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SK Hynix is making history on Wall Street this Friday, as the South Korean chipmaker begins trading on the Nasdaq in what will be the largest ever US debut by a foreign company. The listing raises twenty-six point five billion dollars, a signal of just how central memory chips have become to the global technology economy.
Shifting from semiconductors to something a little more whimsical — ten years after Pokémon Go launched with a trailer teasing a Times Square battle against Mewtwo, Niantic finally made good on that promise. Thousands of players flooded Midtown Manhattan for a surprise anniversary event, proving the game still has a remarkable hold on its community nearly a decade on.
And on a cautionary note, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority has cracked down on a wave of misleading online adverts for small portable cooling devices. Claims that these gadgets could cool a room in ninety seconds were found to be simply untrue — a reminder that when a product sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.
Stay skeptical, stay curious. Tech Beat out.
