U.S. President Donald Trump said the Huawei settlement could be part of a U.S.-China trade deal, despite the telecommunications firm's equipment being labeled "very dangerous" by Washington. The economic and trade war between the US and China has escalated in recent weeks due to tariff hikes and threats of more action. One of the targets of the US attack was Huawei, which […]
Experts on Wall Street, as reported by CNBC, are beginning to believe that the confrontation between the United States and China in the trade and economic sphere is becoming protracted, and sanctions against Huawei, as well as the accompanying increase in import duties on Chinese goods, are only the initial stages of a long “war” in economic sphere. The S&P 500 index lost 3,3%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 400 points. Experts […]
Soon, ordinary American consumers may feel the impact of the trade war between the United States and China. At the very least, the chief executive of Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics chain in the United States, Hubert Joly warned that consumers will likely suffer from higher prices as a result of tariffs being prepared by the Trump administration. “The introduction of 25 percent duties will lead to higher prices […]
Photonic integrated circuits, or optical chips, potentially offer many advantages over their electronic counterparts, such as reduced power consumption and reduced latency in computation. That's why many researchers believe that they can be extremely effective in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. Intel also sees great promise for the use of silicon photonics in […]
Data banks help share the results of experiments and measurements and play an important role in the formation of the academic environment and in the process of developing specialists. We will talk about both datasets obtained using expensive equipment (the sources of this data are often large international organizations and scientific programs, most often related to the natural sciences), and about government data banks. Toolbox for researchers […]
Kaspersky Lab has published a report with the results of a study devoted to the analysis of the cybersecurity situation in the mobile sector in the first quarter of 2019. It is reported that in January–March the intensity of attacks by banking Trojans and ransomware on mobile devices increased sharply. This suggests that attackers are increasingly trying to steal the money of smartphone owners. In particular, it is noted that the number of mobile banking […]
As expected, the entry-level smartphone Xiaomi Redmi 7A was released, sales of which will begin in the very near future. The device is equipped with a 5,45-inch HD+ screen with a resolution of 1440 × 720 pixels and an aspect ratio of 18:9. This panel has neither a cutout nor a hole: the front 5-megapixel camera has a classic location - above the display. The main camera is designed as a single [...]
The website of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has information about new Apple smartphones, the announcement of which is expected in September this year. In the fall, according to rumors, the Apple corporation will introduce three new models - the iPhone XS 2019, iPhone XS Max 2019 and iPhone XR 2019 models. The first two will allegedly be equipped with a triple camera, and the OLED screen size (organic light-emitting diodes) will […]
An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.9. Since the release of version 4.8, 24 bug reports have been closed and 362 changes have been made. The most important changes: Added initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers; The ability to assemble 16-bit modules in PE format has been implemented; Various functions have been moved to a new KernelBase DLL; Corrections have been made related to [...]
Mozilla developers have decided to disable by default processing of the userContent.css and userChrome.css files, which allow the user to override the design of sites or the Firefox interface. The reason for disabling the default is to reduce browser startup time. Changing behavior via userContent.css and userChrome.css is done extremely rarely by users, and loading CSS data consumes additional resources (optimization removes unnecessary calls […]
Microsoft continues to release the latest updates for Edge on the Dev and Canary channels. The latest patch contains minor changes. These include fixing an issue that could result in high CPU usage when the browser is idle, and more. The biggest improvement in Canary 76.0.168.0 and Dev Build 76.0.167.0 is a built-in translator that will allow you to read text from any website […]
The situation surrounding Huawei resembles an iron grip squeezing the throat, followed by suffocation and death. American and other companies, both in the software sector and from hardware suppliers, have refused and will continue to refuse to work with Huawei, contrary to economically sound logic. Will it come to a complete severance of relations with the United States? With a high probability […]
