This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareU.S. officials and scientists unveiled a plan Thursday to pursue what they called one of the most important technological frontiers of the 21st century: building a quantum Internet.Speaking in Chicago, one of the main hubs of the work, they set for forging what they called a second Internet — one that would function alongside the globe’s existing networks, using the laws of quantum mechanics to share information more securely and to connect a new generation of computers and sensors. seeks to harness the distinct...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareU.S. officials and scientists unveiled a plan Thursday to pursue what they called one of the most important technological frontiers of the 21st century: building a quantum Internet.Speaking in Chicago, one of the main hubs of the work, they set for forging what they called a second Internet — one that would function alongside the globe’s existing networks, using the laws of quantum mechanics to share information more securely and to connect a new generation of computers and sensors. seeks to harness the distinct...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration issued new rules Friday intended to block additional semiconductor sales to China’s Huawei in a hardening of its stance against a company it views as a security threat.The administration last year the export of U.S. technology to Huawei, but the Chinese tech giant was still able to purchase semiconductors made outside the United States with U.S. software and equipment. The Department of Commerce said the is designed to address that loophole.The news came as a large Taiwanese semiconductor...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration issued new rules Friday intended to block additional semiconductor sales to China’s Huawei in a hardening of its stance against a company it views as a security threat.The administration last year the export of U.S. technology to Huawei, but the Chinese tech giant was still able to purchase semiconductors made outside the United States with U.S. software and equipment. The Department of Commerce said the is designed to address that loophole.The news came as a large Taiwanese semiconductor...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAn emergency loan program intended to get money swiftly into the hands of small businesses has all but collapsed under an unprecedented crush of applications and a shortage of funds, overwhelming agency officials and prompting urgent calls for action on Capitol Hill.The Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, or EIDL, a long-standing program run by the Small Business Administration (SBA), is separate from the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses that is the subject of a on Capitol Hill.The federal...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAn emergency loan program intended to get money swiftly into the hands of small businesses has all but collapsed under an unprecedented crush of applications and a shortage of funds, overwhelming agency officials and prompting urgent calls for action on Capitol Hill.The Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, or EIDL, a long-standing program run by the Small Business Administration (SBA), is separate from the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses that is the subject of a on Capitol Hill.The federal...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe leader of the White House’s effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine has predicted that by the end of January, there will be a “significant decrease” in deaths among the nation’s elderly, as high-risk populations in the United States receive vaccinations.Moncef Slaoui, chief science adviser to Operation Warp Speed, said he expects independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration to recommend emergency authorization for the vaccine developed by Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech when the panel...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe leader of the White House’s effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine has predicted that by the end of January, there will be a “significant decrease” in deaths among the nation’s elderly, as high-risk populations in the United States receive vaccinations.Moncef Slaoui, chief science adviser to Operation Warp Speed, said he expects independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration to recommend emergency authorization for the vaccine developed by Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech when the panel...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareIt was all hands on deck at Cal Fire’s headquarters in Sacramento on Saturday, where the agency’s top lawyer was pitching in answering phones.“I can’t sit at home and watch what’s going on. I have to do something,” said chief counsel Bruce Crane, 61, who was a firefighter in the 1980s. Back then, he and his colleagues thought a 50,000-acre fire was big, so the current 314,207-acre fire across Napa, Lake, Solano and Sonoma counties is “just mind-bogglingly huge,” Crane said.The heat wave and lightning-sparked barrage of...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareIt was all hands on deck at Cal Fire’s headquarters in Sacramento on Saturday, where the agency’s top lawyer was pitching in answering phones.“I can’t sit at home and watch what’s going on. I have to do something,” said chief counsel Bruce Crane, 61, who was a firefighter in the 1980s. Back then, he and his colleagues thought a 50,000-acre fire was big, so the current 314,207-acre fire across Napa, Lake, Solano and Sonoma counties is “just mind-bogglingly huge,” Crane said.The heat wave and lightning-sparked barrage of...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareNearly two years after the United States launched a broad attack on Chinese tech giant Huawei, the campaign is starting to work.Huawei’s smartphone sales have collapsed outside of China, hurt by a U.S. export ban that prevents new Huawei phones from carrying the Google Play store or popular Android apps.Huawei’s sales of telecommunications equipment in overseas markets also have suffered from a years-long U.S. campaign to persuade allied nations to abandon the gear over security concerns.The U.S. effort has reduced...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareNearly two years after the United States launched a broad attack on Chinese tech giant Huawei, the campaign is starting to work.Huawei’s smartphone sales have collapsed outside of China, hurt by a U.S. export ban that prevents new Huawei phones from carrying the Google Play store or popular Android apps.Huawei’s sales of telecommunications equipment in overseas markets also have suffered from a years-long U.S. campaign to persuade allied nations to abandon the gear over security concerns.The U.S. effort has reduced...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareSemiconductor executive Tom Caulfield knew a crisis was brewing when he started getting frantic calls from big automakers just before Christmas.“Tom, you’re killing me. You need to make more,” Caulfield, the chief executive of chipmaker GlobalFoundries, recalls the auto executives saying. “Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler-Benz, Fiat Chrysler, GM — every one of them became my new best friends.”The Santa Clara, Calif.-headquartered company did its best to ramp up production for car manufacturers at its three big factories in...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareSemiconductor executive Tom Caulfield knew a crisis was brewing when he started getting frantic calls from big automakers just before Christmas.“Tom, you’re killing me. You need to make more,” Caulfield, the chief executive of chipmaker GlobalFoundries, recalls the auto executives saying. “Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler-Benz, Fiat Chrysler, GM — every one of them became my new best friends.”The Santa Clara, Calif.-headquartered company did its best to ramp up production for car manufacturers at its three big factories in...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA federal court has granted a preliminary injunction halting the Trump administration’s planned ban of Chinese app WeChat, in response to a plaintiff lawsuit saying the ban would harm their First Amendment rights.In an order issued late Saturday, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco said the plaintiffs, a group of WeChat users, had shown there are “serious questions” related to their First Amendment claim.The Trump administration had planned WeChat and fellow Chinese-owned app TikTok in the United States late Sunday...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA federal court has granted a preliminary injunction halting the Trump administration’s planned ban of Chinese app WeChat, in response to a plaintiff lawsuit saying the ban would harm their First Amendment rights.In an order issued late Saturday, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco said the plaintiffs, a group of WeChat users, had shown there are “serious questions” related to their First Amendment claim.The Trump administration had planned WeChat and fellow Chinese-owned app TikTok in the United States late Sunday...WW…