to Source Author:

If Epic being forced to cough up App Store fees after the trial, and Tim Cook saying multiple times that Apple would find a way to charge developers for iOS and iPadOS app purchases made outside the App Store weren’t enough, a new court filing by the company further nails home the point.Apple reiterates that…

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Apple’s range of accessibility features in iOS 14, including social distancing, sign language, and sound recognition, have received an FCC Award.Back Tap was just one of many accessibility features introduced or developed in iOS 14The 11th annual Chair’s Award for Advancement in Accessibility has been announced, with Apple among its only three winners. Alongside Accessible…

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AirPods make an excellent holiday gift, and Amazon’s latest price drops see the return of Black Friday pricing on AirPods 3 and AirPods Max.AirPods 3 return to $149.99 Read more… Go to Source Author: