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BOE produced some iPhone 13 displays for Apple last year, making it Apple’s third-largest display supplier after Samsung and LG. It also hopes to supply Apple with more displays, but BOE faces several problems, mainly due to insufficient inventory of display driver chips and low product yields. It is reported that in order to improve […]

If a million computer scientists had dinner together, they would get a huge bill. If one of them is particularly frugal and wants to check that the bill is correct, the verification process is simple but tedious: they have to check the bill, adding up all the individual prices line by line, making sure the

The next generation of genetic modification technologies will not simply introduce lab-fine-tuned genes into organisms, but target and remove specific natural genes with lab-fine-tuned genes. Such technologies are called gene drives . If an animal that contains a gene drive (Parent A) mates with an animal that does not (Parent B), the gene drive from

Didi notified the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that it would delist from the US . Its shareholders had overwhelmingly backed plans to bring the company’s services back to the Chinese app store. Didi said more than 95 percent of its shares voted in favor of its delisting plan in Monday’s vote. Just under a

According to SlashData’s 2022 annual developer survey , more than one-third (34%) of developers said they were learning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, 16% said they were participating in cryptocurrency projects, and 11% were participating in NFTs (non-fungible tokens). 32% of developers surveyed said they are learning about NFTs. In addition, 30% are learning about blockchain

Airbnb shuts down China operations , removing 150,000 listings. Since entering the Chinese market in 2016, Airbnb has struggled to open up in competition with local companies, people familiar with the matter said, exacerbated by the epidemic and the new crown clearance policy. San Francisco-based Airbnb will continue to maintain its Beijing office to serve

Google’s security team, Threat Analysis Group (TAG), disclosed that a state-backed hacker group used five 0-days to install Cytrox’s spyware, Predator, on Android devices. The attacks came from at least three different groups and took place between August and October 2021, and the attackers used five zero-days of Chrome and Android OS to implant Predator

An anonymous reader wrote “ONLYOFFICE, a free software office suite developed by Latvian company Ascensio System SIA, has released Workspace 12.0 . New features of ONLYOFFICE Workspace v12.0 include: new sharing settings and menus, IMAP support, CardDAV address book, WebDAV , security enhancements, new features in the Project and Calendar modules, and more.” This article

Wires do a lot of credit when it comes to transmitting electricity, but they also have downsides. After all, who doesn’t hate plugging and unplugging cords for phones or other rechargeable devices? This is a hassle. Wires also present a challenge for power companies: These companies must work to push the voltages applied to transmission

Teens on TikTok speak the exact same tone of voice, the same smug tone. Millennials on Twitter use the same acronym. man! There is a normal! Even if you meet them in the sun-drenched real world, even as British, they’ll say “valid” or “based”, or “y’all”… Everything you say online is subject to an instant

Val Kilmer, 62, was only 26 when he played “Iceman” in the 1986 film “Top Gun,” but in 2015 Kilmer lost his voice to throat cancer. In his 2020 memoir, “I Am Your Huckleberry,” Kilmer joked that he didn’t have a frog in his throat, but rather a “buffalo”. “Speaking — once a source of

NASA has released a blockbuster report that astronomers call the Hubble Space Telescope masterpiece . New research analyzes 30 years of data from the famous space telescope to provide the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding. For more than half a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding,

Monkeypox, a virus endemic in parts of Central and West Africa, is a milder form of smallpox. The virus was discovered in 1958 after an outbreak in monkeys raised for research, the CDC said. Monkeypox produces a rash that starts as a flat, red spot that becomes raised and filled with pus. Infected people also