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☆ Huawei's new phone uses more China-made parts, memory chip
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Huawei's latest high-end phone features more Chinese suppliers, including a new flash memory storage chip and an improved chip processor, a teardown analysis showed, pointing to the progress China is making towards technology self-sufficiency. Huawei's latest high-end phone features more Chinese suppliers, including a new flash memory storage chip and an improved chip processor, a teardown analysis showed, pointing to the progress China is making towards technology self-sufficiency. Online tech repair company iFixit and consultancy TechSearch International examined the inside of Huawei Technologies' Pura 70 Pro for Reuters, finding a NAND memory chip they said was likely packaged by the Chinese telecoms equipment maker's in-house chip unit HiSilicon and several other components made by Chinese suppliers. Huawei's resurgence in the high-end smartphone market after four years of U.S. sanctions is being widely watched by both rivals and U.S. politicians as it has become a symbol of growing U.S.-China trade frictions and China's bid for technology self-sufficiency. Huawei launched the Pura 70's four smartphone models in late April and the series quickly sold out.

Persons: Huawei's, Shahram Mokhtari, Mokhtari Organizations: TechSearch International, Huawei Technologies, Pura, Pro, Reuters, Huawei, Kirin, Apple Locations: China, U.S, Washington

☆ How Google's augmented-reality dream turned into chaos
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Google's AR glasses were beset by a messy strategy, company insiders say. Google's AR fumbles have proven frustrating for employees in the face of mounting competition from Apple and Meta. "They're dabbling," one insider said of Google's AR efforts. Ramin Talaie/Getty ImagesNorth leaders were told they would lead a new project under Google's hardware boss, Rick Osterloh, and Google's AR and VR leader, Clay Bavor. A small group inside the AR division is also exploring how artificial intelligence could be used with AR glasses, a source said.

Persons: Tim Cook, Iris, Google's, Clay, Ramin Talaie, Rick Osterloh, Clay Bavor, Mark Lucovsky, Lucovsky, Paul Greco, —, Google's Hiroshi Lockheimer, Samsung's, Bavor, Shahram, Hiroshi Lockheimer, Betty, Barry, Greco, Eddie Chung, Kurt Akeley, Akeley, Justin Sullivan, Meta, Sundar Pichai, it's Organizations: Samsung, Apple, Google, Meta, CBC, Insiders, Vision, SBS Biz, Labs, Pro, Bloomberg Locations: Raxium, Kitchen , Ontario

☆ Drones target Russian capital on eve of military parade attended by Putin
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Leila Sackur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Three Ukrainian drones were downed over Moscow early on July 30, 2023, Russia's defence ministry said, in an attack that briefly shut an international airport. While one of the drones was shot down on the city's outskirts, two others were "suppressed by electronic warfare" and smashed into an office complex. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)Russian officials say they shot down three Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow early Sunday, hours before the start of a major military parade attended by President Vladimir Putin. "There is always something flying in Russia, including in Moscow," Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said on Ukrainian national television. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Iran has become Russia's top military supporter, selling self-detonating "Shahed" drones and unmanned UAVs to Moscow.

Persons: Alexander NEMENOV, ALEXANDER NEMENOV, Vladimir Putin, Yurii Ihnat, Putin, Shahram Irani, Dmitry Medvedev, Medvedev Organizations: Moscow International Business, Moscow, Getty Images, Vnukovo International, TASS, Ukrainian, country's Security Locations: Moskva City, Moscow, city's, AFP, Russian, —, Kyiv, Ukraine, Russia, St . Petersburg, U.K, Iran

☆ Iran says to form naval alliance with Gulf states to ensure regional stability
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 3 (Reuters) - Iran's navy commander said his country and Saudi Arabia, as well as three other Gulf states, plan to form a naval alliance that will also include India and Pakistan, Iranian media reported on Saturday. Iran has recently been trying to mend its strained ties with several Gulf Arab states. In March, Saudi Arabia and Iran ended seven years of hostility under a China-mediated deal, stressing the need for regional stability and economic cooperation. Naval commander Irani said the states that will take part in the alliance also include the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, Pakistan, and India. The UAE, which was the first Gulf Arab country to sign a normalization agreement with Israel in 2020, resumed formal relations with Iran last year.

Persons: Shahram Irani, Irani, Toby Chopra Organizations: Naval, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Dubai Newsroom, Thomson Locations: Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Iran, China, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, Saudi, Arab, Israel, Morocco

☆ US sanctions Iranian officials accused of plotting assassinations abroad including against Bolton and Pompeo
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Jennifer Hansler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN —The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials accused of plotting assassinations abroad, including against former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “Ansari, with the support of Shahram Poursafi (Poursafi), an Iranian national, planned and attempted to assassinate two former U.S. government officials,” the Treasury Department said. Pompeo was also a target of the Iranian assassination plot, according to a federal law enforcement source familiar with the investigation and a source close to Pompeo. Seraj “has been involved in failed IRGC-IO operations in Asia and in intelligence operations targeting U.S. citizens,” it said. “Seraj previously led the IRGC-IO Special Operations Division, which is focused on special activity against Israel, where he was responsible for a series of failed operations targeting Israeli nationals,” it added.

Persons: Washington CNN —, Biden, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Mohammad Reza Ansari, “ Ansari, Shahram, Poursafi, Bolton, Bush, Qasem Soleimani, Pompeo, Hossein Hafez Amini, “, Rey Havacilik, Sirketi, – Rouhallah Bazghandi, Reza Seraj, Bazghandi “, ” “ Bazghandi, Seraj “, “ Seraj, Brian Nelson, ” Organizations: Washington CNN, Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Force, US Treasury Department, Treasury Department, US Justice Department, Trump, Turkish, Rey, Rey Airlines, IRGC Intelligence Organization, Division, Treasury, Terrorism, Financial Locations: United States, East, Europe, Africa, Iranian, Rey, Türkiye, Iraq, Syria, Istanbul, ”, Asia, Israel

☆ Iran says its navy forces U.S. submarine to surface as it enters the Gulf
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

DUBAI, April 20 (Reuters) - Iran's navy forced a U.S. submarine to surface as it entered the Gulf, Iranian navy commander Shahram Irani told state television on Thursday, in the latest report of an apparent confrontation between Iranian and U.S. forces in the Gulf. "The U.S. submarine was approaching while submerged, but the Iranian submarine Fateh detected it and carried out... manoeuvres to force it to surface as it went through the Strait (of Hormuz). It had also entered into our territorial waters but ... it corrected its course after being warned," Irani said. In early April, the Iranian navy said it identified and warned off a U.S. reconnaissance plane outside the mouth of the Gulf. In 2019, Iran shot down a U.S. drone which it said was flying over southern Iran.

☆ For the 2nd year in a row, Iran is sailing its biggest warship around the world to show off its growing navy
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Constantine Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Iranian warships left Iran in September on what one official said was a journey around the world. Visiting far off landsIranian navy Makran near the Strait of Hormuz in May 2021. They have repeatedly seized Iranian arms shipments bound for Yemen and have often had tense encounters with Iranian warships. Iran has also started an indigenous shipbuilding program to grow its navy, which is designed to defend the Persian Gulf. "Yet the focus of Iran will continue to be the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, and the Indian ocean.

☆ Iran death toll rises as protests intensify
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Rights groups reported at least one more person was killed on Tuesday, which would take the death toll to least seven. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterAfter beginning on Saturday at Amini's funeral in Iran's Kurdistan province, protests have engulfed much of the country, prompting confrontations as security forces have sought to suppress them. Hengaw, the Kurdish rights group, said internet had been cut completely in the Kurdistan province, where protests have been particularly intense and Iran's Revolutionary Guards has a history of suppressing unrest. The governor of Kurdistan province has blamed the deaths of three men in Kurdistan province on unspecified terrorist groups. Hengaw has said they were killed when security forces opened fire.

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