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UK chip maker Dialog Semiconductor agrees £4.3m takeover by Japan’s Renesas Electronics By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 8 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 8 February 2021 Reading-based Dialog Semiconductor has agreed to sell itself for £4.3bn to Japan’s Renesas Electronics A chip maker that counts Apple among its customers … Read more
Not such a bright spark! Hilarious snaps capture disasters with technology – including placing an electric kettle on the stove These pictures from around the world show people struggling with technology One grandmother used a magnifying glass on her phone instead of zooming Another person melted the corner of their flat screen TV with a … Read more
Say the word Apple today and we think of Steve Jobs’ multi-billion-dollar technology company that spawned the iPhone and the Mac computer. But a decade before the California-based firm was even founded, Apple Electronics, a subsidiary of the Beatles’ record label Apple, was working on several pioneering inventions – some of which were precursors of … Read more
Heathrow’s bid to keep duty-free shopping: Britain’s biggest airport launches legal challenge to bring back bargains on perfume, clothing and electronics Heathrow argue it will intensify crisis facing battered aviation and retail industry As of January 1, tax savings on goods will apply only to alcohol and tobacco Abolition of VAT rebate scheme expected to … Read more
Eau no! Duty-free bargains at airports will end on perfumes, clothes and electronics on January 1 with only alcohol and tobacco left discounted in new Treasury crackdown Ministers announced tax savings will only apply to sales of alcohol and tobacco Decision has been called ‘hammer blow’ to struggling airports during pandemic Experts say it could … Read more
A massive sunspot observed on the sun is turning towards Earth and is expected to increase in size over the next few days. The area, dubbed AR2770, has a ‘primary dark core’ the width of Mars and a number of crater-size ‘spotlets’ littering its surface. The sunspot is a member of Solar Cycle 25, the … Read more
Smartphone owners are being given new rights to have their device repaired under laws introduced by the EU that could put an end to ‘throwaway culture’. Manufacturers will made to fix broken electronic devices under the EU’s new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), which will also cover the UK despite Brexit. The plan, unveiled on … Read more