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We got a trifecta of big tech earnings results today, with December quarter updates from Apple, Amazon and Meta Platforms. Of that group, Meta was the standout, reporting 25% growth in revenue to just above $40 billion, at the high end of what it had projected. Even better, Meta projected that revenue growth could accelerate further to as high as 29% in the first quarter, while the company declared a quarterly dividend for the first time. (That was a surprise, as Meta said in a securities filing a year ago:
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In this article, we discuss how the key to brand success lies in not ‘chasing trends,’ but embracing an agile, data-driven approach that prioritises real-time insights and responsiveness. Connecting with consumers in a meaningful way Today’s brands, in and outside of Southeast Asia, face a constant challenge: Cutting through the noise and connecting with consumers... Read more » Read more ›
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Protect your home against dust, pets, allergies, and more with air purifiers tested firsthand by WIRED. Read more ›
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The WH-1000XM5 is among the top-performing active noise-canceling headphones available today. Read more ›
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Australia is set to ban under 16s from social media services after the Senate passed a bill to that effect by 34 votes to 19. The legislation will return to the House of Representatives, which will need to approve amendments before it becomes law. That is all but a formality as the government holds a majority in that chamber. The bill, which has been fast-tracked, sailed through the lower house... Read more ›
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Tariffs and sanctions threaten tech supply chains. SolidIntel CEO Megan Reiss explains derisking strategies like friend-shoring. Read more ›
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US car prices would rise by over $2,000 if President-elect Donald Trump pushed ahead with tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Wells Fargo said in a note. Read more ›
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Amazon faces global protests from workers during Black Friday, with demands for better wages, conditions, and environmental accountability. Read more ›
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As Trump returns to power, the world is a more complex and dangerous place, and Kim has profited. Read more ›
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South Korea's defense minister said Russia will likely use North Korean troops as "cannon fodder" and send them to dangerous areas of the fighting. Read more ›
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From Super Mario Party Jamboree to The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, these are our absolute favorite escapes for the best portable console. Read more ›
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I bought Forspoken on PS5 for £5. I didn't want to play Forspoken at all, but I had £5. Forspoken on PS5 has sat on my desk (complete with character cards) sealed since November 17, 2023. Yes, this was a waste of £5. I'm an idiot who does stuff like this (glances over at a shelf full of Mega Drive games I can't play as I don't own a Mega... Read more ›
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In the fast-moving world of AI, competition is heating up—and nowhere is this more evident than in the battle over advanced reasoning models. In just the past few days, three new AI models from Chinese developers—Deepseek R1 (HighFlyer Capital Management), Marco-1 (Alibaba), and OpenMMLab's hybrid model —have entered the fray, challenging OpenAI's o1 Preview in performance and accessibility. Read more ›
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Beat the lines with early Black Friday TV Deals that are actually worth it. We review tech for a living—these 10 deals are too good to pass up. Read more ›
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Realme has been teasing the Neo7 for the past few days, and today, the brand announced the Neo7 will be unveiled on December 11 in China at 4 PM local time. Realme's Weibo post said the Neo7 "will be released with flagship-level durable performance, amazing durability, and full-level durable quality, sweeping the mid-range!" All this is machine-translated from Chinese, but it gives us a fair idea about how Realme wants... Read more ›
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Today and into tomorrow, Apple's online store is going down for a few hours on a rolling country-by-country basis. However, while that sometimes signals that new products are incoming, do not get your hopes up this time around. Apple takes its online store down for a few hours ahead of Black Friday every year to tease/prepare for its annual gift card offer with the purchase of select products. As of... Read more ›
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Apple’s new M4 MacBook Pro is a great computer for its usual $1,599. It’s even better if you nab it for $1,399. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge A laptop is one of the larger tech purchases for most people, so Black Friday is a good time to make that investment. Windows laptops, MacBooks, and even Chromebooks all have their regular cadence of discounts and sales... Read more ›
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You’d be hard-pressed to find a better tablet for $249.99 than the 10th-gen iPad. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple may have announced a new iPad Mini just over a month ago, but if all you want is a basic tablet for entertainment purposes, it’s probably not worth forking out $499 for Apple’s latest tablet. In fact, unless you’re clamoring for Apple Intelligence or a pint-sized form... Read more ›
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Sriram Krishnan confirmed he is leaving Andreessen Horowitz and said it's "obvious we are living through a unique moment in history." Read more ›
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A huge 45% price cut for Black Friday drops the price of these Amazon's Choice earbuds from $179 to just $98. Read more ›
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A Nvidia sales lead said in an email to colleagues that Musk's demand for chips was straining the company's supply chain, per The Wall Street Journal. Read more ›
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Brightcove, which makes software to help companies create and make money from videos, agreed to be taken private by Italian mobile app operator Bending Spoons for $233 million in cash in a deal expected to close early next year, the companies announced on Monday. The purchase price Bending ... Read more ›
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Last year, the board of now-collapsed fintech startup Synapse Financial Technologies discussed whether to remove the company’s CEO, Sankaet Pathak. At the time, discrepancies in Synapse’s ledgers were piling up, which the board was aware of. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange argued in favor of keeping Pathak in the role based on the belief that founders were best placed to run their companies, according to a person close to... Read more ›
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Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, announced on Monday that he would reinstate a tax credit for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump Administration removes federal EV tax credits. But the state may not extend the credits to Tesla because of the company’s large market ... Read more ›
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OpenAI is preparing to launch a frontal assault on Google. The ChatGPT owner recently considered developing a web browser that it would combine with its chatbot, and it has separately discussed or struck deals to power search features for travel, food, real estate and retail websites, according to people who have seen prototypes or designs of the products. OpenAI has spoken about the search product with website and app developers... Read more ›
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If Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had its way, the chip manufacturing powerhouse would be a neutral party in the battle between the U.S. and China for technological supremacy—a semiconductor version of Switzerland, one TSMC executive told The Information. Unfortunately, the company may find it increasingly tough to avoid picking a side. Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether TSMC was still producing chips for Chinese tech... Read more ›
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OpenAI has discussed powering artificial intelligence in Samsung devices, similar to a deal the AI developer has with Apple, The Information reported. The discussions are part of a multipronged attack by OpenAI on Google, which is Samsung’s most important partner in using the Android ... Read more ›
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Last week, YouTube began introducing jewels, virtual tips that fans can buy to send creators during livestreams. YouTubers can exchange these tips for cash, a penny per jewel. The Google-owned video site is the latest to get into live tipping, which has been popular for years on Twitch. As the chart below shows, most major social apps are now offering digital tips for live streamers which generally cost about a... Read more ›
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Uber announced a new service on Tuesday to help companies label their data and train artificial intelligence models. Through the new service, Scaled Solutions, Uber will hire data labelers on contract to provide companies with human-written annotations, such as descriptions of images or rankings ... Read more ›
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For several years, a favorite tactic of progressives agitating against social media and conservative news outlets has been pressuring marketers to pull their ads. Advertisers have frequently gone along with those campaigns, fearful of the negative publicity associated with their ads appearing on controversial sites. That’s starting to change. Marketers have begun to distance themselves from industrywide efforts to guard against worrisome content. Some are even reducing spending on brand... Read more ›
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Apple’s desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can’t overcome a design hurdle with the slim iPhone planned for release next fall—it can’t fit a physical SIM card tray, which is required in China. Apple plans to release its slim iPhone next year, alongside new versions of its traditional models, aiming to rejuvenate iPhone sales by providing customers with a compelling reason to... Read more ›
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