Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, had always worried that his company’s victory last year in a multimillion-dollar legal battle against Google’s app store monopoly wouldn’t be enough to open up competition. Even if Google could no longer keep alternative marketplaces out of Android, phone manufacturers could make them harder to access. In a … Read more
Deer are beautiful and majestic creatures, but they also seem to be vehicle-seeking missiles. Four high-school girls enrolled at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado are developing a small device that can alert drivers to nearby wildlife faster than a human could visually spot unaided. The group called Project Deer has already won the state’s … Read more
Huawei Technologies launched its latest foldable smartphone, the Mate XT, in China on Tuesday, just hours after Apple revealed its new iPhone model. The three-way foldable phone, expected to hit the market on September 20, aims to boost Huawei’s presence in the world’s largest smartphone market. Strong Demand for Huawei Mate XT As of Tuesday, … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Thousands of electric stoves are being recalled because of a fire risk that has injured some people in Canada. Health Canada issued the recall on Thursday for several models of Samsung’s electric slide-in ranges because the front-mounted knobs can “accidently activate” through contact by people and pets … Read more
Samsung ranked as the top seller among smartphone manufacturers in the first quarter, edging out Apple, according to a report from industry research firm IDC released Monday. Global sales of smartphones went up by 7.8 percent to 289.4 million in the first three months of 2024, according to the report. Samsung had 20.8 percent market … Read more
The Biden administration on Monday announced a multibillion-dollar agreement with Samsung, which will invest in semiconductor chip manufacturing in Texas. The $6.4 billion preliminary deal is the latest agreement struck using funds from the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan law Biden signed in 2022. Samsung is expected to invest more than $40 billion in … Read more
Samsung Electronics estimated on Friday a more than 10-fold rise in its first-quarter operating profit, as rebounding semiconductor prices lifted earnings from a low base a year ago when there was a severe downturn in chip demand. The world’s largest memory chip and TV maker estimated its operating profit rose to a better-than-expected 6.6 trillion … Read more
Dipesh Shah, Head Samsung R&D, Samsung India, says “it is primarily a software driven innovation. The sensors and devices are the same. Now, we are doing signal processing on those sensors using AI in the backend through a secure Knox platform so that it brings in additional benefits to daily life. As long as we … Read more
Samsung Electronics is expected to post a near nine-fold increase in first-quarter profit from a year earlier as rebounding semiconductor prices lift earnings from a low base caused by a severe chip downturn. Operating profit for the world’s biggest maker of memory chips and TVs likely rose to 5.7 trillion won ($4.24 billion) in the … Read more
