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Đài Loan, nhà đầu tư lớn thứ 4 của Việt Nam, có gần 3.200 dự án với tổng vốn đăng ký vượt 39,5 tỷ đô la Mỹ. Năm 2023, đầu tư từ Đài Loan vào Việt Nam tăng gấp 4 lần so với năm 2022, đạt 2,2 tỷ đô la Mỹ (1) do các doanh nghiệp Đài Loan rời Hoa lục để tránh hệ quả căng thẳng thương mại Mỹ-Trung. Từ một nước gia công các mặt hàng truyền thống, Việt Nam trở thành điểm đến an toàn cho dòng vốn FDI Đài Loan vào lĩnh vực công nghệ cao. Sự dịch chuyển rõ nét nhất là chuỗi cung ứng của Apple được các đối tác Đài Loan đưa sang Việt Nam với 9 dự án đầu tư mới (1,7 tỷ đô la) và 7 dự án mở rộng quy mô đầu tư (2,6 tỷ đô la trong năm 2023), theo chuyên gia của Chứng khoán Rồng Vàng (VDSC). Foxconn Technology Group đầu tư thêm vào hoạt động ở tỉnh Bắc Giang, Quanta Computer xây nhà máy đầu tiên ở Nam Định, BOE Technology và Biel Crystal đều có kế hoạch đầu tư vào nhà máy ở miền bắc Việt Nam.Theo báo chí Việt Nam, các nhà đầu tư Đài Loan có “khẩu vị” đa dạng (2). Khoảng 80% tổng vốn đầu tư đăng ký của Đài Loan chủ yếu tập trung vào lĩnh vực công nghiệp chế biến và chế tạo, lĩnh vực xây dựng và bất động sản, cùng nhiều ngành nghề khác… Tuy nhiên, từ năm 2019, thị phần của các ngành công nghệ cao, công nghiệp điện tử, đặc biệt là chip bán dẫn, ngày càng lớn trong FDI của Đài Loan vào Việt Nam.Vậy sự thay đổi này bắt nguồn trong bối cảnh nào ? Việt Nam và Đài Loan có những lợi ích gì ? Dưới đây là phần giải thích của thông tín viên Nguyễn Giang tại Đài Bắc.Đài Loan bắt đầu đầu tư vào Việt Nam từ khi nào ? Các nhà đầu tư Đài Loan có chiến lược đầu tư như thế nào vào Việt Nam hiện nay ?Nguyễn Giang : Đài Loan vào Việt Nam đầu tư rất sớm, nếu không nói là một trong hai nơi xuất xứ đầu tiên của nguồn vốn FDI (đầu tư nước ngoài trực tiếp), gồm Đài Loan và Singapore, vào khu vực kinh tế phía Nam của Việt Nam, ngay sau khi có Luật đầu tư được thông qua năm 1987, có hiệu lực từ 1988.Các tài liệu của Đài Loan như “TAEF Research: The Image of Taiwan and Taiwanese Businesses in Vietnam”nói rằng từ 1988 đến 2000, Đài Loan đầu tư vào Việt Nam tổng trị giá các dự án là 31,2 tỷ đô la Mỹ. Trong khoảng thời gian này, cơ cấu đầu tư có sự dịch chuyển qua hai giai đoạn. Ban đầu là các ngành cần nhiều nhân công như may mặc, giày dép, đồ gỗ, chế xuất thực phẩm. Sau đó là giai đoạn hai, Đài Loan đầu tư vào các ngành có giá trị cao hơn như điện tử, bán lẻ, giao thông vận tải, và cả dịch vụ y tế ở Việt Nam.Những năm gần đây, đầu tư của Đài Loan vào Việt Nam bước sang giai đoạn thứ ba, gồm công nghệ cao, dịch vụ tài chính, chuyên khoa y tế và đây là chiến lược được chính phủ ủng hộ, với chính sách Hướng Nam mới từ gần 10 năm qua đang phát huy tác dụng.Về cách đi của Đài Loan thì có thể thấy như sau. Việc chọn Việt Nam ở hai giai đoạn đầu là cách các doanh nghiệp vừa và nhỏ của Đài Loan có thể tiếp cận một thị trường khá gần và lớn hơn gấp 4 lần về dân số, và so với Việt Nam thì trình độ phát triển của Đài Loan cao hơn nên vẫn có ưu thế. Khi đó, người ta nói về sự phân khúc thị trường Việt Nam cho ba nhà đầu tư Đông Á : Nhật Bản bỏ tiền vào xây dựng cơ sở hạ tầng, Hàn Quốc xây cao ốc, siêu thị còn Đài Loan đầu tư vào ngành chế xuất, với tầm vóc các doanh nghiệp xứ Đài nhỏ hơn Hàn Quốc và Nhật Bản.Nhưng sang giai đoạn thứ ba, sự có mặt của các công ty công nghệ cao của Đài Loan như Foxconn,  Compal, Pegatron, Wistron và Qisda đem lại một chất lượng mới cho đầu tư nước ngoài ở Việt Nam. Sang giai đoạn ba thì đầu tư công nghệ cao sang Việt Nam là một lối thoát cho kinh tế Đài Loan. Truyền thông Đài Loan còn nói về mối liên hệ đặc biệt mang tính gia đình là có ít nhất hơn 100 nghìn người Việt Nam đã kết hôn với người Đài Loan, tạo điều kiện cho giao lưu giữa hai xã hội. Số sinh viên, nhà nghiên cứu Việt Nam học, làm việc ở các đại học Đài Loan nay lên tới hàng chục nghìn và có những người đã làm việc trong các phòng thí nghiệm công nghệ cao, đóng góp vào nguồn nhân lực Đài Loan đang thiếu.Nhiều doanh nghiệp công nghệ cao, chip bán dẫn Đài Loan đã chuyển một phần hoạt động sản xuất sang Việt Nam do chiến tranh thương mại Mỹ-Trung. Việt Nam có phải là một đối tác mà Đài Loan có thể hoàn toàn tin tưởng không, trong khi Hà Nội khẳng định “kiên định thực hiện chính sách “Một nước Trung Quốc” và Bắc Kinh liên tục đe dọa và chưa bao giờ từ bỏ ý định thống nhất với hòn đảo, kể cả phải dùng đến vũ lực ?Nguyễn Giang : Quan hệ với Trung Quốc căng thẳng từ khi tổng thống của đảng Dân Tiến, bà Thái Anh Văn lên cầm quyền nhiệm kỳ đầu năm 2008. Đến năm 2016 Đài Loan đưa ra chính sách Hướng Nam Mới, đầu tư nhiều hơn vào Việt Nam và 17 nước khác ở Đông Nam Á, Nam Á và châu Đại Dương để giảm dần đầu tư vào Trung Quốc.Trang Taiwan Panorama trong một bài hôm 23/11/2023 cho rằng Đài Loan hiện có 80 nghìn doanh nhân ở Việt Nam, làm việc trong 4.000 công ty, với vốn đầu tư trực tiếp 400 tỷ đô la Đài Loan và nếu tính các nguồn đầu tư tiền Đài Loan gián tiếp qua những quỹ khác thì con số có thể lên tới 600 tỷ đô la Đài Loan.Đúng là các đại công ty công nghệ Mỹ, Hàn Quốc và Đài Loan và cả của Nhật Bản cần tìm kiếm các thị trường bên ngoài Trung Quốc để “không bỏ trứng vào một giỏ” khi Trung Quốc bị Hoa Kỳ đe dọa áp thuế quan cao trong nhiệm kỳ hai của tổng thống Donald Trump.Chính sách “Một nước Trung Hoa” mà Việt Nam tuyên bố tôn trọng không phải là yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến quan hệ kinh tế với Đài Loan vì bản thân Trung Quốc cũng nhận nhiều tỷ đô la Mỹ đầu tư của Đài Loan. Tập đoàn Foxconn thuê 1 triệu nhân công ở Trung Quốc. Tất nhiên chưa ai rõ là việc Việt Nam trở thành một điểm đến quan trọng của chính sách “Trung Quốc + một”  (phân tán nguồn đầu tư ra khỏi Trung Quốc mà nhiều đại công ty đang làm) có khiến nước này bị chính quyền Trump 2.0 áp thuế quan cao hay không.Liệu cơ sở hạ tầng, cũng như nguồn nhân lực ở Việt Nam có đáp ứng được yêu cầu khắt khe của các “đại gia” Đài Loan về chip bán dẫn ?Nguyễn Giang : Chúng ta chỉ có thể suy ra từ các sự kiện và phát biểu của giới chuyên gia công nghệ cao về vấn đề này. Với chuyến thăm đầu tháng 12/2024 tới Hà Nội của ông Jensen Huang (Hoàng Nhân Huân, tỷ phú Mỹ người gốc Đài Bắc), giám đốc điều hành tập đoàn Nvidia, thì khả năng đưa Việt Nam tham gia chuỗi cung ứng công nghệ trí tuệ nhân tạo (AI) ngày càng gần với hiện thực. Dù Nvidia là công ty Mỹ nhưng họ chủ yếu dùng semiconductor tức công nghệ bán dẫn của TSMC, tập đoàn lớn nhất Đài Loan. Nvidia đã ký kết hợp tác thiết lập một trung tâm nghiên cứu và phát triển trí tuệ nhân tạo (AI) cùng một trung tâm dữ liệu AI tại Việt Nam. Ngoài lý do địa chính trị và thương chiến Mỹ-Trung thì rõ ràng là các “đại gia” công nghệ Đài Loan hoặc gốc Đài Loan như ông Jensen Huang phải có đánh giá riêng về chuyên môn để chọn Việt Nam.Tại một hội nghị về công nghệ cao ở Đài Bắc ngày 14/11/2024 mà tôi được mời tham dự, có diễn giả, giáo sư Roger Liu, người Mỹ gốc Đài hiện làm nghiên cứu về các ngành kinh tế công nghệ cao ở Đại học Tôn Trung Sơn tại Cao Hùng. Ông đã trình bày một khảo sát thu thập ý kiến trong giới lãnh đạo ngành công nghệ cao Hàn Quốc và Đài Loan. Khảo sát nói rằng bên ngoài khu vực Đông Bắc Á thì trong ASEAN chỉ có “các kỹ sư Việt Nam là lực lượng chuyên gia đủ về con số và đạt năng lực sẵn sàng đón nhận công nghệ AI và semiconductor ở tầm vóc lớn”.Việt Nam được lợi như thế nào khi hợp tác với Đài Loan trong lĩnh vực chip bán dẫn, ngoài việc gia công ?Nguyễn Giang : Trong hội thảo ở Đài Bắc mà tôi có tham dự thì một bài thuyết trình khác của đại diện Nhật Bản nói Việt Nam sẽ là điểm đến cho công nghệ AI và tự động hóa trong tương lai gần. Cũng theo thông tin từ hội thảo này, hiện trên cả thế giới đang có 108 nhà máy chế tạo các sản phẩm semiconductor và AI-automation (tự động hóa dùng trí tuệ nhân tạo) chuẩn bị đưa vào vận hành năm 2027. Trong số đó, châu Á đang có 78, Hoa Kỳ có 18 và châu Âu (gồm cả Anh) gộp lại với Trung Đông (gồm có Israel) chỉ có 12 nhà máy. Sự vượt trội của vùng Đông Á trong công nghệ này đang là thách thức cho châu Âu, nhất là Liên Hiệp Châu Âu.Được biết Hàn Quốc cũng muốn đưa một phần công nghệ AI sang Việt Nam vì dù hiện Việt Nam chưa có các cơ sở nghiên cứu như Singapore nhưng về nguồn nhân lực chuyên môn thì lại đông đảo hơn, và nếu tính tới việc áp dụng AI trong y tế, thì dân số 100 triệu của Việt Nam là thị trường tốt cho việc triển khai rộng trí tuệ nhân tạo trong ngành y, hay “medical AI”.Điểm lợi cho Việt Nam là một khi đã đặt chân vào chuỗi cung ứng công nghệ cao toàn cầu mà khu vực Đông Á đang dẫn đầu thế giới thì cơ hội nâng đẳng cấp nền kinh tế của Việt Nam sẽ lớn hơn. Công nghệ AI còn đem lại lợi tích kinh tế lớn.Tất nhiên tất cả còn phụ thuộc vào các chính sách của chính phủ và khả năng điều hành của bộ máy chính quyền, có dám tạo ra các khu vực công nghệ mang tính đột phá hay không.*****(1) (2) VnEconomy, "Việt Nam là điểm đến hàng đầu của dòng vốn đầu tư từ Đài Loan", 15/08/2024.

Đài Loan, nhà đầu tư lớn thứ 4 của Việt Nam, có gần 3.200 dự án với tổng vốn đăng ký vượt 39,5 tỷ đô la Mỹ. Năm 2023, đầu tư từ Đài Loan vào Việt Nam tăng gấp 4 lần so với năm 2022, đạt 2,2 tỷ đô la Mỹ (1) do các doanh nghiệp Đài Loan rời Hoa lục để tránh hệ quả căng thẳng thương mại Mỹ-Trung. Từ một nước gia công các mặt hàng truyền thống, Việt Nam trở thành điểm đến an toàn cho dòng vốn FDI Đài Loan vào lĩnh vực công nghệ cao. Sự dịch chuyển rõ nét nhất là chuỗi cung ứng của Apple được các đối tác Đài Loan đưa sang Việt Nam với 9 dự án đầu tư mới (1,7 tỷ đô la) và 7 dự án mở rộng quy mô đầu tư (2,6 tỷ đô la trong năm 2023), theo chuyên gia của Chứng khoán Rồng Vàng (VDSC). Foxconn Technology Group đầu tư thêm vào hoạt động ở tỉnh Bắc Giang, Quanta Computer xây nhà máy đầu tiên ở Nam Định, BOE Technology và Biel Crystal đều có kế hoạch đầu tư vào nhà máy ở miền bắc Việt Nam.Theo báo chí Việt Nam, các nhà đầu tư Đài Loan có “khẩu vị” đa dạng (2). Khoảng 80% tổng vốn đầu tư đăng ký của Đài Loan chủ yếu tập trung vào lĩnh vực công nghiệp chế biến và chế tạo, lĩnh vực xây dựng và bất động sản, cùng nhiều ngành nghề khác… Tuy nhiên, từ năm 2019, thị phần của các ngành công nghệ cao, công nghiệp điện tử, đặc biệt là chip bán dẫn, ngày càng lớn trong FDI của Đài Loan vào Việt Nam.Vậy sự thay đổi này bắt nguồn trong bối cảnh nào ? Việt Nam và Đài Loan có những lợi ích gì ? Dưới đây là phần giải thích của thông tín viên Nguyễn Giang tại Đài Bắc.Đài Loan bắt đầu đầu tư vào Việt Nam từ khi nào ? Các nhà đầu tư Đài Loan có chiến lược đầu tư như thế nào vào Việt Nam hiện nay ?Nguyễn Giang : Đài Loan vào Việt Nam đầu tư rất sớm, nếu không nói là một trong hai nơi xuất xứ đầu tiên của nguồn vốn FDI (đầu tư nước ngoài trực tiếp), gồm Đài Loan và Singapore, vào khu vực kinh tế phía Nam của Việt Nam, ngay sau khi có Luật đầu tư được thông qua năm 1987, có hiệu lực từ 1988.Các tài liệu của Đài Loan như “TAEF Research: The Image of Taiwan and Taiwanese Businesses in Vietnam”nói rằng từ 1988 đến 2000, Đài Loan đầu tư vào Việt Nam tổng trị giá các dự án là 31,2 tỷ đô la Mỹ. Trong khoảng thời gian này, cơ cấu đầu tư có sự dịch chuyển qua hai giai đoạn. Ban đầu là các ngành cần nhiều nhân công như may mặc, giày dép, đồ gỗ, chế xuất thực phẩm. Sau đó là giai đoạn hai, Đài Loan đầu tư vào các ngành có giá trị cao hơn như điện tử, bán lẻ, giao thông vận tải, và cả dịch vụ y tế ở Việt Nam.Những năm gần đây, đầu tư của Đài Loan vào Việt Nam bước sang giai đoạn thứ ba, gồm công nghệ cao, dịch vụ tài chính, chuyên khoa y tế và đây là chiến lược được chính phủ ủng hộ, với chính sách Hướng Nam mới từ gần 10 năm qua đang phát huy tác dụng.Về cách đi của Đài Loan thì có thể thấy như sau. Việc chọn Việt Nam ở hai giai đoạn đầu là cách các doanh nghiệp vừa và nhỏ của Đài Loan có thể tiếp cận một thị trường khá gần và lớn hơn gấp 4 lần về dân số, và so với Việt Nam thì trình độ phát triển của Đài Loan cao hơn nên vẫn có ưu thế. Khi đó, người ta nói về sự phân khúc thị trường Việt Nam cho ba nhà đầu tư Đông Á : Nhật Bản bỏ tiền vào xây dựng cơ sở hạ tầng, Hàn Quốc xây cao ốc, siêu thị còn Đài Loan đầu tư vào ngành chế xuất, với tầm vóc các doanh nghiệp xứ Đài nhỏ hơn Hàn Quốc và Nhật Bản.Nhưng sang giai đoạn thứ ba, sự có mặt của các công ty công nghệ cao của Đài Loan như Foxconn,  Compal, Pegatron, Wistron và Qisda đem lại một chất lượng mới cho đầu tư nước ngoài ở Việt Nam. Sang giai đoạn ba thì đầu tư công nghệ cao sang Việt Nam là một lối thoát cho kinh tế Đài Loan. Truyền thông Đài Loan còn nói về mối liên hệ đặc biệt mang tính gia đình là có ít nhất hơn 100 nghìn người Việt Nam đã kết hôn với người Đài Loan, tạo điều kiện cho giao lưu giữa hai xã hội. Số sinh viên, nhà nghiên cứu Việt Nam học, làm việc ở các đại học Đài Loan nay lên tới hàng chục nghìn và có những người đã làm việc trong các phòng thí nghiệm công nghệ cao, đóng góp vào nguồn nhân lực Đài Loan đang thiếu.Nhiều doanh nghiệp công nghệ cao, chip bán dẫn Đài Loan đã chuyển một phần hoạt động sản xuất sang Việt Nam do chiến tranh thương mại Mỹ-Trung. Việt Nam có phải là một đối tác mà Đài Loan có thể hoàn toàn tin tưởng không, trong khi Hà Nội khẳng định “kiên định thực hiện chính sách “Một nước Trung Quốc” và Bắc Kinh liên tục đe dọa và chưa bao giờ từ bỏ ý định thống nhất với hòn đảo, kể cả phải dùng đến vũ lực ?Nguyễn Giang : Quan hệ với Trung Quốc căng thẳng từ khi tổng thống của đảng Dân Tiến, bà Thái Anh Văn lên cầm quyền nhiệm kỳ đầu năm 2008. Đến năm 2016 Đài Loan đưa ra chính sách Hướng Nam Mới, đầu tư nhiều hơn vào Việt Nam và 17 nước khác ở Đông Nam Á, Nam Á và châu Đại Dương để giảm dần đầu tư vào Trung Quốc.Trang Taiwan Panorama trong một bài hôm 23/11/2023 cho rằng Đài Loan hiện có 80 nghìn doanh nhân ở Việt Nam, làm việc trong 4.000 công ty, với vốn đầu tư trực tiếp 400 tỷ đô la Đài Loan và nếu tính các nguồn đầu tư tiền Đài Loan gián tiếp qua những quỹ khác thì con số có thể lên tới 600 tỷ đô la Đài Loan.Đúng là các đại công ty công nghệ Mỹ, Hàn Quốc và Đài Loan và cả của Nhật Bản cần tìm kiếm các thị trường bên ngoài Trung Quốc để “không bỏ trứng vào một giỏ” khi Trung Quốc bị Hoa Kỳ đe dọa áp thuế quan cao trong nhiệm kỳ hai của tổng thống Donald Trump.Chính sách “Một nước Trung Hoa” mà Việt Nam tuyên bố tôn trọng không phải là yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến quan hệ kinh tế với Đài Loan vì bản thân Trung Quốc cũng nhận nhiều tỷ đô la Mỹ đầu tư của Đài Loan. Tập đoàn Foxconn thuê 1 triệu nhân công ở Trung Quốc. Tất nhiên chưa ai rõ là việc Việt Nam trở thành một điểm đến quan trọng của chính sách “Trung Quốc + một”  (phân tán nguồn đầu tư ra khỏi Trung Quốc mà nhiều đại công ty đang làm) có khiến nước này bị chính quyền Trump 2.0 áp thuế quan cao hay không.Liệu cơ sở hạ tầng, cũng như nguồn nhân lực ở Việt Nam có đáp ứng được yêu cầu khắt khe của các “đại gia” Đài Loan về chip bán dẫn ?Nguyễn Giang : Chúng ta chỉ có thể suy ra từ các sự kiện và phát biểu của giới chuyên gia công nghệ cao về vấn đề này. Với chuyến thăm đầu tháng 12/2024 tới Hà Nội của ông Jensen Huang (Hoàng Nhân Huân, tỷ phú Mỹ người gốc Đài Bắc), giám đốc điều hành tập đoàn Nvidia, thì khả năng đưa Việt Nam tham gia chuỗi cung ứng công nghệ trí tuệ nhân tạo (AI) ngày càng gần với hiện thực. Dù Nvidia là công ty Mỹ nhưng họ chủ yếu dùng semiconductor tức công nghệ bán dẫn của TSMC, tập đoàn lớn nhất Đài Loan. Nvidia đã ký kết hợp tác thiết lập một trung tâm nghiên cứu và phát triển trí tuệ nhân tạo (AI) cùng một trung tâm dữ liệu AI tại Việt Nam. Ngoài lý do địa chính trị và thương chiến Mỹ-Trung thì rõ ràng là các “đại gia” công nghệ Đài Loan hoặc gốc Đài Loan như ông Jensen Huang phải có đánh giá riêng về chuyên môn để chọn Việt Nam.Tại một hội nghị về công nghệ cao ở Đài Bắc ngày 14/11/2024 mà tôi được mời tham dự, có diễn giả, giáo sư Roger Liu, người Mỹ gốc Đài hiện làm nghiên cứu về các ngành kinh tế công nghệ cao ở Đại học Tôn Trung Sơn tại Cao Hùng. Ông đã trình bày một khảo sát thu thập ý kiến trong giới lãnh đạo ngành công nghệ cao Hàn Quốc và Đài Loan. Khảo sát nói rằng bên ngoài khu vực Đông Bắc Á thì trong ASEAN chỉ có “các kỹ sư Việt Nam là lực lượng chuyên gia đủ về con số và đạt năng lực sẵn sàng đón nhận công nghệ AI và semiconductor ở tầm vóc lớn”.Việt Nam được lợi như thế nào khi hợp tác với Đài Loan trong lĩnh vực chip bán dẫn, ngoài việc gia công ?Nguyễn Giang : Trong hội thảo ở Đài Bắc mà tôi có tham dự thì một bài thuyết trình khác của đại diện Nhật Bản nói Việt Nam sẽ là điểm đến cho công nghệ AI và tự động hóa trong tương lai gần. Cũng theo thông tin từ hội thảo này, hiện trên cả thế giới đang có 108 nhà máy chế tạo các sản phẩm semiconductor và AI-automation (tự động hóa dùng trí tuệ nhân tạo) chuẩn bị đưa vào vận hành năm 2027. Trong số đó, châu Á đang có 78, Hoa Kỳ có 18 và châu Âu (gồm cả Anh) gộp lại với Trung Đông (gồm có Israel) chỉ có 12 nhà máy. Sự vượt trội của vùng Đông Á trong công nghệ này đang là thách thức cho châu Âu, nhất là Liên Hiệp Châu Âu.Được biết Hàn Quốc cũng muốn đưa một phần công nghệ AI sang Việt Nam vì dù hiện Việt Nam chưa có các cơ sở nghiên cứu như Singapore nhưng về nguồn nhân lực chuyên môn thì lại đông đảo hơn, và nếu tính tới việc áp dụng AI trong y tế, thì dân số 100 triệu của Việt Nam là thị trường tốt cho việc triển khai rộng trí tuệ nhân tạo trong ngành y, hay “medical AI”.Điểm lợi cho Việt Nam là một khi đã đặt chân vào chuỗi cung ứng công nghệ cao toàn cầu mà khu vực Đông Á đang dẫn đầu thế giới thì cơ hội nâng đẳng cấp nền kinh tế của Việt Nam sẽ lớn hơn. Công nghệ AI còn đem lại lợi tích kinh tế lớn.Tất nhiên tất cả còn phụ thuộc vào các chính sách của chính phủ và khả năng điều hành của bộ máy chính quyền, có dám tạo ra các khu vực công nghệ mang tính đột phá hay không.*****(1) (2) VnEconomy, "Việt Nam là điểm đến hàng đầu của dòng vốn đầu tư từ Đài Loan", 15/08/2024.

For this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show podcast, DCF's editors sat down with Udi Paret, Chief Business Officer of ZutaCore, and Alison Deane, ZutaCore's VP of Marketing, to discuss the company's impactful showing at the NVIDIA GTC [GPU Technology Conference] event this past March. Held at the San Jose Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley, both ZutaCore executives were intensively on hand for the event. A Busy GTC for Zutacore  At GTC, ZutaCore showcased its direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling technology, and announced support for the NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs to help maximize data centers' AI performance while delivering sustainability benefits.  "I wore them out," said Deane of her press scheduling at NVIDIA GTC for Paret and his counterpart at GTC, ZutaCore CEO, Erez Freibach. Paret and Deane said that Zutacore drew significant interest at GTC for the breadth of the company's announcements surrounding its HyperCool platform, comprised of direct-to-chip, waterless two-phase liquid cooling technology. ZutaCore's HyperCool dielectric cold plate liquid cooling system involves a direct-contact, self-regulated, pool-boiling based evaporator, enabling networking and simultaneously cooling all chips on-demand.  Several leading server manufacturers are engaged with ZutaCore to complete the certification and testing on the NVIDIA  GPU platforms. Compact, easy to install, and capable of cooling up 1500-watt processors and above, the company notes the platform is also qualified by processor manufacturers Intel and AMD, and deployed in major server manufacturers including Dell, SuperMicro, ASUS, Pegatron. Centrally during the GTC 2024 event, ZutaCore showcased its H100 and H200 waterless dielectric cold plates supporting densities up to 1500W in the booths of Boston Limited, Hyve Solutions, and Pegatron. Comparative Cooling Challenges During the podcast, Paret emphasized the advantages of ZutaCore's Hypercool technology, while addressing comparative challenges faced by single-phase water-based solutions. "The AI explosion is causing a market shift and positioning ZutaCore strategically," he said. With the NVIDIA H100's ability to speed up large language models by 30x over the previous technology generation, and the H200 being touted as the world's most efficient GPU for supercharging AI and HPC workloads, it's safe to these are two of the highest performing chips ever designed (even leaving aside NVIDIA's much-balleyhooed Blackwell platform.)  However, with each GPU consuming 700W of power, this will challenge data centers that are already struggling to control factors of heat, energy consumption and footprint.  ZutaCore's HyperCool direct-to-chip waterless two-phase liquid cooling technology was designed specifically to answer such demands, and has already been proven to cool processors of 1500W or more, and currently for 100 kW per rack of computing power.  “Next-generation GPUs have unique cooling requirements that are most effectively solved by waterless, direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology for current GPU of 1500W while increasing rack-processing density by 300%,” said ZutaCore CEO Freibach, who is a co-founder of the company.  “Not only do hyperscalers eliminate the risk and massive expense of water leakage in the server, but they can also scale their cooling needs with little to no modifications to current real estate, power, or cooling systems. This is a game changer for the future of AI and HPC.” Meanwhile, the ZutaCore executives noted how the increasing need for sustainable AI solutions highlights the importance of sustainable practices in data centers.  In the arena of such concerns, ZutaCore's partnership and white-label sales agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) dramatically addresses the pressing challenges faced by data centers today, including the enhancement of heat exhaust efficiency, promotion of energy conservation, and decarbonization. Here's a timeline of key points on the podcast. 1:34 - Udi Paret, CBO of ZutaCore, reflects on the recent NVIDIA GTC event, highlighting the AI explosion and a major shift in design and consumption observed during GTC. Paret notes that CRN listed their company as one of the hottest at the event. 4:09 - Alison Deane, the company's VP of Marketing, discusses ZutaCore's success at GTC in being featured by partners like Boston Limited and Pegatron and showcasing its liquid cooling technology, w hich she says drew significant interest. 10:50 - Udi Paret elaborates on the advantages of the HyperCool technology, emphasizing the platform's elimination of water in servers, the implementation of phase change on the chip for future-proofing, and how this approach addresses challenges faced by single-phase water-based solutions in terms of scalability, sustainability, and performance. 19:01 - Data Center Frontier inquires about the competitiveness of two-phase dielectric direct-to-chip cooling compared to immersion cooling. 22:08 - Udi Paret explains the mechanics surrounding the dissipation of heat from the ZutaCore HyperCool system and emphasizes the platform's high-quality heat reuse capabilities. 26:08 - The discussion touches on ZutaCore partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' involvement in data centers, and reflects on the overall industry's growth.Deane and Paret recap more experiences from NVIDIA GTC, highlighting the buzz around AI in general and ZutaCore's innovative liquid cooling solutions in particular, leading to enabling net-zero goals. 28:47 - Udi Paret touches again on the market shift produced by the AI technology explosion, noting vertically integrated plays across various industries which aid in ZutaCore's strategic positioning.

In this episode of The 5G Factor, our series that focuses on all things 5G, the IoT, and the 5G ecosystem as a whole, we look at the recent high impact telco cloud, multi-access edge computing (MEC), and APIs moves. The major cloud, edge, and API developments include the progress of Azure Private MEC in supporting manufacturer private 5G network implementations, VMware Telco Cloud Platform Release 4.0 using a horizontal infrastructure approach to ease VNF and CNF deployment and administration, VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN assisting the optimization of disaggregated RAN functions and CNF management, as well as how the Vonage Singtel partnership is uplifting network, edge, and  communications API prospects.   Our analytical review focused on: Azure Private MEC Proving Manufacturing Prowess. Microsoft Azure private MEC targets the streamlining and acceleration of private 5G (P5G) networks on the Azure cloud platform by providing a fully managed solution that can allow, for example, manufacturers to deploy and operate their own P5G networks with full control over their data and applications. We delve into how Azure private MEC and its ecosystem partners are helping manufacturers use 5G for improved outcomes with Pegatron, an electronics manufacturer of laptops, smartphones, and gaming consoles, creating its own private 5G network to covers its entire factory and Weavix, through the company's Internet of Workers platform, is equipping front line workers with wearable technologies and solutions to improve performance and safety. VMware Ups Telco Cloud Proposition. VMware Telco Cloud Platform Release 4.0 focuses on solidifying numerous capabilities into a unified platform that can give telcos the flexibility to modernize their network according to their business objectives particularly through the implementation of requisite automation and assurance capabilities. We discuss how the rigors of designing and managing services combined with the intricacies of coordinating virtual network functions (VNFs) and cloud-native network functions (CNFs) demands a horizontal infrastructure that can support the deployment and administration of VNFs and CNFs with consistency, efficiency, and automation.  VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN Underlines Disaggregation Benefits. VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN delivers a horizontal platform optimized for running virtualized baseband functions or virtualized distributed units (vDUs) and virtualized central units (vCUs) from various vendors while meeting the stringent performance and latency requirements of a radio access network (RAN). The use of a horizontally consistent architecture that supports cloud-native principles can cultivate the build-out of logical end-to-end networks tailored to different 5G services. We explore why disaggregated RAN functions can be instantiated on a horizontal platform and deployed at the locations that best serve their functional purposes. Plus, how CNFs can be managed efficiently at scale and readily modified to turn business objectives into productive outcomes. Vonage and Singtel Uplift API Prospects. Vonage, part of Ericsson, is partnering with Singtel to integrate Vonage's API platform with Singtel's orchestration platform Paragon with the goal of bolstering innovation opportunities for enterprises and telcos through access to a global ecosystem of communications, network, and edge APIs. Paragon-enabled telcos from Singapore, Thailand, Spain, Taiwan, and Indonesia will be able to integrate Vonage and Paragon APIs into a globally unified telco and edge API library as well as worldwide independent software vendors (ISVs), enterprises and developers can look to use the APIs to deliver digital services at greater speed and scale over hybrid networks, hybrid edge, and public cloud infrastructures across multiple markets. We assess why this partnership can be a harbinger to answering why this time is looking different when it comes to APIs playing an integral role in driving innovation and major benefits, such as 5G service monetization and energy efficiency gains, across telco environments.

First, we talk to Indian Express' Sujit Bisoyi about the 5000 Indians who are stuck in Cambodia and are being trapped against their will, while being forced to scam people back home.Second, Indian Express' Sweety Kumari joins us to talk about the investigation of the 2022 blast that happened at TMC booth president Rajkumar Manna's residence causing his death along with two more TMC leaders. The NIA was attacked while they were arresting the alleged key conspirators of the case. (12:37)Lastly, we talk about the Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Pegatron being in advanced talks to hand over control of its only iPhone manufacturing facility in India to the Tata Group. (22:51)Hosted by Niharika NandaWritten and Produced by Shashank Bhargava and Niharika NandaEdited and Mixed by Suresh Pawar

Several multinational electronics and manufacturing companies including Apple's supplier Pegatron and Korean auto giant Hyundai have committed to large investments in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, but first, a couple of other headlines that caught my attention. The US Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday ordered the grounding and immediate inspection of about 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft worldwide after a mid-flight emergency late Friday involving a plane operated by Alaska Airlines, NPR reports.  The US aviation regulator announced this order after an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to abruptly land in Portland, Oregon after a door plug blew out in midair, leaving a hole in the aircraft next to two unoccupied seats. Unicommerce eSolutions Limited, a software provider to ecommerce companies for transaction processing, has filed its Draft Red Herring Prospectus with India's capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board, seeking an IPO. The proposed listing comprises of an offer for sale aggregating up to about 29.84 million equity shares of face value of Rs. 1. This includes up to 11.46 million shares by Unicommerce's promoter AceVector Limited (formerly known as Snapdeal Limited), up to about 2.21 million shares by B2 Capital Partners and up to about 16.17 million shares by SB Investment Holdings (UK) Limited. One thing today In one thing today, Apple suppliers Tata Electronics and Pegatron, and automaker Hyundai Motors have signed investment pacts worth more than $4.39 billion with the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Reuters reports, citing a statement from the state government at a global investor summit. Industry analysts estimate India could account for as much as a third of Apple's iPhone production in the coming years, as the tech giant steps up its efforts to reduce dependence on China. Apple is also looking at India as its next big market, where it has seen quarterly records in sales over the last two years. Pegatron is setting up a second factory in India, Reuters notes, and the Tata Group, which last year began to assemble iPhones, has also purchased a factory on the outskirts of neighbouring Bengaluru from Wistron, another Apple supplier. Tata Electronics has committed to investing Rs. 12,080 crore for mobile phone assembly operations, the state government said during the signing of the agreements, according to Reuters. Taiwan's Pegatron expects to invest Rs. 1,000 crore to expand production, the government added. South Korean Auto giant Hyundai Motors plans to invest Rs. 6,180 crore, a part of which will go towards electric vehicle battery and car manufacturing. Vietnamese EV maker VinFast is setting up its first manufacturing facility in India and expects to invest up to $2 billion in Tamil Nadu, according to Reuters. The semiconductor giant Qualcomm yesterday, announced what it called a significant expansion in Chennai with a new facility for its design centre, with an investment of about Rs. 177 crore. The Design Centre is expected to generate jobs for up to 1,600 skilled professionals. It will specialize in wireless connectivity solutions, with a focus on innovations that complement Wi-Fi technologies. It will contribute to Qualcomm's global research and development in 5G cellular technology, Qualcomm said in a press release. Separately, Tata Power is exploring investments of up to Rs. 70,000 crore in Tamil Nadu over the next several years, including investments in some existing projects, the company's chief executive officer Praveer Sinha said at a press briefing at the investors meet, Reuters reports. And JSW Energy has announced plans to invest Rs. 12,000 crore to develop renewable energy projects.

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Conheça o Levante Sala VIP! Você terá a sua Carteira analisada por Flávio Conde e Ricardo Afonso. Clique no link e saiba mais: https://lvnt.app/gqa524 04/12: BOLSA EUA FAZ IBOV CAIR -1%, VALE -2,6%, PETRO -2% e MAGALU -6% A bolsa fechou com queda em torno de -1% aos 126.783 pontos, às 17h59, e volume de R$ 18bi, em linha com a média das segundas. Por que a bolsa performou assim? 1º. A Bolsa começou o dia cedendo -0,50% no Ibovespa futuro e foi caindo durante todo dia para fechar negativo em torno de -1% influencia negativamente por: 1. Nasdaq caindo -0,85% com Apple caindo quase -2% com interrompimentos de produções devido a fornecedores Foxconn e Pegatron que fabricam componentes para computadores e celulares. E Meta Plataforms caiu tbm -2% com a notícia que o Zuckerberg vendeu 680 mil ações em novembro; 2. Petróleo caiu -0,80% a US$ 78,3 com parte de traders avaliando o corte de produção de 648 mil barris/dia da Opep+ para janeiro/24 como pequeno frente a demanda mais fraca e Petrobras -2%; e 3. Juros futuros dos títulos de 10 anos subiram de 4,20% para 4,25% nos EUA impactando juros futuros de títulos brasileiros para cima e derrubando ações de varejistas, construtoras e supermercados. 2º. Nas 15 mais negociadas apenas 2 subiram lideradas em volume por: ITUB4 0,10% e SUZB3 0,50%. 3º. Nas 15 mais negociadas 13 caíram: VALE3 -2,4%, PETR4 -2%,, B3 -0,30%, PRIO3 -0,50%, MAGALU -8%, PETR3 -1,7%, BBDC4 -1%, BBAS3 -0,3%, NTCO3 -1,6%, LREN3 -2%, HAPV3 -2,5%, VBBR3 -4% e 3R -4%. 4º. O petróleo caiu -0,80% para US$ 7,83 dentro da volatilidade diária de -/+1%, com parte de traders avaliando o corte de produção de 648 mil barris/dia da Opep+ para janeiro/24 como pequeno frente a demanda mais fraca e Petrobras -2% 5º. O minério queda de -1,1% aos US$ 134,2 praticamente no topo da volatilidade diária de +/-1%. 6º. Nos EUA, as bolsas fecharam em queda com NASDAQ -0,85% e DOW -0,11% já explicado acima o comportamento do Nasdaq. Já DOW teria sido a cautela de investidores com a divulgação da geração de emprego nos EUA na sexta-feira porque nos últimos meses o número surpreendeu para cima fazendo juros subir e bolsas caírem. 7o. Dólar subiu 1,40%, 3 centavos para R$ 4,95, acima da volatilidade diária de +/-1% segundo o dólar norte-americano que avançou +0,40% frente as moedas fortes do DXY.. Estrangeiros: O saldo de investimentos estrangeiros no mercado secundário da Bovespa, de ações já em circulação, ficou positivo em R$ 2,544 bilhões na quinta-feira, 30 de novembro, o 14º pregão seguido de entradas líquidas e o maior desde os R$ 2,704 bilhões de 17 de novembro, segundo dados da B3. Com isso, novembro fecha com um ingresso líquido de R$ 21,166 bilhões, o maior desde os R$ 21,355 bilhões de março de 2022. Desse total, R$ 21,024 bilhões foram compras líquidas no mercado secundário e R$ 141,3 milhões em ofertas públicas. No acumulado do ano, o saldo de estrangeiros na Bovespa está positivo em R$ 38,303 bilhões, com R$ 27,392 bilhões em compras líquidas no mercado secundário e R$ 10,911 bilhões em ofertas públicas. No ano passado, o saldo de estrangeiros na Bovespa foi positivo em R$ 119,794 bilhões. O aumento das compras de estrangeiros na Bovespa ajudou a puxar o Índice Bovespa para cima, com alta de 12,5% em novembro. Os estrangeiros puxaram também o volume negociado na bolsa brasileira no mês passado, para R$ 26,214 bilhões por dia, média 17,55% maior que em outubro, e acima da média do ano, de R$ 25,108 bilhões. Os estrangeiros responderam por 55,0% do volume negociado em novembro e por 54,90% do acumulado no ano. Institucionais representaram 26,60% no mês e 27,0% no ano e as pessoas físicas, por 13,50% em novembro e 13,80% no ano. Destaques de alta: EGIE3 +1.31% R$ 44,23 TOTS3 +0.95% R$ 34,16 SANB11+0.9% R$ 30,96 VIVT3 +0.92% R$ 52,91 USIM5 +0.85% R$ 8,29 Destaques de baixa: GOLL4 -9.19% R$ 8,30 MGLU3 -7.83% R$ 2,00 AZUL4 -5.82% R$ 16,02 ALPA4 -5.51% R$ 9,09 BHIA3 -5.45% R$ 0,52

Las bolsas europeas aguantan las caídas en el Nasdaq. El índice del mercado electrónico cede un 1,7%, arrastrado por los descensos del 3% en Nvidia o del 2% en otros punteros como Microsoft o Google. Apple pierde un 1,7%. Las taiwanesas Foxconn y Pegatron han detenido la producción de iPhones de Apple en sus fábricas del sur de la India, debido a las fuertes lluvias. A lo largo de la semana, una serie de datos económicos pueden dar pistas sobre la senda de los tipos, así como de la posibilidad de un "aterrizaje suave", en el que la Fed consiga controlar la inflación, evitando al mismo tiempo una recesión. Hoy, de momento, se ha conocido un descenso muy por encima de las previsiones en los pedidos de fábrica en octubre. En la Bolsa española, el Ibex 35 trata de consolidar sus subidas por encima de los 10.100 puntos. En sus máximos intradía se ha acercado por momentos a los 10.200. Lideran las subidas en el selectivo las dos Acciona, gracias a favorables recomendaciones, y BBVA. A la cabeza de las pérdidas Fluidra, Acerinox y Repsol. El precio del petróleo cae por el temor a la evolución de la demanda y las dudas sobre los recortes de la OPEP

We're at an inflection point in U.S. manufacturing. Those that are not investing in advanced technologies today will quickly find themselves uncompetitive. Those that are beginning to modernize their facilities, however, are achieving smarter and more digitally excellent design and production. In this podcast, we'll explore how manufacturers can leverage advanced technologies to modernize their spaces and ultimately yield big business benefits. Host: James Hilliard Guests: Blake Kerrigan, Senior Director for ThinkEdge Business Group at Lenovo Zihan Wang, Global Business Development Manager at NVIDIA Ryan Spurr, Manufacturing Strategy Director at Connection   Show Notes: [0:55] Are there one or two trends or issues across manufacturing that are leading teams to recognize the need to modernize today? [4:52] What other trends from a technological standpoint are you seeing regarding manufacturers' need to modernize their facilities? [7:00] AI is helping the manufacturing industry modernize faster. What are teams looking to do with AI? [10:25] What are some of the leading cutting-edge manufacturers doing? What can we learn from them? [14:01] How much education is needed to assist manufacturers with what they need to begin the modernization process? [21:45] What are some case study examples of how manufacturers have modernized their facilities recently? [25:00] How did our teams help Trek Bikes modernize their research and development manufacturing operations? [28:01] How's Lenovo helping automotive manufacturers modernize the early stages of their manufacturing production operations? [31:56] How has our team assisted Pegatron with modernizing its mass production? [35:04] How can adopting smart technologies in manufacturing help with cost savings? [37:55] To continue the conversation, visit www.connection.com/manufacturing and Ryan can loop in our other teams to jumpstart your modernization process.  

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歡迎留言告訴我們你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/cl81kivnk00dn01wffhwxdg2s/comments 每日英語跟讀 Ep.K598: Pursue Your Dreams with Determination, Tech CEOs Inspire Graduates During in-person graduation ceremonies held by several major universities in Taiwan for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, Jensen Huang, the co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, urged National Taiwan University (NTU) graduates to actively chase their dreams. In his speech, he emphasized the importance of running, not walking, towards their goals. Huang compared pursuing dreams to running for food or running to avoid becoming prey, highlighting the urgency and dedication required to succeed. 自從COVID-19大流行以來，幾所台灣重要的大學首次舉行了現場的畢業典禮，Nvidia的共同創辦人兼首席執行官黃仁勳在其中一場典禮上鼓勵國立台灣大學的畢業生積極追尋夢想。他在演講中強調了為實現目標奔跑而不是行走的重要性。黃先生將追求夢想比喻為奔跑覓食或逃避成為獵物，突顯了成功所需的迫切性和奉獻精神。 Other notable tech executives also addressed graduating students at various Taiwanese universities. National Chengchi University held two ceremonies, featuring Patrick Pan, an alumnus and the head of Taiwan and Hong Kong operations at Meta (owner of Facebook), and Tung Tzu-hsien, the chairman of Pegatron. At National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), the CEO of TUL Corp, Ted Chen, who is also an alumnus, delivered the commencement speech. Chen encouraged graduates to maintain an optimistic mindset and approach challenges with calmness. 其他知名的科技公司高層也在台灣各大學的畢業典禮上向畢業生發表了演講。國立政治大學舉行了兩場典禮，分別邀請了校友：Facebook母公司Meta在台灣和香港業務的負責人潘先國，以及和碩聯合科技董事長童子賢。國立臺灣科技大學則請到該校校友的撼訊科技總經理陳劍威發表畢業典禮演講。陳先生鼓勵畢業生保持樂觀的心態，冷靜的面對挑戰。 While many universities invited speakers from the tech industry, National Taiwan Normal University chose Academia Sinica's Lee Fong-mao, a Taoist, to deliver the commencement speech. Lee encouraged the graduating students, totaling 4,469, to fearlessly pursue unconventional or unpopular subjects and themes if they plan to pursue careers in academics. He emphasized that through dedication and passion, individuals can shape their lives in unique ways. 儘管許多大學邀請了科技業的嘉賓演講，國立台灣師範大學則選擇了中央研究院的道教研究院士李豐楙作為畢業演講嘉賓。李先生鼓勵這4469名畢業生在追求學術事業時勇敢地追求非傳統或不受歡迎的主題和題材。他強調，通過奉獻和熱情，個人可以以獨特的方式塑造自己的生活。 At National Chi Nan University, Hsieh Hsiang-tang, a student of Rukai descent, incorporated a quote from Rukai writer Avuinni Kadreseng in her graduation speech. Hsieh expressed that enduring discomfort often leads to the discovery of valuable principles. She encouraged her fellow graduates to embrace challenges and strive for success, while respecting traditional wisdom and utilizing modern technology to strengthen their connection with the land. 在國立暨南國際大學，畢業生謝享唐引用了魯凱族作家Avuinni Kadreseng的一句話作為她的畢業演講。謝同學表示，忍受不適往往導致發現有價值的原則。她鼓勵同學們接受挑戰，努力追求成功，同時尊重傳統智慧，利用現代科技來加強他們與土地的聯繫。 Reference article: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/05/28/2003800556 Powered by Firstory Hosting

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. **Tai-Ex opening ** The Tai-Ex opened down 1-point this morning from yesterday's close, at 16,712 on turnover of 2-billion N-T. The market closed marginally higher on Monday after coming off an early high - as investors opted to lock in gains while the main board moved closer to the nearest technical resistance ahead of the 16,800 point mark. **AIT Chair 'Looking Forward to Meeting' Presidential Candidates ** American Institute in Taiwan Chair Laura Rosenberger has arrived in Taiwan for a six-day visit. According to Rosenberger, she plans to meet with the presidential candidates during her trip and is also reiterating that Washington will cooperate with whichever candidate wins January's election. It's her second visit to Taiwan since she assumed the post on March 20. Speaking to reporters, Rosenberger said she's looking forward to further "engaging (接洽) with leaders from across Taiwan's political spectrum" this week and plans to "spend time with each of the declared presidential candidates." And she went on to stress that "the United States will not take sides and we oppose outside interference or influence in Taiwan's elections." **Climate Institute Holds Plaque Unveiling Ceremony ** The newly established Climate Institute has held a plaque-unveiling ceremony. The event was attended by Vice President William Lai and the heads of several of Taiwan's leading tech companies. They included A-U-O chairman Paul Peng and Pegatron chairman Tong Zi-xian. Speaking at the ceremony, Lai reiterated the government's plans to achieve (達到) net-zero emissions by 2050 and hopes that the private and public sectors can further collaborate to reach that goal. The institute has been tasked with hosting training courses to promote sustainable development and tackle climate change and to offer assistance to private companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprint under the Taiwan Climate Partnership. **Haiti Flooding Death Toll Rises ** Authorities say the number of people killed by heavy floods that hit Haiti over the weekend has risen to 42 and that another 11 are missing. Haiti's Civil Protection Agency says at least 85 people are injured, and more than 13,600 homes were flooded. The rains pelted Haiti's western, northwestern, southeastern and central regions. The weather has since improved, but many crops were damaged amid a spike (激增) in starvation. Prime Minister Ariel Henry has said he has asked for international help. **SKorea Support for Nuclear Arsenal Falls ** Public support for South Korea to develop its own nuclear arsenal is plummeting (暴跌) according to new figures. Chris Gilbert reports. **British Princess Eugenie Welcomes Baby Boy ** Buckingham Palace says Princess Eugenie has given birth to a baby boy. Eugenie, the niece of King Charles III, and her husband, welcomed their son on May 30th. The baby is the couple's second child. The child is 13th in line to the throne (王位繼承人). That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____.

Apple yesterday announced a new partnership with Broadcom to develop 5G radio frequency components and wireless connectivity components. Separately, Wistron, a contract manufacturing supplier to Apple, has shut its operations in India, Mint reports. Also in this brief, Infosys Topaz is a new suite of services based on generative AI with specific use cases in different industry verticals; Microsoft is showcasing Jugalbandi, an AI assistant in local Indian languages; And Matrix Partners India is raising the target for its fourth fund to $525 million, TechCrunch reports. Notes: Apple yesterday announced a new multi-billion-dollar partnership with Broadcom to develop 5G radio frequency components and wireless connectivity components. Broadcom will design and build FBAR filters in the US, the company said in a press release. These investments align with Apple's 2021 commitment to invest $430 billion in the US economy over five years, the company said. The components Apple is sourcing from Broadcom are different from the 5G modems that are made by Qualcomm, CNBC points out. Apple, which already makes its own processors, has also been trying to make its own 5G modems to cut its dependence on Qualcomm. It's not immediately clear if this deal with Broadcom will help Apple further that aim. Meanwhile, Apple's contract manufacturer Wistron has halted iPhone production in India due to its inability to make profits under Apple's terms, Mint reports. Wistron, a smaller company compared with Foxconn and Pegatron, was unable to negotiate higher margins with Apple, according to the report. Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives, has raised $450 million in funding, making it the largest AI funding round this year, CNBC reports. Lead investors include Google, Salesforce Ventures, Zoom Ventures, and Spark Capital. Anthropic, known for its chatbot Claude, aims to develop generative AI models aligned with human values. Meanwhile, Microsoft is showcasing an example of how generative AI could help far-flung rural Indian communities. Jugalbandi, an AI assistant developed by AI4Bharat, an Indian AI for development initiative, backed by the government, and supported by Microsoft and Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani, is using generative AI to develop a mobile assistant that provides information on government schemes in multiple languages. Microsoft Build, the company's annual flagship conference concludes tomorrow. The company has announced the expansion of several projects, including its copilot products and ChatGPT plugins. Infosys yesterday launched Infosys Topaz, an AI-based suite of services, solutions, and platforms that use generative AI technologies. Infosys Topaz combines the company's suite of cloud services, called Cobalt, and AI to drive business growth, foster connected ecosystems, and unlock efficiencies at scale, the company said in a press release. Matrix Partners India has increased its current fund target to $525 million, surpassing its initial disclosure of $450 million, TechCrunch reports. Indian American entrepreneur Naval Ravikant has co-founded a new social media app called Airchat. The app, currently in beta testing, attempts to offer a new approach to social media by focusing on conversations and interactions.

Foxconn, a key Apple contractor, is set to invest $500 million in setting up manufacturing plants in Telangana. This move demonstrates Foxconn's intent to expand its presence in India as Apple pushes its biggest partners to step up efforts to help it reduce dependence on China. The EU has okayed Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, making it a direct competitor to Sony and Nintendo. Also in this brief, WhatsApp has added a security feature to protect “intimate” conversations, and Amazon is laying off employees across various functions in India, Economic Times reports. Notes: Amazon is laying off employees across various functions in India, Economic Times reports. The move comes as the e-commerce giant evaluates and reshapes its operations in the country. While the exact number of affected employees remains undisclosed, at least 500 people may have been fired, according to ET. WhatsApp has unveiled a new feature called Chat Lock, aimed at bolstering privacy for users' intimate conversations. With concerns surrounding data security on the rise, the feature provides an additional layer of authentication to safeguard personal information. By activating Chat Lock, users can lock specific chats behind fingerprint or facial recognition. This serves as an effective barrier against unauthorized access, particularly if someone gains physical access to a user's device. Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard has received approval from the European Commission, marking a significant milestone in the tech giant's expansion into the gaming industry, The Verge reports. The deal, which was announced earlier this year, was subject to regulatory scrutiny to ensure it did not violate competition laws. The European Commission's decision follows a similar green light from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. According to a report by The Verge yesterday, the European Commission has given its consent for the acquisition, stating that it "would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area." This approval paves the way for Microsoft to finalize its $68.7 billion purchase of the renowned game publisher and developer. Foxconn, a key Apple contract manufacturer, is set to invest $500 million in setting up manufacturing plants in Telangana, a southern state in India. This move demonstrates Foxconn's intent to expand its presence in India as Apple and its biggest partners step up efforts to reduce dependence on China. The investment is expected to create 25,000 direct jobs in the initial phase, as stated by K.T. Rama Rao, Telangana's IT minister in a tweet yesterday. Foxconn has been manufacturing iPhones in India and recently won a bid to manufacture AirPods in the country. It also purchased land worth $37 million in Bengaluru earlier this month, according to TechCrunch. The Indian government's financial incentives to promote local manufacturing, initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have attracted commitments from various companies, including Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron. JP Morgan analysts predict that by 2025, India could account for 25 percent of all iPhones manufactured by Apple.

Following the announcement of the 2022 Report on the EMS Industry and the EMS Top 50, Randall Sherman, founder and CEO of New Venture Research, joins Philip Stoten to explore some of the findings.Philip asks Randall about the strong performance of the industry in general and the comparatively weak performance of the largest Taiwanese players like Foxconn and Pegatron. The two go on to explore geopolitical impacts, specific markets and much more, while touching on the industry's improving ability to turn a profit in recent years.Like every episode of EMS@C-Level, this one was sponsored by global inspection leader Koh Young (https://www.kohyoung.com) and Manufacturing Autonomy Specialist CloudNC (https://www.cloudnc.com).Like every episode of EMS@C-Level, this one was sponsored by global inspection leader Koh Young (https://www.kohyoung.com) and Adaptable Automation Specialist Launchpad.build (https://launchpad.build).You can see video versions of all of the EMS@C-Level pods on our YouTube playlist.

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US futures are indicating a higher open. European equity markets have opened in the positive territory, following a strong performance in Asia. There is no change in the broader market narrative, with market participants still eyeing the possibility of a central bank pivot given growth risks. However, while some central banks have signaled a slowdown in their pace of tightening, the peak rate forecasts have been upgraded with inflation still too high. Strategists are converging on the view that the global rate hike cycle will end in early 2023 amid potential flexibility on inflation targets. Companies Mentioned: Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, Apple, Pegatron, Luxshare Precision, Hon Hai Precision Industry, Tesla

In May 2016, when Apple CEO Tim Cook met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, he spoke about the possibilities of manufacturing and retailing in India, in line with the country's ‘Make in India' push. The following year, the $2.5 trillion American tech giant started its manufacturing in India with the budget iPhone SE model via contract manufacturer Wistron when the phone was already more than a year old. Since then, Apple has also enlisted Foxconn and Pegatron to make iPhones locally while reducing the gap between the launch of a new model in India and its manufacture here.  So the iPhone 11 started rolling out of factories here in July 2020, ten months after the launch. The iPhone SE 2020 started coming out within three to four months of its launch while the production of iPhone 12 started within a lag of less than six months. The first batches of the latest iPhone 14, which was announced early this month, will be made in India by late October or November, reducing the gap with China to just two months. China's stringent lockdowns to control the spread of Covid-19 has disrupted electronics manufacturing and global supply chains. Its increasing political tensions with the US is making businesses adopt the ‘China Plus One' strategy of diversifying production away from Asia's biggest economy. Countries like India, Vietnam and Mexico have been the beneficiaries of this move. On September 12th, US publication The Information reported that Google parent Alphabet is considering moving some production of Pixel phones to India. Bloomberg recently reported that Tata Group is in talks with Wistron to establish a joint venture to assemble iPhones in India. If finalised, Tata would be the first Indian company to build iPhones. Pegatron and Foxconn plants are located in Tamil Nadu while Wistron's factory is in Karnataka. Local demand in India, the world's second-biggest smartphone market, has played some role in Apple's decision to expand manufacturing capacity here. This is bolstered by the Production Linked Incentive scheme for smartphone manufacturing. All three Taiwanese Apple suppliers making iPhones in India are covered under the PLI scheme.   While Apple has a negligible share in India's overall smartphone market, it is the top-selling brand with about 60% share in the ultra-premium segment, which includes smartphones priced at Rs 45,000 and above. In the affordable premium segment, i.e phones priced between Rs 30,000 and Rs 45,000, Samsung held the top slot, closely followed by Apple. Overall, Apple had a 3% smartphone market share in the April-June quarter, up from 1% a year ago. In FY22, Wistron and Foxconn helped the company export phones worth over Rs 10,000 crore. This year, Apple's partners in India are expected to export 11-12 million iPhones, up from 7.5 million last year. Its third vendor Pegatron started local assembly in April.  Prachir Vardhan Singh, Senior Research Analyst, Counterpoint Research, says PLI scheme encourages companies to export. Big component names coming to India will be inflection point. With higher local value addition, iPhone Pro, Pro Max models could be made here. Made-in-India units will meet 85% of the local demand for iPhone, touching record highs in 2022, against just 10-15% last year. Further, Indian factories are expected to make 5-7% of all iPhones sold globally this year. In 2021, India's contribution stood at a little over 3% and the number was less than 1.5% in 2020. On the other hand, China's contribution is expected to drop to 93.5% this year, from 95.8% in 2021 and 98.2% in 2020. While the local value addition with respect to iPhones is currently 18-20%, this is set to go up. Tata Electronics, which has a manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, has been reportedly working with Apple to design and manufacture mechanical parts for the iPhone for nearly two years. This could help Apple increase the value addition of the

By fiscal year 2026, at least 12 percent of the free-on-board value of Apple's global iPhone shipments could be made in India, Inc42 reports, citing a report by Business Standard that is behind a paywall. Byju's, India's most-valued startup, yesterday, reported losses of Rs. 4,589 crore for the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2021, which is close to a 20-fold increase over the Rs. 231.69 crore adjusted loss for the previous fiscal year, Moneycontrol reports. And SoftBank Group could be planning another Vision Fund, Wall Street Journal reports. Notes: Byju's, India's most-valued startup, yesterday, reported losses of Rs. 4,589 crore for the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2021, which is close to a 20-fold increase over the Rs. 231.69 crore losses for the previous fiscal year, Moneycontrol reports. The company's revenue for FY21 fell 3 percent year on year to Rs. 2,428 crore on a consolidated basis, down from Rs. 2,511 crore the previous year, according to Moneycontrol. By the fiscal year 2026, at least 12 percent of the free-on-board value of Apple's global iPhone shipments could be made in India, Inc42 reports, citing a report by Business Standard on Sep. 12 that is behind a paywall. Apple has been stepping up efforts to boost production in India to reduce its dependence on China, where currently almost all its iPhones are made. According to numbers submitted to the government by Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron, India might account for at least 12 percent of the free-on-board value of Apple iPhones manufactured by its vendors worldwide. Free-on-board value typically refers to the cost of the goods being shipped including transportation to specific destinations, insurance, loading and unloading and so on. The total value of iPhones sold worldwide could reach $250 billion in FY26 and the total free-on-board of iPhones made in India would be around 12 percent of that, according to the Business Standard repot, as cited by Inc42. SoftBank Group, one of the world's biggest investors in tech startups, is considering the launch of a new giant fund even though its first and second Vision Funds have been hit with big losses owing to the global tech route, Wall Street Journal reports. The Tokyo-based tech conglomerate, by far the world's largest startup investor in recent years, would likely use its own cash for what would be the third SoftBank Vision Fund if it moves ahead with the plan, according to the Journal. Sigmoid, a data engineering, analytics and AI solutions company in Silicon Valley, has closed $12 million in Series B funding, in a mix of primary and secondary investments from Sequoia Capital India. Founded in 2013 by IIT alumni Lokesh Anand, Mayur Rustagi and Rahul Kumar Singh, Sigmoid has a team of about 500 data professionals, who offer deep expertise in data engineering, cloud data modernization, artificial intelligence, and DataOps, according to the release. Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds: https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds

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Yes, last week was a desert for news after the glut of the week of EAP 254 - also Simon felt a bit under the weather so we decided to take a raincheck... But as ever you can't keep a “good” podcast down so just like the excellent Mac&Forth, Simon, Nick and Jim are also back to fill your ears with inane chatter and “informed” opinions on what went on in the world of Apple and Tech GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS Get 2 months on the Kino Premium Plan with offer code KINOWITHJOHNNEMO Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter! Recorded 15th May 2022 On this week's show NICK RILEY @spligosh on Twitter very occasionally. Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube Nick's church stream videos on You Tube JAMES ORMISTON MacJim in the Slack Also on Flickr as Ormie (O) Has videos on Vimeo APPLE The music lives on – Apple Apple Discontinues iPod Touch – MacRumors iPod Touch Completely Sold Out in Apple's US Store – MacRumors You can no longer buy the iPod touch from Apple in the US – Cult of Mac RIP iPod: A Look Back at Apple's Iconic Music Player Over the Years – MacRumors A Visual History of the Apple iPod – PCMag UK I Invited Tim Cook to Speak At My Graduation. He Gave Me This Advice – Elite Daily Tim Cook delivers commencement address at Gallaudet University, highlights accessibility– 9to5Mac Kuo: New Apple TV to Launch in Second Half of 2022, Lower Price Possible – MacRumors Apple @ Work: Apple is building a feature to install non-App Store apps – 9to5Mac iPhone supplier Pegatron issues production warning over COVID lockdowns – AppleInsider Apple Accidentally Leaks Surprise Upgrades In New iPhone Release – Forbes Abandoned apps policy could see one-third of apps removed from App Store and Google Play – 9to5Mac Non-pro look at the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro – 9to5Mac Im a die-hard Windows fan, but the M1 Mac Mini converted me – DigitalTrends TECHNOLOGY Google is dropping the headphone jack from its Pixel phones – Business Insider Apple CarPlay Workaround for Tesla Vehicles Now Available to Download – MacRumors SECURITY & PRIVACY Warnings issued over ‘New Profile Pic' app that may send your personal data to Russia – NBC2 Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type - before you hit submit – ArsTechnica WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS Harvard scientists discover the cause of multiple sclerosis – Brighter Side of News How to see where 5G is available near you using Speedtest on iOS – Mashable Essential Apple Recommended Services: All Things Secured – Online security made simple by Josh Summers. Pixel Privacy – a fabulous resource full of excellent articles and advice on how to protect yourself online. Doug.ee Blog for Andy J's security tips. Ghostery – protect yourself from trackers, scripts and ads while browsing. Simple Login – Email anonymisation and disposable emails for login/registering with 33mail.com – Never give out your real email address online again. AnonAddy – Disposable email addresses Sudo – get up to 9 “avatars” with email addresses, phone numbers and more to mask your online identity. Free for the first year and priced from $0.99 US / £2.50 UK per month thereafter... You get to keep 2 free avatars though. ProtonMail – end to end encrypted, open source, based in Switzerland. Prices start from FREE... what more can you ask? ProtonVPN – a VPN to go with it perhaps? Prices also starting from nothing! Comparitech DNS Leak Test – simple to use and understand VPN leak test. Fake Name Generator – so much more than names! Create whole identities (for free) with all the information you could ever need. Wire and on the App Stores – free for personal use, open source and end to end encryted messenger and VoIP. Pinecast – a fabulous podcast hosting service with costs that start from nothing. Essential Apple is not affiliated with or paid to promote any of these services... We recommend services that we use ourselves and feel are either unique or outstanding in their field, or in some cases are just the best value for money in our opinion. Social Media and Slack You can follow us on: Twitter / Slack / EssentialApple.com / Soundcloud / Spotify / Facebook / Pinecast Also a big SHOUT OUT to the members of the Slack room without whom we wouldn't have half the stories we actually do – we thank you all for your contributions and engagement. You can always help us out with a few pennies by using our Amazon Affiliate Link so we get a tiny kickback on anything you buy after using it. If you really like the show that much and would like to make a regular donation then please consider joining our Patreon or using the Pinecast Tips Jar (which accepts one off or regular donations) And a HUGE thank you to the patrons who already do. Support The Essential Apple Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/essential-apple-show This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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TAIPEI—Taiwan's Pegatron Corp, which assembles iPhones for Apple Inc, said on Tuesday it had suspended operations at its Shanghai and Kunshan plants in China due to the strict COVID-19 protocols.

China is experiencing its worst wave of Coronavirus since early 2020, when the first wave of the pandemic emerged in Wuhan. The country has locked down more than 45 million people across multiple cities amid 5,154 fresh cases on Tuesday, compared with less than 100 a month ago. One of the cities under lockdown is the technology hub of Shenzen where authorities have ordered non-essential businesses to close at least until March 20. The city has a population of 17.5 million. Dozens of companies that make everything from printed circuit boards to touch panels, many of which are Taiwanese, have stopped production at their factories in Shenzhen. Contract manufacturer Foxconn, which is the biggest iPhone assembler, resumed partial operations at its two Shenzhen campuses after two days under a strict factory bubble system. Shenzhen is known for its hardware manufacturing ecosystem. It also has the world's fourth-largest container port. Although all smartphones that are sold in India are assembled locally, handset manufacturers still rely on imports from Shenzhen for various vital components.  In fact, India's biggest import from China is electronic components. Of the total imports of $76.6 billion from China between April and January of the current fiscal, electronic components accounted for $8.8 billion. Apple's second-largest supplier Pegatron is reportedly aiming to start local production in India next month. But potential supply chain issues could put a spanner in the works for the contract manufacturer. Apart from electronic components, India's top imports from China are telecom instruments, computer hardware, chemicals and pharmaceutical raw materials. 70% of India's Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (APIs) requirement is met through China. The new wave is testing China's zero-Covid strategy which aims to suppress contagion as quickly as possible with snap lockdowns, mass testing and careful contact tracing. Indian manufacturers maintain sufficient stocks that can withstand any short-term supply issues. However, if China is not able to bring the current surge of cases under control, the lockdowns could spread to other parts of the country, leaving India vulnerable to supply shocks. Indian factories will face a shortage of key raw materials that can disrupt production, especially in sectors like smartphones, electronics and pharma.  Watch video

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The innovation of iPhone also affects the competition and cooperation of the supply chain behind it. With the iPhone 13 launched this fall, it is expected that more Chinese manufacturers will join the supply chain, and competition will become increasingly fierce. How shining is "Apple Light"? It has always been an indicator of supply chain growth. Based on the data of various research institutes, in recent years, the annual shipment of smart phones is about 1.2 to 1.4 billion, and the Apple iPhone accounts for about 20%, which is equivalent to Samsung. The two sides have been fighting for the supremacy of shipments throughout the year. Since many Taiwanese manufacturers provide iPhone components and assembly services, the iPhone can be said to have an impact on Taiwanese electronics manufacturers. Although the iPhone 13 (tentative name) that will be launched this fall has not yet been announced, foreign legal persons are the first to disclose important supplier changes, which has also aroused heated discussions in the market. In view of the supply chain business opportunities related to iPhone 13 and Taiwanese manufacturers, there are two main focus points: 1. Hon Hai continues to be the boss, Pegatron and Luxshare are competing with each other Last year, the iPhone 12 series products were divided into 12 Pro Max, 12 Pro, 12, and the small-sized 12 mini from high-end to low-end. Last year, Hon Hai OEM models other than the 12 mini, and Pegatron focused on the OEM 12 mini. As a result, high-end models are selling well, but the 12 mini is not selling well, which also impacts Pegatron's revenue. Among them, Pro Max is taken by Hon Hai; Pro is halved by Luxshare and Hon Hai from the new supply chain; 6.1-inch is divided by Hon Hai and Pegatron seven-three, and the lowest 5.4-inch is Pegatron. It is precisely because of poor sales of Pegatron's small-size (low-end) models last year that its profitability was also affected. Unfortunately, this year's OEM for similar projects again gave people an ominous premonition. However, it is too early to answer the question of "Whether Pegatron is likely to repeat last year's decline". This is because last year's sales of small-size models were not good, but Apple will certainly adjust relevant specifications and sales strategies in response to market demand, waiting for market competition to judge the hero. As for the newcomer Luxshare, it is relying on the continuous improvement of component strength and the purchase of the Suzhou factory of Wistron, a Taiwanese electronics factory, to successfully enter the iPhone assembly supply chain. For the first time, Luxshare's iPhone foundry will be able to receive higher-end models than Pegatron's foundry. Whether it can demonstrate its strength through this iPhone 13 foundry in the future and continue to conquer the city in the future, the trend is also worth paying attention to. 2. The parts factory is shuffled, and the lens and cabinet are blown by strong winds The lens manufacturer Largan has responded to the epidemic, lack of materials, and sanctions against its major customer Huawei, which has led to sluggish sales of mobile phones. Although the market expects the iPhone 13 to bring Largan's opportunities, the latest news may not be optimistic. . Well-known Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo pointed out in the report that Largan had sent samples of the iPhone 13 rear wide-angle lens and rear telephoto lens to Apple, but it did not meet Apple's requirements. Therefore, the rival, Yujingguang, also in the iPhone supply chain, was asked to send samples to Apple. 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Patrocínio: Peduti Advogados Acelere a adequação da sua empresa à LGPD com quem sabe o que está fazendo. Acesse https://www.peduti.com.br/. --------------------------------   Sobre o Podcast O Loop Matinal é um podcast do Loop Infinito que traz as notícias mais importantes do mundo da tecnologia para quem não tem tempo de ler sites e blogs de tecnologia. Marcus Mendes apresenta um resumo rápido e conciso das notícias mais importantes, sempre com bom-humor e um toque de acidez. Confira as notícias das últimas 24h, e até amanhã! -------------------------------- Apoie o Loop Matinal! O Loop Matinal está no apoia.se/loopmatinal e no picpay.me/loopmatinal! Se você quiser ajudar a manter o podcast no ar, é só escolher a categoria que você preferir e definir seu apoio mensal. Obrigado em especial aos ouvintes Advogado Junio Araujo, Alexsandra Romio, Alisson Rocha, Anderson Barbosa, Anderson Cazarotti, Angelo Almiento, Arthur Givigir, Breno Farber, Bruna Almeida, Caio Santos, Carolina Vieira, Cassiano Menezes, Christophe Trevisani, Claudio Souza, Dan Fujita, Daniel Ivasse, Daniel Cardoso, Diogo Silva, Edgard Contente, Edson Pieczarka Jr, Fabian Umpierre, Fabio Brasileiro, Felipe, Frederico Souza, Guilherme Santos, Henrique Orçati, Horacio Monteiro, Igor Antonio, Igor Silva, Ismael Cunha, Jeadilson Bezerra, Jorge Fleming, Jose Junior, Jose Vandenildo, Juliana Majikina, Juliano Cezar, Juliano Marcon, Leandro Bodo, Leonardo  Casati, Louise Potrich, Luiz Mota, Luiz Mokwa, Marcel Silbernagel, Marcus Coufal, Mauricio Junior, Messias Oliveira, Nilton Vivacqua, Otavio Tognolo, Paulo Sousa, Ricardo Mello, Ricardo Berjeaut, Ricardo Soares, Rickybell, Roberto Chiaratti, Rodrigo Rosa, Rodrigo Rezende, Teresa Borges, Tiago Soares, Victor Souza, Vinícius Lima, Vinícius Ghise e Wilson Pimentel pelo apoio! -------------------------------- Amazon e Apple são as marcas mais valiosas do mundo: https://www.kantar.com/campaigns/brandz/global Nubank adiciona suporte à carteira do iOS: https://macmagazine.com.br/post/2021/06/21/nubank-ganha-suporte-ao-wallet-e-se-prepara-pro-apple-pay/ Ministério Público de São Paulo se posiciona contra nova política do WhatsApp: https://macmagazine.com.br/post/2021/06/22/mp-sp-e-favoravel-a-suspensao-da-nova-politica-do-whatsapp/ Febraban comenta roubo de dinheiro em celulares furtados: 
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The article is available at https://www.pgurus.com/the-lament-of-the-kulaks/The positioning of the ongoing agitation, mostly in Punjab and Haryana, has been brilliant. Full marks for marketing, because we are programmed to be sentimental towards annadaatas. Food, after all, is pretty elemental. Farmers everywhere are a dour lot, prone to being glum -- often with justification -- about bad weather, subsidies and the antics of politicians.But the sad fact of the matter is that this particular agitation is not a farmer agitation. It is a kulak revolt. Those who remember their Soviet history will recall how kulaks, landed farmers with a few acres, zamindars or janmi, were ruthless exploiters of the landless peasantry. They were liquidated remorselessly by Stalin and company. Lenin called them “bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who fatten on famine”.If you see this as a kulak revolt, a lot of things fall into place, for example the deluxe arrangements for the protesters encamped in Delhi: electric leg-massagers, pizza delivery, stylish tents. A far cry from our image of the lone, skinny, hard-scrabble farmer, eking out a perilous, hand-to-mouth existence.Professional agitators, andolanjeevi, have infiltrated the protests; so have separatists, and, fishing in troubled waters, nearby foes. There is a pattern of keeping India on the boil with internal agitations, while there is a state of war on the Tibetan border. Koodankulam, Sterlite, Pegatron, anti-CAA riots, Bangalore riots, now ‘farmer’ riots. You can connect the dots.Worryingly, the agitation has metamorphosed into, first, a religious revolt, with overseas Sikhs in Canada leading the charge; and then into a caste cleavage, with the protesters being largely upper-caste Jats, with almost no representation by the landless peasants, mostly SC. Fault lines, very Chanakyan: create bhedam, exploit the animosities, introduce anarchy.The alleged reason for the ‘farmer’ protests is that the small farmer will lose out to big, bad corporates. There is a grain of truth to this, but only if you extrapolate wildly. That has happened, for example, with the giant factory farms in the US, with thousands of acres under cultivation; just 2% of the population produces food-like substances for the entire country. (There is also $20 billion in annual subsidies for cotton, wheat, rice, corn and soy, but let’s ignore that for the moment.)The downside is that industrial agriculture has devastated the land, plundered groundwater, introduced poisonous chemicals, and generally wrought havoc, including with CO2 emissions and water pollution from animal husbandry. There have been horror stories such as the cultivation of water-loving rice in arid California, leading, for example, to selenium poisoning.In a new book, “Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal”, NYTimes food writer Mark Bittman lays out how factory farming has led to low-nutrition, high-calorie junk food being the norm in the US. The result is an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Moreover, the land is degraded: Bittman talks about how you cannot even find earthworms in factory-farm land, a clear indication of dead top-soil.So excessive corporatization is not healthy either. The key is moderation. Today, small farms are under-productive: records show that in ancient Tamil Nadu, it was possible to produce more than 15 tons of paddy per hectare, but today, our productivity is in the low single digits, and it is among the lowest in the world. So consolidation, larger farms, mechanization, and investment in technology can improve agricultural output and outcomes.So can the opportunity for farmers to sell to anybody, without being constrained to sell to the monopoly mandis or APMCs and thus the arhatiyas or commission agents. Part of the solution is to shorten the supply chain: today, there are five or six go-betweens separating farm and consumer. A single vertically integrated buyer (such as ITC with its e-choupals and factories making value-added products, or a Reliance which also has retail outlets) wil be much more efficient, and both the actual farmer and the consumer will benefit from disintermediation.Such producers will have an incentive to add silos, cold chains and value-added processing plants (eg. ketchup instead of tomatoes), all of which the government failed to do, because it ignored agriculture in the go-go “temples of modern India are dams and factories” Nehruvian era. Not that agribusiness is benign, but they know where there is profit to be made. In an era of uncertainty among the big producers (US, Canada, Australia) due to global warming, India’s heat-tolerant crop varieties may well be a precious asset in the medium term.In the long run, India can and should become one of the world’s agricultural superpowers.But obviously the intermediaries will lose out in the short term. A good number of the kulaks are also commission agents. The Farm Acts will require non-farmers in the supply chain to register their PAN numbers, thus becoming subjected to income tax (instead of masquerading as farmers and gaining the benefits of free water, free electricity, and tax-free incomes while enjoying above-market guaranteed procurement prices) and this surely will hurt the kulaks.It has been a gigantic subsidy, estimated by Balbir Punj in “Protest of the Privileged” (Feb 9, Indian Express) to be at Rs. 2 lakh crores in unnecessary, excess inventory held in FCI warehouses, not to mention farm loan waivers of Rs. 2.34 lakh crores over several years. And this is not going to the poverty-stricken marginal tenant farmer or landless laborer, but to the kulaks. The Farm Acts 2020 will reduce the transfer of taxpayer money to wealthy kulaks in Punjab and Haryana.This is the real reason behind the protests, if you strip away all the rhetoric.941 words, 9 Feb 2021 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

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Nhờ chiến tranh thương mại Mỹ-Trung và cũng nhờ đại dịch toàn cầu Covid-19, mà Việt Nam có vẻ như đang tiến nhanh hơn trên con đường trở thành “công xưởng của thế giới”, cụm từ cho tới nay vẫn được dành cho Trung Quốc. Do coi như đã thành công trong việc khống chế dịch virus corona, Việt Nam nay càng được xem là điểm đến hấp dẫn đối với nhiều công ty muốn tránh các biện pháp trừng phạt thuế quan của Mỹ nhắm vào Trung Quốc. Trong bài báo đăng ngày 09/12/2020, trang mạng Financial Review của Úc ghi nhận là xu hướng di dời cơ sở sản xuất từ Trung Quốc sang Việt Nam đã bắt đầu từ vài năm qua, khi giá nhân công ở nước láng giềng phương bắc bắt đầu tăng cao. Tờ báo trích lời nhà phân tích Rob Subbaraman, thuộc tập đoàn tài chính Nomura của Nhật, nhận định là tiến trình này đã tăng tốc sau khi tổng thống Donald Trump phát động cuộc chiến tranh thương mại với Trung Quốc. Đại dịch Covid-19 làm chao đảo nền kinh tế thế giới trong suốt năm nay càng khiến cho các công ty đa quốc gia thấy cần phải đa dạng hóa dây chuyền sản xuất. Nhà phân tích Rob Subbaraman nhấn mạnh: “ Đây là một chuyển đổi về cấu trúc mà chúng tôi dự báo là sẽ tiếp diễn. Trong những năm tới, sẽ có một dòng vốn đầu tư lớn hơn chuyển từ bắc Á xuống nam Á”. Theo ghi nhận của ông Subbaraman, tại vùng bắc Á ( bao gồm cả Nhật Bản, Đài Loan lẫn Trung Quốc ), dân số đang già đi, quỹ hưu trí ngày càng tăng và khi các nước này trở nên giàu hơn, thì mức lương cũng tăng theo, cho nên các nước ASEAN và Ấn Độ sẽ thu hút đầu tư nhiều hơn. Nhà phân tích của Nomura đưa ra các nhận định như trên vào lúc chính phủ Việt Nam vừa thông báo là công ty Pegatron của Đài Loan, chuyên sản xuất thiết bị cho các tập đoàn công nghệ như Microsoft, Apple hay Sony, xác nhận đã lên kế hoạch đầu tư 1 tỷ đôla để xây dựng một cơ sở sản xuất tại khu công nghiệp Nam Định Vũ, gần Hải Phòng. Kế hoạch mở rộng hoạt động của Pegatron tại Việt Nam (bao gồm cả việc chuyển trung tâm nghiên cứu và phát triển từ Trung Quốc sang Việt Nam) được công bố vào lúc có tin là Foxconn, một tập đoàn lớn khác của Đài Loan, cũng sẽ chuyển dây chuyền sản xuất các sản phẩm của Apple từ Trung Quốc sang Việt Nam.  Hãng tin Reuters vào tháng trước loan tin là Foxconn sẽ mở rộng nhà máy của tập đoàn này ở tỉnh Bắc Giang để xây dựng các dây chuyền lắp ráp mới. Theo Financial Review, một số nước khác ở Đông Nam Á, như Indonesia, cũng đang tìm cách thu hút đầu tư của các công ty đa quốc gia đang muốn dời sản xuất ra khỏi Trung Quốc. Nhưng chiến lược của Việt Nam có vẻ thành công hơn cả, qua trường hợp của Apple. Trả lời RFI qua điện thoại từ Sài Gòn ngày 14/12/2020, chuyên gia tài chính Huỳnh Bửu Sơn nhận định về lợi thế của Việt Nam: “Trong chiến tranh thương mại Mỹ-Trung kéo dài từ năm 2018 đến nay, các chuyên gia trên thế giới đều đánh giá rằng quốc gia được hưởng lợi nhiều nhất chính là Việt Nam, vì khi các công ty ở Trung Quốc xuất khẩu sang Mỹ bị đánh thuế rất nặng, rất nhiều lãnh đạo các công ty đó muốn né tránh chính sách thuế nặng của chính phủ Mỹ, bằng cách chuyển những hoạt động của họ sang các nước khác, trong đó Việt Nam, mà họ xem là một điểm đến rất tốt. Cũng vì lý do đó, không chỉ có các công ty của Mỹ, Nhật, hay của quốc gia khác, mà ngay cả các công ty của Trung Quốc cũng có ý định chuyển sang hoạt động ở Việt Nam để tránh chính sách áp thuế nặng nề của chính phủ Donald Trump. Có thể nói là trong thời gian đó thì đầu tư nước ngoài ở Việt Nam tăng khá là nhanh và xuất khẩu của Việt Nam sang Mỹ cũng tăng rất nhanh. Cũng có những trường hợp mà Việt Nam bị chính phủ Mỹ tố cáo là đã để cho các công ty Trung Quốc lợi dụng để tránh né chính sách áp thuế của chính phủ Mỹ. Tuy nhiên, phải nói là kinh tế Việt Nam trong thời gian đó cũng có một sức đẩy tốt, xuất khẩu tăng, cũng như là những điều kiện về hạ tầng, những chính sách phát triển nguồn nhân lực cũng được chính phủ Việt Nam lưu tâm để đẩy mạnh. Tôi cho đó là những yếu tố rất tích cực đối với Việt Nam trong việc tranh thủ lợi thế trong chiến tranh thương mại Mỹ-Trung. Chiến tranh này chắc chắn sẽ còn kéo dài, ngay cả khi mà chính quyền Donald Trump mãn nhiệm và chính quyền Joe Biden tiếp nối. Cuộc chiến thương mại này có thể sẽ là dưới một hình thức nào khác, tuy nhiên nó sẽ không chấm dứt được. Do đó, xu hướng của các nhà máy của các quốc gia phương Tây hoạt động tại Trung Quốc sẽ vẫn là chuyển sang các nước khác, mà trong đó Việt Nam được họ cho là điểm đến ưu tiên.” Các kinh tế gia của tập đoàn tài chính Nomura ghi nhận là hiện nay các tập đoàn đa quốc gia nay còn tính đến những khác biệt về cách đối phó với đại dịch Covid-19. Châu Á nói chung được xem là đã kềm chế dịch bệnh tốt hơn là các quốc gia phương Tây. Theo nhà phân tích Subbaraman, như vậy châu Á sẽ là khu vực được hưởng lợi nhiều nhất khi kinh tế toàn cầu tăng trưởng trở lại vào năm tới, một khi virus corona không còn hoành hành nữa. Ông dự báo châu Á sẽ thu hút phần lớn nhất trong các dòng vốn vào năm tới, vì các công ty sẽ đẩy mạnh đầu tư. Trong bối cảnh này, Việt Nam được xem là điểm đến an toàn hơn các nước khác, vì kể từ đầu mùa dịch cho đến nay, Việt Nam có chưa tới 1.400 ca nhiễm và chỉ có 35 ca tử vong. Vấn đề đặt ra hiện nay đó là liệu các cơ sở hạ tầng, cũng như nguồn nhân lực của Việt Nam có đủ khả năng để tiếp nhận các dòng vốn đầu tư mới của ngoại quốc hay không? Về điểm này, chuyên gia tài chính Huỳnh Bửu Sơn nhận định: “ Thật ra việc cải thiện cơ sở hạ tầng, cũng như cải thiện nguồn nhân lực của Việt Nam để phục vụ cho sự phát triển đầu tư nước ngoài đã được lưu ý nhiều năm trước đây. Tuy nhiên, có thể nói là việc chuẩn bị đó chưa theo kịp nhu cầu gia tăng nhanh của đầu tư nước ngoài. Do đó, có trường hợp là một số công ty lớn của Mỹ như Apple đã phải có kế hoạch làm chậm tiến trình đầu tư tại Việt Nam, vì lý do thiếu nguồn nhân lực. Nhưng tôi nghĩ rằng, trong thời gian sắp tới, cải thiện cơ sở hạ tầng, cũng như cải thiện nguồn nhân lực sẽ là ưu tiên của chính phủ Việt Nam. Thật ra, đó cũng không phải là hai yếu tố quan trọng nhất đối với quyết định của các nhà đầu tư nước ngoài, mà chính môi trường đầu tư, chính sách thuế, cũng như là thái độ thân thiện, cởi mở của Việt Nam đối với các nhà đầu tư nước ngoài mới quan trọng hơn, đặc biệt là vấn đề cải cách hành chính để tránh tham nhũng, tạo điều kiện đơn giản hóa thủ tục hơn, để giúp nhà đầu tư nước ngoài đẩy nhanh việc thực hiện dự án của họ ở Việt Nam. Đó là những yếu tố mà tôi cho là cũng quan trọng không kém so với việc cải thiện cơ sở hạ tầng, cũng như cải thiện nguồn nhân lực chuyên môn.” Thu hút nhiều đầu tư ngoại quốc dĩ nhiên là rất tốt, nhưng nhìn xa hơn về phát triển trong tương tương lai, Việt Nam không thể mãi mãi chỉ là một “công xưởng của thế giới”, chỉ là nơi để các tập đoàn quốc tế đặt cơ sở sản xuất, mà phải đưa nền kinh tế lên một trình độ cao hơn, tức là nâng cao giá trị của chuỗi sản xuất, như ý kiến của chuyên gia Huỳnh Bửu Sơn: “Đó là một sự chọn lựa. Tôi nghĩ là Việt Nam nằm ở một vị trí địa chính trị rất quan trọng, là một nước ven Biển Đông, nơi tập trung một khối lượng giao thương rất lớn của thế giới. Trong mấy chục năm đổi mới và mở cửa, Việt Nam đã theo đuổi một chính sách hội nhập kinh tế rất là sâu rộng đối với thế giới. Có thể nói Việt Nam hiện nay là một trong những nước ký thỏa ước thương mại song phuơng với rất nhiều quốc gia, cũng như thỏa ước đa phương với nhiều khối như Liên Âu, ASEAN, khối Đông Bắc Á. Cho nên, Việt Nam, với vị thế của mình và với chính sách mở cửa mạnh mẽ, chắc chắn sẽ trở thành nơi mà các nhà đầu tư chọn lựa. Như vậy, cái gọi là “công xưởng của thế giới », cụm từ mà trước đây chúng ta hay gọi Trung Quốc, cũng là viễn cảnh của Việt Nam trong tương lai. Tuy nhiên, điều đó sẽ đặt Việt Nam trước một sự chọn lựa, tức là ta không thể chỉ là một công xưởng, tức là nơi sản xuất, mà phải biết chọn lựa nên sản xuất cái gì, trong ngành nào cho phù hợp với sự phát triển trong tương lai của cả thế giới, chẳng hạn như là không gây ô nhiễm môi trường, hướng về công nghệ cao, tức là hướng về giá trị cao trong chuỗi cung ứng của toàn cầu. Đặc biệt là phải bảo đảm quyền lợi của người lao động, cũng như bảo đảm không ảnh hưởng đến môi trường thiên nhiên của Việt Nam. Tôi nghĩ đó là một sự chọn lựa, vì từ đây đến 5,10 năm nữa, Việt Nam sẽ là điểm đến của rất nhiều nhà đầu tư trên thế giới, do đó nước chủ nhà phải có một thái độ bình tĩnh, để chọn lựa được những dự án đầu tư nào, những nhà máy nào phù hợp với lợi ích phát triển lâu dài của nền kinh tế Việt Nam.”

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Apple puts Pegatron on probation over student violations. To Want or not, Want CTi as the NPP trips on itself. Continued confusion in the NPP. Taiwan's friends fail to carry the day at the WHA. As always, all English articles used in the report are linked to on our website Report.tw. Taiwan Report News Brief is a daily show of news with analysis and context, providing the listener with a better understanding of Taiwan, especially in politics and foreign affairs. This show intends to bring the listener up to speed on the week's events for our weekly analysis show, Current Affairs Taiwan (CAT).

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Analyzing the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro: M1 system-on-a-chip has 16 billion transistors, 16 neural cores The new Mac Mini's 2 USB-C ports are a huge limitation The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still have a 720p camera, but it will have an improved image signal processor You cannot upgrade the new Macs - you have to pay inflated prices for extra RAM and SDD memory Big Sur arrives November 12th Will Linux run on the M1? We have questions about Mac compatibility iPhone 12 Pro Max arrives this Friday M1 power curve beats "latest PC Chip" MacBook Pro battery life looks incredible Analyzing the M1 chip's features The Mac Mini cost less than the Apple Monitor stand M1 Mac Mini vs. Intel Mac Mini How important will it be to have iOS apps on Macs? And when will we get Shortcuts for Mac? Google, Facebook, Candy Crush, and others are not planning to have a macOS app Will Mac's lack of a discrete GPU be a disadvantage? Fortnite tries to sneak back onto Macs through the Nvidia game streaming service Apple suspends work with Pegatron over labor violations HomePod Mini shipments slip into late December MagSafe Duo price announced, still no release date FDA clears NightWare app to treat PTSD-related nightmares Panasonic develops a special vacuum to rescue Airpods from train tracks Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Nova code editor Andy's Pick: Tip: Look Around Doc's Pick: Descript Rose's Pick: Forklift Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko Guests: Doc Rock and Rosemary Orchard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit peakdesign.com/twit

Apple puts Pegatron on probation over student violations. To Want or not, Want CTi as the NPP trips on itself. Continued confusion in the NPP. Taiwan's friends fail to carry the day at the WHA. As always, all English articles used in the report are linked to on our website Report.tw. Taiwan Report News Brief is a daily show of news with analysis and context, providing the listener with a better understanding of Taiwan, especially in politics and foreign affairs. This show intends to bring the listener up to speed on the week's events for our weekly analysis show, Current Affairs Taiwan (CAT).

Hyperloop da Virgin faz testes com humanos, Realme confirma vinda ao Brasil, Anatel está homologando a Xiaomi Mi Band 5C, Ataque ao STJ é investigado pela PF, Venda da Oi Móvel pode ser confirmada em dezembro, CEO do Foursquare deixará o cargo, Spotify pode ganhar serviço de assinatura de podcasts, Sistema ocupa perto de 200 GB no PS5 e novos Xbox, WhatsApp lança Pagamentos na Índia, Twitter deixará de aliviar para o Trump a partir de janeiro, Windows 10 agora abre múltiplos apps de Android, Apple enfrenta problemas de produção para o iPhone 12 Pro Max, Apple limita contrato com a Pegatron, The Verge: review do iPhone 12 Pro Max, Engadget: review do iPhone 12 mini, The Verge: review do iPhone 12 mini, 9to5mac: apanhado de reviews o iPhone 12 mini, 9to5mac: apanhado de reviews o iPhone 12 Pro Max. Sobre o Podcast O Loop Matinal é um podcast do Loop Infinito que traz as notícias mais importantes do mundo da tecnologia para quem não tem tempo de ler sites e blogs de tecnologia. Marcus Mendes apresenta um resumo rápido e conciso das notícias mais importantes, sempre com bom-humor e um toque de acidez. Confira as notícias das últimas 24h, e até amanhã! -------------------------------- Patrocínio: Porto Seguro Auto: Acesse https://www.portoseguro.com.br/auto, ou entre em contato via WhatsApp pelo telefone +55 11 3003-9303, contrate seguro automotivo e aproveite benefícios de serviços para a sua casa. -------------------------------- Apoie o Loop Matinal! O Loop Matinal está no apoia.se/loopmatinal e no picpay.me/loopmatinal! Se você quiser ajudar a manter o podcast no ar, é só escolher a categoria que você preferir e definir seu apoio mensal. Obrigado em especial aos ouvintes Advogado Junio Araujo, Aldan Borges, Alex Zarkadas, Alexsandra Romio, Aline Azevedo, Alisson Rocha, Anderson Barbosa, Anderson Cazarotti, Angelo Almiento, Arthur Givigir, Breno Farber, Bruna Almeida, Caio Santos, Carolina Vieira, Christiano Malgueiro, Christophe Trevisani, Claudio Souza, Dan Fujita, Daniel Martins, Daniel Ivasse, Daniel Cardoso, Diogo Silva, Edgard Contente, Edson Pieczarka Jr, Evandro  Faria, Fabio Brasileiro, Felipe, Francisco Neto, Frederico Souza, Glades Guedes, Guilherme Rocha, Guilherme Santos, Henrique Orçati, Horacio Monteiro, Igor Antonio, Igor Silva, Jeadilson Bezerra, Jorge Fleming, José Limaverde, Jose Junior, Jose Vandenildo, Juliana Majikina, Juliano Cezar, Leandro Bodo, Leonardo Shinagawa, Louise Potrich, Lucas Santos, Luiz Mota, Luiz Mokwa, Marcelo Santos, Márcio Dantas, Mario Junior, Mauricio Junior, Nilton Vivacqua, Otavio Tognolo, Paulo Sousa, Rafael Santos, Renato Bartolamei, Ricardo Berjeaut, Ricardo Soares, Rickybell, Roberto Chiaratti, Rodrigo Rosa, Rodrigo Rezende, Rodrigo Oliveira, Rubens Gianfaldoni, Teresa Borges, Tiago Soares, Victor Souza, Vinícius Ghise, Vitor Sá e Wilson Pimentel pelo apoio! -------------------------------- Hyperloop da Virgin faz testes com humanos: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/8/21553014/virgin-hyperloop-first-human-test-speed-pod-tube Realme confirma vinda ao Brasil: 
https://tecnoblog.net/382437/realme-anuncia-inicio-operacoes-no-brasil/ Anatel está homologando a Xiaomi Mi Band 5C: https://tecnoblog.net/381918/exclusivo-esta-pode-ser-a-xiaomi-mi-band-5c-ja-homologada-pela-anatel/ Ataque ao STJ é investigado pela PF: https://tecnoblog.net/381940/pf-investiga-ataque-hacker-ao-stj-e-ja-teria-encontrado-invasores/ Venda da Oi Móvel pode ser confirmada em dezembro: https://tecnoblog.net/382003/oi-movel-deve-ser-arrematada-por-claro-vivo-e-tim-em-dezembro/ CEO do Foursquare deixará o cargo: https://www.wsj.com/articles/foursquare-ceo-david-shim-steps-down-11604622997?mod=djemalertNEWS Spotify pode ganhar serviço de assinatura de podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/6/21552822/spotify-podcast-subscription-service-survey Sistema ocupa perto de 200 GB no PS5 e novos Xbox: https://tecnoblog.net/381925/ps5-xbox-series-x-e-s-reservam-ate-200-gb-do-ssd-para-o-sistema/ WhatsApp lança Pagamentos na Índia: https://tecnoblog.net/381738/whatsapp-pagamentos-e-liberado-na-india-e-pode-voltar-ao-brasil-este-mes/ Twitter deixará de aliviar para o Trump a partir de janeiro: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/7/21552606/trump-twitter-world-leader-public-interest-exception-ends-january-loss Windows 10 agora abre múltiplos apps de Android: https://tecnoblog.net/382073/windows-10-agora-consegue-abrir-varios-apps-de-android-ao-mesmo-tempo/ Apple enfrenta problemas de produção para o iPhone 12 Pro Max: https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/07/iphone-12-mini-pro-max-shipping-times/ Apple limita contrato com a Pegatron: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/9/21556154/apple-supplier-pegatron-student-labor-violation The Verge: review do iPhone 12 Pro Max: https://www.theverge.com/21555901/iphone-12-pro-max-review?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4 Engadget: review do iPhone 12 mini: https://www.engadget.com/apple-iphone-12-mini-review-cameras-battery-life-002700754.html The Verge: review do iPhone 12 mini: https://www.theverge.com/21555295/iphone-12-mini-review 9to5mac: apanhado de reviews o iPhone 12 mini: https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/09/iphone-12-mini-review-roundup/ 9to5mac: apanhado de reviews o iPhone 12 Pro Max: https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/09/iphone-12-pro-max-review-roundup/ -------------------------------- Site do Loop Matinal: http://www.loopmatinal.com Anuncie no Loop Matinal: comercial@loopinfinito.net Marcus Mendes: https://www.twitter.com/mvcmendes Loop Infinito: https://www.youtube.com/oloopinfinito

Apple suspends new orders with Pegatron after labor abuse; Initial demand for iPhone 12 Pro Max appears higher than iPhone 12 mini; and Apple engineers reveal the plan behind iPhone camera design philosophy

Apple is not happy with a key parts supplier. If you’re running an old version of android, you might be shut out of some important websites soon. Is SoftBank’s Vision Fund, back, baby? Is the Raspberry Pi 400 any good to use? And what can Silicon Valley expect from a Biden administration.Sponsors:KiwiCo.com promocode: "ride" for 50% your first monthTinyCapital.comLinks: Apple Freezes New Business for Pegatron on China Labor Abuse (Bloomberg) Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks are getting crushed on the positive vaccine news (CNBC) Many websites will stop working on older Android versions in 2021 (Android Police) SoftBank Recovery Gains Ground With Vision Fund’s Record Profit (Bloomberg) Raspberry Pi 400 review—the under-$100 desktop PC you didn’t know you needed (Ars Technica) 'Awakened a sleeping giant': Parler jumps to most popular app as conservatives rally support to leave Twitter and Facebook (Washington Examiner)Biden’s victory was just what tech wanted. Now what? (Protocol)

Apple suspends new business with Pegatron over labor violations, Pfizer announces preliminary findings from its COVID-19 vaccine trial, and Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt launches an enterprise platform. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on The Leaders' Brief - Russian ambassador to Mali, Igor Gromyko, was one of the first officials to be received by the Mali Junta after a coup overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Local media houses have reported that the military leaders of the coup had spent a year training in Russia. The report was suggestive that Moscow was planning to increase its security presence in Africa. China's coronavirus vaccine being developed by the Institute of Medical Biology under the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was shown to be safe, according to researchers who published their findings in a paper posted on the medRxiv preprint server. On Tuesday, the Indian government said it had approved incentives for 16 companies, including Apple suppliers Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron, to manufacture smartphones in the country. India's Production Link Incentive aims at producing mobile phones and phone components worth over $140 billion in the next five years. About egomonk: Website | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedInegomonk is a global intelligence platform delivering asymmetric outcomes by bringing organizations closer to the communities they want to serve and the leaders they wish to influence. If you wish to collaborate with us then email us at contact@egomonk.com.

The government has approved plans of 16 companies, including Apple’s contract manufacturers Foxconn Hon Hai, Wistron and Pegatron, for starting work under the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme. But what is the scheme all about? Business Standard's Arnab Dutta explains about the announcements related to the PLI scheme, Apple’s fortunes in India and how the scheme is going to impact Indian mobile industry in this podcast.  Tune in to know more

Pegatron chair calls Taiwan's economy “lopsided”. A court rules Ma Ying-jeou and Jiang Yi-huah not guilty. Ma Ying-jeou may try to win back KMT chair. There is a proposal to end oaths delivered to Sun Yat-sen. But first, lots of headlines. As always, all English articles used in the report are linked to on our website Report.tw. Taiwan Report News Brief is a daily show of news with analysis and context, providing the listener with a better understanding of Taiwan, especially in politics and foreign affairs. This show intends to bring the listener up to speed on the week's events for our weekly analysis show, Current Affairs Taiwan (CAT).

Pegatron chair calls Taiwan’s economy “lopsided”. A court rules Ma Ying-jeou and Jiang Yi-huah not guilty. Ma Ying-jeou may try to win back KMT chair. There is a proposal to end oaths delivered to Sun Yat-sen. But first, lots of headlines. As always, all English articles used in the report are linked to on our website Report.tw. Taiwan Report News Brief is a daily show of news with analysis and context, providing the listener with a better understanding of Taiwan, especially in politics and foreign affairs. This show intends to bring the listener up to speed on the week's events for our weekly analysis show, Current Affairs Taiwan (CAT).

Foxconn, Pegatron, ou encore Luxshare souhaitent éparpiller leurs lignes de production. Foxconn fabrique notamment des produits pour Apple, Sony, Motorola, Dell, Nintendo, HP, Samsung, LG, Microsoft…PRODUIT PAR BELLE ÉCOUTE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrocinador: NordVPN es mi servicio de VPN favorito. Estos días lo estoy usando más que nunca. Los lectores de tenéis otra vez hasta 75% de descuento en nordvpn.org/mixxio para usarlo conhasta 6 dispositivos a la vez. Foxconn y Pegatron miran a México / Tanques con mandos de Xbox / Cazabombarderos robóticos humillan humanos / Reciclaje fotovoltaico / China contra las comilonas en streaming / Desgravarse el patinete eléctrico  Foxconn y Pegatron se expandirán agresivamente en México. Los dos mayores ensambladores buscan abrir nuevas fábricas en México para reducir dependencia de China. Una de ellas podría acabar siendo para ensamblar iPhones.  La posibilidad de un iPhone Made in México sigue creciendo. Podrían ser modelos específicos inicialmente con destinos variados.  Los futuros tanques israelíes se conducen con mando de Xbox. El diseño futurista con un interior lleno de pantallas que permiten ver su entorno sin asomarse, y solo necesita dos soldados que controlen el vehículo usando mandos, literalmente, de Xbox.  Aquí podéis ver cómo es el interior (vídeos) del prototipo presentado el año pasado.  Cazabombarderos por ordenador derrotando pilotos profesionales. En unos ejercicios de demostración de las capacidades de IA de varios contratistas, podemos ver cómo ejecutan maniobras de forma mucho más ágil y bruscas que un humano no soportaría.  Buscan una tecnología que permita mear a las pilotas en su caza. Las aviadoras tienen que enfrentarse a misiones de 16 horas sin poder orinar correctamente, y las fuerzas aéreas de EE.UU quieren solucionarlo. ¿Alguna idea?  Un modelo usado por varios países es una especie de compresa-coquina-succionadora (vídeo) de fluidos.  ¿Quién recicla los paneles fotovoltaicos? El boom inicial de ‘los 2000' llega al final con una vida útil en muchos casos de 25 años y toca reciclar. Europa obliga a reciclar sus materiales altamente tóxicos de forma cuidados, pero EE.UU. no.  China elimina los vídeos en directo de las comilonas. Los mukbangers (reyes de estómago gigante) son un entretenimiento común a nivel mundial, pero ahora las plataformas chinas han empezado a censurar los vídeos por contravenir las mandatos del gobierno contra desperdiciar comida.  China es un mundo paralelo. Por ejemplo: en cuanto un moderador detecta un extranjero en un vídeo de Douyin (la versión local de TikTok) cortan la emisión en directo.  ¿Escuchaste el episodio de Kernel donde explicamos cómo funciona la censura tecnológica en China?  En España el patinete eléctrico se considera herramienta de trabajo, y como tal se puede desgravar fiscalmente tanto por autónomos como por empresas para sus empleados asalariados.  La presa de las Tres Gargantas aguanta. El fin de semana el nivel del agua alcanzó casi 168 metros, tres más del límite de seguridad para el que está lista esta mole de hormigón, pero sigue fuerte según las autoridades.  Un grupo antivacunas denuncia a Facebook por censura. Un tribunal californiano tendrá que decidir si Facebook viola los derechos de libertad de expresión tras aumentar su presión sobre las conspiraciones antivacunas.  Detenidos por estafar millones a Amazon con cepillos de dientes. Cuatro hermanos de Nueva York se dieron de alta como proveedores, para luego enviar miles de unidades de un producto diferente no solicitado (y mucho más barato a Amazon), consiguiendo hasta 19 millones de dólares.  España amenaza con cerrar brokers digitales irregulares. El aparato regulador de mercados, la CNMV, afirma que hay miles de empresas sin registrarse adecuadamente, después de poner la alarma sobre “cripto chiringuitos”. ¿Quieres colaborar con el programa? Colabora en Patreon Colabora en Ko-Fi (PayPal) ---- Ahora también tenemos un grupo de Telegram para oyentes: https://t.me/joinchat/AF0lVBd8RkeEM4DL-8qYfw ---- Sigue la publicación en: Newsletter diaria: http://newsletter.mixx.io Twitter: http://twitter.com/mixx_io o sigue a Álex directamente en: http://twitter.com/somospostpc Envíame un email: alex@barredo.es Telegram: https://t.me/mixx_io Web: https://mixx.io

This week, Ameya & Preshit are joined by tech journalist Nimish Sawant to discuss the Xiaomi Mi 10 and the OnePlus Nord, after which Preshit brings his weekly dose of Apple & Telecom updates. We also discuss Netflix’s new ₹349/m Mobile+ plan that the company is testing in India. Nimish & Preshit chat about good photography tips, our App of the Week recommendations and tell you about some photographers to follow for inspiration. या आठवड्यात, Xiaomi Mi 10 आणि OnePlus Nord वर चर्चा करण्यासाठी Tech पत्रकार निमिश सावंत आले आहेत. त्यानंतर प्रेषित आपल्या साप्ताहिक Apple आणि Telecom updates घेऊन येतो. त्यानंतर आम्ही फोटोग्राफीच्या टिपांबद्दल, आमच्या अ‍ॅप ऑफ द वीकच्या शिफारसींविषयी गप्पा मारतो आणि प्रेरणा घेण्यासाठी काही छायाचित्रकारांबद्दल सांगतो. Xiaomi Mi 10 (Nimish’s Review)OnePlus NordNetflix’s ₹349 Mobile+ PlanApp of the WeekSnapseed for AndroidDarkroom for iPhone and iPadPhotographer RecommendationsHenri Cartier-BressonRaghu RaiArgen EleziHörður Kristleifsson Credits Clocks by Smith The Mister https://smiththemister.bandcamp.com Smith The Mister https://bit.ly/Smith-The-Mister-YT Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-clocks Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/6MT6-JzUw1w 

Welcome!   For being locked down do to this Pandemic there is certainly a lot of technology in the news this week.  So lets get into it.  I will give you my take on a recent federal court ruling about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and website terms of use policies. We will discuss the many risks that medical device manufacturers are introducing into hospitals, clinics, and patients. We have a couple of stories about Apple, first off they are ditching INTEL and designing their processors and why the fake news media is so eager to announce problems with their architecture even when it does not exist and much more. So sit back and listen in.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here another week with the Corona virus, I guess. Well, the latest coronavirus, right? This one is it called?  Corona, SARS two. Cause it's another version of the SARS virus. Hey Craig Peterson,  here on WGAN heard every Saturday right now from one till 3:00 PM and we talked about the latest in technology. [00:00:30] The things you need to know, things you can do. We kind of have a little bit of fun too. Sometimes we'll get into the real stuff that's serious and sometimes we just talk about some of the cool things and. Well, some things that I like to with the family and all of that sort of thing. And today, of course, is not an exception. [00:00:50] We've got, of course, these SBA loans, and you might've heard me bellyache about these because, of course, they're just not working. Uh, you know, I have a very small company and at the very least, I was supposed to get this little loan that every business that applied was supposed to get, and he supposed to get it within 72 hours.  Blah, blah, blah. From the SBA and to date I've gotten absolutely nothing and it's been weeks. And to top it off, I got an email from them a couple of weeks ago that was really ambiguous and saying that maybe I needed to provide some more information. We called them up to try and find out what's up. [00:01:32] Things just don't work there either. It just gets totally, totally messed up. So  for me  and some businesses obviously, you know, like big ones have gotten millions of dollars, including schools, universities, et cetera. And the little guys that really need the money, we just aren't getting anything. [00:01:55] Welcome to the club if you're one of them. If you're not, I'd love to hear from you. How did you make it work as a small business? Yeah, you can just email me@craigpeterson.com I would absolutely love to know. And then to top it all off, what happens this week? Of course, the SBAs loan system crashes as businesses are trying to apply for this stuff. [00:02:19] Maybe about another, what was it, 310 billion in emergency funds? It was was supposedly released on Monday or made available on Monday, and the portal course crashed and kept crashing all day long. The bankers who are trying to get onto the system to apply and behalf of the desperate clients couldn't get anywhere. [00:02:40] Very frustrating to them. Of course, no integration between the banking systems and the SBA. No integration, easy way for small businesses or even these big businesses that are pretending they're small businesses. No way for them to be able to get the information out there. And many of them are venting online on social media against the SBA, the small business administration that's running the program. [00:03:06] Now I've got to give them a bit of a break because I heard a statistic this week too, that the SBA has processed the more of these loan applications in the last, what is it, a month than they have in the last 15 years, which is absolutely incredible. [00:03:26] American bankers association is on Twitter saying they're deeply frustrated at their ability to access the SBA system. America's banks can help struggling businesses, you know? When did I say at the beginning of all of this. Based on the amount of money they were talking about and assuming that there were a hundred million businesses. I mean, families, excuse me, a hundred million families in the United States. Somebody just do a little quick math here. 100, one, two, three, one, two, three that's a hundred million. Then times 60, one, two, three $60,000 dollars per family, lets see three, three, one, two, three, $6 trillion, which was the estimated cost of the actual first bailout. [00:04:14] You know, you heard 2 trillion and 3 trillion. The actual bottom line was actually 6 trillion. So what we're really, what we're really talking about here is the ability. For the federal government to have given every family in the country $60,000 can you imagine that? What would that do to the economy? [00:04:37] Giving every family in the country $60,000 dollars. Now remember too, that you are on the hook as a family for $60,000 that were given to all kinds of businesses that probably didn't need the money in the first place. And businesses that were, you know, a friend of this Congress critter, that Congress critter. You saw what Nancy Pelosi snuck into the bills. [00:05:03] The Republicans kept saying, they're trying to keep this clean. Let's just get this to small businesses. And of course, the way they set it up, the way they did it just didn't work either.  Man is this is just me. Absolutely. Is it just me? Um. Yeah, the program first went in April 3rd it, and it's supposed to help the neediest businesses, these really small businesses, hair salons, coffee shops, dry cleaners, and businesses like mine. [00:05:31] And of course, it just didn't happen. Its Beyond frustration here for me and for pretty much everybody else. So these truly tiny businesses like mine are gone. They really, most of them are gone. I've seen estimates this week saying that it was probably in the order of 25% of them will never be back. And I was talking with one of my daughters this week and a restaurant in our neighborhood that has been here for almost ever. [00:06:06] A very old business. Uh, that restaurant, the building is haunted. It has been around for a hundred plus years, maybe 200 years. I'm not sure. Very, very old buildings. It's been a Tavern, et cetera, over the years. And he said, there's no way he's reopening. He just can't reopen. You know, he's been struggling for years. [00:06:28] It's a tough business to be in any ways, in the restaurant business, and I've seen stats on restaurants saying that we could see a 50% decrease in the number of restaurants. Number of restaurants, just an entirely here, 50% I don't know what the numbers are going to be. Um, Dallas. Here I, there's an article from, uh, the Dallas eater saying that Dallas restaurants opened in our May 1st is a bad idea. [00:07:00] Market watch has a thing about this as well. My state is reopening businesses, including restaurants and movie theaters. Am I selfish if I go?Many U S restaurants say PPP loans don't meet their needs. Yeah, no kidding. Right? Even if you get the money. You're supposed to spend three quarters of it on payroll and you've already laid off your people, how are you going to get them back? [00:07:23] Because they're making more money. As laid off people on unemployment insurance, and they would be, if you hired them back. So they're not going to reopen, and then you got to consider, well, okay, payroll was this much, but they were also getting tips which subsidized it because restaurant workers, many of them of course, making just to two or three bucks an hour. [00:07:46] This is a disaster. It is an absolute disaster. I don't know how many people are going to end up dead because of the consequences of what we did to try and slow down the Corona virus. And I'm glad we're able to slow it down. I don't know. Ultimately if flattening the curve is going to help, because you remember the whole idea behind flattening the curve was we did not want to overwhelm our medical system. [00:08:17] We didn't want the hospitals to be overwhelmed. Because we wanted the hospitals to be able to treat people that had this Corona virus. And they certainly were able to, we're seeing hospitals now, especially small rural hospitals closing down. Some of them may never open their doors again and they're not closing down because they were too busy. [00:08:37] They're closing down because it didn't have enough income because they weren't doing elective surgery. A their beds weren't even close to being full with Covid patients. Some of them only had a couple of Covid patients in them. So what, what , you know, um, and we've already had people who have committed suicide. [00:08:56] I'm aware of one, personally because of losing their job and now they had to pay the mortgage. They had to pay all of their other bills. They didn't have the money. The government was dragging their feet on it. And then the money that the government's been spending that did not end up in our hands, that money now  is not only money we have to pay back, but it's going to drive up inflation. And what's that going to mean? [00:09:21] Well, It could mean, well, the antidote for inflation from a typical economic standpoint is well you raise interest rates. Do you remember raised interest rates in the eighties early eighties? I had friends who lost homes because the only loan they could get on their home was a a variable interest rate loan. And so they had one of these variable interest rate loans and the interest rate got up into the twenties. I think I remember it being like 22-23% there it there in the early eighties. And so their monthly payments. Just went up. Doubled, tripled, quadrupled some people, and they couldn't afford to keep their home, so they lost their down payments on the houses. [00:10:05] And people are complaining right now that they cannot get a loan on their home because they don't have enough of a down payment. So the banks are getting free money. From us., Ultimately, right? Or from the treasury. So the banks are getting free money and some of these banks now we're looking for 20% down, again, which is what I had to do years ago when I bought my home. [00:10:27] I never only ever bought one home. So man, things are going to be a mess. They are going to be a very, very big mess. Um. We'll see.  In the Financial times, many U S restaurant's highly likely to return the small business aid. I was kind of interested in article denied by insurance companies. LA restaurants are waging a high stakes battle in court now because they had coverage. [00:10:56] It was supposed to cover this stuff and did it? No. Okay. Um. The many privately owned restaurants are saying the Paycheck protection program fails to meet their needs. Oh my goodness gracious. Um. This is, it's very ill suited for their industry from my industry, for most industries. [00:11:19] Basically, if you're a big enough business that you have a full time HR department, an accounting department, you probably could get the paycheck protection program. If you're a small business like me. And things are probably not so good for you, so, huh, man. Anyway, stick around. We'll get into the tech. I promise you're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN stick around because we'll be right back. [00:11:55] It kind of sounds like the national restaurant association show here with Craig Peterson, on WGAN. And I was thinking about my, uh, my favorite local restaurant. I love Mexican food. I have ever since I lived in Californ-i-a all of those years ago, out on the left coast. My wife, in fact, the native born Californian, and it, uh, it, I'm, I'm looking at them saying, how are they surviving. [00:12:24] Cause we would go over there once a week at least, you know, taco Tuesday type thing and enjoy ourselves. Have a nice little family outing. I haven't spent a dime there in six, eight weeks. I don't know how long it's been. It's been a very, very long time, so I just don't know. Anyways, let's get in. Let's get into the, um. [00:12:45] The stories for today, and we're going to talk about something that I think is really, really important. Uh, and of course, what else should we talk about? Right? But, uh, we've got, yeah, that was a drum roll. We've got an interesting problem right now. There is a law on the books right now that are inplace and has been in place for about 30 years, and it has to do with the definition of hacking. What is hacking, and it made sense about 30 years ago. [00:13:22] Nowadays, it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Because we've got these terms on websites. So for instance. We'd talked about two months ago about a company that was scraping all of the information they could find about us, including our, our pictures, our video, our voices. But primarily they were after our pictures and from every site they could get their hands on from any site whether or not they were violating the site's terms of service. And some of these sites have sued them, et cetera. They've been hacked, and I guess that's what happens when you become a big target. But where should it be going? What should we be doing? We've got a problem right now, and there's a lawsuit that's been initiated by a group of academics and journalists, and of course the ACLU is behind it. [00:14:18] And you know, most of the time I look at what the ACLU is doing and wonder what it is they're up to. In this case, I think they might actually be doing something right. Isn't that nice for a change. They're arguing. That having these investigations against racial discrimination in online job markets by creating fake accounts for fake employers and job seekers. [00:14:49] Is that something that should be done? Right? Leading job sites out there in terms of service that prohibits that, right? So users of these sites are prohibited from supplying fake information, and the researchers are worried that the research could expose them to criminal liability. Because they're posting these things on the site and then they're trying to analyze all things being equal. [00:15:14] Was this a case of racial discrimination? So in 2016, they sued the federal government, and they're asking for whether a decision based on what they're saying is the First Amendment that you could in fact do almost anything online and get away with it. Now, I, for instance, you know, I have been using fake information on websites for a very long time, so when I go to authenticate myself, you know, they'll ask, what street were you born on? What's your mother's maiden name? I always make stuff up for that and I record it. So that later on I can always dig it up because you know someone can go online, they can become your bestest to Facebook friend. They can look at LinkedIn, find out about you and your history. And the younger kids these days have all of the information online and will for their entire lives. [00:16:17] So I have always used different email addresses, different versions of my email address, completely different names made up everything. Now obviously. When it comes to an official thing, like a bank account or government stuff, I'm not lying about anything except for my authenticity to be able to log into the site. [00:16:42] So I'll give my correct social security number, et cetera, et cetera, when it is required, because obviously would be a violation of a law, but they're saying. That under this federal law that's out there, the computer fraud and abuse act, it's been around for 30 years. Would it be illegal to create these accounts where we're just trying to figure out, are these people discriminating. So there is a federal judge by the name of John Bates who ruled on Friday a week ago, that the plaintiff's proposed research would not violate the CFAA, the computer fraud and abuse act provisions at all. And he said that somebody violates it when they bypass an access restriction, like a password, but someone who logs into a website with a valid password does not become a hacker simply by doing something prohibited by a web site, terms of service. [00:17:45] So that I actually, I think was a good ruling here. Now from the ruling itself, criminal is criminalizing terms of service violations, risks, turning each website into its own criminal jurisdiction and each webmaster into its own legislature. Yay. At last. Right now, unfortunately, courts are disagreeing about how to interpret this. [00:18:12] If this law is around forever. In Oh nine the California federal judge, right? What else? Ninth circus rejected a CFAA prosecution against a woman who contributed to a, myspace hoax that led to the suicide of a 13 year old by the name of Megan Meyer. And in that, the prosecutors argued that they had violated my spaces, terms of service. [00:18:40] In 2014 the night circus, uh, rejected another prosecution based on terms of service violation. So obviously I'm in favor of this. They're kind of moving in the right direction. We've got the seventh circus, uh, ruled that an employee had violated the anti hacking law when after quitting his job, he wiped an employer owned laptop that contained information that was valuable to his employer. [00:19:08] As well as the data could have been revealed misconduct by this person. So I think most of the way we're talking about the courts coming down the right direction here, but, uh, I, I'm very glad to see this because you know, that I. Protect site against hackers and hacking, not just websites, but businesses, right. [00:19:30] Including a real enterprise is real big businesses and I've done that for years. Usually the smaller divisions, because even the public companies have their own it staff and you know, they hold it all very close to the chest. It's in tasks. I don't trust anyone else. Don't, don't go with that person. Don't do what they say. [00:19:50] Yeah. Right. Which is, or I kind of get it cause I'd probably be saying the same thing, right. Cause I know what I'm doing, but in many cases they're just trying to protect their jobs. So when I am. Doing this. One of the things we do is have a honeypot set up. So what happens is the bad guys get onto a network and they started attacking. [00:20:13] They're immediately going to get into the little honeypot and the honeypot looks like an unpatched system. Might be a Linux system. Usually it is, or it might be a windows system, and so they start hacking away at it. And that immediately just sets off a trip wire, right? Cause I know, wait a minute, wait a minute. [00:20:33] Somebody's breaking into this system. So we monitor pretty closely. We know what's happening on it. I basically, all of the time, and there were interpretations of that law that would say that what I was doing was illegal. It was part of security research, even going on to the dark web and downloading some of these databases of hacked accounts. [00:20:55] Passwords, usernames, emails, et cetera. Even going online, looking for my client's information on the dark web could be considered to be illegal, so we've got to update these laws. There's a whole lot more, obviously, that we have to update, but I'm glad to see some of the stuff coming down on the right side. [00:21:15] Hey, we've heard about companies moving back to the U S now because of the Ruan virus and other things China's been doing. To our U S corporations for years. Uh, did you know Apple is doing something completely differently to this year that will potentially get them out of China, at least for the most part, stick around. [00:21:38] We'll be right back. This is Craig Peterson here on w G a N and online@craigpeterson.com. [00:21:54] Hey, welcome back. Craig. Peter sawn here. Listen to me on w. G. A. N I'm heard every Saturday from one till 3:00 PM and on Wednesdays I'm on with Matt during the morning drive time. You can pick me up at about seven 34 or every Wednesday morning as we talk about the latest in the news of technology. Hey, you might've heard of Fox con they are a big company based in China. [00:22:26] They have offices while manufacturing plants, frankly, all over the world. They've got factories in Thailand, Malaysia, Czech Republic, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines. They also were talking about opening up some plants in Wisconsin. Apparently those never actually opened, but they are. Busy worldwide. [00:22:49] And Fox con is Apple's longest running partner in building I-phones and some of the other devices that China makes. I mean, that Apple makes or sells, right, because remember who makes this stuff anymore? Well, Apple hasn't been making its newest IMAX or not IMAX. I shouldn't say a Mac pros. Yeah. In the United States. [00:23:14] Again, not that itself, it's a contracted manufacturing company, but the Mac pro, the one that came on 2013 as well as the new Mac pro are entirely made in the United States. Now, when we're looking at things like the iPhone and some of these other devices, yeah, they are certainly manufactured by Foxconn in China. [00:23:38] In mostly in at Shenzhen China location, but in fact, key iPhone components, according to Tim cook, are manufactured in the United States and then shipped abroad. And then the devices are assembled by Fox con, and then there's another company called Pegatron in China. Bottom line. What they are doing and what Apple is doing is protecting its intellectual property. [00:24:08] And we've heard of this before, haven't we? Where companies are in China, China requires them to give all of their intellectual property to their Chinese quote unquote. Partner, right? And Chinese national has to have at least a 50% ownership in it. It's real problem all the way around, and when we're looking at what's happening with the iPhone in the manufacturing in China, things are going to be changing. [00:24:37] In fact, they're going to be changing for a bunch of Apple's devices, including some of their new Mac books. If you've ever gotten into some of the hardware details inside of. It's a Mac books and, and in fact, they're Mac computers. Over the years, Apple has gone through a few different CPS. They were using the power CPU while before that they were using the murderer, Motorola, the 68,000 based CPS and a very, just an amazing CPU. [00:25:07] I remember at the time doing some operant system ports to it. It was just amazing. And then they went to Intel and, um. After. I'm not Intel, I mean, power PC, which was an IBM design. Frankly, power chips are the most amazing chips there are. Uh, from a cost perspective and performance. It's just, they are absolutely amazing, but they run hot and they use a lot of electricity, which is why you don't want them in a lab. [00:25:39] Top and Apple was not, or excuse me, IBM was not able to deliver to Apple chips that would meet their power requirements and performance requirements. So Apple said, okay, well we're going to switch to Intel because Intel promised that they would be able to provide the faster chips and they run cooler, so they'd be better for laptops and things, and they started using Intel. [00:26:04] And Intel worked out okay. Right now, by the way, uh, Intel is losing the performance war to AMD advanced micro devices. So that's kind of cool to hear those, you know, those things kind of shift back and forth every once in a while. But Intel has been unable to meet Apple's delivery requirements, and Apple's have been pretty tough over the years. [00:26:25] Look at what Johnny Ives has done with some of the designs, but Apple says, Hey, listen, we need a. Perf performance increase in the processor and we want to choose less juice and give off less heat. Well, those things are all difficult to do for a microprocessor manufacturer. So what Apple decided they would do is they went to an open source CPU design and started with that base and went on from there to have some just absolutely amazing chip designs. [00:26:58] Now I, I love some of these designs and they're showing up. But in all of our I-phones, if you have an iPhone or an iPad, you're using one of Apple's chips. Uh, the age 12, I think is the latest one. I'm trying to remember, uh, the version numbers, but, but they're made by Apple quote, unquote. In the U S for the most part, certainly not in China, and they are very efficient from a performance standpoint. [00:27:27] They're very fast. So they've been doing a very good job with these. Now, I, I talked to a couple of weeks ago about how much an iPhone would cost if it was made in America, and I saw another study that came out last week, so I had to bring this one up because the other one. Wasn't that clear. They figured it would only be a hundred $200 more. [00:27:48] So Wes, what RAs? Why Lara? This is from fi.org. You'll find this article online, uh, which is the foundation for economic education. And this is an article by Mark Perry. He's saying that an iPhone that today costs about a thousand dollars if it were made entirely in the United States, if it even could be, because believe it or not, the United States has fallen behind. [00:28:21] In manufacturing technologies because we have blood, China get ahead of us. We gave them all this technology to start with. I've complained about that before too, and now they are ahead of us, so we don't even have the ability to manufacture these things here in the U S right now, we not only have to ramp pump, but we'd have to develop some new technologies and. [00:28:45] That thousand dollar iPhone that is assembled in China that has some component parts made in the United States would push the price of an iPhone components from about 190 $190 that's what it costs right now. Estimated, right? Apple doesn't release these numbers, but estimated to cost $190 right now, it would be about $600 if it were. [00:29:12] Made in the us. So if the materials alone are costing better than triple what it would cost in China, we could probably see a $2,000 iPhone. Now, do you remember that the U S is only bringing in 6% of the profits from iPhone sales? Two out of three iPhone purchasers are not based in the United States. [00:29:38] Now, that's a huge change from years ago when most of Apple's customers are in the U S but right now with the whole. A wound virus has been spreading in China. The app, the iPhone sales are way down, and that's probably also true of other countries as well. So this is going to be an interesting little battle as we go ahead. [00:30:00] But here's the really big news as far as I'm concerned, and that is. That Apple is going to start making the Mac book using their chip sets. So like these eight, 12, and other processors I've been talking about, they've got the, uh, a fourteens are the new ones that are coming out. I think I got that model number right. [00:30:27] But these are 12 core chips and they are actually. Two chip sets. There's uh, that, that are in one package. It's just amazing what they're doing, but some lower powered ones for doing things that don't need a lot of CPU power and some higher powered ones. And they're going to be coming out in the new iPhones and the new iPad, but they are also going to be coming out in the new Mac books now that. [00:31:01] Is amazing. 12 core CPU is aided by a graphics processor that is probably going to have its own collection of cores. This is amazing. If you look at the current iPad pro tablets that are using the eight 12 X and Z chips, we're talking about an Apple iPad pro outperforming. 90% of recent PC laptops, so this could be amazing. [00:31:31] Apple's moving this, some of this back to the U S and they're getting Intel out of the way, and I think that's a good thing, frankly, for Apple. But listening to Craig, Peter sauna, WGAN stick around. We'll be right back. [00:31:50] Hello everybody. Welcome back. Craig. Peter Assan here on w G a N having a good time today. Hopefully you guys are as well, whether you are kind of locked up in the home maybe or any central person like you, me and your, you're out and about and maybe taking a little time on Saturday too. Work in the yard. [00:32:12] I appreciate you all being with us today. I have just absolutely amazed here what Apple is doing and congratulations to them now once get into our hospitals cause they've been in the news a lot lately. You know, we've got people. Who will have the Woodlawn virus, right? Who have the symptoms of this coven 19, which is very bad. [00:32:39] And, uh, it's particularly bad for older people. We have seen now covert 19, the average of the average. Age of someone who died, what state was, it was like 82 I can't remember if that was a single state or if that was a Countrywide, but that is frankly, absolutely amazing. That means it is killing older people, but we're also seeing other symptoms. [00:33:07] Now we have, people are getting blood clots. You heard about that athlete that had to have a leg amputated. Again, it's absolutely amazing here. Uh,  hospitals right now, according to the New York times, this is from Wednesday this week saying that airborne coronaviruses detected and woo Han hospitals right now. [00:33:29] That is not good. Um. It's man. I'm just going through these articles. It just, it just, I shake my head, but we're starting to see some electric surgeries coming back to hospitals. Uh, most of these field hospitals that were set up or shut down. Down, they were largely unused and right here, according to the Bangor daily news on Wednesday, we've got two bankrupt main hospitals warn they could close in June if they don't receive stimulus funds and president and Trump has announced that, yes, indeed, our hospitals are going to get stimulus funds. [00:34:08] But if you heard me at the top of the hour, you heard. You heard me talk about how, uh, you know, we were promised funds too, and we just haven't gotten any. So it's, this is going to be a very, very big problem for us all. Uh, and when we're talking about hospitals, there's one other angle or that people just aren't paying attention to right now. [00:34:30] You know, w we talked about the ventilators. And there w there just weren't gonna be enough. Right. And here in Maine and all over the country, there were more ventilators than were needed. And that's true. New York as well. And come to find out, of course they sold 500 ventilators rather than maintain them. [00:34:52] And instead of ordering more ventilators, what did the government do there in New York? While they just commissioned a plan as to how they were going to ration them, who got. To die, right? That's socialized medicine for you. If I ever heard the definition of it, a total death panel, but the good news is we didn't need all of those, but we've got the internet of things and we've talked about it and I've talked about it in my tree trainings and we go into it in some depth. [00:35:21] In my courses, but the so called internet of things also extends to our hospitals. It's the internet of medical things, and these devices are going online. Hospitals and medical facilities are really starting to stare this in the phase. And I mentioned when I was on with Matt Gagnan on Wednesday morning this week, that there is a problem been around for a long time. [00:35:50] I have my first, in fact, a hospital chain as a client was 25 years ago. Maybe. And we were trying to clean things up for them, fix them, network stuff, put some security stuff in place. And what did we find? Well, those those machines, those hospitals, plus all of the clinics that were affiliated with the hospital had old hardware that they just weren't taking care of. [00:36:18] These devices that are controlling the systems in the hospitals. Everything from the air ventilation systems through. All of the medical equipment. Think about all of this stuff right from the, the drip machines, the Ivy machines, the ventilators, our the MRE machines, the x-ray machines. Some of these devices are running very outdated operating system. [00:36:46] Some of them are still running windows 95. Windows XP, windows seven none of which are currently getting patches or updates, and many of them were never intended to go on line at all. Think about that. When, when they were designed the windows 95 and XP. They weren't thinking about these things being hooked up to the internet or even other networks really. [00:37:13] They were just kind of standalone systems that sat in a corner and then the programmer said, Hey, listen, we can add, there's really cool feature. We'll tie them together. And so doctors can look at x-rays remotely. And so a system that was never designed with network security in mind all of a sudden had a network connection all of a sudden was being used online on a network. [00:37:35] In a hospital that had never set it up properly in the first place. I really wish more of these medical centers in the hospitals would call me because they need so much help, and many of them don't even realize it. They, these things have no cybersecurity protection whatsoever, and then the hospital networks are often not even segmented. [00:38:01] That's something I teach home users to do. So that's allowing attackers to enter anywhere in the hospital and move around so they can get to the billing. They can get to all of these machines there. Even being researchers that are saying they have seen hackers inside cardiac pacemaker machines. Think about that one for a little bit. [00:38:28] How about if it gets onto one of these machines that's running on an older version of windows or even a brand new one that hasn't been patched up and they get onto it to a hacker, it may just look like, Hey, this is just another windows 10 machine. I'm going to use it for Bitcoin mining. I'm going to use it for spreading ransomware around. [00:38:48] You think that might be a problem? So it is now Bitcoin mining instead of watching your cardiac rhythm. Right? And so when I was going to overheat, it's gonna use up all of the systems, resources. It's going to spread ransomware throughout the hospital. We've seen that again and again and again and again, and we've seen that again and again in , even in our state, New Hampshire has had this as well. [00:39:17] I talked to and helped a school district that had been nailed by ransomware and they decided they were just pay the ransom, which by the way. Tells the ransom Merz, Hey listen, let's hack them again and put another ransom on. Cause we know they pay the ransom right. So there's third problem the hospitals are having is with all of this vulnerable equipment. [00:39:40] They're not replacing them. They're not upgrading, and they're not patching them. And not enough of this equipment has been recalled by the manufacturers because the manufacturers have gone on to a newer model, Hey, listen, uh, no need to update that machine or buy a new one for only $50,000. So where are the manufacturers spending their time? [00:40:03] Where are they focusing their efforts? Well, obviously they're focusing their efforts on getting them to buy a new machine to design these new machines. It is a very, very big, big deal. Now, another one of the big attacks, most common, I mentioned ransomware when it comes to the intranet of medical devices, but. [00:40:26] The other big one is a distributed denial of service attack. Cause you remember these devices in the hospital are performing critical. Things, right? Very critical functions that, as I said, there might be running a cardiac machine on MRI. They might just be keeping track of doctor's notes, all of which are critical. [00:40:49] So if a nation state specifically targets an IV pump and changes the dose of medication, what do you think will happen? It certainly could happen, but the more basic thread is. These devices getting a denial of service attack. So the whole network at the hospital becomes overloaded and now nothing works at the hospital. [00:41:18] So there's, there are just the basic threats that aren't being taken care of. Ransomware, phishing emails, and these attacks are targeting the weakest and the oldest operating systems that are typically running on these devices and hospitals are top targets. Now, one of the big hacking groups out there that has ransomware all over the world said, Hey, listen, in this time of covert 19. [00:41:44] We are not going to be attacking the hospitals because it just isn't fair. And in fact, they have been attacking hospitals. They are the top targets still for ransomware because they're very vulnerable and they pay. And that's why, what was it, five years ago? Seven years ago? I designed a system just to, it's a small computer. [00:42:09] Based on a little in Intel Adam chip that sits in front of these devices for manufacturers, for controlling valves for more critical equipment. It just sits there. And it is a specialized firewall for that piece of equipment. So this is a problem. It's a very, very big problem in hospitals, frankly, are afraid to do anything because they're afraid they're going to get sued. [00:42:37] Their insurance companies are sitting there saying, Oh yeah, yeah, well, if you're going to do an upgrade, the equipment might not work. Properly and you might get sued. So we're going to increase the fees for our, for our services, for our premiums. Premiums are going to go up. Okay. So they just don't want to do anything. [00:42:58] And then you got the FDA right? Man, does this story ever end? And, uh, FDA is saying, Hey, listen guys, we're okay with you doing patches, the hospitals afraid of recertifying. And I love this quote here. Uh, it says it's a willful lie on the part of some stakeholders in the system that you can't update medical devices. [00:43:25] Why do you think that. W why do they think that? Well, bottom line is that. These device manufacturers are telling them, you can't update because your insurance premiums are going to get too high. The FDA says it'll have to be read, type accepted for use, et cetera, et cetera. But I want to let you know if you work for the medical community here at any level, the FDA. [00:43:54] Has post-market guidance that they issued in 2016 and in that, the FDA explained that while federal regulations require manufacturers to report certain actions, the majority of the actions taken by manufacturers to address cyber security vulnerabilities and exploits are generally not considered to be a type of device enhancement for which the FDA. [00:44:21] It does not require advanced notification or reporting. So some good news there, we'll let the hospitals know. If you're involved with this industry, guys, pull up your socks. Hire security specialist. Some of them have been doing it for awhile. That can really help you out because there's so much to know. [00:44:40] Hey, you've been listening to Craig Peterson and WGAN and online@craigpeterson.com stick around. [00:44:51] Hello everybody. Greg Peters song here. We of course are on every Saturday from a one until three and I'm on with Matt Gagnan as well on Wednesday mornings during drive time at about seven 34. I've been in the tech business now for many decades, and then the security business helping businesses secure their internet connections. [00:45:16] Really since 91 and I have quite a backstory, and one of these days we'll have to have to share it with you, but I'm a business guy and this whole security thing, you know, back in the day. I did not really understand security, probably like a lot of you guys and uh, but I was very, very technical. I had helped to implement a number of the protocols that are used on the internet and that was a big win for me because I was able to take what I knew, dig into it. [00:45:47] It took me a few days to figure out what had happened and then lock things down and I was kind of years behind at that time. Point because the, what I got, which was called the Morris worm, had actually been known for a few years before it hit me. And that was kind of a shame. So, you know, back then, of course you didn't have Google. [00:46:09] AltaVista wasn't around yet. None of this stuff was out there. We were using a gopher search engines, right. Or Veronica, Archie, Jughead back in the day, and trying to figure it out was really a bit of a chore. Once I figured it out, it was easy enough to fix, but I almost lost my business over that and that was a very scary occasion for me. [00:46:29] So I have really kind of dug into it, and I've been helping out a lot of businesses here over the years to help be secure, and I'm doing the same thing as well. For individuals. And that's what this show's all about, right? We're trying to help you guys out with that. Talk about some latest cool technology. [00:46:48] And, uh, I was so successful in being able to help outfit, I was even drafted by the FBI's InfraGuard program and trained, I've trained thousands of businesses literally here across the nation on what. To do in order to keep safe, and I continue to do that with free webinars, courses, memberships, all that sort of stuff. [00:47:10] Anyhow, if you miss the first hour today, I talked about a change here in the way criminal hacking is being looked at by our courts, and that's. Very good things about time. They changed that Apple is going to be selling max with its own processor starting in 2021. Say goodbye to Intel, and I would add to that. [00:47:34] Good. Riddens uh, also the internet of medical things. You've heard me, if you've been listening to me. Uh, you've heard me talk a little bit about the internet of things. Well, there's something called the internet of medical things as well, and that is frankly very, very scary. 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If you're not interested in it, and I, I, you know, just click right there and you'll still get my weekly newsletter. But you won't hear anything more about that particular promotion that's going on at the time. [00:49:09] So I'm not like some of these marketers that just slam you every day. I don't even consider myself a marketer. Right? I'm a tech guy that happens to have something to sell, not quite the same thing. Anyhow. Um. Yeah, w and the plenty of free stuff. A lot of people just use the free stuff and that's all they need. [00:49:30] We have a report that's been in the media that I want to talk about right now, and this is a report about this so-called zero day exploit against iOS. Now, what is zero day exploit? Basically. Uh, what we're talking about when we say zero day means, uh, it's kind of like patient zero, who was the first person to get the Corona virus as an idea, right? [00:49:57] That's patient zero zero day here. When we're talking about some of these hacks means no one has seen this particular hack before, at least no one was aware of it. Now, sometimes the government agencies. Of our government and other foreign governments, we'll find something out. Of course they won't. Uh, they won't tell us about it. [00:50:20] Right. They'll just kind of use it. That has actually changed under the Trump administration. President Trump has been adamant that they share this information. I'm sure that keeping a couple of things back, but the NSA even has been sharing information about exploits that are going on. So we're funded about more and more of them, but in this case, there is supposedly an exploit that's out there in the wild. [00:50:46] And then the wild means it is being used. It has been seen out there. And this particular exploit is supposed to be used just by sending out a specially crafted, uh, email. Okay. And I'm supposedly, I saw another article that was saying, Oh, it's especially triggered SMS, a text message or message message or something. [00:51:11] So there's a San Francisco based security firm named Zach ops, and they said on Wednesday that attackers a dues the zero day exploit against at least six targets over a span of at least two years. Well. Now that's being disputed because Apple is certainly acknowledging that there is a flaw in the mail app, but it is a bug that causes the app to crash. [00:51:39] It does not give the bad guys access to anything. Basically. So the bad guys, certainly, yeah. They could crash your mail app and it's just going to restart automatically, or are you going to click it and it'll re restart right on your iOS device. But in this case, what we're talking about is something that's really a whole lot different, a whole lot worse, or is it frankly, right? [00:52:04] If it's not giving them access to your data. Is it really worse because it can't take full control of your iPhone, unlike what some of the media outlets were talking about. So Apple had declined to comment on the report, but they came out and they said that the bug posed a threat to iPhone and iPad users and there had not been any ax exploit at. [00:52:29] All in the statement they said, Apple takes all reports and security threats seriously, thoroughly investigated. Researchers report based on the information provided have concluded these issues do not pose an immediate risk to our users, and they go on to say that they found these issues in mail that. [00:52:47] Cannot bypass the iPhone and iPad security protections and no evidence that they've been used against customers. Now Apple's really good too about trying to track what is happening on phones. You might have noticed if you go in complaining about a problem with your phone and you go into the. Oh store. [00:53:04] They can look at logs on your phone to see if the app has been crashing, et cetera. So yes, indeed, they can check this out and take care of it. There have been a number of independent researchers that have also questioned the conclusion that zinc ops came to, and I think this is good. You know, you've got to be out there. [00:53:26] You've got to be talking about these things. Apple did respond. I like the fact that it was all public here. And that people were able to look at it and kind of figure out what was going on. Cause there have been exploits. We know that the WhatsApp app has been nailed a few times and I think part of the reason for that is WhatsApp is supposed to be secure. [00:53:47] Well, how secure is it. Really, and so they, the bad guys are constantly kind of going after it, trying to prove that it's just not secure at all. But really they identified a crash report. They found a way to reproduce the crashes and some circumstantial evidence. Told them that may be this was being used for malicious purpose purchase purposes. [00:54:11] Okay. Um, so, uh, anyways, that's where that stands. So what to do, obviously keep your software up to date. Apple is very good, unlike again, in this month. Microsoft's updates ended up causing serious problems. For some people. Apple's updates rarely cause those types of problems, and when we're talking about iOS, they just don't get any easier. [00:54:39] You can apply them very, very simply. In fact, they will usually, if you have automatic updates turned on on your iPhone or iPad at night, while it's sitting there on the charger, it's going to go ahead and update itself, upgrade itself, and then the next morning, Qatar, you've got the whole new operating system you had to do. [00:54:57] Absolutely nothing, which is, man, that is my idea of an easy time, and you've heard me before, I'm sure say don't use Android and people just, I ignored, I don't understand why. Right? Some of these people, like Danny, for instance, I'm thinking of, he follows. Everything I say to the T and it has saved him again and again. [00:55:22] In his small business, he has a franchise restaurant and you know, Oh, we'll see how the restaurant business does, but he's doing okay right now, but he still uses an Android phone and I don't get it. You know, I, I'm not really fond of. Any of these big companies, politics, you name the company, the politics are probably bad nowadays. [00:55:44] You know, it used to be assumed that, Oh, big corporations, they were big, they were evil, they were nasty. And if you notice the Democrats, now they're not talking about the evil millionaires. They're talking about the evil billionaires, because of course they're millionaires, right? To all of them, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, the senators out there in California, Feinstein and others. [00:56:06] But, um. You know, the these big companies, so many of them are so left-leaning. It drives me crazy, so I get it. If you don't want to use Apple stuff because you don't agree politically with Apple, I think that's an okay reason. But reality sets in. And you just can't continue to use Android. You really can't. [00:56:27] And if you can get off of windows, you should do that as soon as you possibly can. Anyhow, that's just my opinion. So stick around. When we come back, we've got more to talk about. Of course, we're going to get into a very kind of an interesting problem over at Amazon. You're listening to Craig Peters on a w G a N stick around. [00:56:50] We'll be right back. [00:56:55] Hey, welcome back everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. You can hear me, of course. Every Saturday from one til three. You also can listen to me on Wednesday morning. Yes, I'm on with Matt Gagnon. Did you know there was a morning show. Yeah. Drive time. So I'm on with Matt every Wednesday at about seven 34 for a few minutes to talk about the latest in technology news. [00:57:23] And of course we get to spend a couple hours talking about this in more detail on Saturday. Well, we just talked about this iOS zero day bug, and what does that mean to you? Doesn't look like it's totally legit. Big, big problem with our medical devices and hospitals and otherwise they are still running windows 95 X P if you can believe that 2007, none of which are supported anymore. [00:57:55] And, uh, you also went into what. Uh, what really has been put in place out there to allow them to do upgrades and updates, but there's so much obfuscation. It's crazy. And then courts violating a site's terms of service is not criminal hacking. So if you missed any of that, you can find it online. You can just go to Craig peterson.com/iheart I also post this whole show as one podcast that you can find on your favorite podcast platform, whatever that might be. [00:58:31] By just searching for Craig Peterson. Or the easy way is go to Craig peterson.com/itunes or if you're like, hi heart, you can go Craig peterson.com/iheart or Craig peterson.com/soundcloud et cetera, et cetera, okay? But it's all out there and you can get the whole show, all kinds of. Put together for you, which I think makes some sense. [00:58:57] Amazon is the 8,000 pound gorilla out there. They have been just really taking over the online retail space in a very, very big way. In fact, the Amazon counts for about one third of all. US-based internet retail sales isn't that huge? Can you imagine having that kind of market share? One third of all of it, but it didn't get there entirely on its own in case you're not aware of it. [00:59:31] Amazon has about half of their items being sold by small businesses, by third parties, and you might've noticed that on label sometimes where the third party, uh, will. Ship has something to you directly, and yeah, it looks like an Amazon box and me having an Amazon tape on it. But in reality, what we're seeing is a return address that might not be Amazons. [00:59:57] Well, these typically are smaller vendors, so think of that for a minute. We've got about a third of all retail sales going through Amazon and about half of those coming from small vendors. That's a very, very big deal. And with the businesses the way they are today, you might want to consider. Should you be selling online? [01:00:24] A lot of companies abandoned eBay because of their pricing strategies and they moved over to Amazon and it's been okay for them over there. But I want to tell you about the problem that's happening right now at Amazon. And this is something I've seen over the years that has bothered me a lot. And I had over the years, a number of friends that had started software companies and some companies that I didn't even know that were. [01:00:57] Well, you know, I knew all of them, but I didn't know the owners. Then they had database software, they had scheduling software. They had a lot of different things, and what Microsoft would do is they'd, they'd keep an eye on the market and they'd say, Oh wait, wow. Wow. That database is doing really well and it's winning. [01:01:18] A lot of DTA deals that our database software's not winning. And the allegations were that what Microsoft was doing was kind of being a predator here cause they would go to the company that had the database software and uh, chat with them and see if the company would sell out at a reasonable price. [01:01:42] And then this is so anti competitive. It's crazy. But then. If that company didn't want to play ball, like sell themselves for super cheap to Microsoft, well, Microsoft was accused of doing and what Microsoft hadn't been convicted of doing in courts now is they would announce a product that competed directly with the small guy. [01:02:11] And wait to see who asked about it. So Microsoft would say, yeah, we have a database product for small businesses. Very easy to use. Drag and drop interface. Everything's going to be great. You are going to love it. And then Microsoft would sit there and see of companies would start calling them and say, when's your product going to be available? [01:02:34] What am I going to be able to do this? Well, in some cases they waited a year or more. And they never ever came out with a product. But what do you think happened to Mr. Small guy out there, the small business that had investors where the owners, they were founders had invested thousands of hours into it, maybe their entire life savings. [01:02:58] Well, people, companies, and I experienced this personally, companies who would sit there and say, well, you know, Microsoft is going to come out with something here. I want to see what Microsoft does. And so that small company. W is now out of business because what are they supposed to do? People aren't buying, you know, their models were based on so many sales and that was based on the people liking their product and talking about it and the marketing dollars they were spending. [01:03:29] But that money was going down the drain because Microsoft was there saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll, uh, we'll, we're going to do this. Yeah. Yeah, us, us, us. And so they got sued again and again, and they lost in court, but it was still cheaper for them and then made more money. Think of the billions in cash some of these companies are sitting on and, uh, that is a bad thing to do. [01:03:52] It really does hurt commerce. It certainly is not free trade. Uh, of course, we live now, I think in a largely a crony capitalist system. And they played that game. They played it very, very well. Well, back to our friends here, Amazon. But yet, you know, those allegations are still floating by the way, about Microsoft and many other companies that appear to be doing that thing in. [01:04:18] Here's what happened to them. Amazon. What happened was Amazon started looking at the merchants that were selling third party stuff on their websites, and the wall street journal has a great report on it right now because Amazon has its own in house brands. So it's making itself a direct competitor to many of these merchants who rely on the Amazon platform to reach. [01:04:50] Consumers. So now you've got your little product. Amazon is selling something that's similar to yours, or at least competitive with yours, and that's bad enough. But the wall street journal reviewed some internal company documents that showed that Amazon executives were asking for and getting data about specific marketplace vendors despite corporate policies against doing so. [01:05:23] Despite the fact that Amazon had testified in Congress that they never did this. And according to the wall street journal, more than 20 former employees told them that this practice of flouting those rules was commonplace. We knew we shouldn't, but at the same time, we're making Amazon branded products and we want to sell them. [01:05:48] So here's what they were doing. Amazon was looking. At what was being sold out there. And this one example that was given was something that I've bought. It's a car trunk organizer, and apparently Amazon employees access documents relating to that vendor's total sales. What the vendor paid Amazon for marketing and shipping and the amount Amazon made on each sale of the organizer before the company. [01:06:20] Then unveiled. It's own similar product. They're getting around the rules here. W we'll get into this when we get back. I'll tell you about some of these Amazon brands that you might not even be aware are Amazon brands. You're listening to Craig, Peter sawn here on w G a N every Saturday from one til 3:00 PM cause stick around. [01:06:43] We'll be right back. And of course there's a whole lot more to come today. [01:06:52] Hey, welcome back everybody. Craig, Peter sawn here. We were just talking about our friends at Amazon. I remember getting really, really upset with them. I sent them a a note, uh, years ago, decade or more, certainly more a go because Amazon decided it would patent something that it called one click ordering. [01:07:17] As though one click ordering was like some major leap forward and, and, and I couldn't believe the us patent and trademark office actually gave them a patent because I knew other sites that were doing it as well. It. This whole thing is totally upside down, not just with Amazon, but now you can get patents on almost anything and not, not just, I'm not just complaining about business processes here, business process patents, which, uh, I don't like. [01:07:48] Uh, but all the whole patent world, the whole thing has been changed, turned on its head with the new patent laws. It has gotten even worse, not better. Yeah, it makes it easier for the government, but in reality, it I think is hurting a lot of businesses. So let's see what we're talking about with Amazon here, where Amazon was combing through the data of these third party vendors that make up for about 50% of the products sold on amazon.com. [01:08:20] And these employees were accessing the data about what the vendor's total sales were, and they were getting around the rules by bending the concept of what's called aggregation according to the wall street journal and well, Amazon says that it did not access individual seller data. It did create reports of aggregate. [01:08:45] Seller data. And if a pool is large enough, that wouldn't be a problem. So if you've got 200 vendors selling iPhone cases, okay, but the example that the wall street journal is using here is have a trunk organizer. So in reality, how many trunk organizers were there at the time? So this pool of vendors, very, very small. [01:09:11] And when you're talking about a group of two entities, uh, okay, it's aggregated, but what's that telling them. So what Amazon had done then is they said, Oh, wait a minute. This is a very profitable niche that people who are using our services to sell it are in. So your small business, you come up with this idea of a trunk organizer, and it's better than any trunk organizer that's ever been made, and you're going to add two extra compartments to it. [01:09:43] I don't know what you're going to do right. You're going to make it very firm, very strong, and it can fold up, fit into a corner. And so you have to make some prototypes. You have to figure out, how do I do this? You might make a trip or two to maybe heaven forbid China or Indonesia or some other country, right? [01:10:02] Other than China, please. And you go out there for a few times, you. You end up paying, you know, easily 10 $20,000 just to have a stamp made that can stamp out your little product there for the insides. And then you got to get another vendor that had ships to that, that takes the material, sows it all together, and then can ship it out. [01:10:25] And then you have to have a minimum order sitting there in Amazon's warehouses ready to go. So you're into this one a hundred grand, maybe more. Plus all of the time that you spent doing it, which now is lost opportunity costs because you weren't doing something else while you were trying to design this chunk organizer. [01:10:50] So you have spent life savings on this. You've put it together. If you ever watched shark tank, and you look at some of these people, right? Most of those businesses fail. Even the ones that make it to shark tank. So you've done all of this. You had hoped that your business would succeed. Well, you're selling it. [01:11:13] It is succeeding. It's doing well. Maybe you've made back $50,000 of that a hundred thousand you put into it and maybe you get up to a hundred thousand Amazon notices. Whoa, this guy's making a lot of money. Maybe we should get into that trunk organizer business. In fact, we know exactly which models, which colors, which fabrics of his trunk organizer are selling. [01:11:43] Hm. So Amazon then takes the idea and runs with it. Amazon now has more than 145 private label brands. This is a huge, huge number. There is a website out there called this Justin. TGI research and they have a list of these brands that Amazon has. I'm scrolling through it right now. I had no idea. Most of these were Amazon. [01:12:18] You know, you've heard, I'm sure of Amazon essentials. That sounds like an Amazon brand, right? It is. Amazon basics. Okay. Those are obvious. But there's others like kids' clothing line scout and RO women's clothing, brand, Hayden Rose or furniture line stone and beam. Those are Amazon brands and you can't tell by the name, and I'm looking at this list over on this, Justin, and they all have their own logos. [01:12:54] You just, you would have no idea. Brass tacks leathercraft makes leather belts from, guess what those are? Those are Amazon chains. Ditch charming. Dove. Um, Ken sounds like charming Charlie, doesn't it? Hm. Uh, charm. Z silver. That sounds like chirpy. Oh my gosh. Amazon exclusive. Uh, and then charming Charlie's is out of business. [01:13:20] Right. Did you ever go there? My, some of my daughters used to love it cause you can get all of these little hoopy things and necklaces and stuff, but it goes on and on. This is, this is ridiculous. There's gotta be way more than what, what Tai and what wall street journal is reporting anyways, so they're saying those private labels account for 1% of Amazon's total sales. [01:13:45] That was according to a report last September, and some former employees apparently told the wall street journal that they are operating under the directive that Amazon's private label sales should be. 10% of the company's retail sales by 2022 so there you go. You know, we talked about the contentious relationships with eBay in the sellers. [01:14:11] Contentious relationships with Amazon in the sh in the sellers, the European union's competition Bureau opened up an investigation against Amazon. This is a very, very bad thing here. Uh, antitrust subcommittee chairman, David Sicilian from Rhode Island in house judiciary committee chair. Gerald Nadler. [01:14:36] We're pretty upset about this quote. This is yet another example of sworn testimony of Amazon's witnesses being directly contradicted by investigative reporting. So yay. At least somebody is doing investigative reporting out there. So I don't know. What are you going to do? I was upset with Amazon. I told them I'd never do business with them again, and then probably about 10 years later, I started doing some business with them again because it was the only place I could buy some of the things I wanted to buy, but they've been using this merchant data not good. [01:15:10] Not good at all. Well, we have a couple more cool things. We only have a minute or so left here in this segment, but let's get into this very, very quickly. At least get started. This is from dark routine.com they have a lot of great articles, but consumers and small to medium businesses are likely to fall. [01:15:31] For Corona virus scams. It said, now, I have seen a lot of emails coming in to me from companies saying that they can get me some of these loans. Uh, I don't think so. Uh, and I have, I saved some of them. I should put those out in my membership site or in the newsletter. You can see some of them do some training

Hoy toca hablar sobre las dos noticias que están dando mucho de qué hablar. Pegatron un empresa que fabrica productos de Apple en china y que se mudará a Indonesia para construir iPad y Mac, todo esto se debe a lo ocurrió con china y Estados Unidos seguramente, otro tema también imperante es sobre ARM la empresa que dejará de darle soporte de chips a Huawei, un golpe muy duro para la marca china, es una estacada se muerte. Y por último os comentaremos sobre el próximo evento de Apple que se realizará del 3 al 7 de junio, el evento para desarrolladores WWDC19.     // Notas de contacto Grupo Telegram Applelianos Grupo Telegram HomePod & Homekit Twitter Applelianos     Si queréis recibir notificación en tiempo real de nuestros directos tenéis que descargar esta app   Si has disfrutado de este episodio, no olvides darnos una reseña en iTunes

Hoy toca hablar sobre las dos noticias que están dando mucho de qué hablar. Pegatron un empresa que fabrica productos de Apple en china y que se mudará a Indonesia para construir iPad y Mac, todo esto se debe a lo ocurrió con china y Estados Unidos seguramente, otro tema también imperante es sobre ARM la empresa que dejará de darle soporte de chips a Huawei, un golpe muy duro para la marca china, es una estacada se muerte. Y por último os comentaremos sobre el próximo evento de Apple que se realizará del 3 al 7 de junio, el evento para desarrolladores WWDC19.     // Notas de contacto Grupo Telegram Applelianos Grupo Telegram HomePod & Homekit Twitter Applelianos     Si queréis recibir notificación en tiempo real de nuestros directos tenéis que descargar esta app   Si has disfrutado de este episodio, no olvides darnos una reseña en iTunes

Seth and JJ look into the labor and safety concerns at the factories of Apple's primary supplier, Foxconn, in China. After giving a high-level view of Apple and Foxconn, they dive into their problems with Excessive Overtime, Suicides, Low Wages, Illegal Student Labor, Riots, Strikes, and Hazardous Environments. While recognizing that Apple puts a lot of effort into their corporate social responsibility efforts, Seth makes the case that Apple can and should do more. Sources: Ground broken on Foxconn's first US factory, rumored to supply iPhone screens for Apple, Apple Insider No, Apple supplier Foxconn isn't scaling back its US factory, CNET Foxconn, a key Apple manufacturing partner, breaks ground for American factory, Mashable The 100 largest companies in the world ranked by revenue in 2016 (in billion U.S. dollars), Statista The World's Most Valuable Brands, Forbes Global 2000: The World’s Largest Public Companies, Forbes #1 Apple, Forbes Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results, Apple Apple Generated More Revenue In One Quarter Than Google Did In All Of 2014, Business Insider Apple rules Gartner's "Supply Chain Top 25" list again, Supply Chain Quarterly Apple Leadership - Tim Cook, Apple Tim Cook: The Genius Behind Steve, Fortune Apple Supply Chain - The Best Supply Chain in the World, TradeGecko Is Apple Supply Chain Really the No. 1? A Case Study, SupplyChainOpz The Apple Supply Chain: The Best in the World?, Logistics Viewpoints Apple Can't Innovate or Manage Supply Chain, Forbes How & Where iPhone Is Made: Comparison Of Apple’s Manufacturing Process, CompareCamp.com Why can't Apple meet demand for the iPhone 6?, CNBC Hon Hai, Apple's Largest Supplier, Reported Very Strong November Revenue Growth, Forbes Group Profile, Foxconn Quarterly Reports, Foxconn Apple's iPhone Manufacturer, Foxconn, Plans To Cut Employees, Business Insider #105 Hon Hai Precision, Forbes China: Hukou, Economy, Apple, Migration News Foxconn builds products for many vendors, but its mud sticks to Apple, ComputerWorld The company that made your iPhone is reluctantly bringing democracy to Chinese labor, Quartz Reporter's Notebook: From both sides of the gates of Foxconn, Marketplace In China, the Human Costs That Are Built Into an iPad, The New York Times Tens of thousands of Chinese people live at the mercy of Apple's factories — and they don't even work there, Business Insider The rise of Foxconn and Terry Gou, and shaking the Apple shackles, Android Authority The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class, The Asia-Pacific Journal Apple's iPhone: The most profitable product in history, Independent Analyzing Labor Conditions of Pegatron and Foxconn, China Labor Watch Foxconn Expected to Assemble Bulk of 2018 iPhones, MacRumors Foxconn to acquire Apple accessory maker Belkin for $866 million, VentureBeat Foxconn Is Feeling the Sag in Smartphone Sales. Apple? Not So Much., The New York Times Fair Labor Association report leaves big questions about change at Apple/Foxconn, Economic Policy Institute Foxconn audit finds 'serious' violations of China labor laws, The Boston Globe Independent Investigation of Apple Supplier, Foxconn, Fair Labor Association A Trip to The iFactory: 'Nightline' Gets an Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Apple's Chinese Core, ABC News Supplier Responsibility, Apple Union Official Links Foxconn Deaths to Excessive Overtime, LaborNotes The people behind your iPad: The bosses, Marketplace Apple is under fire for “excessive overtime” and illegal working conditions in another Chinese factory, Quartz China Focus: Hukou reforms to help 100 mln Chinese, CCTV Ending apartheid, The Economist China reforms hukou system to improve migrant workers' rights, The Guardian The end of China’s hated hukou system is less ground-breaking than it seems, Quartz

Author Irene Yuan Sun argues in her now book that Africa is poised to become the world's next manufacturing boosted by Chinese investment and production expertise. With costs steadily rising in the PRC, more and more companies are looking to offshore production from China to more affordable countries. Africa and its abundant population of young workers, free trade access into the US market and proximity to the European Union make it an attractive investment destination for cost conscious manufacturers.  But Africa is not alone vying for the estimated 85 million jobs that will be in play as China transitions away from manufacturing to a services/consumption-based economy. African countries will have to compete vigorously against Vietnam, India and other Asian nations to lure Chinese manufacturers.  Time is also a key factor. Major international manufacturing companies like Foxconn and Pegatron, contract manufacturers that both produce hi-tech products for Apple, HP and Dell among others, are working very hard to automate their production lines using robots powered by artificial intelligence. With more companies, including once low-tech industries like apparel and furniture assembly, moving as quickly as possible to automate their production lines, African policy-makers must no doubt be concerned that with the pace and sophistication of automation steadily increasing, might encourage Chinese manufacturers to keep their operations rolling back home, albeit with fewer workers. Sun, for her part, argues the fear of technological dislocation is overblown. "The essential point automation alarmists miss is that technological adoption happens through millions of individual decisions by companies that are constrained by the demands of their value chain, the financing capability of their balance sheets, and their own managerial know- how. Just because they could produce something in a more automated way doesn’t mean they will," she said. Already, Sun contends, Chinese-factories in Africa are using robotics and automation with human labor still playing an essential role throughout the production process. Sun joins Eric & Cobus to talk about her new book, "The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment is Reshaping Africa." The book is part travelogue, part business intelligence of a fascinating trend that operates largely out of sight yet has potentially massive implications for the future direction of almost every economy in Africa. Join the discussion. Do you think Africa is well positioned to become the world's next manufacturing powerhouse or do you think the high-levels of corruption, poor infrastructure and weak governance in many parts of the continent will inhibit this kind of industrial development? Let us know what you think. Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProject Twitter: @eolander | @stadenesque

Talks among the BRICS countries could lead to an expanded group, but will likely focus more on security than trade at first. Also: we preview the Brexit talks that started today; and our monthly review of smartphones shows growth for Pegatron and rising prices for American consumers.

This week: Official new Nvidia drivers make your Mac compatible with the best GPUs on the market! A mole gives us our best look yet at what it’s really like to work in an iPhone factory Apple has a secret team working on ‘breakthrough’ diabetes treatment with the Apple Watch The saga of Ron Wayne, the forgotten Apple co-founder who traded his 22 billion dollars of Apple stock for just $800.   This episode supported by VideoBlocks, the affordable, subscription-based stock media site that givesyou unlimited access to premium stock footage. Check it out for free for 7 days at videoblocks.com/cultcast   Casper’s American-made mattresses have just the right amount of sink and bounce, and people everywhere love them.  Learn why and get $50 towards any mattress at Casper.com/cultcast.   CultCloth will keep your iPhone 7, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad sparkling clean, and for a limited time you can use code CULTCAST to score a free CleanCloth with any order at CultCloth.co.   We also want to give Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com a  thanks for the great music you hear on today's show.   On the show this week @erfon / @bst3r / @lkahney   NVIDIA releases Mac drivers for Pascal graphics cards NVIDIA today released new drivers that make its Pascal graphics cards compatible with a Mac. The drivers support all 10 Series GPUs, including the GTX 1050 through GTX 1080 Ti, and the newly-announced GTX Titan Xp. Until now, however, you had to settle for older 9 Series cards. Now the newest cards, from the GTX 950 to the GTX Titan Xp, are supported   Report: Apple has secret team working on ‘breakthrough’ diabetes treatment w/ Apple Watch   UNDERCOVER IN AN IPHONE FACTORY: What it's really like to work in a Chinese mega-factory, according to a student who spent 6 weeks there     Pegatron mole describes ‘torture’ of working at iPhone factory     Today in Apple history: Apple co-founder quits and cashes in his stake for $800 In Apple lore, Ron Wayne is the man who threw away winning lottery ticket. It’s April 12, 1976: Apple’s third co-founder, a former Atari colleague of Steve Wozniak’s named Ron Wayne, is cashing in his 10% of Apple shares for $800. Hell of a nice guy. Drew Apple’s original logo. Wayne also wrote up the first contract in Apple’s history, solidifying what all three co-founders would do. Wozniak was to be in charge of electrical engineering, Jobs was responsible for marketing, and Wayne would oversee mechanical engineering and documentation. “I was 40 and these kids were in their 20s,” Wayne told Cult of Mac, referring to Wozniak and Steve Jobs. “They were whirlwinds — it was like having a tiger by the tail. If I had stayed with Apple I probably would have wound up the richest man in the cemetery.” “He was a very focused fellow,” Wayne told me. “You never wanted to be between him and where he wanted to go, or you’d find footprints on your forehead. To put it simply, if you had your choice between Steve Jobs and an ice cube, you’d nuzzle up to the ice cube for warmth. But that’s what it took for him to turn Apple into what it became.” When asked about passing on Apple, he said: Just pick yourself up and move on. I didn’t want to waste my tomorrows bemoaning my yesterdays. Today, Ronald Wayne resides in a $150,000 house in Pahrump, Nevada, a unincorporated town about 16 miles west of Las Vegas. Aged 80, he lives on his Social Security checks and money made selling rare coins and stamps over the Internet.

Today on Kilowatt we talk about Solar Roof, Model Y, Model S, Lucid Air, and Model 3. Support Ben: https://bit.ly/benruns So much good news. Model 3 Autopilot most wanted feature Model 3 is skipping beta Model 3's UI Pegatron to build Model 3 control computers Right-hand drive Model 3's coming in 2018 Model 3 dual motors coming 6 to 9 month after initial release Solar Roof coming in April Model Y not coming anytime soon Software 8.1 coming next month Model S Vs Lucid Air iMessage Stickers: Christmas Ornaments - http://apple.co/2ipEu5e Miss Kawaii Sticker Pack - http://apple.co/2dgcA9T Thanksgiving Sticker Pack 1 - bit.ly/918thanks Faces Sticker Pack - http://bit.ly/facespack1 Contact Info: Email - bodie @ 918Digital .com Voicemail - 918-401-0071 Twitter - @918Digital Website - https://www.kilowatt.bz

Wir sind wieder auf Sendung und diesmal gibts leckeres Bier! Selbstgemacht! Adi und Matti kennen sich damit aus und erklären die einzelnen Schritte vom Korn bis zum Schaum und welche Utensilien man dazu benötigt. Prost! Trackliste FragmentD – Pegatron Elwood – Beyond the Rainbow Mutetus – Hyperbased hyper remix Nächste Sendung am 1. November 2014, 18:00 Uhr Biersteuer :: Biersteuer Reinheitsgebot :: Deutsches Reinheitsgebot Biersteuergesetz D :: Deutsches Biersteuergesetz Biersteuergesetz CH :: Schweizer Biersteuergesetz Brau- und Rauchshop :: Brau- und Rauchshop Flüssighefen :: Flüssighefen beim Braushop Brauerbund :: Deutscher Brauerbund Biervielfalt :: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Biervielfalt Hackerfunk #58 :: Can I Hefe Weizen? Sendung über Alkohol Refraktometer :: Refraktometer Grad Oechsle :: Grad Oechsle Belzebuth :: Belzebuth: Stärkstes Bier Hobbybrauerforum :: Grosses Forum rund ums Bierbrauen Bierformeln :: Formelsammlung rund ums Bierbrauen File Download (99:19 min / 145 MB)

Wir sind wieder auf Sendung und diesmal gibts leckeres Bier! Selbstgemacht! Adi und Matti kennen sich damit aus und erklären die einzelnen Schritte vom Korn bis zum Schaum und welche Utensilien man dazu benötigt. Prost! Trackliste FragmentD – Pegatron Elwood – Beyond the Rainbow Mutetus – Hyperbased hyper remix Nächste Sendung am 1. November 2014, 18:00 Uhr Biersteuer :: Biersteuer Reinheitsgebot :: Deutsches Reinheitsgebot Biersteuergesetz D :: Deutsches Biersteuergesetz Biersteuergesetz CH :: Schweizer Biersteuergesetz Brau- und Rauchshop :: Brau- und Rauchshop Flüssighefen :: Flüssighefen beim Braushop Brauerbund :: Deutscher Brauerbund Biervielfalt :: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Biervielfalt Hackerfunk #58 :: Can I Hefe Weizen? Sendung über Alkohol Refraktometer :: Refraktometer Grad Oechsle :: Grad Oechsle Belzebuth :: Belzebuth: Stärkstes Bier Hobbybrauerforum :: Grosses Forum rund ums Bierbrauen Bierformeln :: Formelsammlung rund ums Bierbrauen File Download (99:19 min / 145 MB)

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--No Val tonight, so Bubba and Dee carry the show (OMG BUBBA TALKS) --Starting a new BC guild "Fifty Shades of Aran". Find out how to join on our forums! --We play a new game with Dee's mom, "Stump the Pegatron"! --Follow us on Twitter! @wowuncensored @valthemage @kolemsai @bubbacalebrogue Email the show! wowuncensoredshow@gmail.com

Nathan, Mike and Mahler discuss feral cats, bombings in Iraq, West Bank settlements, the Pope, selfishness, the Cambrian radiation, false memories, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, XKeyscore, JPMorgan, student loan rates, Pegatron, fast food strikes, and the plague.

Tii - iTem 0277 - iOS 7 Beta 4   Links Mentioned in this Episode: Today's Sponsor:  Warby Parker - use Promo Code Tii for free shipping   KansasFest - Apple II convention - July 23-28, 2013 - Kansas City, MO Here’s What’s New in iOS 7 Beta 4 iOS 7 beta features: from iOS 7 beta 1 to iOS 7 beta 4  Verizon calls on Obama to veto coming iPhone ban by U.S. ITC  Strange Bedfellows Back Apple as iPhone 4 Ban Looms Fact-Checking Apple's Earnings Claim On iPad Web Traffic - Forbes AT&T Inc. (T) Management Discusses Q2 2013 Results Sprint Nextel's CEO Discusses Q2 2013 Results AT&T's Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results The best and worst Apple analysts: Q3 2013 edition Apple's $35.3B June quarter: What the analysts are saying Surprise drop in iPad sales shows the market for Apple’s tablet has saturated  iPhone sales soar but lackluster earnings put pressure on Apple - San Jose Mercury News Apple - 关于 Apple USB 电源适配器 Apple's Guidance Implies New iPhone in September  iPhone - Wikipedia iPhone 5S Release Date Before September 28th Tipped By Apple Apple’s upcoming A7 iPhone chip will have Samsung components Biometric scanner code spotted in latest iOS 7 beta  Here's The Biggest Clue Yet That Apple's Next iPhone Will Have A Fingerprint Sensor Apple has A6-based iPad mini without Retina display in the works  Alleged Budget iPhone Leak Apple's 'plastic' iPhone mini confirmed in shocking Pegatron labor report Plastic iPhone shell shows up again, goes side by side with current products  Bin full of ‘iPhone 5C’ packaging captured in China iPhone 5C  Packaging labeled 'iPhone 5C' shows up in China The iPhone 4 remains way more popular than any 3-year-old iPhone ever has  NFB of MA and Square, Inc. to Collaborate on Accessibility Enhancements Android dominates the tablet market, with 67% of global shipments iPad Web traffic share hits 84 percent, says ad network  iPhone gains, Android cools, and Apple wishes that the U.S. was the world  Samsung Electronics has not dethroned Apple, Inc in mobile profits AnandTech | Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S4 Samsung caught tampering with Galaxy S4 scores  IDC Refutes Google Claim that Nexus 7 Beat iPad in Japan Android Fragmentation Report July 2013  Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're ABSOLUTELY HIDEOUS  Steve Ballmer admits Surface defeat Red Pitaya: — Kickstarter iblazr - Kickstarter Apple Cuts Refurbished Apple TV Down To $75 Apple’s Support Document On How To Report iMessage Spam Would you pay again for iOS 7 versions of apps you already own? Researchers reveal how to hack an iPhone in 60 seconds | ZDNet Assistive Touch – HANDY tips for just about anyone!    Apps Mentioned in this Episode: Tii App Garageband Check Me Out Idol Forecast - iPad Idol Forecast - iPhone Tube Tracker Dyslexia and the iPad - iBook Calculator Spreadsheet IFTTT Remind 101 PDFPen Text Expander

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. We haven't heard much about the PS3 slim since E3, but that doesn't mean it's been entirely quiet out there -- the hot rumor today is that Sony's signed manufacturing agreements with both Foxconn and Pegatron to build the revised model in time for July delivery. That much we believe, since it's been backed up by a couple different credible reports, but here's where it gets totally insane: there's a suggestion that the slim will be the last PS3 model of this generation, and that a next-gen console based on Sony's motion controller is due in spring 2010. We don't buy that at all, since the PS3 is just entering its prime and Sony was clear that the motion controller was for the existing console , so we think this rumor is getting garbled down the wire -- it's far more likely that the slim is being prepped for an August launch to coincide with those rumored price cuts , and that new PS3 bundles that include the motion controller are set to drop next year. That's just our take on the matter, though -- we'll see how things shake out. Filed under: Gaming . Sony placing PS3 slim manufacturing orders for delivery in July? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments .