India’s Second-Phase Semiconductor Push Attracts $12bn

The second-phase investment push is to focus on chip design, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, fabrication plants, advanced packaging, research and development and talent development, officials said at the Semicon…

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The Dreame X60 Pro Ultra Complete is a ridiculously clever and exceedingly competent premium hybrid robot vac for the well-heeled

This hugely ambitious robot cleaner combines exceptional suction, clever dirt detection, rock-solid navigation, threshold crossing, impressive extendable mopping technology, and an elaborate and very handsome-looking…

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Albanese says Tim Cook backed Australia’s under-16 social media ban

It quotes Albanese saying that seeing the new safety features in action “proves that when we draw a line in the sand, tech companies will step up” , and that Apple is showing the industry can compete on safety…

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Huawei Expands AI Clustering Strategy

The system, which also uses Huawei’s UnifiedBus interconnect technology, is part of a strategy of building systems using massive groupings of chips that act as a single computer. Huawei said the use of UnifiedBus and the…

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Firmus will reportedly open its $5bn ASX float on 6 October

The timetable appears in no public document, and no other outlet has it independently. The rest of the schedule runs from there: bookbuilding on 6 and 7 October, a prospectus filed on 8 October, retail bidding from 12 to…

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Facebook and Instagram went down for US users on Sunday night

Those are report counts, not user counts, and the distinction does real work here. Downdetector tallies problems that people voluntarily submit to it. Set against a service with roughly two billion daily users, 17,000…

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China is reportedly slowing humanoid robot IPOs after Unitree’s debut round trip

The direction is being given as window guidance, the informal and unpublished channel the China Securities Regulatory Commission uses when it wants an outcome without writing a rule. Reuters reported today that at least…

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The Acer Swift Spin 14 AI is a flexible, powerful, and reasonably affordable laptop with an energy-efficient CPU

Yet the Swift Spin 14 AI is a good reminder of why this form factor can work so well for business. It's highly portable, very versatile, and usable in a wide range of scenarios. It's an effective tool for meetings and…

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VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions

SmartNICs, aka data processing units (DPUs), are network cards that include a modest processor. Hyperscale clouds routinely use the devices to handle security and networking chores, by running network functions as VMs on…

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Data Centre Demand Boosts NI Manufacturing

Manufacturing in Northern Ireland grew at a rate of 9 percent in the second quarter of this year, compared to a UK average of 1.2 percent. The growth, which has seen the region outperform the UK average since the…

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