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Alibaba's surge has outpaced China’s other tech giants, including Tencent, Baidu, and JD.com, making Alibaba the best-performing Big Tech stock in China so far in 2025. The rally has been fuelled by optimism over its AI ambitions
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North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand "thanks in part to an explosion of data centers," reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates. "A new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the consulting group Brattle suggests that, counterintuitively, more electricity demand can actually lower prices..." Between 2019 and 2024, the researchers calculated, states with spikes... Read more ›
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Counterpoint Research data shows a massive jump in Mac sales in the same quarter that support for Microsoft Windows 10 ended. Read more ›
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The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck. Read more ›
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US and Chinese trade negotiators say they’ve reached a framework agreement that, if approved by both governments this week, would roll back proposed 100% tariffs on Chinese imports and pause Beijing’s escalating export restrictions on rare-earth materials. Read more ›
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The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) submitted a new measure that allows it to photograph any non-US citizen who enters or exits the country for facial recognition purposes. According to a filing with the government's Federal Register, CBP and the Department of Homeland Security are looking to crack down on threats of terrorism, fraudulent use of travel documents and anyone who overstays their authorized stay. The filing detailed that... Read more ›
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The GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is Nvidia’s flagship GPU, but one repair technician says it comes with a hidden flaw that makes it one of the worst designs he’s seen. Read more ›
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Stephen King's epic clown is back for "IT: Welcome to Derry," but not as you might expect. We collect the clues from episode 1 to see when Pennywise may show up. Read more ›
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Apple is planning to bring an iPhone 17 Pro-style vapor chamber to the iPad Pro, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman explained that with increasingly powerful chips, Apple is planning to bring vapor chamber cooling to the iPad Pro. The new feature could arrive as soon as with the next generation, which will likely feature the "M6" chip made with TSMC's... Read more ›
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OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, its first-ever AI-powered web browser, designed entirely around the ChatGPT interface. With features like conversational search, memory recall, and autonomous 'Agent Mode', Atlas aims to revolutionise web navigation and challenge Google Chrome’s long-held dominance Read more ›
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Google’s Willow chip has achieved the world’s first verifiable quantum advantage, running a complex algorithm 13,000 times faster than one of the fastest supercomputers Read more ›
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Hassabis said that on the one hand Google's Gemini models equipped with DeepThink is capable to win gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, it "still makes simple mistakes in high school maths" on the other Read more ›
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Sean Duffy, Nasa's acting chief, has said that SpaceX, which has a $2.9 billion contract to provide the lunar lander, is thwarting Washington's efforts to take humans to the moon before China beats it Read more ›
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