Boffins squeeze light into a 6-nanometer spot
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Carbon nanotubes move from black and white to colour imaging

Boffins at the University of California Riverside researchers have built technology that squeezes tungsten lamp light into a 6-nanometer spot at the end of a silver nanowire.

Raspberry Pi Trading might be listed
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Valued at $493 million

According to The Telegraph, Raspberry Pi Trading, the arm responsible for the creation of the Raspberry Pi could soon be listed with a value of more than $493 million.

Microsoft in antitrust hot water again
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Tame Apple press rejoices

Microsoft has managed to stay out of the antitrust problems faced by Big Tech such as Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook, but it now appears that it is going to have a little monopoly allegation all its own for its legal teams to play with.

AMD jacks up the price for Radeon 6000 PCBs
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Well, everyone else is

It appears that AMD has given up trying to be nice during the chip shortage and jacked up the prices of its Radeon 6000 PCBs

Israel prevents sales of “cyber security” products to 65 countries
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Only 37 countries are allowed it now

The Israeli government has restricted the list of countries to which local security firms are allowed to sell surveillance and offensive hacking tools by almost two-thirds.

Dancing cactus sings about cocaine and depression
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Just the thing for a toddler's Christmas present

An Ontario grandmother who bought an educational toy for her 15-month-old granddaughter was shocked when the dancing cactus started swearing and singing about doing cocaine in Polish.

AT&T and Verizon reduce 5G power
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See if planes stop dropping out of the sky

AT&T and Verizon said they will slightly reduce the power of their 5G transmissions in C-band spectrum for six months to see if it stops interfering with aircraft radar.

Italy fines Google and Apple for being evil
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$11.23 million each for being too aggressive with customer data 

Italy's antitrust regulator has fined Google and Apple $11.23 million each for "aggressive practices" linked to the commercial use of user data.

Micron and UMC bury the hatchet
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Smoking the peace pipe

US chipmaker Micron and Taiwanese peer UMC have withdrawn complaints against each other following a years long legal dispute over intellectual property (IP).

Intel’s Meteor Lake looking rather good
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Now if they can only get it into the shops

The new Intel 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" CPU which should be out in 2023 is looking rather good, if Chipzilla can turn around its historically bad luck at getting products into the shops on time.