Zoom in / Snapdragon 888, sitting on the world’s largest ARM motherboard. Qualcomm This week Qualcomm released “Snapdragon 888.” for 2021. So announced its flagship smartphone SOC. TL; The DR is that Qualcomm’s 2021 chip is a 5nm SOC with ARM Cortex-X1 core and Qualcomm’s first flagship SOC is dumping …
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American stocks tumbled on Wednesday, pulling back from Tuesday’s record highs, rising cases of coronavirus and a slowdown in private sector job creation weighed on investor sentiment. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% a day after the benchmark hit its 27th closing record of the year. The Nasdaq Composite also fell …
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HONG KONG (AP) – Three prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were jailed Wednesday for protesting outside police headquarters as authorities took action in protest of Beijing’s tightening of control over the region. Activists – Joshua Wong, Agnes Chou and Evan Lum – are among more than 10,000 people arrested since …
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As head of the White House budget office fees in the upcoming Biden administration, Nira Tanden has “no chance of confirmation”, Sen. Tom Catton said Wednesday. “The problem with Nira Tanden is not so much her tweets, it’s her radical liberal views,” she told Fox & Friends, an Arkansas Republican. …
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CNN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will shorten its recommended quarantine period for people infected with coronavirus to seven days, the report said. Under the new guidelines, quarantine can end after seven days for those who test negative and 10 days for those who do not receive …
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