TECHNOLOGY

In an exclusive interview with the Financial Times, Nvidia's chief executive and co-founder, Jensen Huang, revealed that the company plans to spend several hundred billion dollars worth of U.S.-made chips and electronics over the next four years. Nvidia's move aligns with President Donald Trump's "America First" vision, shifting supply chains away from China and Taiwan and back to the US for national security purposes.

"Overall, we will procure, over the (more…)

Apple is now 6.5 years behind the foldable smartphone trend, which first emerged in late 2018 with the Royole FlexPai, a folable handset from the Chinese phone company Royole. The first widely recognized foldable phone, Samsung Galaxy Fold, debuted in 2019 but required a redesign due to durability concerns.

Since then, the foldable market has expanded with major handset manufacturers—including Huawei, Motorola, Xiaomi, Google, OnePlus, Vivo, and Microsoft—releasing their own (more…)

Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearScience,

Everybody knows that household appliances don't last as long as they used to. But is this conventional wisdom really true? Or is it just one of those alluring fables we like to tell ourselves about the good ol' days?

Internet searches provide copious anecdotes. News outlets generally interview repair technicians, who tell a convincing and consistent story. Appliances built in the 1970s generally lasted thirty to (more…)