Category: Techology Advancement

Better Buy: Micron Technology vs. AMD

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Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) have been heading in different directions on the stock market so far in 2021. While memory specialist Micron has soared despite the sell-off in tech stocks, AMD’s stock price has pulled back by double-digit percentages, despite solid indications that it will continue to grow at a rapid pace this year.

However, when you take a closer look at the prospects of the two chipmakers, it’s hard to choose one over the other, despite their divergent fortunes. Read on to find out which one of these two stocks you should be buying right

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U.S. Technology Stock Earnings Preview: FB, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT And GOOG

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US technology stock earnings preview: FB, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT and GOOG

As my colleague Fiona Cincotta noted at the end of last year, the “Big 5” US technology stocks (Facebook (NASDAQ:), Apple (NASDAQ:), Amazon (NASDAQ:), Microsoft (NASDAQ:), and Google (NASDAQ:) now represent a full quarter of the ’s market capitalization. These firms were among the biggest winners of global lockdown measures and the accelerated adoption of digital commerce over the last year, but now the question is, “With the US and other developed nations on track for a ‘return to normal’ in the coming months, will the US tech behemoths

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Fatal technology disasters that went down in history

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Fatal technology disasters that went down in history

Even some of our most-trusted technologies can fail us and many of the large-scale accidents in human history can be attributed to technological failures. In the following gallery, scroll through some of the largest and most deadly technology disasters of all time.



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Port Chicago disaster


This accident involved an ammunition explosion on a cargo vessel at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California in 1944.



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Game Technology Clears Key Benchmark, Hitting 80-Plus RS Rating

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Game Technology (IGT) had its Relative Strength (RS) Rating upgraded from 79 to 82 Wednesday.




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When you’re researching the best stocks to buy and watch, keep a close on eye on relative price strength.

IBD’s unique rating measures market leadership with a 1 (worst) to 99 (best) score. The grade shows how a stock’s price behavior over the last 52 weeks compares to all the other stocks in our database.

Over 100 years of market history reveals that the top-performing stocks tend to have an RS Rating north of 80 as they begin their biggest climbs.

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Quantum technology emerges from the lab to spark a mini startup boom

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Forty years after the renowned physicist Richard Feynman floated the idea for a quantum computer, the technology is starting to seep out of academic labs and into the real world.

Several companies are making progress developing quantum computers and are selling access to the machines via the cloud. Software ventures are cropping up to write programs for the powerful new computers. And on Wednesday, the University of Chicago and partners launched the nation’s first program to support quantum-tech startups.

Quantum technology seeks to harness the peculiar laws of quantum mechanics to build more powerful tools for processing information. Quantum computers

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