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India is set to implement a series of subsidies and tariff reductions designed to lower production costs for Apple and other smartphone manufacturers as part of its broader effort to become a global electronics manufacturing hub (via Bloomberg).
India is proposing $2.7 billion in financial incentives and tariff adjustments targeting the electronics sector, particularly benefiting smartphone makers such as Apple. The measures are intended to bolster the production of critical components like batteries,.
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Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move. Read more āŗ
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Metaās sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to āhelp remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,ā he wrote on Threads. āWeāre going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more āŗ
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Meta rolled out a number of changes to its āHateful Conductā policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation. Read more āŗ
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Meta ends US fact-checking partnerships, sparking an emergency meeting by the International Fact-Checking Network. Read more āŗ
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China EV sales projected to reach 12 million units in 2025, overtaking conventional vehicle sales. Government incentives and fierce domestic competition drive EV adoption. Sales of Chinese electric vehicles are on track to achieve a milestone in 2025, with EVs expected to outsell traditional combustion engine cars in the country for the first time. The... Read more Ā» Read more āŗ
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Curious to know what wild ideas Sony might be pondering for the future of gaming? Well, you're in luck: it's just unveiled new conceptual technology designed to ramp up immersion by sticking players inside a TV box and squirting smells into the room. So if you've ever wanted a whiff of Kratos after a hard day's slaying, your dreams are now one step closer to reality. Read more Read more āŗ
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Mark Zuckerberg announcea Meta's shift to community notes, replacing fact-checkers and easing content restrictions. Read more āŗ
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"We need Greenland for national security purposes," President-elect Trump said during a Tuesday press conference focused on the economy. Read more āŗ
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Assassin's Creed Shadows features a rejig of the series' usual controls due to the addition of being able to go prone. Read more Read more āŗ
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Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to the way that Meta moderates its social media sites. Read more āŗ
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Former Annapurna Interactive staff - who departed the acclaimed video game publisher last September as part of a "mass exodus" - have reportedly established a new company and will be taking over indie label Private Division's portfolio, which was sold by Take-Two last year. Read more Read more āŗ
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Despite its new plan to loosen content moderation across its apps, Meta says its policies differ for internal and external discussion. Read more āŗ
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The Palisades Fire is threatening hundreds of homes and forcing some residents to evacuate on foot. The fire grew quickly amid a powerful windstorm. Read more āŗ
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Image Experts warn that Metaās decision to end its third-party fact-checking program could allow disinformation and hate to fester online and permeate the real world. The company announced today that itās phasing out a program launched in 2016 where it partners with independent fact-checkers around the world to identify and review misinformation across its social media platforms. Meta is replacing the program with... Read more āŗ
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has quietly suffered another round of layoffs, this time just before the end of 2024. Read more Read more āŗ
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The most important part of the press conference was over in the first ten minutes. Read more āŗ
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Meta says itās seen the shift to Community Notes āwork on X.ā | Image: The Verge Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Metaās new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas. āWeāve seen this approach work on X ā where they... Read more āŗ
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Afeela is coming back for a curtain call. After dominating the Sony press conference on the opening night of CES 2025, the debut EV from Sony Honda Mobility (a joint venture between the two Japanese concerns) is getting its own breakout event today.Ā What to expect at Afeela's CES 2025 press conference We know a lot more about the Afeela 1 than we did 24 hours ago, thanks to Sony's... Read more āŗ
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The X50 Ultra robot vacuum from Dreame has two little legs it can deploy to clear some small obstacles. Read more āŗ
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Based on rumors and historical product release information, 2025 is going to be an exciting year for Apple. As we outlined in our annual What to Expect Guide, Apple is redesigning the iPhone, jumping into new smart home tech, and preparing to launch new Apple-designed chips. Early in the year, we're expecting to get the iPhone SE 4, a low-cost iPad, M4 MacBook Air models, and a new iPad Air,... Read more āŗ
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Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple. Following Trump's win, Cook congratulated him on social media site X, and in December, Cook had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Cook aimed to maintain a relationship with Trump during Trump's first term as president, and it appears... Read more āŗ
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Apple today released iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1, minor updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating systems. iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1 come almost a month after Apple released iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2. The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update. According to Apple's release notes, iOS 18.2.1 addresses important bugs, and it is... Read more āŗ
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Apple TV+ will be available to stream for free starting on Friday, January 3, with the promotion set to last through Sunday, January 5. For the first time, Apple is providing unlimited access to its catalog of TV shows and movies with no subscription fee. The āApple TVā+ streaming service can be accessed from any web browser and on any device that has an āApple TVā app. The āApple TVā... Read more āŗ
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It's nearly the end of the road for the Apple Watch Series 4, which was added to Apple's public-facing vintage products list today. All aluminum and stainless steel 40mm and 44mm models of the Apple Watch Series 4 are now considered vintage worldwide. Apple considers a device to be vintage once five years have passed since the company stopped distributing it for sale. Apple and Apple Authorized Service Providers may... Read more āŗ
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For over a decade, Apple has consistently announced all-new hardware product lines, from the iPad in 2010 to the Vision Pro in 2023. But for the first time in 14 years, Apple failed to announce any major new hardware products in 2024, focusing solely on updates and refinements to its existing product lines. While Apple unveiled a large number of significant hardware refreshes in 2024, such as the redesigned iPad... Read more āŗ
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The design of this year's next-generation iPhone 17 will allegedly feature a smoother transition between the edges of the device and the back cover, owing to Apple's use of a new glass-and-metal splicing material process. That's according to the Weibo-based leaker Fixed Focus Digital. In a post on Monday, the Chinese leaker claimed that suppliers say the iPhone 17 is adopting a "process overhaul," suggesting that Apple has developed new... Read more āŗ
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Apple is expected to release a fourth-generation iPhone SE in March, but it has been rumored that the device will have a different name. The device succeeding the third-generation iPhone SE will be named the iPhone 16E, according to a December 13 post from Fixed Focus Digital, an account with over two million followers on Chinese social media platform Weibo. On December 31, another leaker known as Majin Bu on... Read more āŗ
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Apple's website still says the first vehicle models with support for next-generation CarPlay would "arrive in 2024," but that did not happen. At this point, it is unclear if next-generation CarPlay will ever launch. Apple has not publicly commented on its plans in quite a long time, but it continued to make preparations behind the scenes throughout 2024. In November, for example, a few redesigned next-generation CarPlay icons appeared within... Read more āŗ
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Apple recently announced it will be opening a new retail store at the MixC Hefei shopping mall in Hefei, China on January 18 at 10 a.m. local time. To celebrate the store's upcoming grand opening, Apple has shared both a special wallpaper and Apple Watch face featuring a custom-designed Apple logo. The wallpaper is available for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Ahead of the Chinese New Year later this month,... Read more āŗ
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