A hot potato: As we delve into mid-May, some communities are slowly starting to reopen despite the fact that the virus is far from what could be considered “under control.” Are these cities and states making a grave mistake or is it truly time to get back to some semblance of normalcy? We’ll find out soon enough.

Foxconn on Friday shared its earnings report for the first quarter of 2020 which highlights the impact that Covid-19 has had on its business.

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What just happened? The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has officially confirmed it would build a new chip factory in the US. The $12 billion plant is being constructed in Arizona, with work set to begin next year and the first chips expected to arrive in 2024.

This week brought reports that TSMC was planning to build a factory in the US. Today, the company confirmed it. The manufacturer said the plant would utilize its 5nm technology, have a 20,00

What just happened? With over 120 million units sold since its release, one would assume most gamers can already count GTA V among their collection. But when the Epic Games Store started giving away Rockstar’s title yesterday, the huge number of people trying to access the service caused it to overload.

Following rumors that the game would become one of its weekly free offerings, GTA V became the latest Epic Games Store giveaway yesterday. Anyone with a free account can grab it from now until May 21.

In a nutshell: The Trump administration's ban on US companies doing business with Huawei is expected to hammer its bottom line this year. But the Chinese giant has found a way to keep releasing phones with Google apps: re-launch old handsets.

It was back in May 2019 when the government declared a national emergency that banned US firms from dealing with "national security threat" Huawei, and others, without a license. It means that any of its devices launched after the ban, such as

Forward-looking: Nvidia's Ampere architecture has finally arrived even though we're still months away from consumer cards we can use in our gaming PCs. The company says this is a significant leap over the Turing architecture: the new A100 chips are based on a 7nm process and is as much as 20 times faster than the Tesla V100.

Ampere hype had been at the highest levels as of late, with many getting excited about Nvidia's next-gen GPU architecture

In brief: Amazon is keeping its workers plenty busy amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, and one of their tasks has been to mass-produce hundreds of thousands of face shields for healthcare professionals (and, eventually, the general public). These shields are designed to help protect the eyes, nose, and mouth from virus-laden sneezes or coughs.

Amazon has already donated roughly 10,000 of these face shields to medical workers, and another 20,000 donations are planned

Highly anticipated: Sony livestreamed one of its State of Play presentations on Thursday. Unlike past updates that showcase news on upcoming games with a few exclusive reveals thrown in for good measure, today's event was solely focused on Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima.

Sucker Punch announced Ghost of Tsushima back in 2017 at Paris Games Week. During E3 2018, the studio showed off eight minutes of early-build gameplay and it already looked gorgeous. Now with the release almost upon us

Highly anticipated: There are few grand strategy franchises with as much depth, complexity, and replay value as the Crusader Kings series, and it's acquired quite a large fanbase as a result. Those individuals may be pleased to hear that the series' third main entry, Crusader Kings 3, finally has a release date: September 1, 2020.

If you've never heard of the Crusader Kings franchise, it's essentially a medieval dynasty simulator, in which you control individual rulers as opposed