Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a Play Services feature for Android 17 that places moving dots along the screen edges to track a vehicle's motion using the phone's accelerometer and gyroscope, aiming to reduce or eliminate motion sickness — two years after Apple shipped a similar Motion Cues feature in iOS 18.
Tesla has confirmed a September 3, 2026 "exclusive experience" event in Austin, Texas, where it will unveil the production version of Cybercab, its steering-wheel-free, two-seat robotaxi that Elon Musk has said will cost under $30,000 and reach production by 2027. The confirmation follows Nevada regulators clearing Tesla, Waymo and Uber to run up to 8,000 robotaxis in Clark County, even as Tesla shares fell 3.8% the day the event was confirmed.
SST3 and FARCX-1, two research rockets developed by NYCU-led teams, completed flight tests at Pingtung Xuhai on the same day, with SST3 reaching 8.3 kilometers on solid propulsion and FARCX-1 completing Taiwan's first fully student-built liquid rocket flight at 532 meters, as the Xuhai site logged its 19th sounding rocket launch.
TASA's first self-developed sounding rocket, Island Vein MARAHO, completed its debut flight on August 22, 2026, launching from Syuhai, Pingtung, reaching Mach 1.2 at 8.1 kilometers, and confirming full ground-to-rocket communications, though the rocket body was not recovered from the sea.
Supermicro's independent directors have completed an internal investigation into an export-control case tied to two employees and one contractor indicted in March 2026, finding no evidence that current senior management knew of the diversion, that the company sold controlled products directly to restricted parties, or that prior financial reports were affected. The board has adopted all recommendations to strengthen export compliance, and the three implicated individuals are no longer affiliated with the company.
Apple will replace its installation-linked Core Technology Fee with a single 5% Core Technology Commission for EU apps distributed outside the App Store, effective October 1, 2026. The overhaul also revises in-app commission tiers, eases third-party marketplace requirements, and adds child-protection rules, following a €500 million DMA fine and recent dialogue with the European Commission.
LandSpace's Zhuque-3 booster landed on August 19, 2026, becoming China's first recovered privately built rocket, three years after the project began. LandSpace says the first stage makes up about 70% of total rocket cost — the same economics behind CASC's July 10 sea-platform recovery of Long March-10B.
Chengchi (承啟, TSE:2425) has approved selling a 51% stake in Siteng Heli (思騰合力), its indirectly held Tianjin subsidiary, for RMB167 million (about NT$790–791 million), after Siteng Heli was added to the US Entity List in April 2024. The buyer is a group of four companies set up by Siteng Heli's own executives, making this a related-party deal pending an October 8 shareholder vote.
CTBC Bank closed a five-year, NT$50 billion sustainability-linked syndicated loan for Siliconware Precision Industries, raising the original NT$40 billion target after 12 banks oversubscribed the deal<CITE:E1><CITE:E2>.
Taiwan's financial holding companies reported combined overseas exposure of NT$31.4782 trillion in the second quarter, up 2.8% from the prior quarter and a new record<CITE:E1>. The United States held its 45-quarter run as the largest market at NT$11.1 trillion, while Japan's exposure grew 45.9% year on year to NT$1.6 trillion, the fastest pace among the top 10 countries<CITE:E2>.
Taipei Exchange (櫃買中心) is holding seven Market Performance Briefings from August 12 to September 2, 2026, featuring 26 listed companies across seven themes including AI supply chain and advanced packaging, with live streaming for investors unable to attend in person.<CITE:E1><CITE:E2><CITE:E3><CITE:E6>
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on imports of new Chinese-made data center components, and the FCC is separately preparing a rule targeting Chinese optical transceivers that officials want finalized this year<CITE:E1><CITE:E12>. The move threatens Zhongji Innolight, which holds 27% of the global transceiver market and could raise costs for US cloud providers like AWS<CITE:E9><CITE:E8>.
Nanya Plastics confirmed real 2026 price increases on electronic materials but denied issuing a blanket, one-time 20% hike, as cumulative gains this year topped 100% and July revenue hit a 49-month high<CITE:E2><CITE:E3><CITE:E10>.
LiCap Technology's board approved a NT$1 billion investment to lease facilities and buy equipment, supporting a 20-year Tesla contract to supply at least 100,000 tonnes of LFP precursor material annually<CITE:E1><CITE:E4>.
Taiwan's robo-advisory market held NT$19.034 billion in assets across 257,846 client accounts at 16 providers as of June 30, 2026, up 36.3% year-on-year, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC, 金管會) said, with one more bank's application still under review.<CITE:E1>
According to a CNA report also carried by UDN Money, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan passed a six-year, NT$44.2 billion 'Unmanned Vehicle Industry Development Program' budget on August 15, 2026. Taiwan External Trade Development Council (外貿協會, TAITRA) Chairman James Huang (黃志芳) called it a boost, saying the drone industry is 'about to take off,' and detailed upcoming trade shows and forums to help local firms reach global markets.
According to CNA and UDN Money, Google Cloud activated Google Security Operations (Google SecOps) in its Taiwan Region on August 7, 2026, letting regulated organizations keep security data in-country. Google Cloud says the platform cuts alert investigation time from 30 minutes to under 60 seconds and already serves 1,200+ customers globally.
According to The Verge and TechCrunch, a Santa Fe district court ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund on top of a prior $375 million penalty, bringing total charges in New Mexico's child safety case to $942 million.
According to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA), a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage is set to strike the Moon on August 5, with an impact CNA says is equivalent to roughly 3 tons of TNT. CNA estimates over 1,000,000 kg of ejected debris and a 20-to-30-meter crater, while the UK's Independent, as relayed by udn.com, puts the crater at about 27 meters wide and 5 meters deep.
According to Nikkei Asia and CNA, SpaceX is building an NCNT (non-China, non-Taiwan) supply chain and has asked Taiwan suppliers to raise overseas production ratios and drop Chinese-made parts; one supplier says it has already expanded Southeast Asia production lines.
Google introduced a 'Selfie Video' sign-in option in Taiwan this week, letting users regain access to locked accounts by recording a short video of head movements instead of using a trusted device. According to CNA and Inside, the rollout date was July 24, while iThome reported July 23. Google says the videos are encrypted at rest and can be checked at g.co/signin-selfie.
According to reports from MoneyDJ and TechNews, Alphabet's Q2 revenue rose 24% to $119.796 billion, topping analyst estimates, while Google Cloud revenue surged 81.8% to $24.768 billion. Capex jumped 100% to $44.9 billion, and Alphabet raised its full-year 2026 capex guidance to $195-205 billion. CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged that coding and agentic coding still need improvement, and Alphabet Class A shares fell 3.16% after hours to $331.27.
According to The Verge, R.K.C., a Florida teenager, withdrew his social media addiction lawsuit against Meta less than a week before a Los Angeles bellwether trial was set to begin. TechCrunch reports the withdrawal came a day after co-defendant Snap reached a tentative settlement, and Meta says R.K.C. received no payment. The plaintiff's lawyers cited the "overall successful result" of the broader litigation, which had already produced a $375 million New Mexico penalty and a $6 million Los Angeles jury verdict against Meta.
According to a Central News Agency (CNA) report, Facebook's web version experienced an outage on the afternoon of July 19, 2026, with users seeing an 'account temporarily unavailable' message. CNA's own test found the mobile app still worked, while Downdetector.com data showed website errors accounted for 62% of user reports.
On July 10, 2026, China's state-owned aerospace company successfully launched and recovered the first stage of its Long March 10B rocket—a global first in net-capture recovery technology. According to reports, the booster separated from the upper stage after 6 minutes and vertically returned to a sea platform using a net-capture mechanism, contrasting with SpaceX's propulsive landing approach that began in 2015. China aims to complete re-flight testing by year-end and enter small-batch regular launch operations within 3–5 years.