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Samsung Delays $37B Texas Chip Plant With No Customers In Sight
There is a fundamental flaw in America's semiconductor strategy. They’re building capacity without securing demand. Samsung's Taylor plant situation reveals how quickly the chip industry moves and how expensive it...
NVIDIA has announced its newest flagship graphics card
NVIDIA announced it's newest flagship graphics card at an event in San Francisco on Friday, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang claims that it's the product of billions of dollars of research and...
India has banned Facebook's controversial Free Basics service
Facebook just wants to become the gatekeeper of the Internet for the developing world and exploit impoverished people to increase its own userbase, but for some strange reason (sarcasm), people keep preventing...
Study shows that most of your Facebook friends aren't actual friends
How many of your Facebook friends are actually friends, and how many are just acquaintances? According to a study that was published in the Royal Society Open Science journal last Wednesday, only one...
Foxconn has reportedly offered to acquire Sharp for $5.31 billion
To say that Sharp isn't doing too well would be a massive understatement. The electronics maker had to receive a ¥225 billion ($1.91 billion) bailout from the Japanese government in order...
ISIS has developed its own encrypted messaging app
In an effort to combat terrorism online, many governments have been pushing to make encryption backdoors mandatory for private companies, and if they succeed, terrorist organizations will find it significantly...
Crappy computers are to blame for slow virtual reality adoption
I can't really say crappy computers are to be blame for slow virtual reality adoption, because there's not really anything to adopt at the moment, but they will be to...
Only a fraction of the world's computers can handle the Oculus Rift
We've known the Oculus Rift is going to be far from accessible to most people for a while now, but we didn't know exactly how inaccessible it's going to be...
Bitcoin was this year's best-performing currency
Bitcoin has come a long way over the years, and it cam especially far this year. Despite being the worst-performing currency of the year in 2014, the digital currency managed...
Europe is considering banning children from using social media
Few things are as potentially dangerous to children in developed nations as social media, and though many governments and organizations have made efforts to raise awareness of its dangers, it hasn't...