Hong Kong has become the main artery for high-tech goods flowing in and out of China, and its chip trade has hit record levels. The city accounted for more than half of Chinaâs $239bn in semiconductor imports in the first five months of 2026, according to a Bloomberg review of official data. That share stood at [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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South Korea will likely push Google to remove certain clauses from its new billing system policy â specifically the one that requires developers to take off external links to purchase digital goods. The search giantâs new policy for in-app payments on the Play Store came into effect on April 1. It requires developers to mandatorily use the companyâs own billing system. Whatâs more, apps canât use external links or promotional... Read more âș
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Canât afford an EV? Not willing to give up on a classic car? Want to eschew rising fuel prices? There are lots of good reasons to increase your carâs fuel economy. But one thing you might want to consider is running your car on vegetable oil. I took a deep dive, and Iâm sharing all I learned with you about making the switch: Not all cars are equal Firstly, not... Read more âș
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Imagine you could find out exactly what your coworkers earn. You wouldnât need to subtly bring up the conversation over Friday night drinks. You wouldnât have to guestimate how much of a raise you should ask for during your annual review, and you would know exactly how much your role is worth when you decide to apply for a new job. Wouldnât things be, well, easier? Thanks to a new... Read more âș
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Earlier this year, Google announced that it was going to discontinue the free version of G Suite. The company gave you two options: choose a paid plan, or continue with a no-cost plan with a self-hosted email address. Now the search giant has issued a few key updates to this rollout plan on its support page. Itâs giving users a bit more time to switch to new plans. Google has... Read more âș
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It happens to every Windows user eventually. You buy a fancy new PC, and everything runs smoothly at first. And then, slowly but surely, it starts to feel more sluggish. Every week or month, things take just a little longer to load, until your PC feels like itâs running Windows 1.0, not Windows 11. If this describes you, itâs probably about time you take a look at which apps are... Read more âș
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The edit button is finally coming to Twitter â some strings attached. Youâve asked for it â nay, demanded it â since the day the website launched and now youâre getting it. Well, sort of. now that everyone is asking⊠yes, weâve been working on an edit feature since last year! no, we didnât get the idea from a poll đ we're kicking off testing within @TwitterBlue Labs in the... Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs arrival on Twitterâs board has sparked both hopes and fears about the platformâs future, but his appointment has constrained his power â for now. Musk has agreed to cap his Twitter stake at 14.9% during his stint on the board and for 90 days thereafter. His term is set to end in 2024. The Tesla tycoonâs existing 9.2% stake makes him the platformâs largest shareholder. If he wants... Read more âș
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Three of the developers responsible for DeepStack, the first AI system to beat humans at heads-up, no-limit poker, have left their posts at DeepMind to form a new startup dedicated to dominating the stock market. The new venture, called Equilibre Technologies, will employ algorithms to pick stocks and cryptocurrency. Up front: The stock market is a nebulous and challenging environment to try and âsolveâ with AI, but the teamâs leadership... Read more âș
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While a brutal armed conflict rages on Ukrainian soil, an information war is unfolding online. Russia is seeking to control the narrative by muffling dissent. Last month, the Kremlin blocked several social media platforms and threatened lengthy jail terms for spreading âfalse informationâ about the invasion. A series of domestic alternatives to American apps are now being promoted, from RuTube to Rossgram. Critics describe the latter as âabsolute shit.â The... Read more âș
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VanMoof has long been described as the Tesla of electric bikes and with the announcement of its newest vehicles â the S5 and A5 â the company wants to continue following the trajectory of Elon Muskâs automaker. On paper, VanMoof is in with a good shot. Over the past couple of years, it raised $182 million (second only to Rad Power) and has emerged as, arguably, the most popular ebike... Read more âș
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The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the most distant star ever seen â Earendel, meaning morning star. Even though Earendel is 50 times the mass of the Sun, and millions of times brighter, we would not normally be able to see it. We can see it due to an alignment of the star with a large galaxy cluster in front of it whose gravity bends the light from the star... Read more âș
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Unpainted stainless steel body. Gull-wing doors. Plutonium-powered time-travel capabilities. Yes, itâs the DeLorean. Turned into a pop-culture icon after the Back to the Future film franchise, this unique vehicle is coming back to life after 39 long years! And the best part? Itâs being reborn as an EV! The DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) was originally established in 1973 by, yes, John DeLorean. Unfortunately, it declared bankruptcy in 1982, and was... Read more âș
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Weâve been hearing a lot about the recent introduction of paywalled features in cars lately. And while the trend is a cause for concern, itâs not yet as bad as some people believe. But, the concerns still remain. Recently a Redditor posted a short clip on a subreddit called r/Mildly Infuriating. Read more âș
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DJI made a name for itself in the drone world, and itâs recently branched out with all sorts of action and gimbal cameras. Now the company is extending to a new market with the release of the DJI Mic, a $329 wireless microphone system that takes a page out of Appleâs AirPods and other wireless earbuds. While the DJI Mic is far from the first compact wireless microphone system, it... Read more âș
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Weâre firmly entrenched in the quantum era. There werenât any announcements and there wasnât any fanfare. It just sort of happened. One day we were in the deep learning era and the next weâd gone quantum. If we had to put a date on it, here at Neural weâd choose 22 March, 2022. Thatâs the day SandboxAQ slipped out of stealth mode and starbursted out of the Alphabet (Google) research... Read more âș
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Itâs not long since billionaires were competing to get to the âedge of spaceâ. Now, the first set of private citizens is getting ready to take a SpaceX shuttle up to the International Space Station (ISS). Unlike the short âjoyridesâ of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, this mission will be reaching the roughly 400km altitude needed to dock with the ISS. The mission by the US commercial aerospace company Axiom... Read more âș
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Welcome to AI book reviews, a series of posts that explore the latest literature on artificial intelligence. There are two contrasting but equally disturbing images of artificial intelligence. One warns about a future in which runaway intelligence becomes smarter than humanity, creates mass unemployment, and enslaves humans in a Matrix-like world or destroys them a la Skynet. A more contemporary image is one in which dumb AI algorithms are entrusted... Read more âș
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The auto industryâs shift to electric cars was bound to bring a flood of new entrants. Startups such as Rivian, Lucid Motors, and Arrival have made their debut with impressive EVs, but theyâre facing a very practical problem: actually making them. In an intriguing piece, Financial Timesâ Peter Campbell details how nascent EV makers emerged and what risks theyâre currently facing. The openness of the EV space, the lower barriers... Read more âș
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Technology companies are eager to prove that the products we buy arenât actually ours â and TV makers have embraced this more than most. I mean, what other way is there to explain why Vizio has enabled a feature on its TVs that display banner adverts over live shows? Named âJump Ads,â the idea is a visual overlay appears during a television spot, which then pushes users towards the series... Read more âș
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The burgeoning trend known as Web3 has boosted the idea of the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), which is essentially a group of people pooling money to achieve a common goal of some sort. There are all kinds of weird and wonderful DAOs out in the wild. For instance, PleaserDAO managed to grab an exclusive copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album for $4 million. But many of them donât succeed: a... Read more âș
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