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Xiaomi was the fastest growing of the major manufacturers last year. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge
Worldwide smartphone sales grew in 2024 following two consecutive years of decline according to reports from Counterpoint, Canalys, and IDC. The bulk of the growth came from Chinese manufacturers including Xiaomi and Vivo, though Apple and Samsung are still holding strong as the undisputed market leaders.
Counterpoint reports a 4 percent growth in phone sales across 2024, with IDC and Canalys.
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If you know anyone in the job market right now, then youâve probably heard stories about just how tough it can be to even land an interview. Part of the problem, according to LinkedIn, is that too many people are applying for jobs they arenât actually qualified for, which makes it harder for good candidates to stand out. The company is hoping its new AI-powered âJob Matchâ feature can help... Read more âș
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Bitcoin has been consolidating in a range 10%-15% below record highs as investors largely tempered expectations of further interest rate cuts. Read more âș
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StackSocial is giving your productive 2025 an early boost by taking 72% off the price of this huge suite of apps, now just $60. Read more âș
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Honor brought its Magic7 Pro and Magic7 Lite to the European market earlier today and it also confirmed its software update policy for the flagship model. Magic7 Pro will get five years of OS updates and five years of security updates. This means that the Magic7 Pro will be running the latest version of Android and security patches until January 2030. The new update policy adds an additional year of... Read more âș
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The FTC fined Razer $100,000 for the deceptive marketing of its Zephyr mask and also ordered it to payback a total of $1,071,254.33 to all of its buyers. Read more âș
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Surgeon and mom of three Dr. Dhivya Srinivasa runs her practice in California. Srinivasa didn't delay having kids for her career and balances both. Read more âș
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NetEase has confirmed Marvel Rivals will receive a new hero every month and a half, but won't be adding enforced roles. Read more Read more âș
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Boeing delivered 348 aircraft last year â less than half Airbus managed and the lowest since the pandemic. The new CEO has a mountain to climb. Read more âș
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DJI has lifted its geofence that prevents users in the US from flying over restricted areas like nuclear power plants, airports and wildfires, the company wrote in a blog post on Monday. As of January 13th, areas previously called "restricted zones" or no-fly zones will be shown as "enhanced warning zones" that correspond to designated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) areas. DJI's Fly app will display a warning about those areas... Read more âș
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US officials believe corruption issues could throw China off track of its modernization goals and plans for Taiwan in the coming years. Read more âș
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Nintendo is collaborating with Sea Life UK to tour an interactive, live Animal Crossing: New Horizons experience. Read more Read more âș
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"Conclave" leads the 2025 BAFTA nominations with 12 nods. "Emilia PĂ©rez" received 11 nominations, while "The Brutalist" picked up nine. Read more âș
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Ukraine launched waves of long-range strikes, including its ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles, at targets inside Russia. Read more âș
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Rocksteady has released the final piece of content for its beleaguered live-service game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Read more Read more âș
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Gale Sinatra, a USC professor, lost her home in Altadena to the Eaton Fire. She's struggled to fill prescriptions and doesn't have access to her mail. Read more âș
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Gavin Newsom has targeted real estate speculators taking advantage of LA fire victims with an order banning unsolicited, undervalue property offers. Read more âș
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Anthony Williams was flying to Miami for his honeymoon with wife Katsiaryna Shasholka when he was accused by of trafficking her. Read more âș
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Image: Microsoft Microsoft says it will no longer support Office apps, known as Microsoft 365 apps, on Windows 10 later this year. The support cutoff coincides with Windows 10âs end of support on October 14th, and will mean businesses and consumers that rely on Microsoft 365 apps will need to upgrade to Windows 11. âMicrosoft 365 Apps will no longer be supported after October 14, 2025, on Windows 10 devices,â... Read more âș
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Save $70 on the Galaxy Tab A9+ and then tack on up to $50 in instant trade-in credit to bring the price down to a cool C-note. Read more âș
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A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images An aircraft helping to fight wildfires that are raging across Los Angeles was struck by a civilian drone on Thursday. The collision damaged the wing of the aircraft â a CL-415 âSuper Scooperâ capable of scooping up 1,600 gallons of ocean water to drop onto nearby blazes â... Read more âș
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Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge You may be wondering how to delete your Facebook account now that fact-checking is no longer considered important, and Metaâs changing its definition of what constitutes Hateful Conduct. Itâs easy to do, and weâll show you how. But, you should download all your stuff first. The following instructions are for the web version of Facebook, but you can follow pretty much the same... Read more âș
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Image: VideoLAN The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real-time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages. âAt the same time we have automatic translation working to translate... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge As chief executive, Spence oversaw many successful products. But there was no coming back from last yearâs app debacle: it has finally led to his ouster. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is resigning from the company today, effective immediately, with board member Tom Conrad filling the role of interim CEO. Itâs the most dramatic development yet in an eight-month saga that has proven to be... Read more âș
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Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge As I write this, there are a lot of social network users who are wondering if they should look for a new home. Over at X, Elon Musk has essentially become part of the incoming Trump administration, while various changes have made the formerly popular social network a dark and forbidding forest for many of its former inhabitants. Meanwhile, Metaâs announcement that it was... Read more âș
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Mark Zuckerberg takes his âno, really, Mr. Trump, Iâm your guy!â tour to Joe Rogan | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Iâll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out: Mark Zuckerbergâs interview on The Joe Rogan Experience is full of lies. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebookâs parent company Meta, sets the tone at... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Like Meta, Amazon is ending some of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. In a memo sent last month, Candi Castleberry, Amazonâs VP of inclusive experiences and technology, said the company has been âwinding down outdated programs and materialsâ related to its efforts around representation and inclusion, as reported earlier by CNBC and Bloomberg. In the memo, a copy of which Amazon... Read more âș
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Image: Free Our Feeds Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to âsave social media from billionaire capture.â The project aims to raise $30 million over three years to support the development of a social media ecosystem powered by the AT Protocol, or the decentralized network powering Bluesky. The raised funds will go toward launching a public interest foundation to support the... Read more âș
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Photo by Apu Gomes / Getty Images As fires rage across Los Angeles and tens of thousands flee their homes, the usual suspects have decided to blame the blazes on their political enemies. In a series of posts on Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump claimed firefightersâ inability to get the fires under control was due to California Governor Gavin Newsomâs water policies, including an effort to âprotect an essentially worthless... Read more âș
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Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft announced a âstrategic updateâ today, and the changes include a delay for Assassinâs Creed Shadows, the upcoming entry in the franchise that takes place in feudal Japan, from February 14th to March 20th. âAs part of the renewed focus on gameplay quality and engaging Day-1 experiences, it has been decided to provide an additional month of development to Assassinâs Creed Shadows,â Ubisoft writes in a press release.... Read more âș
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