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U.S. XPRESS TO INVEST IN TuSimple, A SELF-DRIVING TECH COMPANY
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• U.S. Xpress has also started actively testing the technology on select shipping lanes, and the President and CEO Eric Fuller is now part of TuSimple’s Executive Advisory Board
• CEO of TuSimple, Cheng Lu said U.S. Xpress has been a valuable partner...

GOOGLE ASKS US JUDGE TO TRANSFER ANTITRUST LAWSUIT FILED BY STATES TO CALIFORNIA
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• Google has asked a US judge in Texas to transfer an antitrust lawsuit filed by 10 states to a court in California
• The first case that alleged it monopolised online display advertising was filed in the month of May by an advertiser, and it was followed ...

U.S. ASKS AUSTRALIA TO SUSPEND PROPOSED LAWS THAT FORCE GOOGLE, FACEBOOK PAY FOR NEWS
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• Trump administration has asked the Australian government to scrap proposed laws that force social media giant Facebook Inc and Google to pay for news sourced from local media
• As per the proposed law, Google and Facebook will be subject to mandatory pri...

NOKIA SELECTED AS TECHNOLOGY PARTNER FOR THE US FEDERAL 5G SECURITY CENTER
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• Nokia last week said that it has been selected as the technology partner by the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) 5G Cybersecurity Project
• Nokia said that it will be working with NCCoE and important vendors, including members from gov...

GOOGLE HALTS POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS IN U.S. BEFORE BIDEN’S INAUGURATION
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• The Alphabet-owned company had lifted the temporary ban on election-related advertisements on December 10, 2020, which took effect following polls closed in the US presidential election
• Google in a statement said “it would temporarily pause all p...

SOLARWINDS HACKERS ARE IMPACTING GOVERNMENTS: US CYBERSECURITY AGENCY
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• The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in a statement said the hacking campaign was impacting enterprise networks across federal, state, and local governments
• Federal agencies like the Commerce Department, the Treasury Department a...

MICROSOFT WINS LEGAL BATTLE TO NOTIFY CLOUD CLIENT OF U.S. DATA INVESTIGATION
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• Microsoft Corp has won a legal battle to notify a client that federal prosecutors had demanded its email account information be turned over as part of a government investigation
• The subpoena on July 14 was inclusive of a secrecy provision that barred M...

U.S. ARMY CONDUCT TRIALS OF AUGMENTED GOGGLES FOR COMBAT DOGS
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• Military dogs are specifically trained to search for bombs and other hazards, and to execute this they need instructions
• Courtesy of these goggles, the dogs will be able to see a visual indicator that they can be trained to follow, directing them to a ...

US, GREECE JOIN HANDS TO PROMOTE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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• The U.S.- Greece Science and Technology Agreement was officially signed in Thessaloniki, Greece on Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Greece's Minister of Development and Investments Adonis Georgiadis
• This official signing ceremon...

US COURT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TRUMP'S MOVE BANNING TikTok FROM APP STORES
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• As per the order issued by the Commerce Department, Google and Apple were asked to remove Tiktok owned by Chinese company ByteDance from their respective app stores
• The US district judge Carl Nichol granted a preliminary order to allow the app to remai...

THE U.S. DoE TO PROVIDE $16 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR RESEARCH IN MACHINE LEARNING & AI
According to the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to provide $16 million in funding for advanced research in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). According to the reports, two sets of projects will...

JAPAN’S SKYDRIVE INC. TESTS ITS FIRST ‘FLYING CAR’ WITH ONE PERSON ON BOARD
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- Japan’s SkyDrive Inc. tests its first ‘Flying Car’ with one person on board.
- The machine can so far fly for 10 minutes.
- The flying car is based on the principle of – eVTOL, or electric vertical ta...

NOSTALGIC NOKIA 5310 XPRESSMUSIC LAUNCHED IN INDIA
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• Nokia 5310 will available for purchase on Amazon.in and Nokia India website
• Priced at Rs 3,399, Nokia 5310 arrives in two colours and is built to deliver supreme quality musical experience
• After four weeks, Nokia 5310 will be available...

APPLE, GOOGLE UNVEIL THEIR JOINT TECHNOLOGY THAT NOTIFIES USERS OF COVID-19 EXPOSURES
Two of the industry giants, Apple and Google on Wednesday unveiled long-awaited smartphone technology that will automatically notify users if they might have been exposed to the COVID-19.
Both the companies stated that at present 22 countries along with several states in the U.S. are think...

SAMSUNG BRINGS IN 50MP SENSOR WITH DUAL PIXEL TECHNOLOGY
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• Samsung’s ISOCELL GN1 comes with a new 50MP sensor that is capable of supporting video recording up to 8K resolution
• According to Samsung’s official, this development is part of company’s commitment to deliver stunning images in any e...

WUHAN: CHINA’S TOP CHIPMAKER RELEASE WORLD’S FIRST FLASH MEMORY CHIP
One of largest chip makers in the world, Wuhan’s Yangtze Memory Technologies Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup, who always make claims of competing with Global technology giant Samsung has released world’s first flash memory chip.
The latest 128-layer QLC 3D NAND flash ...

ONEPLUS 8 SERIES ALL SET FOR LAUNCH IN AN ONLINE EVENT FOR EUROPE
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• OnePlus 8 series smartphones will see OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro
• The launch will be done online due to the coronavirus pandemic
• These smartphones will come with 5G support and Snapdragon 865 SoC
OnePlus is ready to launch On...