South Korea plans to spend $450 billion to build the world’s biggest chipmaking base over the next decade. This is part of an overarching plan called the “K-Semiconductor Belt Strategy” which aims to make the country the world’s leading chipmaker. With this strategy, South Korea joins the U.S., China and Europe in a global race to dominate the semiconductor industry following […]
According to a pair of lawsuits made public on Tuesday, Facebook board members overpaid the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) an extra $5 billion in fines to settle a complaint by the agency and keep CEO Mark Zuckerberg from being held personally liable for the Cambridge Analytic data breach. The lawsuits claim the massive payment was contingent upon the FTC dropping plans […]
America sure did exit Afghanistan in a big hurry. We left all the civilians, weapons, helicopters, tanks and lists of everyone who “betrayed” the Taliban by working with America in any capacity. The Embassy in Afghanistan and the airport in Kabul must have been under massive siege, yet somehow, the “higher ups” and all the […]
Put this one in the category of “what could possibly go wrong?” The National Institutes of Health is lifting a ban on funding experiments that deliberately make germs more dangerous, albeit subject to pre-approval by a scientific panel using a risk-benefit analysis. The U.S. government imposed a funding moratorium on such research in October 2104. At […]