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September 2, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New orders for U.S.-made goods rose in July, while business spending on equipment remained strong, signs that manufacturing was holding up despite persistent supply constraints and spending rotating back to services from goods. The Commerce Department said on Thursday that factory orders increased 0.4% in July after advancing 1.5% […]

September 2, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Kimi Raikkonen said on Thursday Formula One had never been the most important thing in his life and he would walk away with no regrets, no complaints and no particular plan for the future. “I had fun and I did it my way,” the 41-year-old Finn, who […]

September 2, 2021 By Carolyn Cohn and Noor Zainab Hussain LONDON (Reuters) – The roll-out of COVID-19 vaccinations is making life insurers more enthusiastic about offering cover to those with underlying health conditions – some without even knowing whether customers have been vaccinated. Life insurers were imposing waiting periods to buy cover in the early […]

September 2, 2021 By Daina Beth Solomon and Alvaro Murillo MEXICO CITY/SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Nicaraguan activist Jesus Adolfo Tefel has already been detained once, in 2019, when he tried to bring water to mothers on a hunger strike against President Daniel Ortega. The government accused him of planning terrorist acts and, he said, locked […]

First, some housekeeping: Thanks to our new corporate parents, TechCrunch has the day off tomorrow, so consider this the last chapter of The Exchange for this week. (The newsletter will go out Saturday as always.) Also, Alex is off next week. Anna is taking on next week’s newsletter and may have a column or two […]

Western Digital (WD) claims to have re-imagined the hard disk drive (HDD) by introducing a new flash-enhanced drive architecture that breaks traditional boundaries of HDD storage. Dubbed OptiNAND, its new architecture integrates an embedded iNAND embedded flash drive on the mainboard of the HDD. While the company did not specify the amount of NAND onboard […]

PS4 deals are slowing in the UK. After all, many are instead looking to buy PS5 instead right now. That new console would normally mean the PS4 price would drop over the next few months, but we're seeing very little stock at the moment so there's no guarantees on availability in the future.  The new […]

While not known for the event originally, the Amazon Labor Day sales have come to form a big part of the larger yearly Labor Day sales event – especially if you're shopping for cheap gadgets. To help our readers snag a bargain, we’ve created this handy Amazon Labor Day guide, including all the best early offers […]

Following a major ransomware attack that hit a key US pipeline this year, President Biden mandated government bodies to adopt technologies around Zero Trust network access (ZTNA). Other governments are now expected to move more quickly towards adopting ZTNA, and those enterprises competing for government contracts will be expected to adopt Zero Trust to secure […]

September 2, 2021 By Silvia Aloisi VENICE, Italy (Reuters) – Acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion, back on the big screen after a 12-year hiatus, praised fellow female film-makers for a string of top awards over the past year, saying the MeToo movement was like “the end of apartheid” for women. Campion, presenting her new […]

September 2, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday his legal counsel and close advisor Julio Scherer was stepping down and would be replaced by Maria Estela Rios, another longtime ally. Scherer, one of the key interlocutors between Lopez Obrador and business and political interests, was widely viewed […]

September 2, 2021 By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – A narrowing of the polls over the past 10 days has turned what looked like a homeward romp for Germany’s conservatives into a tight race to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel, with multiple potential coalitions after a Sept. 26 national election. With parliament more fragmented than ever, […]

September 2, 2021 NAIROBI (Reuters) – A de facto blockade on aid to the Tigray region in Ethiopia’s north is bringing millions of people to the brink of famine, the United Nations humanitarian agency said on Thursday, warning of “looming catastrophe”. The U.N. agency OCHA called on all parties in a 10-month-old war in Tigray […]

September 2, 2021 By Robert Muller USTI NAD LABEM, Czech Republic (Reuters) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis launched his populist ANO party’s campaign for re-election on Thursday vowing to keep out migrants and prevent ceding national powers to Brussels. The central European country took in almost no migrants when a wave of asylum seekers […]

September 2, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will give Ukraine more than $45 million in additional humanitarian assistance, U.S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken said in a statement on Thursday. On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden offered Kyiv $60 million in new security aid in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. (Reporting […]

We're still waiting to hear when Apple's September event will be, but according to some rumors, the new iPad (2021) could show up alongside the iPhone 13 and Apple Watch 7 on September 14. If true, that means the device launch maybe isn't very far out, but we'll need to wait to see for sure. […]

Explosion, a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value. Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be […]

Fujifilm has been trying to make medium format photography more mainstream by not just shrinking the size of the camera bodies – as shown by the Fujifilm GFX 100S – but by also making them more affordable. Its latest medium format camera, the Fujifilm GFX 50S II is one of the cheapest ones yet, with […]

There have been growing whispers that Fujifilm is planning to release higher-resolution X-series mirrorless cameras like the rumored Fujifilm X-H2 – and it's just confirmed that with two new lens announcements today. During the launches of two new prime lenses – the Fujifilm XF23mm f/1.4 R LM WR and Fujifilm XF33m f/1.4 R LM WR – the […]

The Fujifilm X-T30 has long been one of the best travel cameras around, thanks to its mix of a large APS-C sensor and compact, retro styling – and Fujifilm has just given it a minor refresh in the form of the the Fujifilm X-T30 II. In most respects, the Fujifilm X-T30 II is the same […]