Tesla Closes San Mateo Office, Lays Off 200 Autopilot Employees

Tesla has closed its office in San Mateo, California, and about 200 employees working on the Autopilot driver assistance system have been laid off, with most of the laid-off workers classified as hourly workers. The layoffs at several Tesla plants follow Elon Musk’s decision to cut staff by 10%, with the Tesla chief previously telling […]

Samsung To Lure New Foundry Customers, Starts Producing 3-Nanometre Chips

Samsung Electronics announced on Thursday that it has started mass producing chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology, the first to do so globally, in an effort to race far rival TSMC who is way ahead in chip manufacturing. In a statement, Samsung announced that unlike the traditional 5-nanometre chips, the new first-gen 3-nanometre process can lessen […]

Apple, Google Urged To Boot TikTok From App Stores

A Federal Communications Commission member has urged the CEOs of Apple and Alphabet’s Google to remove Chinese-owned TikTok from its app stores. Brendan Carr, the Republican FCC commissioner, said in a letter that video-sharing app TikTok has collected a massive amount of sensitive data about users in the U.S. that may be accessed by the […]