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South Korea is reviewing its possible participation in the US-led semiconductor alliance from the perspective of national interest and has no intent to build an exclusive grouping against China, the industry minister said on Monday.Industry Minister Lee Chang-yang made the remarks amid concerns that South Korea's possible joining of the "Chip 4" could cause friction with China, its largest trading partner, if it develops into an exclusive grouping against Beijing.The Chip 4 is an envisioned alliance of semiconductor…

Photo: IntelIntel this week revealed its new lineup of Arc Pro series GPUs intended primarily for powerful small form factor desktops and professionally focused laptops. All three of the GPUs, which Intel says are targeted at professional software applications in the architecture, construction, design, and manufacturing industries, offer built-in ray tracing and machine learning capabilities, and V1 hardware encoding acceleration. The reveal comes on the heels of several new Intel GPUs designed for gaming announced…

MSI MEG 271Q gaming monitor was announced by the company at CES 2022. The new monitor comes with Mini LED backlight controls with local dimming, a response time of 1ms, and a refresh rate of 300Hz. The new Mini LED monitor comes with Nvidia G-Sync Ultimate technology, which is also featured on monitors from AOC, Asus, and ViewSonic introduced at CES this year. These new gaming monitors are aimed at e-sports gamers who meed high refresh rates and fast response times.MSI is yet to reveal pricing for the newly announced MSI…

Lenovo 10w Tablet and 13w Yoga 2-in-1 have been introduced by the Chinese company as two of its latest Windows 11 devices aimed at students learning from their homes and returning to schools. While the Lenovo 10w Tablet is backed by Qualcomm's Snapdragon SoC, the Lenovo 13w Yoga comes with an AMD Ryzen processor. The tablet also comes with a detachable keyboard and an optional pen. The Yoga laptop, on the other hand, gives a convertible form-factor that users can leverage to use it as both a tablet and a laptop. Lenovo…

Three senior Biden administration officials will brief senators on Wednesday on the global innovation and technology race and a proposed bill to boost US semiconductor manufacturing, two officials told Reuters.Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks will conduct the classified all-senators briefing at 4:00pm EDT (1:30am IST) on Wednesday as Democratic lawmakers and the White House make a push to win approval for legislation that would…

Facebook has decided to crack down on user reviews to prevent people from leaving fake feedback on business pages.The company has updated its Community Feedback policy to address this widespread issue. While actions were already being taken against potentially abusive reviews, the new policy puts these rules into writing.Facebook's new guidelines protect against people who leave fake bad reviews as a way to get refunds or other freebies out of a business that wants to please its customers, and they're also supposed to…

ProShares, a provider of bitcoin-linked exchange traded funds (ETF), announced that it plans to launch an ETF aimed at shorting the world's largest cryptocurrency. Called the ProShares Short Bitcoin Strategy ETF (NYSE Ticker: BITI), the fund will provide a way for investors to potentially profit from a decline in the price of bitcoin or hedge their cryptocurrency exposure with an ETF, the company said in a statement. It is further intended to address the challenge of acquiring short exposure to bitcoin, which can be…

After having one idea batted down last year, some National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes are taking a new tack to bolster the success rate of Black scientists and researchers from other underrepresented groups seeking research grants. A program aiming to diversify the NIH workforce could award up to $20 million a year to neuroscience, drug abuse, and mental health investigators from minority groups. The program will create a new class of NIH’s standard R01 research grant…

A new study has found that Facebook has failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab extremist content in posts aimed at East Africa as the region remains under threat from violent attacks and Kenya prepares to vote in a closely contested national election.An Associated Press series last year, drawing on leaked documents shared by a Facebook whistleblower, showed how the platform repeatedly failed to act on sensitive content including hate speech in many places around the world.The new and unrelated two-year study by…

WASHINGTON—Congressional Republicans are beginning to detail their plans to combat inflation and soften its impact on households, indicating some tax, trade and regulatory policies they might pursue if they take control of the House and Senate in this fall’s midterm elections.Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) on Tuesday is proposing to adjust a tax-code provision for inflation and reduce some taxes on investments. Meanwhile, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee are outlining their…