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Amazon starts rolling out its Prime Air drone delivery service
Amazon.com Inc. has begun delivering packages using drones, Ars Technica reported on Wednesday. The online retail and cloud computing giant plans to offer drone deliveries through a service called Prime Air. This week, the service became available to residents of Lockeford, California and College Station, Texas. Amazon intends to expand the availability of Prime Air ...
Ireland to examine Twitter data breach that may affect 400M+ users
Ireland’s privacy regulator today announced that it will examine a recently disclosed data breach that may affect more than 400 million Twitter Inc. users. The Data Protection Commission, or DPC, is already investigating the company over a previous breach. The latter incident, which took place in November, involved hackers leaking information belonging to 5.4 million ...
TSMC starts mass-producing three-nanometer chips
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. today began mass-producing processors based on its latest three-nanometer chip technology. Bloomberg reported the development this morning. TSMC is the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer. The company makes processors for Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Nvidia Corp. and other major tech companies. Intel Corp., which competes with TSMC in ...
Report: Instacart lowers internal valuation to $10B
Grocery delivery provider Instacart has reportedly lowered its internal valuation to $10 billion, which represents a significant decrease from the $39 billion the startup was worth last year. The Information reported the development on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. San Francisco-based Instacart, officially Maplebear Inc., provides a popular grocery delivery app of ...
Intel and VLSI agree to end $4B+ patent lawsuit
Intel Corp. and VLSI Technology LLC have agreed to end a multibillion-dollar lawsuit focused on chip patents. The development was reported by Reuters on Tuesday. The companies disclosed their decision to drop the case in a filing submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Before ending the suit, VLSI sought more than ...
Amazon reportedly developing new sports streaming app
Amazon.com Inc. is developing a standalone app that will enable users to watch sports content from its growing streaming catalog, The Information reported today. The sports content offered by the company is currently available through its Amazon Prime Video service. It’s unclear when the new standalone app will roll out. Additionally, The Information cited a ...
Report: DOJ launches criminal investigation into FTX hack
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the November hacking of FTX Trading Ltd., Bloomberg reported today. The probe is reportedly separate from the criminal charges brought against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Following the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse last month, the Justice Department filed an eight-count indictment against Bankman-Fried. Two other senior ...
Report: Apple planning upgraded iPad Mini with new chip
Apple Inc. may launch a new version of its entry-level iPad Mini tablet next year or in the first half of 2024, according to a new report. MacRumors today cited influential industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo as saying that the next-generation iPad Mini will include a new processor. The current version of the tablet, which was ...
Kyocera to build new chip component plants as part of $9.78B investment plan
Japan’s Kyocera Corp. will invest 1.3 trillion yen, or $9.78 billion, through March 2026 to build new chip component plants and expand its capabilities in other areas. Nikkei Asia reported the plan today. The $9.78 billion that Kyocera intends to spend over the next three years includes capital expenditures such as plant construction, as well ...
Ireland launches probe into Twitter over November data leak
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission on Friday launched a probe into Twitter Inc. over a cybersecurity breach that affected 5.4 million of the company’s users. At the start of the year, Twitter was notified of a vulnerability in one of its application programming interfaces. The vulnerability enabled hackers to learn the phone numbers and email addresses ...