News and articles on the topic USA

Intel launches patriotic branding amid allegations of ties to China

News IT business 08-14-2025 comment
Intel has decided to emphasize its commitment to manufacturing and technology development in the United States. This has become especially important after the recent political events surrounding the company.

Consequences of AI development: electricity prices in the US increased by up to 36%, depending on the state

News Technologies 08-13-2025 comment
In the United States, amid rapid development of AI technologies there is an increase in electricity consumption and, as a result, an increase in electricity prices.

NVIDIA and AMD will give 15% of revenues from AI chip sales to China to the US, Trump confirms

News IT business 08-12-2025 comment
US President Donald Trump has confirmed that an agreement has been reached with GPU manufacturers to export their solutions to China. At the same time, he said that NVIDIA supplies outdated chips to China that are significantly behind modern American solutions.

An unknown person regularly "hijacks" the plane of a 75-year-old American — repairs and returns it in better condition

News WTF 08-11-2025 comment
For many years, Jason Hong from California was the happy owner of a 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, until strange things started happening to it — the white and red single-engine plane regularly disappears from the airport and returns after a while in better condition than before.

The secret life of scientists in Antarctica: two-thirds have faced harassment and violence

News Science and space 08-07-2025 comment
According to the results of a survey commissioned by The US National Science Foundation, about 40% of employees surveyed at US Antarctic research bases, had experienced sexual harassment or violence in the last 2 years.

Donald Trump calls on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign immediately

News IT business 08-07-2025 comment
President Trump reacts to Senator Tom Cotton’s investigation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s alleged Chinese ties and investments.

Sections of the US Constitution disappeared from the official website — fortunately, without legal consequences

News WTF 08-07-2025 comment
Citizens who wanted to learn about their constitutional rights from the official U.S. Constitutional page had not seen some of them for a long time.

US Senator investigates Intel CEO's ties to China: Lip-Bu Tan invested $200 million in 600 Chinese companies

News IT business 08-07-2025 comment
Lip-Bu Tan appointed as CEO of Intel has caused concern among U.S. lawmakers. According to ReutersUS Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel CEO Frank Yee asking him to explain whether the company had sufficiently thoroughly vetted Tan’s past business ties with Chinese technology firms, including those related to the Chinese military.

This is the future: a US engineer restores old payphones for regions without mobile communication for free

News Technologies 08-06-2025 comment
In the rural part of the United States, there are problems with mobile communication often disappearing or not catching at all. An engineer from Vermont remembered an old solution to the problem — payphones.

New AI data center in Wyoming will consume 5 times more energy than the entire population of the state

News Technologies 07-31-2025 comment
Wyoming is planning to build a new data center for processing artificial intelligence tasks that will consume more electricity than all households in the state combined. This is yet another proof of how power-hungry modern AI systems are becoming.

US hacker created a «laptop farm» for DPRK hackers — now will spend 8 years in prison

News WTF 07-25-2025 comment
A woman who just ran TikTok was no ordinary US citizen. The Arizona resident secretly organized a laptop farm with North Korea hackers.

Solar cells — the best «crop» to grow in California, farmers say

News Technologies 07-17-2025 comment
A new study conducted in the United States shows that more and more farmers in California prefer to lease their own land to accommodate solar panels instead of growing crops.

AT&T subscriber was charged $10,000 while traveling outside the US

News WTF 07-14-2025 comment
Recently, «the big three» US cellular operators — AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, — receive a lot of criticism for unclear payments. And it seems to be for good reason.

TikTok to be split into two apps — with «US-only» version, launching September 5

News Software 07-07-2025 comment
China’s ByteDance is developing a separate app specifically for US users after long disputes and threats to restrict access to TikTok.

Elon Musk announces the creation of a political party

News WTF 07-06-2025 comment
After the passage of the «great big beautiful law», which Elon Musk opposed, he announced the creation of the «American Party». It will probably do well with funding.

The police posted a photo of the evidence, distorted by AI — first denied and then apologized

News WTF 07-03-2025 comment
Police in Westbrook, Maine, USA, posted a photo of evidence seized in a drug trafficking case. However, AI was not the only factor involved.

Trump sent Elon Musk to Africa: «No more missiles, electric cars, the country will save huge money»

News IT business 07-01-2025 comment
In response to Elon Musk’s continued fierce criticism of the «great big beautiful bill», Donald Trump threatens to set a DOGE on him and expelled to South Africa.

Yeztugo — HIV vaccine approved in the US with 99.9% effectiveness

News Science and space 06-20-2025 comment
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of the vaccine Yeztugo, manufactured by Gilead Sciences, is an anti-HIV drug.

How a little-known tax change in the US caused a wave of layoffs in IT in recent years

News IT business 06-12-2025 comment
Tax policy plays a huge and, unfortunately, often unpredictable role in stimulating certain activities. This important change in the U.S. seems to have become a real global disaster for IT.

AI pretends to be a student and steals education loans on behalf of real people

News Science and space 06-11-2025 comment
A wave of frauds has recently been recorded in the United States with the use of AI and applying for student loans on behalf of real people who are not even aware of it.

Secure quantum communication in a nuclear reactor launched in the US — how it works

News Science and space 06-05-2025 comment
American researchers from the University of Purdue and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated for the first time in the world the ability to secure quantum communication in an operating nuclear reactor. 

Laser qubits in the sky over Long Island — scientists test quantum communication in the air

News Technologies 05-29-2025 comment
American scientists plan to implement a project to test quantum communication in free space. Using lasers, they want to launch qubits over the Long Island Sound.

Samsung too: Trump promises 25% tariff on Android smartphones made outside the US

News IT business 05-25-2025 comment
On Friday, May 23, Android users had the opportunity to gloat about Apple, to whom Donald Trump promised a 25% duty. But later he promised the same to Samsung.

How much does an iPhone cost? Trump threatens Apple with a 25% duty if the company does not move production to the US

News IT business 05-23-2025 comment
US President Donald Trump has demanded that Apple move production of its products to the US. We are talking about iPhones sold in the US market.

Shark hunter rescued a girl from the water with a drone

News WTF 05-22-2025 comment
Drones help people a lot, and not only in war. A man who could only do his job with the help of a drone because of his health saved a girl with it.

Hidden communication devices found in solar inverters from China, — Reuters

News Technologies 05-16-2025 comment
U.S. energy officials have discovered hidden communication devices in solar energy equipment supplied from China. These are primarily inverters used to connect solar panels and wind turbines to power grids, as well as batteries, heat pumps, and chargers for electric vehicles.

China and sanctions: Malaysia to increase video card imports by 3400% in 2025

News IT business 05-13-2025 comment
In a world where GPU power is the currency for the development of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and high-performance computing systems, a sharp rise in GPU imports to a particular country always attracts attention. It so happened that amid the unfolding trade war between the US and China, an unprecedented surge in GPU orders occurred in…

Hacker breaches Signal client used by the US government in just half an hour

News Software 05-06-2025 comment
It seems that the new administration of US President Donald Trump has picked up the idea that the «role of cybersecurity in the modern world is exaggerated». In March, a secret chat between the Trump team accidentally added a journalist by The Atlantic. And now the messenger used by the Trump administration has been hacked.

Android without Google — Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus plan to get rid of American services

News Software 05-05-2025 comment
After Donald Trump became president of the United States for the second time, a trade war between America and China has reignited. Trump imposed incredibly high duties on Chinese products and may impose other restrictions. Chinese smartphone manufacturers have already begun to prepare for possible problems.

First Texas, then Mars: Elon Musk created a separate city for SpaceX with his golden statue in the center

News WTF 05-05-2025 comment
SpaceX officially has its own city, Starbase —, with a golden statue of Elon Musk, control over development and infrastructure.

How fat is Kim Jong-un? HR found a way to identify hidden candidates from the DPRK

News IT business 05-05-2025 comment
Thousands of IT workers from North Korea have been employed by Fortune 500 companies using fake documents and continue to be employed illegally.

The US imposes duties of up to 3521% on solar panels from Asia — the region accounted for 75% of total imports

News Technologies 04-23-2025 comment
US President Donald Trump’s administration continues its tariff war, which in some cases seems to be hurting the Americans themselves more than other countries. Another such example was the newly imposed tariffs on solar cells from four Southeast Asian countries that were major suppliers to the United States. In some cases, the duties…

Movie review «Sinners»

Reviews Movie 04-20-2025 comment
On April 17, the vampire action horror film «Sinners» was released in Ukraine, and it is the fourth time that director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan have worked together after «Fruitvale Station» (2013), «Creed» (2015), and «Black Panther» (2018). Some may think that this is a kind of «From Dusk Till Dawn», only […]

US CEOs with «the highest» intelligence: Nvidia boss leads, Elon Musk is not in the ranking

News IT business 04-18-2025 comment
Website Visual Capitalist in collaboration with Preply, has created a ranking of the 15 smartest CEOs in the United States, which includes the names of many tech leaders — the bosses of Nvidia, Adobe, and OpenAI, among others.

Computed tomography provokes up to 5% of cancer cases, — study

News Science and space 04-15-2025 comment
Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco have discovered the risk of oncological diseases in patients undergoing computed tomography.

«The end of the Transatlantic Alliance»: EU starts issuing disposable «anti-spyware» phones to workers traveling to the US

News IT business 04-15-2025 comment
The European Commission has begun issuing disposable phones and basic laptops to some staff traveling to the United States to avoid espionage, a security measure traditionally applied only to travel to China or to war-torn Ukraine for fear of Russian tracking.

Movie review «G20»

Reviews Movie 04-13-2025 comment
On April 10, the Prime Video streaming service released the action movie «G20» starring Viola Davis and Antony Starr. Davis played the main role of the US president and also produced the movie. What is the result of the next version of «Die Hard» and even with a political tinge — we will tell you […]

TSMC may pay $1 billion to the US for inadvertent supply of Huawei chips

News Devices 04-10-2025 comment
TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, may face a fine of more than $1 billion, according to knowledgeable sources. Although this amount is not critical for TSMC, it is hardly a trifle.

Elon Musk's DOGE seeks out «hostile to Trump» government officials using AI, — Reuters

News Technologies 04-09-2025 comment
Elon Musk’s team behind DOGE — «Department of Government Efficiency» — is working not only to cut costs, but also to monitor surveillance.

It's all the iPhone! White House finds «Apple trace» in scandal with journalist and secret Signal chat

News Software 04-07-2025 comment
The White House has found the «of the extreme» in the scandal of secret military chat and a journalist — Apple iPhone is said to be to blame.

Intel and TSMC set up joint venture to produce chips in the US, — insiders

News Technologies 04-04-2025 comment
Unofficial sources report that Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement to establish a joint venture to manage Intel’s factories in the United States

You can exhale: Trump's tariffs do not apply to semiconductors... for now

News IT business 04-03-2025 comment
Everyone was frightened by Trump’s new duties, but according to the US State Department, they will not affect the semiconductor industry. At least not yet.

Trump's duties: Apple is getting cheaper, iPhones will become more expensive

News IT business 04-03-2025 comment
When Trump imposed tariffs on China in his first term as president, Apple began to move production of iPads and AirPods to Vietnam and iPhones to India. This won’t help now.

Did ChatGPT invent Trump's tariffs? A crazy new social media theory reveals «conspiracy» the US government and AI

News WTF 04-03-2025 comment
Twitter users / X promote a new crazy theory that suggests that the US government turned to artificial intelligence to calculate new tariffs. The evidence in this case is that all the leading chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok — use the same formula that the US government used to calculate the new tariffs.

75% of scientists want to leave the US because of Trump's policies, — Nature survey

News Science and space 03-28-2025 comment
According to a survey conducted by the journal Nature, 75% of American scientists are considering leaving the United States because of the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration.

Technological progress at the cost of ecosystem destruction. How humanity is paying for the extraction of rare earth metals

Articles Science. 03-21-2025 comment
It is impossible to imagine the modern world, which is rapidly evolving and seems to be accelerating time in its embrace of technological progress, without smartphones, tablets, powerful computers and other electronic gadgets, including high-speed Internet infrastructure and satellite communications. At the same time, there is a large-scale…

Elon Musk: «The winner will be the one who controls the production of AI chips, and it may be China»

News IT business 03-20-2025 comment
In a podcast with Ted Cruz, Elon Musk talked not only about strange things about «money computers» State Department, but also shared his view on the global tech confrontation.

Elon Musk: «We found 14 magical money computers that sent money from nowhere»

News WTF 03-17-2025 comment
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO and owner of SpaseX, freelance advisor to the US government, and head of DOGE, talks about magic computers that take money from nowhere.

Elon Musk vs. Trump? Tesla and SpaceX complain about duties

News IT business 03-17-2025 comment
Two companies led by Elon Musk — SpaceX and Tesla — have submitted letters to U.S. Trade Representative Jamison Greer. The main purpose of the letters is to lobby the U.S. Trade Representative regarding the tariff policy of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

One minute before the end of the world: scientists link the Doomsday Clock to rising mortality in the US

News Science and space 03-13-2025 comment
In a new study, American scientists have linked the approach of the Doomsday Clock to midnight to an unprecedentedly high mortality rate in the United States.

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