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[Update: TSMC Not Taking New Orders] US Imposes New Restrictions on Huawei to Isolate It from Global Chipmakers Havingextended the trade sanctions on Huaweiuntil May 2021, the US government on Friday imposed further restrictions on the company as part of itscontinuing effortsto isolate the Chinese telecom giant from global trade. According to the country’s Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, the move will prevent Huawei from using American technology to design and manufacture semiconductors (chipsets) by circumventing existing trade sanctions....

Airtel Introduces New ‘Work@Home’ Plans for Businesses In light of the extended lockdown in India,Airtelhas today announced new ‘Work@Home’ plans aimed at businesses. With these plans, Airtel’s business arm aims to provide enterprise employees“a fully secure and seamless office like experience at home.” Both wired and wireless connectivity options along with collaboration tools, and security solutions are on offer by Airtel. These includeAirtel’s Corporate Broadband with up to 1Gbps speeds, and“High speed Airtel 4G Corporate Mi-Fi devices with complimentary G Suite pack....

Amazon India Now Accepting Orders on All Items in All Zones The Indian government implemented a lockdown in response to theCoronavirus pandemicback in late March. The lockdown effectively banned e-commerce companies from shipping orders for goods that were not ‘essential’. However, companies can now ship all goods in all zones in the country, except for containment zones. Amazon has announced that it is accepting orders on all goods across the country....

CD Projekt Made a Mad Max-Themed Car for Cyberpunk 2077 The 15th of May 2020 marked the fifth anniversary of the popular film, Mad Max: Fury Road. The Academy Award-winning film starred by Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron carried a post-apocalyptic theme, much like the upcoming hyped game,Cyberpunk 2077. So, to pay a tribute to the film, developers, CD Projekt, created a custom Mad Max-themed car for the game. CD Projekt shared a tweet (below) on May 15 showcasingthe themed “Reaver” car with a custom design all over its body and wheels....

General Atlantic Invests $870 Million in Reliance Jio Private equity firm, General Atlantic has today invested $870 million in Reliance Jio Platforms, continuing a series of investments in the Mukesh Ambani owned company. With this investment, General Atlantic hasbought a 1.34% stake in Jio Platforms. General Atlantic’s investmentvalues Jio Platforms at $65 billion, which is the same valuation as that of theSilver Lake investmentin Jio, andVista Equity Partners investmentin the company....

Get Ubisoft’s “Discovery Tours” from Assassin’s Creed Universe for Free Till May 21 As the Coronavirus pandemic is not going away anytime soon, companies are trying their level best tokeep us entertainedand educated while global lockdowns continue to persist. So now, Ubisoft is coming onboard by offering two games, well, educational games to be precise, for free. The games in question are Assassin’s Creed’s “Discovery Tours” of ancient Greece and ancient Egypt....

Google Meet Hits 50 Million Downloads on Play Store Google’s video conferencing tool Google Meet –previously known as Hangouts Meet, hashit 50 million downloads on Google Play Store. The increased adoption comes after the software giant made the servicefree for everyonewith a Google account to use. As per AppBrain’s data,Google Meet was at a relatively lower 5 million downloads at the beginning of March. AppBrain notes that the service gradually made a jump to 10 million downloads on the 24th of March....