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Taiwan chipmakers are buying water by the truckload for some of their foundries as the island widens restrictions on water supply amid a drought that could exacerbate a chip supply crunch for the global auto industry. Some automakers have already been forced to trim production, and Taiwan had received requests for help to bridge the shortage of auto chips from countries including the United States and Germany. Taiwan, a key hub in the global technology supply chain for giants such as Apple Inc, will begin on Thursday to further reduce water supply for factories in central and southern cities where major science parks are located. Water levels in several reservoirs in the island's central and southern region stand at below 20%, following months of scant rainfall and a rare typhoon-free summer. "We have planned for the worst," Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua told reporters on Tuesday. "We hope companies can reduce water usage by 7% to 11%." With limited rainfall … [Read more...] about Chipmakers in drought-hit Taiwan order water trucks to prepare for “the worst”

Microsoft is continuing to roll out more vertical cloud packages tailored for specific vertical industries. On February 24, the company announced three more of these "industry clouds" for financial services, manufacturing and nonprofit . These supplement the already-announced Microsoft cloud packages for healthcare and retail. Microsoft 365 , Dynamics 365, Power Platform tools and other Microsoft services and are meant to connect front-end productivity tasks to backend data management, officials said. Also: Top cloud providers in 2021: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, hybrid, SaaS players Power BI analytics . Engineering teams from Office, Dynamics, Azure and other parts of the company are meeting bi-weekly to build out these vertical clouds, Taylor said. But there are also capabilities in each that are unique to specific industries. Taylor said Microsoft is in the planning phase right now to determine which additional verticals it will be targeting with … [Read more...] about Microsoft unveils three more ‘industry clouds’ for financial, manufacturing and nonprofit

The electronic “pings” heard by multiple ships that are hunting for missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, have been described as the “ best lead yet ” in the complicated investigation. However, officials have cautioned that the pings, which can be picked up by highly sensitive marine listening devices known as hydrophones — and more advanced tools called “pinger locators” — may not in fact be from the aircraft’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. Instead, they could be from whales or other marine life, officials have said. “False alerts may be experienced from biological sources such as whales or interference from shipping noise,” the Australian Joint Agency Coordination Center said on April 3. See also: Chinese Ship Detects Possible Black Box Signal in Search for Malaysia Airlines Plane But how easy is it for search crews to confuse the manmade ping from acoustic beacons attached to the plane's "black boxes" with the noises of … [Read more...] about Scientists: Search Crews Unlikely to Confuse Black Box ‘Pings’ With Whale Sounds

France is weighing possible regulation to restrict the early renewal of smartphones via commercial offers by telecoms operators in a bid to lower the environmental impact of connected devices, a government official said. French telecoms operators Orange , Bouygues Telecoms and Altice Europe's SFR have for years been luring new customers by providing brand new smartphones in exchange for contractual commitments for a certain period of time, up to two years. These commercial offers entice customers to upgrade their smartphones while their previous one is still working, the French government says in a roadmap on "tech and environment" issued on Tuesday. "We're ready to adopt new measures," the government official said, without elaborating. "The aim is clearly to increase the life of terminals," the official added, referring to smartphones. The official said that the government will first ask the French telecoms authority Arcep to review the telecoms operators' … [Read more...] about France eyes new regulation to restrict early renewal of smartphones

NEW DELHI: Launched last year, the foldable smartphone from Motorola -- Moto Razr has got a price drop in India. The smartphone has got a massive price cut of Rs 20,000. This is the second price cut of the smartphone as last year it got a price cut of Rs 30,000. The company launched the smartphone at Rs 1,24,999 and it was selling at Rs 94,999 last year after the first price drop. Now the smartphone has received a second price cut and is available at Rs 74,999. The new price is live on the company website. To recall, the Moto Razr features a large 6.2 inch flexible OLED display with 21:9 aspect ratio. The smartphone comes with a clamshell design and the screen closes into half with the help of the hinge mechanism. The foldable smartphone also houses a QuickView external display which allows users to take selfies, read emails, respond to notifications, play music, use Google Assistant and more without opening the phone. Both the displays are protected with a layer of … [Read more...] about Moto Razr price slashed by Rs 20,000 in India