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he New Jersey bleedout continues. ExxonMobil and Samsung are running for the exits. Joining them this week is candy and confectionery giant Mars Wrigley, which just announced that it is shifting its corporate headquarters from Newark to Chicago. Since the 1940s, Mars Wrigley has been headquartered in Ironbound (AKA Downneck), a rather odd urban offshoot paralleling the Passaic River. It is one of the last livable areas of Newark. Mars Wrigley represents its largest industrial resident. Mars Wrigley is the producer of M&Ms, a legendary candy among one of the most popular in the world, along with Snickers, Milky Way,...

The video discusses Samsung Electronics America’s decision to relocate its U.S. headquarters from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to Plano, Texas, just nine months after celebrating the opening of its new 321,000-square-foot facility (0:00-0:44). Key takeaways: Consolidation over competition: Rather than a sudden choice between states, the move represents a strategic consolidation. While New Jersey served as a corporate office, Texas has been the center of Samsung's massive industrial footprint since 1996, housing billions of dollars in semiconductor operations, chip plants in Austin and Taylor, and existing offices in Plano (1:35-2:03, 4:00-4:57). Economic climate concerns: The video highlights New Jersey's high...

Samsung Electronics has cut jobs at its US display, phone and other consumer electronics operations — affecting workers mainly in New Jersey and Texas, according to documents and two people familiar with the matter. The South Korean tech giant said on Sunday in a statement to Reuters that 739 roles in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, have been affected by plans by Samsung Electronics America (SEA) — which is focused on consumer electronics and does not include chips — to move its headquarters to Texas. At SEA’s Plano, Texas office, some 100 workers including staff in its mobile division, have been...

You may be hearing that Samsung Messages is going away, and for many Android users, that's true. Samsung is quietly phasing out its Samsung Messages app and moving people to Google Messages as the default texting platform with a planned cutoff around July 2026 in the U.S. Newer Galaxy phones already come with Google Messages preinstalled, and Samsung Messages is no longer available to download on many newer devices. That shift is real. But the way people are finding out about it is causing confusion. For many people, it starts with a text that doesn't feel quite right. They're checking...

A new Google Search setting can save Lens images, voice searches and uploaded files. Here’s how to turn it off ... There are few emails that make your stomach drop faster than one about "new privacy settings." That usually means a company has moved another data switch, renamed a control or tucked a new choice inside an account menu you rarely visit. Google is now rolling out one of those changes for Search services. The setting is called Search Services History. It controls whether Google saves your activity from Search services when you are signed into your Google Account. That...

Another major company has had enough of high taxes and red tape from Democrat-controlled states.Samsung Electronics America is leaving its North American headquarters in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, and relocating to Plano, Texas.The move comes less than a year after the company opened its New Jersey facility, serving as yet another sign that big employers are voting with their feet and wallets against blue state policies.While the company has not announced any layoffs, about 1000 jobs could be affected by this decision.As part of this effort, we are relocating our U.S. headquarters from New Jersey to our existing campus in...

PLANO, Texas - Another major business is moving to Plano. Samsung is relocating its headquarters from the northwest to North Texas. What we know: Samsung’s decision to move to Plano comes less than a year after celebrating the grand opening of its United States headquarters in New Jersey. But now, the South Korean company has said it wants to condense its U.S. operation to Texas. The company’s U.S. semiconductor investments are concentrated in the Austin area, which is why it wants to move its headquarters to Plano. Samsung said the move will help streamline decision-making. Dig deeper: According to early...

An 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion, workers demand a bigger share of the AI windfall What just happened? Samsung's attempt to head off a potentially disastrous strike by offering chip workers an enormous one-time bonus appears to have fallen flat. The National Samsung Electronics Union is reportedly close to accepting a 13% allocation of the semiconductor division's operating profit, worth around $340,000 per employee, but only if the payout becomes an annual guarantee rather than a one-off sweetener. It's the latest escalation in a dispute that began with Samsung workers demanding a direct share of the...

On April 14, a Chinese battery startup backed by one of the world's largest automakers rolled the first A-sample all-solid-state battery cells off a production line in Guangzhou....The company is targeting GWh-scale output by the end of 2026, twelve to eighteen months ahead of where Toyota’s timeline stood at the start of this year. The silver market has not priced this in.... ...Greater Bay Technology’s A-Sample Changes the Timeline Greater Bay Technology (GBT) is a battery startup backed by GAC Group, China’s fourth-largest automaker by volume. On April 14, GBT confirmed that A-sample all-solid-state battery cells are now rolling off...

In a significant development for the tech and semiconductor industries, Apple and Intel have struck a preliminary agreement under which Intel will manufacture some of the chips that power Apple devices. The news, reported by Robbie Whelan and Rolfe Winkler for The Wall Street Journal on May 8, 2026, marks a notable comeback effort for Intel and highlights ongoing efforts to strengthen domestic U.S. chip production. The Role of the Trump Administration: The U.S. government played a pivotal role in facilitating the deal. Last summer, the Trump administration converted nearly $9 billion in federal grants into a roughly 10% stake...

Samsung unleashed a new batch of Galaxy Z TriFold units after selling out initial stock of the behemoth foldable that turns into a 10-inch tablet. It took less than ten minutes to sell through today’s supply, which either speaks to the phone’s surprising popularity or, rather, just how few of them the company is making. The device launched on January 30th, and unlike most other Samsung phones, availability of this one was limited to the company’s own site. The TriFold costs $2,899.99 and comes with 512GB of storage (you’d think paying this much would get you at least 1TB, but...

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A recent firmware update on my LG television revealed that the TV is taking audio samples of all content that is played through it. Other TVs are now taking audio and video samples and sending them off for analysis. Your Smart TV's HDMI Port Is Spying On You! | 23:43 Lon.TV | 389K subscribers | 62,195 views | October 27, 2025 VIDEO INDEX: 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - Supporter Thank Yous 01:26 - ACR / Automatic Content Recognition 02:10 - LG Televisions 04:03 - Samsung TVs 04:57 - Amazon Fire TV Sets 06:33 - Roku TVs 09:04 - Google TVs...

Samsung is rolling out a new software update to owners of its Family Hub refrigerators. This will bring cool features like an upgrade to Bixby and smarter food tracking with AI, but it comes with curated advertisements on the cover screen.The biggest part of this update is a major upgrade to the AI Vision Inside technology in compatible refrigerators. This feature is meant to help you reduce food waste and save money, which is something I can always get behind. The AI Vision Inside can now recognize 37 fresh food items, like apples, kiwis, and cucumbers, which is a big...

Texas Instruments is building a $60 billion U.S. manufacturing megaproject where Apple vows to make "critical foundation semiconductors" for iPhones and other devices. CNBC went to Sherman, Texas, for an exclusive first look inside the newest fab of seven TI's building in Utah and Texas to provide U.S.-made chips to customers like Nvidia and Ford. TI shares have suffered amid tariff concerns, and it's lost analog market share for several years, but top leaders are confident about the huge spend. Why Texas Instruments Is Betting $60 Billion On Making Cheap Chips In The U.S. | 15:41 CNBC | 4.01M subscribers...

As employers push harder for in-person work, employees are finding new ways to resist — without outright refusing to show up. Short of simply refusing to turn up office workers are finding new creative solutions to limit their in-person hours. The most popular trend du jour, driven largely by millennials, is 'coffee badging'. It involves showing up at the office just long enough to grab a coffee, greet the right people, and then quietly leave to finish the day working remotely. The behavior is now so widespread that executives are seeing it as a threat to their efforts to return...

SummaryCustom HBM market to reach tens of billions of dollars by 2030 SK Hynix expects tech companies to revise AI spending upwards SK Hynix, Samsung won't be hit by 100% tariffs, trade envoy says SEOUL/SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Hynix (000660.KS) forecasts that the market for a specialized form of memory chip designed for artificial intelligence will grow 30% a year until 2030, a senior executive said in an interview with Reuters. The upbeat projection for global growth in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for use in AI brushes off concern over rising price pressures in a sector...

Summary: * Samsung's 600-mile solid-state battery could revolutionize EVs, offering longer range and faster charging times, setting new standards. * Solid-state batteries replace lithium-ion, boosting energy density and safety, making them a game-changer in the EV market. * Challenges of scaling production and cost remain, but collaboration among companies may accelerate the adoption of solid-state batteries in the future. ================================================================= As electric vehicles (EVs) continue to become a bigger and bigger part of the automotive industry, snagging an eight percent market share according to recent data, one of the biggest hurdles remaining for dominance is battery technology. Sure, something like...

(Kitco News) – Gold has had a breakout year as the yellow metal surged to new heights above $2,500 while its grey counterpart, silver, has struggled to keep pace, but that could soon change, according to one analyst, as silver demand is expected to increase thanks to one new technological development from Samsung. According to retired investment professional Kevin Bambrough, Samsung has developed a new solid-state (SS) battery. The inclusion of silver as a key component, combined with the increasing demand for electric vehicles, means that demand for the grey metal will soon increase. “The key drivers that will ramp...

How much over-provisioning of an older SSD is best? The drive in question is a 120 GB Samsung 840, Model MZ-7TD120. Obviously this is not the latest and greatest, but is does have Win XP on it and should speed up one of my old XP Machines in my lab. The drive health as reported by Samsung Magician is "Good", with 17TB having been written to it. That's good news, as the TLC NAND is not the most durable in world. (It looks like the existing files on the drive go back as far as 2012, but I'm not to...