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Key Huawei chip supplier stops taking orders after new US sanctions
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has reportedly stopped taking orders from Huawei following the latest round of sanctions by the US government. Huawei has been on the US ‘non-entity’ list since 2019, a status which bans it from doing business with American tech firms on…
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TikTok parent ByteDance leads $6M round in financial AI startup Lingxi
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has added Lingxi, a Beijing-based startup that applies machine intelligence to financial services such as debt collection and insurance sales, to its ever-expanding portfolio of investments. The AI startup has raised a $6.2 million Series A round co-led by ByteDance and Rocket Internet, the German accelerator…
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Google Search finally has its own dark mode on mobile – here’s how to get it
Like many software developers, Google has slowly but surely been adding dark mode options to its apps and services. Given the company is best known for its search business, it is something of a surprise that the Google Search app has taken so long to gain a dark mode. But…
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Microsoft admits it was wrong about Linux and open source
Microsoft has finally admitted that it was wrong about open source, with president Brad Smith saying that “Microsoft was on the wrong side of history when open source exploded at the beginning of the century.” Microsoft’s opposition to open source software, and Linux in particular, was at times rather extreme…
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OnePlus 8 becomes best seller on Amazon in special sale
The OnePlus 8 series just went on a special flash sale in India yesterday on Amazon. And according to a tweet by the company, the affordable model is now the best selling premium smartphone on the e-commerce portal. Regular sales for the series will start from May 29. Now, there…
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Former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans joins EF as Venture Partner
Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered “talent investor” that backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, has appointed former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans as a Venture Partner. A well-respected analyst with a background in the tech and media industries, Evans will be tasked with providing “analysis,…
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