Sunday, January 2, 2022

OnePlus 9RT, OnePlus Buds Z2 to launch in India this month

OnePlus launched the OnePlus 9RT smartphone in China last year. It appears that the company is now all set to launch the smartphone in India https://ift.tt/3FPEKFY

The chip industry faces a recruitment gap, as plans for new fabs in the US will require an estimated 70K to 90K more workers by 2025 compared to 2020 levels (Stephanie Yang/Wall Street Journal)

Stephanie Yang / Wall Street Journal:
The chip industry faces a recruitment gap, as plans for new fabs in the US will require an estimated 70K to 90K more workers by 2025 compared to 2020 levels  —  Limited supply of qualified workers poses challenge as facilities are built to bolster global supply of semiconductors



Apple is likely to finish switching to its silicon by WWDC, plans the biggest MacBook Air redesign in its history and an iPhone 14 with a hole-punch-sized notch (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple is likely to finish switching to its silicon by WWDC, plans the biggest MacBook Air redesign in its history and an iPhone 14 with a hole-punch-sized notch  —  After a modest set of device launches in 2021, Apple Inc. is set for a stronger 2022—with new iPhones, AirPods and potentially a VR headset.



Microsoft releases an emergency fix for a Y2K22 bug in its FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine that stops Exchange on-premise servers from delivering email (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft releases an emergency fix for a Y2K22 bug in its FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine that stops Exchange on-premise servers from delivering email  —  Microsoft has released an emergency fix for a year 2022 bug that is breaking email delivery on on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers.



AT&T and Verizon reject the US Transportation Secretary's and FAA's request to delay rolling out new 5G services near airports, but may pause some deployments (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
AT&T and Verizon reject the US Transportation Secretary's and FAA's request to delay rolling out new 5G services near airports, but may pause some deployments  —  AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. rejected a U.S. request to delay this week's launch of a new variation of 5G mobile service …



Kuo: second-generation AirPods Pro will have lossless audio support and a charging case that can emit a sound for location tracking purposes (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Kuo: second-generation AirPods Pro will have lossless audio support and a charging case that can emit a sound for location tracking purposes  —  Apple's second-generation AirPods Pro will feature support for Lossless audio and a charging case that can emit a sound for location tracking purposes, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.



Twitter permanently suspends one of Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's accounts for repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy (Donie O'Sullivan/CNN)

Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter permanently suspends one of Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's accounts for repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy  —  (CNN)Twitter has permanently suspended Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter account @mtgreenee, the company confirmed to CNN Sunday morning.



Saturday, January 1, 2022

China stares at 1 million EV shortfall due to chip shortage in 2022

The global chip shortage is set to send China's EV industry into partial freeze in the first half of 2022, as there will be a shortfall of at least 1 million electric cars amid the soaring demand. https://ift.tt/3ELRXOw

Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda issues a New Year's Letter indicating the company will pursue blockchain games and NFTs in 2022 (Paul Tassi/Forbes)

Paul Tassi / Forbes:
Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda issues a New Year's Letter indicating the company will pursue blockchain games and NFTs in 2022  —  Well, we couldn't get more than a few hours without another major company tossing a lit match into the crypto/blockchain/NFT tinderbox, and this time it's (throws dart) Square Enix!



A Y2K22 bug in Microsoft's FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine appears to be stopping Exchange on-premise servers around the world from delivering email (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A Y2K22 bug in Microsoft's FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine appears to be stopping Exchange on-premise servers around the world from delivering email  —  Microsoft Exchange on-premise servers cannot deliver email starting on January 1st, 2022, due to a “Year 2022” bug in the FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine.



Sources: tax authorities conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges after detecting tax evasion of around $7M at Binance's WazirX (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
Sources: tax authorities conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges after detecting tax evasion of around $7M at Binance's WazirX  —  India's tax authorities have conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges including “Coinswitch Kuber …



PitchBook: supply-chain tech startups raised $24.3B in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2021, 58% more than all of 2020 (Jennifer Smith/Wall Street Journal)

Jennifer Smith / Wall Street Journal:
PitchBook: supply-chain tech startups raised $24.3B in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2021, 58% more than all of 2020  —  A flood of big money is pumping up valuations of logistics startups as global bottlenecks raise the profile of a once-overlooked sector



How to recover deleted Instagram photos on both iOS and Android platforms

Instagram has created a new option under this new feature which is known as the ‘Recently Deleted’ folder. You can find the deleted posts in the recently deleted folder of Instagram for 30 days, even if you delete one of your posts. You can either recover the post or can permanently delete it within the time period of one month. https://ift.tt/3FH1Mia

Google launches Google Wallet for Android in India and partners with 20+ brands to let users store boarding passes, loyalty cards, event tickets, and more (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority : Google launches Google Wallet for Android in India and partners with 20+ brands to let users store b...