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Japan's space agency halts Epsilon S rocket engine test after fire

November 28 2024 | TW News Correspondent

Japan's space agency aborted an engine test for the Epsilon S rocket on Tuesday following a fire at the test site, a failure that could push the rocket's debut launch beyond the March-end target and cause further delays in the national space programme, reports Reuters.

An explosion could be heard and a blaze could be seen shortly after the ground combustion test started at the Tanegashima Space Cent...
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Huawei launches Mate 70 smartphone as new US chip curbs loom

November 28 2024 | TW News Correspondent

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 70 smartphone series on Tuesday, bolstering its premium smartphone comeback while showcasing its own operating system in a clean break away from U.S. technology.

The Mate 70 is the successor to the Mate 60 series released in August last year, widely seen as marking Huawei's comeback to high-end smartphones in competition with Apple after i...
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Microsoft faces wide-ranging US antitrust probe

November 28 2024 | TW News Correspondent

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The probe was approved by FTC Chair Lina Khan ahead of her likely departure in January. The election of Donald Trump as US president, and th...
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Australia moves closer to ban social media for children

November 28 2024 | TW News Correspondent

Australia on Wednesday moved closer to banning social media for children under 16 after the parliament's lower house passed the bill even as Alphabet's Goog...
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Neuralink to launch feasibility trial with brain implant, robotic arm

November 28 2024 | TW News Correspondent

Elon Musk's brain technology startup Neuralink said on Monday it has received approval to launch a new feasibility study using its brain implant and an experimental robotic arm....
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Foreign Smartphone Sales in China Drop Drastically in October

November 28 2024 | TW News Correspondent

Foreign smartphone sales in China plunged by 44.25% in October, according to data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). The report shows that foreign brands sold only 6.22 million units last month, a sharp decline from 11.149 million units in the same period last year, as reported by Reuters.

The decline reflects the significant influence of Apple, the largest foreign smartp...
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Romania to Temporarily Suspend TikTok Amid Election Manipulation Probe

November 28 2024 | TW News Correspondent

Romania’s telecommunications regulatory body will begin the process of temporarily suspending TikTok starting Thursday, pending the conclusion of an investigation into the platform’s role during the first round of the country’s presidential election held on Sunday, Reuters reports.

In a statement to the media outlet Profit.ro, Pavel Popescu, the deputy head of the regulator...
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Samsung Exploring Foldable Gaming Device

November 28 2024 | TW News Correspondent

Samsung is reportedly working on a foldable mobile gaming device, as suggested by a patent filed by Samsung Display Company and published on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) website, according to PhoneArena.

The patent reveals that the device’s design resembles the Galax...
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Exclusive: China's Hesai to halve lidar prices next year, sees wide adoption in electric cars

November 27 2024 | TW News Correspondent

China's Hesai Group, the world's largest maker of lidar sensors for autonomous driving, said it plans to slash the price of its key product by half next year which should lead to far wider adoption of the tech...
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