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Samsung has largely defined the foldable phone category, but it’s no longer alone in releasing flexible devices. Google, Motorola, and a raft of Chinese OEMs have their own take on this form factor. Is the new Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra really “ultra” enough to remain on top? This pho

This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Few investors can claim to have witnessed every major technology wave of the last four decades. Hermann Hauser co-founded Acorn Computers in 1978, helped create Arm — one of t

Intel VP Robert Hallock sets Nova Lake expectations, teases return to Raptor Lake for DDR4 platforms — our full 1:1 interview transcript Enthusiast PCs ain't dead yet. This week, we managed to sit down with Robert Hallock, Intel VP and General Manager of Enthusiast Channel Busine

$29 per Terabyte makes this 24TB Seagate BarraCuda one of the best-value hard drives in today's market — $50 off at Newegg makes it $200 cheaper than the 20TB version Beef up your media center streaming storage It's a sorry state of affairs in the storage component sector at the

The company said it executed a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with REC Power Development and Consultancy Limited (RECPDCL), it said in a regulatory filing on Friday. The development follows AESL’s earlier intimation dated July 24, 2026, regarding its media release on winning an a

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo spread to a sixth province as the overall death toll surpassed 2,100 and cases topped 4,500. Experts say the virus may have been transmitted undetected for months, while health workers have struggled to contain the outbreak w

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Chinese autonomous vehicle maker Pony.ai and Uber plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to four cities in Europe as part of an expanded partnership. The announcement illustrates the growing ambitions of both companies to carve out market share in the nascent robotaxi industry. Uber has p

OpenAI’s annualized revenue is set to top $40 billion, Bloomberg reported, one of the quickest growth stories in history, though rivals are fast gaining ground. The figures bolster the ChatGPT maker’s plans for a blockbuster market debut as early as this year. However, cost-consc

Start your PC gaming journey with this $1,100 1080p gaming rig, now $300 off — RTX 5060 rig from Newegg ships with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD Affordable 1080p gaming For a budget-priced 1080p gaming rig with decent enough specs, you're going to need over $1,0

Preston Fore here. Landing a defense contract has historically meant navigating layers of government bureaucracy, with proposals often taking years to turn into cash. But software unicorn Code Metal is getting something new defense contractors rarely get from the Pentagon: speed.

Nvidia Jetson chip found in Russian cruise missile, Ukraine claims — presence in S-71 'Monochrome' weapon may indicate use of AI tech AI accelerators are export controlled, hardware that can run AI models locally is not. Russia's latest S-71 'Monochrome' cruise missiles use Nvidi

AI - ai and ml Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential wordsAnd other AI model makers are expected to deploy something similar - AI and ML DeepSee

The rupee ended little changed at 95.4250 per on Friday but fell 0.2% from a week ago. Persistent dollar sales by state-run banks, most likely on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India, anchored the currency in a less-than-30-paisa range during the week, and blunted the impact of su

Sensex fell around 71 points to close at 78,009, while Nifty 50 lost 30 points to end the session at 24,366. Broader markets slipped into the deep red, with the Nifty Smallcap 100 and Nifty Midcap 100 indices falling around 0.7% each. Asian Paints shares dropped around 2% to lead

Eurovision proposes new rules to reduce political voting - Published Organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest are proposing major rule changes to discourage voting campaigns that aim to influence the results. Under the current system, viewers can vote up to 10 times for their fa

The Singapore-based engineering services firm has appointed Axis Capital Ltd., Kotak Mahindra Capital Co., JM Financial Ltd., Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc. to advise on the share sale, the people said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private. The draft

The Indian stock market remained lower for the fourth straight day on Friday, August 14, tracking a sharp jump in crude oil prices as prospects of an immediate deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz faded, while renewed selling by overseas investors kept the market under pressure. T

Small-cap retail stock Patel Retail gained about 4% from its day's low on Friday, 14 August. Its strong Q1 FY27 results reported on 12 August continued to support the small-cap stock. Patel Retail share price today opened at ₹214.70 apiece on the BSE; the stock touched an intrada

Stock market benchmarks, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, ended in the red on Friday, 14 August, snapping their two-week winning streak, as uncertainties over a US-Iran peace deal, volatile crude oil prices, rising bond yields, and concerns over inflation flare-up weighed on sentimen

Modder straps two desktop CPU coolers to ZTE handset, turns smartphone into a gaming PC — Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC with 24GB of RAM runs The Witcher 3 at 1080p ultra The Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered system runs Linux and PC games locally. Modern smartphones pack enough computing powe

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AMD borrows $4.75 billion for 'general corporate purposes' — company gives no insight into how it plans to spend cash injection There is no such thing as too much money. Coming on the heels of Intel's $19.7 billion common stock offering from earlier this week, AMD on Thursday ann

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Dhoot Transmission IPO listing: Shares of Dhoot Transmission are slated to list in the Indian stock market on Monday, 17 August. Dhoot Transmission IPO allotment was finalised yesterday (Thursday, 13 August). Those who have been allocated shares can expect them to be credited to

Gigabyte resurrects 8-year-old B450 chipset with new motherboards — AM4 budget king returns as another DDR4 solution to exorbitant RAM prices The ongoing memory crunch has turned the best RAM, specifically DDR5, into halo-tier hardware. In response to the crisis, chipmakers and m

DIGITIMES observes that AI systems are moving from single-server setups to rack-level, multi-rack, and pod-level deployments, shifting the performance contest from compute chips to the broader AI fabric. Scale-up handles high-speed interconnects within nodes and racks, while scal

Just one instruction on AMD's 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface Not a very practical exploit, but a

Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba The rare US

Shares of Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles dropped 6% in Friday's trade, August 14, falling to around the ₹329 level, as the Street was disappointed with the company's June-quarter performance. Net profit plunged 80% year-on-year, as continued challenges at its UK-based luxury unit

A penny stock under ₹1 hit its upper circuit in intraday deals on the BSE on Friday, 14 August, defying a weak trend on Dalal Street. The stock, NCL Research and Financial Services, opened flat at ₹0.69, and jumped 4.3% to hit its upper price band of ₹0.72 during the session. Equ

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The National Stock Exchange (NSE), the country's largest stock bourse, aims to launch its initial public offering (IPO) by mid-September and is eyeing a possible listing by 25 September, three people with knowledge of the company’s plans said. "The bourse is targeting the IPO lau

Nintendo shares closed 7% higher in Japan on Friday after it revealed sales of "Pokémon Pokopia" surpassed 5 million units on its flagship Switch 2 console. The milestone was hit just over four months after it launched on March 5, Nintendo said on Thursday. This would make it the

Nintendo shares closed 7% higher in Japan on Friday after it revealed sales of "Pokémon Pokopia" surpassed 5 million units on its flagship Switch 2 console. The milestone was hit just over four months after it launched on March 5, Nintendo said on Thursday. This would make it the

Zypp Electric fell short of its FY26 revenue target of Rs 600 crore, with the B2B delivery and shared mobility startup posting Rs 461 crore in revenue during the year. The company had earlier indicated that it was targeting Rs 600 crore in revenue for FY26, but ended the year wit

Functioning version of 'the first arcade video game ever created' heads to auction with $200,000 estimate — green sparkle 2-player edition of Computer Space hails from 1973 The cabinet is being sold by David Perry, the games industry veteran behind Shiny Entertainment and Gaikai.

The Signal Insight Maria Black, only the seventh CEO in ADP’s 77-year history, often lingers before her predecessors’ portraits on the walk to her office. They’re a reminder of how ADP’s former leaders navigated previous moments of disruption, from financial crises to the dot-com