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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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Photography can be a perilous hobby â just ask Jeff Bezos. The Amazon kingpin had to tell the world about his âbelow-the-belt selfiesâ to avoid an alleged blackmail by the National Enquirer. While you may not have beef with a sleazy tabloid or a... Read more âș
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Unless youâve been living under a rock, youâll know that the supply chain has been in a world of pain over the last few years. This has been caused by COVID shipping delays, bottlenecks at the ports, and significant lags in truck delivery. And one of the biggest pain points is a shortage of long-haul truck drivers. And now, transportation companies are developing tech-driven approaches that not only solve problems... Read more âș
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On its way to net zero, Jaguar has developed a portable EV charger, powered by âsecond-lifeâ batteries from prototype and test I-Pace vehicles. The so-called Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System (ESS) is essentially an energy storage unit, designed to supply power where access to electricity is limited or unavailable. The portable EV charger was created in collaboration with Pramac. Image: Jaguar The device has a capacity of up to... Read more âș
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In February this year, reports surfaced on Twitter and Facebook that the Ukrainian government was undertaking a mass genocide of civilians. Around the same time, conspiracy theorists began saying Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was an agent of the âNew World Orderâ. These claims have been thoroughly debunked, but not before attracting millions of views and offering a purported justification for Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine. More recently, Russian and Chinese officials... Read more âș
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A common view of developers and other tech folks is theyâre anti-social. In other words, people who prefer to work alone with their headphones and avoid speaking to others at all costs. While this stereotype doesnât hold true for most programmers, itâs especially wrong for IT architects, a profession that relies heavily on communication. âMy work consists of talking, making some notes, doing some sketches, and more talking,â explains Lotje... Read more âș
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Itâs that time again, people! The long-awaited iOS 15.4 is finally here â and that means one thing and one thing only: itâs time to rank the new features soon to be on your iPhone. Weâve done this a few times before â whether thatâs rating each iOS 14.5 update by how much theyâll annoy Zuckerberg, or those in iOS 14.7 by how useful the new features would be in... Read more âș
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Apple just released its iOS 15.4 update, which means you can finally unlock your phone through Face ID when youâre wearing a mask. Notably, this feature works only on iPhone 12 and beyond, so if youâve got an older version, youâre out of luck.... Read more âș
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A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Technische UniversitĂ€t Berlin recently created a neural ânetworkâ that could one day surpass human brain power with a single neuron. Our brains have approximately 86 billion neurons. Combined, they make up one of most advanced organic neural networks known to exist. Current state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems attempt to emulate the human brain through the creation of multi-layered neural networks designed to cram as many... Read more âș
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Thereâs no such thing as a perpetual motion machine â well, except maybe time crystals. But as far ebikes are concerned, the Vello Bike+ is about as close to a perpetual motion machine as it gets. Starting at âŹ3,290, itâs a really pricey folding bike, but it does a lot to justify its price. The Vello Bike+ is super lightweight for an ebike at 14kg (31 lb). It has a... Read more âș
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Okay, who doesnât love a good conspiracy theory? The Earth is actually flat, COVID-19âs nothing but a hoax, we never landed on the Moon, and the Lizard People are controlling us. But did you know that the soaring gas prices in the US arenât the result of the Ukraine war and the sanctions against Russia? Well, now you do thanks to our fellow conspiracy theorists, who believe that the Biden... Read more âș
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Have you ever felt a creeping sensation that someoneâs watching you? Then you turn around and you donât see anything out of the ordinary. Depending on where you were, though, you might not have been completely imagining it. There are billions of things sensing you every day. They are everywhere, hidden in plain sight â inside your TV, fridge, car and office. These things know more about you than you... Read more âș
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Itâs been almost a week and Iâm still thinking about Appleâs Studio Display. This isnât because I adore it (although I do), itâs because Iâve seen the light and I know what the company needs to do: release a $500 monitor called the Apple Display. I can feel you salivating at the thought of that. Before we get into the specifics, letâs backtrack and talk about Appleâs just-released Studio Display... Read more âș
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As the EU is moving towards the worldâs first legislation on connected cars, the fight over access to vehicle data is intensifying. Should automakers hold all the power or should data be democratized amongst various stakeholders? In an intriguing piece, Reutersâ Nick Carey details how the EUâs future rulings are setting car makers against a coalition of insurers, leasing companies, and repair shops in the battle to own data generated... Read more âș
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Imagine a cup of tea. Wrap a piece of string around the circumference of the cup, and measure the length of the string. Then, lay your spoon on top of the cup, making sure it lies across the center of the cup, and measure the length from side to side â the diameter. Finally, divide the circumference by the diameter, and record the result. Next time you eat soup, repeat... Read more âș
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Covid-19 has opened the worldâs eyes to the benefits of remote and flexible work, and many arenât looking back â according to a survey by workplace platform Envoy, 71% of employees would choose a hybrid work model, only 12% want to work remotely every day, and just 16% want to work full-time in the office. Until now, technology hasnât quite been able to keep up with this change of attitude... Read more âș
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Itâs hard to take a few breaths on the internet without hearing about Web3 lately. However, itâs not as accessible or ubiquitous as it might sound. Some Web3 properties and services require you to understand the moving parts involved, such as your cryptocurrency wallet, dApps (decentralized apps like the OpenSea NFT marketplace), and the blockchain they operate on. While this may sound complex (and some of it is), large chunks... Read more âș
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This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. What is the next step toward bridging the gap between natural and artificial intelligence? Scientists and researchers are divided on the answer. Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, is betting on self-supervised learning, machine learning models that can be trained without the need for human-labeled examples. LeCun has... Read more âș
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By: Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan There is an estimated $12Â billion market of companies that buy and sell location data collected from your cellphone. And the trade is entirely legal in the U.S. Without legislation limiting the location data trade, Apple and Google have become the de facto regulators for keeping your whereabouts privateâthrough shifts in transparency requirements and crackdowns on certain data brokers. Specifically, the app stores have... Read more âș
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Weâre now years into this great experiment in remote work. It started off as a Zoom, but now it feels more like a plod. Our work lives are lived on camera all day, every dayâand itâs time to let people take a break. Face-muting is ok Communicating remotely isnât new. For ages, we corresponded by mail. Then we added telegraphs, which increased the speed of communication. Then came telephones, which... Read more âș
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By: Eve Zelickson Chances are at some point in your internet travels youâve stumbled on a warning that reads something like âYour connection is not private. Attackers might be trying to steal your information.â The page usually gives you an option to proceed to the website anyway. But should you? Why did I get rerouted to this page? Today, we conduct more activities online than ever before: paying bills, buying... Read more âș
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