The US Department of Commerce on Friday announced its awards for Samsung, Texas Instruments and Amkor Technology under the CHIPS Incentives Program, which come to more than $6.75 billion altogether. The program is meant to help expand domestic semiconductor production. Samsung was awarded up to $4.745 billion in direct funding — a smaller amount than the preliminary award of...

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After announcing this week that it furloughed 82 employees, EV startup Canoo emailed remaining workers to inform them they were being placed on a “mandatory unpaid break” and would be locked out of the company’s systems at the end of the day Friday, TechCrunch reports. The email viewed by TechCrunch reportedly said the break would last at least through...

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Google has filed a proposal outlining how it would remedy the antitrust violations it’s been accused of by the Department of Justice, after the DOJ called for Google to sell off Chrome and face restrictions that would prevent it from favoring its own search engine in Android. Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of...

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We may be a bit technology-obsessed here, but the Engadget team does occasionally get around to low-tech activities, like reading. Well, some of us read on ereaders or our smartphones, but you get the point — books are great, and we read some exceptional ones this year that each deserve a shoutout. These are some of the best books...

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A federal judge in California has agreed with WhatsApp that the NSO Group, the Israeli cybersurveillance firm behind the Pegasus spyware, had hacked into its systems by sending malware through its servers to thousands of its users' phones. WhatsApp and its parent company, Meta, sued the NSO Group back in 2019 and accused it of spreading malware to 1,400...

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Robert Eggers' vampire tale opens December 25—and we got an early taste of its spooky atmosphere thanks to an immersive experience in Los Angeles. Post Views: 0

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Leto will cackle maniacally (hopefully) alongside new additions Sam C. Wilson, Hafthor Bjornsson, and Kojo Attah in Masters of the Universe. Post Views: 0

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Disney Entertainment co-chair Alan Bergman addresses the Star Wars that came and went—and looks ahead at what's coming next in the galaxy far, far away. Post Views: 0

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Musk has a history of supporting far-right causes in the U.S. Now he’s going international. Post Views: 0

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The otherworldly helicopter, with its 36 blades, is the size of an SUV—a major upgrade from Ingenuity's four blades. Post Views: 0

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