Taiwanese media call it the “TSMC effect”, in reference to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest contract chipmaker and the island’s most profitable firm.

China’s largest tech firms, including Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei and Tencent, are embracing the hype, and will be hoping to cash in on the boom through their cloud-computing divisions in particular.

Twenty-five years ago this week, the Nasdaq Composite Index hit its dot-com-era peak after soaring more than 500% in five years. Its subsequent collapse was swift and brutal. Small investors lured ...

NASA also gathered sound data from the test flight. Boom Supersonic analyzed the data and found that no audible sonic boom reached the ground. This is notable, because supersonic flights that make ...

Schools in Beijing will introduce artificial intelligence courses to primary and secondary students to strengthen China’s goal to dominate the sector. From the coming fall semester, which starts ...

This is expected to produce a sonic boom that may be heard by people throughout Santa Barbara County, as well as San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties. According to NASA, the SPHEREx (Spectro ...

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Brazil’s diaspora is smaller and more insular. But funk producers think their genre will boom before long. Last year Beyoncé and Kanye West, two American superstars, sampled funk on their new ...

So there seems to be something special about social media that can easily engross us. The most intriguing effect in our study happened when we interrupted participants at the end of their Instagram ...

During the first supersonic test flight in January 2025, Boom noted that the aircraft had flown supersonic three times without producing an audible sonic boom. The effect is achieved by breaking the ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was "no audible sonic boom". The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a "Son of ...

According to the company and NASA, the jet was able to fly without producing a sonic boom that was audible from the ground. During the first flight on January 28, the team placed microphones along ...