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Chipmakers, once in high demand, face sudden challenges

Demand for semiconductors was off the charts last year. But a sharp slowdown, coupled with new US restrictions on China, has created obstacles.

Donald Trump fueled his commitment to voter fraud this week in a podcast chat with far-right conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza. Trump said people voted 28… Read More »Donald Trump may be making his wildest claim yet about the 2020 election

Ars Technica Another week, another roundup of today’s best tech deals. Today’s Dealmaster has hit a new low ($998, $1,500) on Samsung’s art-inspired “The Frame”… Read More »Today’s best deals: Google Pixel 6a, Apple MacBooks, 4K TVs and more

The richest man in the world arrived at Twitter’s offices in San Francisco on Wednesday, ahead of Friday’s deadline to complete the takeover of the… Read More »Elon Musk Visits Twitter As $44 Billion Deal Nears Complete

NEW YORK — The hopes and dreams of a young Metropolitan Opera stagehand vanished in the blink of an eye beneath a No. 1 train.… Read More »Family mourns opera actor dragged to death after being caught on NYC subway doors

Aurich Lawson | Tesla | Aeroplane! Tesla’s controversial Autopilot driver assist may have become even more controversial. According to Reuters, there has been a federal… Read More »Feds open criminal investigation into Tesla Autopilot claims

Evgeny Prigozhin (L) assists Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a dinner with foreign scientists and journalists at Cheval Blanc restaurant on the grounds of… Read More »Meet Yevgeny Prigozhin, ‘Putin’s chief’ and founder of the vicious Wagner group who told the Russian leader he was screwing up the war in Ukraine

A series of quarterly figures shows that even Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies are feeling the impact of inflation and rising interest rates.

A woman named remotely during a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred on Wednesday claims Georgian Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker pressured her to have… Read More »Second woman reports abortion against Herschel Walker

enlarge / World map of precipitation change due to warming 56 million years ago: green = wetter, brown = drier. Circles show where geological data… Read More »New maps of ancient warming reveal strong response to carbon dioxide

TikTok has become hugely influential. We’re here to help you understand how it all works.

enlarge / A close up image of a woman sneezing. As people build immunity to SARS-CoV-2 through vaccines, boosters and infections, the most commonly reported… Read More »With injections and infections, the most common COVID symptoms have shifted

Pythons (file photo) usually attack by wrapping themselves around their prey A woman in Indonesia’s Jambi province has been killed and swallowed whole by a… Read More »Body of Indonesian woman found in python, reports say

Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief justice of the Delaware’s Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to take over Twitter. She is also the… Read More »Elon Musk doesn’t seem to answer anyone. Except a judge in Delaware.