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Samsung Likely to Report Best Q4 Profit on Solid Chip Demand

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is likely to post a record fourth-quarter profit thanks to solid demand for server memory chips and higher margins in contract manufacturing, analysts’ estimates showed. Operating profit for the world’s biggest memory chip and smartphone maker likely hit 15.2 trillion won ($12.7 billion) in the quarter ended December, according to a […]

New Samsung TV to let creators share their art worldwide

Samsung is planning to support NFT by beginning with its 2022 TV lineup in order to let creators share their art with the world. “With demand for NFTs on the rise, the need for a solution to today’s fragmented viewing and purchasing landscape has never been greater,” the company said in a press release. “In […]

Asia stock markets mixed after Wall St high, virus surge

Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after Wall Street hit a high and new daily U.S. coronavirus cases surged to a record. Tokyo and Seoul declined while Shanghai and Hong Kong advanced. Wall Street gained Wednesday for its 70th record high of 2021. Optimism was tempered by data showing new U.S. virus cases have risen […]

Top NFT Platforms of 2021

Digital assets have never seen a higher rise in popularity than last year, with 2021 being defined by influential shifts in the cryptocurrency market. Artists, musicians, and creators of all sorts, talented or otherwise, are finding additional ways to monetize their works with the advent of these new technologies and the communities that arise from […]

In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores

Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, so long as you speak English or another of the world’s dominant languages. But try talking to your phone in Yoruba, Igbo or any number of widely spoken […]

EXPLAINER: What caused Amazon's outage? Will there be more?

Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news. A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network on Dec. 7 severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. […]

Microsoft to acquire Digital Ad Platform from AT&T

AT&T announced plans to sell its online advertising platform Xandr Inc. to Microsoft, a move that will welcome the Big Tech giant into the digital marketing field. The tech titan stated that Xandr’s digital ad marketing strategies would fundamentally heighten advertising and retail media capacities. Only last year, AT&T disclosed plans to put on the […]

European Parliament backs new rules directed at Big Tech

European Union (EU) lawmakers backed a set of new rules on Wednesday directed at breaking down the authority of the Big Tech league in an unprecedented act to restrict their influence. The Digital Market Act (DMA) was structured to restrict limitations on these companies’ demeanor, in addition to imposing rules directed at their plans to […]

Spyware find highlights depth of hacker-for-hire industry

Security researchers said Thursday they found two kinds of commercial spyware on the phone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident, providing new evidence of the depth and diversity of the abusive hacker-for-hire industry. One piece of malware recently found on an iPhone belonging to Ayman Nour, a dissident and 2005 Egyptian presidential candidate who subsequently […]

Documents align Huawei with China’s Xinjiang surveillance

In a fierce attempt to expose affiliates linked to China’s Xinjiang surveillance accusations, The Washington Post publicized on Tuesday a hidden aspect revealing Huawei’s association in persecuting against the region’s ethnic minorities. The leaked PowerPoint presentations acquired by the news outlet revealed that it had obtained the documents through a public Huawei site before being removed by […]