By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Amazon’s $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot may reduce competition and strengthen Amazon’s position as online marketplace pro[...]
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Goldman Sachs says rising EV usage to power higher copper demand
(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs said rising usage of electric vehicles (EV) was a “key pillar of copper’s bullish story”, forecasting copper demand from the sector to amount to 1 mil[...]
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AI robots could play future role as companions in care homes
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Nadine, a social robot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending t[...]
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Dish’s Charlie Ergen looks to merge Dish and EchoStar – Semafor
(Reuters) – Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen is considering merging the two halves of his telecom empire, Dish and EchoStar, news publication Semafor reported on Thursday, citing people famil[...]
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Meta to launch Twitter challenger app Threads
By Martin Coulter (Reuters) -Meta Platforms plans to launch a Twitter-rivalling microblogging app called Threads, days after Twitter boss Elon Musk attracted criticism by announcing a temporary cap on[...]
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Google delays release of fully custom phone chip until 2025 – The Information
(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has delayed the release of a fully custom chip for its Pixel smartphones until 2025, The Information reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with[...]
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What is Threads? Is Twitter in danger?
LONDON (Reuters) – Meta, the company behind social media giants Facebook and Instagram, has launched its new microblogging platform Threads. WHAT IS THREADS? The new app bears a striking resembl[...]
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Pentagon has strategic germanium stockpile but no gallium reserves
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon holds a strategic U.S. stockpile for germanium but currently has no inventory reserves for gallium, a spokesperson said on Thursday, after China announced exp[...]
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US layoffs halve in June as tech job cuts ease – report
(Reuters) – Layoffs in the United States nearly halved in June from a month earlier as job cuts in the technology sector fell, according to data from employment firm Challenger, Gray & Chris[...]
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