Speaking in an exclusive interview with CNBC, TSMC's Wendell Huang said the fresh investment comes on the back of robust customer demand.

Although employment remains strong, widespread worker anxiety around AI continues, damaging productivity.

"If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake," reports Bloomberg. "Not so in a robotaxi..." Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi's speakers as he rode home late at night from a friend's birthday party in 2025. The next moment, Los Angeles firefighters were opening the door and asking if he was OK. His six-minute trip had ended nearly an hour before. A remote Waymo assistant, dialling in through ..

SHANGHAI, July 20 Tech firms are racing to roll out advanced smartphones that use artificial intelligence t...

The $35 camera comes in seven colors and has a slide cover.

Lenovos Legion R9000P introduces TCL CSOTs inkjet OLED technology, bringing advanced display manufacturing and sharper visuals to gaming laptops.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: A federal judge has halted California's groundbreaking "Truth in Recycling" law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to take effect October 4th], California's recyclable packaging law prohibits manufacturers from using a "chasing arrows" recycling symbol on products or materials unless they are actually being recycled in a meaningful way, which the law quantifies... ..

In this week's Sunday Reboot , Apple's AI model-shrinking talk could have massive benefits, with a chance of also being a billion-dollar deal if it plays its cards right. On-device AI processing will be a big thing in the coming years if Apple bets right. Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step. Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our ..

The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the asteroid it's named after.

"Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves," reports Space.com: The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST spot them before the universe was even 1 billion years old. That's because the mechanisms by which black holes devour matter to grow and then merge to create even more massive black holes should take at least 1 billion years to achieve ..

Four years ago, Jony Ive stopped working for Apple, and started working with OpenAI, yet he isn't named in the intellectual property theft suit. The reasons for that are myriad, ranging from the personal to practical. Jony Ive & OpenAI's Sam Altman Image Credit: OpenAI On July 10, Apple launched what looks to become a major lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing ex-Apple employees of stealing intellectual property. However, despite former Apple design chief's links to OpenAI, he isn't in the ..

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Researchers found Claudes Chrome extension still contains vulnerabilities allowing fake clicks and permission bypasses despite Anthropic releasing multiple updates.

We've found a sneaky way to stream the 2026 World Cup final for free from anywhere in the world.

"A humanoid robot lost its head," reports Newsweek, "during the world's first free-combat tournament for full-sized humanoid robots." The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend competition began Thursday in Shenzhen, China, according to the article, with local robotics company EngineAI providing $40,000 of their "T800" robots (yes, named after The Terminator) to 32 participating teams from around the world: A video shared of the combat on YouTube by local news outlet Shenzhen Story, showed that even ..

Official White House app faces scrutiny after researchers uncovered Russian- linked software origins, data concerns, and unanswered federal security approval questions.

Windows 10 still runs on 16.9% of the Windows devices monitored by asset- tracking service Lansweeper. That's more than one in six, The Register points out. A year ago, the operating system accounted for about half of the machines in its dataset, falling to the low-to-mid 40% range by the time Microsoft ended standard support. The decline continued after that, reaching 18.6% in June, but Lansweeper says migration has now slowed to a crawl... Small and medium-sized businesses are particularly ..

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Meet Aston Martin Dreadnought, which is not a sports car, and not really a real-life vehicle for that matter. In fact, this new concept vehicle is commissioned for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 with all the military-grade stuffs you can expect, and then some.

The Hot Wheels x 7-Eleven Nissan GT-R R35 has made its way to Malaysia with a massive launch yesterday at Caf by 7-Eleven Damansara Uptown. Malaysia is the first Southeast Asian market to receive the new limited-edition model just a week after it was released in the United States. Throngs of Hot Wheels fans []

Solar car maker Aptera has "officially announced a repair network partnership which will give owners of its upcoming solar electric car access to thousands of repair shops nationwide," reports Electrek: We recently got a chance to drive the Aptera solar EV and tour the company's factory, and came away both impressed at the progress that has been made, but cognizant of the long road ahead for the company. One question that often gets raised in reference to EV startups is how owners get service ..

Bluetooth may seem the obvious next step in the remote's evolution, but there are reasons that infrared hasn't died out.

The Creality K2 SE drops to $248.99 in this limited-time deal, making it a great option for anyone looking to start 3D printing but want to have access to some advanced features.

AMD's next 10-core mobile part from the Medusa Point family is looking a lot faster than its previous two Gorgon Point and Strix Point SKUs, respectively. Early leaks keep highlighting an ever-improving part that has just benched its best score yet.

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Recalling his initial resistance to free and open software, billionaire computer scientist David Siegel argues vigorously in FORTUNE that the stakes are too high to let AI become increasingly closed. "In the 1980s, I had the chance to spend several years arguing about free and open software, what we now call open source, with the founder of the movement, Richard Stallman. My office at the MIT AI Lab was next door to his. Stallman's position was that the ..

Apple is testing a new Genius Bar tool called Live Notes that transcribes and summarizes conversations with a customer, but employees are worried about how the tool might be used against them. Genius Bar employees may gain a new AI assistant Artificial intelligence has become a buzzword throughout the tech industry from both the consumer and employee perspective. Employees of any kind at many companies have had to contend with mandatory AI tool use forced on them by the employer. So far, ..

Apple has dropped the Mac Pro entirely, but for a time it was planning to keep it at the top of the range, giving it twice the processing power of the company's Ultra chips and maybe even one last Intel model. The much-missed Mac Pro The once beloved Mac Pro went out with a whimper in March 2026 as Apple discontinued it. But according to Bloomberg , there had originally been big plans for its future. What eventually caused the end of the Mac Pro was how powerful the much more cost-effective Mac ..

A class action lawsuit alleges an AI risk-assessment tool used in Ontario jails disproportionately places Black prisoners in maximum security.

The original Z80 packed 8,500 transistors on a 4m process and typically ran at 2.5 MHz.

Xiaomi has officially unveiled the Redmi Note 17 and Redmi Note 17 Pro in China with impressive battery specs. The Redmi Note 17 packs an enormous 8,000 mAh cell, while the Pro raises the bar even further with a massive 9,000 mAh battery, among the largest we've seen in a smartphone. The duo also gets 120Hz OLED displays, IP69 dust and water resistance, Android 16 with HyperOS, and Qualcomm chipsets, with the Pro additionally featuring a 200 MP main camera and faster 67W charging. The Redmi ..

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said that prices for memory chips are "abnormally high" and that the industry must take steps to increase production and reduce prices. If it fails to do that, new entrants could challenge the incumbent leaders and make the market much more competitive, especially once demand falls back down to more manageable levels.

OLED displays are the best of the best in many ways, but in some scenarios, "lesser" technology really shines.

Researchers from Northwestern University in Illinois have built a drone that rotates so fast it is cloaked by motion blur.

If you're not digging the live-action Netflix show, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender might appeal to you instead but, when will it arrive on Paramount+?

Samsung told Reuters that a majority of the affected New Jersey employees received relocation offers, while others were let go.

Gamers Nexus' Steve Burke recently posted a video, cautioning consumers aboutpurchasingspecific LGmonitors,along with those that ownthem,as they would have installed unwanted programs into your PC,silently and without your consent. Gamers Nexus says that they were able to replicate the silent software installation on multiple LG monitors, with the LGUltraGear34GX900A-B they had in their labfor it.Here'swhat [] The post LG And Dell Monitors Caught Silently Installing Malware ..

Russian drone troops are adding cheap magnetic compasses to help find their bearings. Crude add-on helps them find their bearings and locate their targets even without GPS.

I use both AI chatbots daily, but only one is my default choice.

CNBC reports: The automotive industry's increasing use of over-the-air technology to update vehicle systems makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say, urging more intervention in the sector... Its use represents "a unique national security concern," Gabriel Lim, senior analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, told CNBC. "Aside from data privacy concerns, the potential of a foreign actor sabotaging the controls of a moving vehicle is a possibility ..