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US Changes Rules On Tax Credits For Electric Cars To Cover American-made Only

Everyone else, tough luck Changes to US tax credits for buyers of electric vehicles and hybrids go into effect tomorrow... Read more

Germany To Examine China-made Kit In Its 5G Networks Over Security Concerns

Do you like American music? I like American music The German government is examining all Chinese technology in the coun... Read more

Brits Start 'em Young With 20% Of Tots 'owning' A Smartphone

And what are they doing with them? YouTube, lots of YouTube Nestled in UK regulator Ofcom's thoroughly unsurprising rep... Read more

How Artificial Intelligence Is Matching Drugs To Patients

Health-tech firms around the world are increasingly using AI to help tailor drugs for patients. Read more

Brazil Defies US, Cozies Up To Chinese Tech On Chip Building

Foreign minister says it's not afraid of the 'big bad wolf' up north Brazil took its first tentative steps towards a re... Read more

US Savers Get Savvy Ditching And Switching Banks

A wave of transfers is hitting US banks, adding another wrinkle to challenges facing the financial system. Read more

Loyalty Cards: How A Big Yellow Label Influences What We Buy

A shift to everyday discounts isn't the only way that shops are trying to chase customer loyalty. Read more

Substack Copied Twitter So Twitter Is Copying Substack

Actual features pending, please pay us now Elon Musk appears to be advancing his feud with newsletter service Substack ... Read more

Stratus Ships Latest Batch Of Fault-tolerant Xeon Servers

OK, they're a bit old in terms of Intel kit, but these aren't your regular systems Fault-tolerant computing veteran Str... Read more

China The Largest Buyer Of Chipmaking Machines As Sales Hit An All-time High

Despite US blocks to advanced technology nodes Global sales of semiconductor fab equipment grew by 5 percent during 202... Read more

The Return Of The Classic Flying Toasters Screensaver

OK, here's my question: Would you like to have it on x86 Linux? Friday FOSS Fest  If you're old enough to remember Aft... Read more

Germany And Intel Both Want More From Planned Magdeburg Mega-fab

Chipzilla reportedly wants more cash. Germany wants a bigger facility. And the EU is lurking with a bigger offer If Int... Read more

Sony Semiconductor Sinks Simoleans Into Raspberry Pi To Advance Edge AI

Raspboss Eben Upton teases products built on ML-enabled edge sensors Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation has revea... Read more

Tencent Said To Have Demoted And Fired Tech Bosses After Brief Outages

Think the news has execs at Microsoft 365 or AWS quaking in their boots? A late March outage of Tencent's two major soc... Read more

Google Pay Mistakenly Rains Free Cash On Netizens

Go on, take the money and run (Not actual legal advice) Google has — unfortunately for some — fixed a bug in its Pa... Read more