(Natural News) Samsung has announced plans to build a $17 billion semiconductor factory near Austin, Texas, in the next three years in what is said to be the most significant foreign direct investment in the state’s history. The new factory is part of an effort by the South Korean tech giant to raise its manufacturing […]

(Natural News) South Korea plans to spend $450 billion to build the world’s biggest chipmaking base over the next decade. This is part of an overarching plan called the “K-Semiconductor Belt Strategy” which aims to make the country the world’s leading chipmaker. With this strategy, South Korea joins the U.S., China and Europe in a global race to dominate the semiconductor […]

(Natural News) Your favorite “woke” and “socially conscious” brands may be profiting off the products of slave labor, a new report has revealed. Think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), in its report titled “Uyghurs For Sale,” noted that big, well-known global companies and brands such as Amazon, GAP, H&M, Nike, Apple, Samsung, Sony and […]

(Natural News) A newly discovered flaw in chips powering wireless devices from a number of popular brands has left over a billion people vulnerable to hacking. Researchers working for the Slovakia-based internet security company ESET discovered a flaw that can allow hackers to steal data from people using these devices. ESET researchers have officially tagged the flaw as CVE-2019-1526, but have […]

(Natural News) While China continues to deal with the spreading Wuhan coronavirus and remain tight-lipped about just how bad it’s getting, the outbreak has begun to spread rapidly in South Korea. On Saturday, South Korean health officials reported 229 new confirmed cases of the sickness, doubling the number of infections to 433 in a single […]

(Natural News) People who rely on fitness trackers to measure the distance they have covered may be in for a nasty surprise. A recent study warned that many of these gadgets failed to do their job of accurately keeping track of how far the user had run. The U.K. consumer watchdog group called Which? tested […]

(Natural News) There is a saying in the information security (infosec) industry that anything connected to a network can be hacked. Now, new data from Consumer Reports (CR) reveals that internet-connected Smart TVs can serve as prime examples, since millions of them can be controlled quite easily by hackers who can exploit a number of easy-to-find security […]

(Natural News) It’s official: Privacy in the ‘technology age’ is officially dead, and it’s not very likely that genie can be put back into the bottle. You may have noticed that “voice recognition” technology is all the rage these days, featured in a range of new consumer products that are part of the “Internet of […]

(Natural News) Watching TV wasn’t always a shared experience. In the past, you watched your favorite programs while your TV sat there passively like the inanimate object it was always meant to be. Now, however, we know that while you’re watching TV, there is a good chance your TV is also watching you: Observing, recording […]