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Saturday, August 29, 2020

Qualcomm Announces Financial Results, Huawei Agreement



Qualcomm announced that it earned a net income of $845 million on revenues of $4.9 billion for the quarter ending June 30, roughly flat with the previous year. But it also announced an important settlement agreement with Huawei, sending its shares soaring.

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Qualcomm results suggest the 5G iPhone will be slightly delayed



Qualcomm reported its Q3 2020 earnings on Wednesday (PDF), and of course the company informed investors about how the transition to 5G may boost its business.

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Arm China Goes Rogue, Ex-CEO Blocking the Business



Arm Ltd., owned by Softbank, has a division specially tailored for China, called Arm China. That division used to operate in Shenzen and it cooperated with Chinese customers. Today in a surprising turn of events, we have information that UK-based Arm Ltd.

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Watch a Toyota-backed flying car's first public, piloted test flight



Toyota-backed SkyDrive has finally conducted a public, crewed test flight (via Observer) for its flying car after years of work. The startup flew its SD-03 vehicle around the Toyota Test Field in the city of Toyota with a pilot at the helm.

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Friday, August 7, 2020

Facebook repeatedly overruled fact checkers in favor of conservatives



Facebook has repeatedly overruled its own fact checkers in order to help conservative pages avoid punishment for spreading misinformation.

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Intel Suffers Apparent Data Breach, 20GB of IP and Documents Leaked on to Internet



Intel today became the apparent victim of a massive internal data breach, with roughly 20 GB of various Intel documents and tools showing up in a data cache uploaded to the wider internet.

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Trump PAC banned by Facebook from advertising because of repeated false posts



Facebook is banning the pro-Trump Republican PAC “The Committee to Defend the President” from advertising, after the PAC repeatedly posted content identified as false by third-party fact-checkers. …

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