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The United States Postal Service has suspended all package shipments from China and Hong Kong following President Donald Trump's decision to eliminate the de minimis exemption, which previously allowed small packages under $800 to enter the U.S. without import duties. "The move could potentially create chaos and confusion across the online shopping industry, as well as make purchases more expensive for consumers, especially because many global manufacturers and internet sellers are located in China," report
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As part of new tariffs on Chinese imports, President Donald Trump eliminated an exemption for small packages, vastly increasing the amount of parcels US Customs and Border Protection needs to inspect. Read more āŗ
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Zebra Technologiesā three-pillar strategy for AI-powered frontline operations revealed. Combines asset visibility, connected worker solutions, and intelligent automation in APAC. Gartner predicts 97% of organisations will deploy AI by 2027. Zebra Technologies wants to change how AI-powered frontline operations to reshape Asia Pacificās business landscape in 2025, as Asian organisations face pressure to maximise efficiency.... Read more Ā» Read more āŗ
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Grab the Galaxy Buds3 Pro at no cost and the new Galaxy S25 Ultra for a record-low price. Read more āŗ
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The announcement comes less than 48 hours after Elon Musk said he spent the weekend feeding the agency "into the wood chipper." Read more āŗ
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said there are "opportunities that probably outweigh the risks" of the Trump administration's "radical" changes. Read more āŗ
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Rival companies in fierce battle for talent in race to build powerful artificial intelligence āagentsā Read more āŗ
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With 70% of business transformation projects failing, marketing data and technology could hold the key to success. Read more āŗ
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The Galaxy S25 Ultra is all the talk these days, and we are now bringing you our video review. The differences to the S24 Ultra are subtle, but they add up, and weāve made sure to go over the main changes. Be sure to check out our written review for more details like benchmarks, camera samples, and our usual set of tests. S25 Ultra features a revamped design, which is... Read more āŗ
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Weāre only three episodes in, and the Apple TV+ series already has us racking both sides of our brain with theories and queries. Read more āŗ
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The Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Dune director speaks out about his trilogy-capper, Dune Messiah. Read more āŗ
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Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Muskās associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order. Read more āŗ
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Homeowners forced to move face a tough dilemma: Sell the old house or rent it out? Going the landlord route makes sense for some, but it's not easy. Read more āŗ
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Experts told Business Insider that the targeted and calibrated nature of the response doesn't mean Beijing is backing down. Read more āŗ
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The legendary actor stars in Marvel's Captain America: Brave New World, hitting theaters February 14. Read more āŗ
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The US doesn't run a surplus like most sovereign wealth funds. But Trump's order refers to trillions in existing assets. Read more āŗ
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Only parcels arriving in the US from China and Hong Kong are affected for now, as the restriction doesn't apply to letters and flat mail. Read more āŗ
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The proposed law is designed to protect kids from becoming socially isolated. Read more āŗ
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A galaxy in the distant universe has nine rings around it, and thanks to Hubble scientists now know why. Read more āŗ
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Like the idea of a ROG Phone 9 but want something a little cheaper? The ROG Phone 9 FE might scratch that itch. Read more āŗ
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OpenAI says it has evidence suggesting Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing open-source system through "distillation," a technique where smaller models learn from larger ones' outputs. The San Francisco-based company, along with partner Microsoft, blocked suspected DeepSeek accounts from accessing its API last year after detecting potential terms of service violations. DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model has achieved comparable results to leading U.S. models despite... Read more āŗ
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Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California. "The teachers faded away pretty quickly," Gates adds, "But about six of us stayed hardcore. One was Paul Allen..." ā the future co-founder of Microsoft. And the experience clearly meant a lot to Gates.... Read more āŗ
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At an all hands meeting inside Meta Thursday, the company's co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he was increasingly careful about what he says internally at Meta. From a report: "Everything I say leaks. And it sucks, right?," Zuckerberg said. Meta made changes to the question-and-answer section of the company all hands meeting because of the leaks, Zuckerberg said, according to meeting audio obtained by 404 Media. "I want... Read more āŗ
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"A jury may never see the gun that authorities say was used to kill Blake Story last year," reports Cleveland.com. "That's because Cleveland police used a facial recognition program ā one that explicitly says its results are not admissible in court ā to obtain a search warrant, according to court documents." The search turned up what police say is the murder weapon in the suspect's home. But a Cuyahoga County... Read more āŗ
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Longtime Slashdot reader nunya_bizns shares a report from Reuters: The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion deal to acquire networking gear maker Juniper Networks, arguing that it would stifle competition, according to a complaint filed on Thursday. The DOJ argued that the acquisition would eliminate competition and would lead to only two companies -- Cisco Systems and HPE -- controlling more than 70%... Read more āŗ
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The Swiss canton ("state") of Basel-Stadt fixed a tax flyer typo by buying the incorrect domain and setting up a redirect, avoiding a $100,000 reprint cost. TechCrunch reports: As Swiss news outlet SRF reports, the Basel tax administration printed fliers that were supposed to include a URL to file taxes online. However, the Swiss country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of ".ch" was omitted, leaving just the Basel-Stadt suffix of ".bs"... Read more āŗ
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A recent video from retro tech YouTuber Clint "LGR" Basinger takes a deep dive into the history of the SereneScreen Marine Aquarium, exploring how former Air Force pilot Jim Sachs transformed a lackluster Windows 95 screensaver into a 25-year digital phenomenon. PC Gamer reports: The story centers on Jim Sachs, a man with one of those "they don't make this type of guy anymore" life stories so common to '80s... Read more āŗ
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A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses Amazon of secretly tracking consumers' movements through their cellphones via its Amazon Ads SDK embedded in third-party apps, allegedly collecting sensitive geolocation data without consent. The complaint, filed by a California resident in a San Francisco federal court, claims Amazon violated state laws on unauthorized computer access in the process. Reuters reports: This allegedly enabled Amazon to collect an enormous amount of timestamped geolocation data... Read more āŗ
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Star Wars star Mark Hamill, science fiction author William Gibson, XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe, and The Onion have joined millions of others bringing Bluesky's user count to 30 million, reports CNET. In fact Bluesky has added over 14 million users in the last three months, and for a few days in early November was adding over one million users a day. "That rate equals about 12 new users per second.... Read more āŗ
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In 2023, Microsoft began including a free VPN feature in its "Microsoft Defender" security app for all Microsoft 365 subscribers ("Personal" and "Family"). Originally Microsoft had "called it a privacy protection feature," writes the blog Windows Central, "designed to let you access sensitive data on the web via a VPN tunnel." But.... Unfortunately, Microsoft has now announced that it's killing the feature later this month, only a couple of years... Read more āŗ
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