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The US Navy is moving to put more ship-killer missiles on submarines

November 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is pushing ahead with fielding more anti-ship cruise missiles on submarines in the Pacific, the head of U.S. Navy Submarine Forces said Monday. As the U.S. fleet grapples with the rising threat of China’s expanding Navy, which now has more ships than the U.S. Navy’s fleet on both coasts combined, the service is packing its submarines with longer-range weapons…
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Apple's iOS ad-tracking targeted by European privacy campaigner

November 17, 2020
Max Schrems (pictured) is a privacy campaigner who has already battled the US-EU Privacy Shield and Facebook. Today, the activist is launching legal broadsides against Apple, saying that the iPhone maker’s use of IDFA, IDentifier For Advertisers, is unlawful. Bloomberg…
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NVIDIA's latest desktop workstation has four 80GB GPUs

November 17, 2020
Back in May, NVIDIA announced a ridiculously powerful GPU called the A100. The card was designed for data center systems, however, such as the company’s own DGX A100, rather than anything that the average consumer would run at home. Today, the company has announced the DGX Station A100 which, as the name implies, has the form factor of a desk-bound workstation. It comes with four A100 GPUs —…
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Huawei urges UK to reverse ban following US election

November 17, 2020
A Huawei executive has suggested that the UK backtrack on its ban of the controversial Chinese company in the wake of the US elections. The Guardian quotes company VP Victor Zhang, who is urging politicians in the UK to let Huawei take part in the 5G rollout and undo the…
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Verizon and Apple to hold virtual enterprise event on Thursday focused on iPhone 12 and 5G

November 17, 2020
Verizon has announced that it will be holding a virtual enterprise-focused event alongside Apple on Thursday, November 19, at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. The event will include Tami Erwin, CEO of Verizon Business, and Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Markets, Apps, and Services. During the event, Apple and Verizon will “unveil a special offer for enterprises on the iPhone 12 lineup and…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Mercedes-Benz unveils less camouflaged EQA electric crossover, delays launch to 2021

November 17, 2020
Mercedes-Benz has released new images of a less camouflaged EQA electric crossover prototype ahead of the launch of the production version. The production version is now not expected until 2021. In 2017, the German automaker unveiled the EQA concept at the Frankfurt Auto Show. It was a compact hatchback. At the time, Mercedes-Benz claimed an impressive powertrain consisting of a battery pack of…
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