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Remote Workers In UK Asked To Stop Using Laptops In Cafes. Here's Why
Remote workers in the UK are not allowed to use their laptops at cafes and coffee shops between 11:30 am and 1:30 pmÂ
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Apple, Samsung Stop India Laptop Imports After Sudden Curbs
Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and HP Inc. are among the biggest names freezing new imports of laptops and tablets to India after an abrupt ban on inbound shipments without a license.
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Apple, Samsung, HP Halt India Laptop Imports After Sudden Curbs
Apple, Samsung Electronics and HP are among the biggest names freezing new imports of laptops and tablets to India after the South Asian country abruptly banned inbound shipments without a license. Regulators on Thursday surprised the world’s biggest PC makers when they made licenses mandatory for import of electronics from small tablets to a...
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India's Import Ban on Laptops, Tablets, PC to Boost Domestic Manufacturing, Says MoS IT
India's decision to impose a licensing requirement for imports of laptops, tablets, and personal computers will boost domestic manufacturing and ensure its tech ecosystem uses verified systems only, its deputy IT minister said on Friday. The government in its notification on Thursday gave no reason for the move, which could affect technology compan...
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Explained: What Government's Ban On Import Of Laptops, Computers Means For Customers
The ban is expected to cause an increase in the price of laptops and personal computers that are imported to India.
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Valve Is Not Discouraging the Use of AI, but Will Reject Games That Use Copyright-Infringing AI Assets: Report
Valve isn’t discouraging the use of AI-generated assets in game development, but won’t approve games that contain AI-generated art that infringes copyright laws. Reports from last month claimed that the PC gaming giant was denying games with AI-generated assets, sparking the assumption that the company was against it. Valve has now come forward...
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Nvidia, AMD, Other US Chipmakers See Share Prices Fall as US Plans Curbs on Export to China
Shares of US chipmakers fell on Wednesday following a report that the Biden administration was planning new curbs on export of computing chips for artificial intelligence to China as early as July. Companies such as Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, which rely on the world's second largest economy for at least a fifth of their revenue, fell...
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Micron Expects Hit on Revenue in Quarterly Results Amid Ban in China
US-based Micron Technology on Monday forecast a hit to revenue in the low-single to high-single digit percentage after a ban by China on sale of its memory chips to key domestic industries marked the latest in the Sino-American trade spat. China's cyberspace regulator said late on Sunday that Micron, the biggest US memory chipmaker, had failed its ...
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Valve Sets Trap, Permanently Bans Over 40,000 Dota 2 Players for Cheating: Details
Valve has banned over 40,000 Dota 2 players in the past couple of weeks, who were caught using third-party software to cheat in games. While the company wasn’t specific on the app’s purpose, it revealed that the software in question was able to access internal data used by the Dota client. Normally, such information should not be available to p...
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US Senators Lobbying for Ban on Government Deals With Chinese Chipmakers: Report
US Senators are reportedly lobbying to block the US government from making deals with Chinese semiconductor manufacturers, via the inclusion of an amendment which blocks federal access to chips and services from China into the final version of this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The move comes a month after the US published a swe...
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Seagate Warned by the USÂ for Breaking Export Control Law in Deal With Huawei
Seagate Technology said in a filing on Wednesday it has been warned by the US government that the company may have violated export control laws by providing hard disk drives to a customer on a trade blacklist. The customer is China's Huawei, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, which is on the US Commerce Department's entity list and ...
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US Set to Widen Curbs on Semiconductors for AI, Chipmaking Tools Shipments to China: Report
The Biden administration reportedly plans to broaden the curbs on the US shipments of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence and chipmaking tools to China. Based on the restrictions that were communicated in letters to three US companies, the US Commerce Department intends to publish new regulations to restrict to shipments of the chips, a...
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US Export Ban on Advanced AI Chips to Hit China's Access to Technology
The latest controls by the US limiting shipments of top AI chips by Nvidia and AMD to China would reduce the flow of advanced technology to the Asian country. It will also add to mounting US-Chinese tension. Nvidia's A100 and upcoming H100 integrated circuits will be impacted by the restrictions.
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Apple Prohibits Caste-Based Discrimination With Update in Employee Conduct Policy
Apple emerges as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of caste-based discrimination. Apple updated its general employee conduct policy about two years ago to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of caste. Inclusion of caste as a category goes beyond the US discrimination laws, which do not explicitly ban casteism. Several co...
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Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, More US Tech Giants Should Be Regulated Where They’re Based: EU Lawmaker
US tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon should be regulated by the EU country where they are based under proposed EU rules, a top lawmaker said, knocking back efforts by some countries to broaden the planned act's scope.
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Remote Workers In UK Asked To Stop Using Laptops In Cafes. Here's Why
Remote workers in the UK are not allowed to use their laptops at cafes and coffee shops between 11:30 am and 1:30 pmÂ
-
Apple, Samsung Stop India Laptop Imports After Sudden Curbs
Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and HP Inc. are among the biggest names freezing new imports of laptops and tablets to India after an abrupt ban on inbound shipments without a license.
-
Apple, Samsung, HP Halt India Laptop Imports After Sudden Curbs
Apple, Samsung Electronics and HP are among the biggest names freezing new imports of laptops and tablets to India after the South Asian country abruptly banned inbound shipments without a license. Regulators on Thursday surprised the world’s biggest PC makers when they made licenses mandatory for import of electronics from small tablets to a...
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India's Import Ban on Laptops, Tablets, PC to Boost Domestic Manufacturing, Says MoS IT
India's decision to impose a licensing requirement for imports of laptops, tablets, and personal computers will boost domestic manufacturing and ensure its tech ecosystem uses verified systems only, its deputy IT minister said on Friday. The government in its notification on Thursday gave no reason for the move, which could affect technology compan...
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Explained: What Government's Ban On Import Of Laptops, Computers Means For Customers
The ban is expected to cause an increase in the price of laptops and personal computers that are imported to India.
-
Valve Is Not Discouraging the Use of AI, but Will Reject Games That Use Copyright-Infringing AI Assets: Report
Valve isn’t discouraging the use of AI-generated assets in game development, but won’t approve games that contain AI-generated art that infringes copyright laws. Reports from last month claimed that the PC gaming giant was denying games with AI-generated assets, sparking the assumption that the company was against it. Valve has now come forward...
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Nvidia, AMD, Other US Chipmakers See Share Prices Fall as US Plans Curbs on Export to China
Shares of US chipmakers fell on Wednesday following a report that the Biden administration was planning new curbs on export of computing chips for artificial intelligence to China as early as July. Companies such as Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, which rely on the world's second largest economy for at least a fifth of their revenue, fell...
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Micron Expects Hit on Revenue in Quarterly Results Amid Ban in China
US-based Micron Technology on Monday forecast a hit to revenue in the low-single to high-single digit percentage after a ban by China on sale of its memory chips to key domestic industries marked the latest in the Sino-American trade spat. China's cyberspace regulator said late on Sunday that Micron, the biggest US memory chipmaker, had failed its ...
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Valve Sets Trap, Permanently Bans Over 40,000 Dota 2 Players for Cheating: Details
Valve has banned over 40,000 Dota 2 players in the past couple of weeks, who were caught using third-party software to cheat in games. While the company wasn’t specific on the app’s purpose, it revealed that the software in question was able to access internal data used by the Dota client. Normally, such information should not be available to p...
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US Senators Lobbying for Ban on Government Deals With Chinese Chipmakers: Report
US Senators are reportedly lobbying to block the US government from making deals with Chinese semiconductor manufacturers, via the inclusion of an amendment which blocks federal access to chips and services from China into the final version of this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The move comes a month after the US published a swe...
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Seagate Warned by the USÂ for Breaking Export Control Law in Deal With Huawei
Seagate Technology said in a filing on Wednesday it has been warned by the US government that the company may have violated export control laws by providing hard disk drives to a customer on a trade blacklist. The customer is China's Huawei, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, which is on the US Commerce Department's entity list and ...
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US Set to Widen Curbs on Semiconductors for AI, Chipmaking Tools Shipments to China: Report
The Biden administration reportedly plans to broaden the curbs on the US shipments of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence and chipmaking tools to China. Based on the restrictions that were communicated in letters to three US companies, the US Commerce Department intends to publish new regulations to restrict to shipments of the chips, a...
-
US Export Ban on Advanced AI Chips to Hit China's Access to Technology
The latest controls by the US limiting shipments of top AI chips by Nvidia and AMD to China would reduce the flow of advanced technology to the Asian country. It will also add to mounting US-Chinese tension. Nvidia's A100 and upcoming H100 integrated circuits will be impacted by the restrictions.
-
Apple Prohibits Caste-Based Discrimination With Update in Employee Conduct Policy
Apple emerges as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of caste-based discrimination. Apple updated its general employee conduct policy about two years ago to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of caste. Inclusion of caste as a category goes beyond the US discrimination laws, which do not explicitly ban casteism. Several co...
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Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, More US Tech Giants Should Be Regulated Where They’re Based: EU Lawmaker
US tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon should be regulated by the EU country where they are based under proposed EU rules, a top lawmaker said, knocking back efforts by some countries to broaden the planned act's scope.
