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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A few weeks ago, Apple announced it would begin to sell spare parts for you to fix your own iPhone, in one of the biggest wins for the right to repair movement in years. Now, in a smaller, but still welcome move, Microsoft has partnered with iFixit to sell tools designed to make it easier to fix Surface devices. Itâs a sign that the industry is maybe, just maybe, actually... Read more âș
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The Sex and the City reboot was always going to grab attention, but few expected an exercise bike to steal the spotlight. In the premiere of And Just Like That, a Peloton made a cameo that sent stocks in the company tumbling by 11%. ***SPOILER ALERT*** Carrieâs husband, Mr Big, dies from a heart attack after a 45-minute Peloton class. Pelotonâs first public reaction came in the form of a... Read more âș
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At least one LGBTQ+ youth between the ages of 13 and 24 attempts suicide every 45 seconds. Thatâs not the kind of problem youâd usually try to solve with artificial intelligence. Machines arenât smart enough to take the mental health crisis head-on. Sure, AI-powered therapy bots can be very effective when it comes to augmenting human counseling sessions or reinforcing cognitive behavioral therapy instructions. But, when it comes to mental... Read more âș
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The EV space is growing so fast that itâs simply impossible to keep track of all the companies making their way within the industry. And while a number of them might never make the headlines, thereâs a bunch of âunderdogsâ we should definitely keep an eye on. Mullen Automotive Mullen has been a minor player in the US-based motor industry since 2014, but within the past couple of years it... Read more âș
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In the hype around getting our cars to drive us around, itâs easy to forget that Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) have a higher function â to radically improve road safety, by reducing the number of accidents. Recently, this intention has transitioned to ebikes. As our bikes become small (ok, pretty small) data centers on wheels, their ability to monitor our surroundings becomes a catalyst for companies creating technology that provides... Read more âș
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Wearable fitness trackers will be on many Christmas shopping lists this year, with a vast range of devices (and an ever-increasing number of features) hitting the market just in time for the festive season. But what does the latest research say about how effective they are? Fitness trackers are trendy Currently, about one in five Australians own one of these wearables, and about a quarter use a mobile app or... Read more âș
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While you were watching the F1 title decider between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton or excited for the Succession finale, companies running the internet were scared shitless. You might not have noticed it because services like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, and smaller ones all stayed up. But a bug in an open-source tech called Log4j was (and still is) causing panic amongst the infosec community across the world. While the bug... Read more âș
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The Australian Federal Police recently announced plans to use DNA samples collected at crime scenes to make predictions about potential suspects. This technology, called forensic âDNA phenotypingâ, can reveal a surprising and growing amount of highly personal information from the traces of DNA that we all leave behind, everywhere we go â including information about our gender, ancestry, and appearance. Queensland police have already used versions of this approach to... Read more âș
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If youâre concerned about killer robots in the military, brace yourself for their arrival in civilian hands. AI weapons will soon spread from battlefields to city streets, campaigners have warned, unless new global rules are imposed on the tech. A UN conference this week can alleviate the fears. In a Geneva meeting that starts today, delegates will debate banning weapons that target people without âmeaningful human control.â Activists, however, are... Read more âș
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When Henrik Gebbing and I founded Finoa in our shared apartment in Madrid back in 2018, little did we realize that within just three years weâd have team members across the globe with plans for exponential growth in the works. Obviously, the way we ran things when it was just a handful of us would never suffice now. Scaling our business has meant overcoming some tough challenges in order to... Read more âș
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Not a day passes without a fascinating snippet on the ethical challenges created by âblack boxâ artificial intelligence systems. These use machine learning to figure out patterns within data and make decisions â often without a human giving them any moral basis for how to do it. Classics of the genre are the credit cards accused of awarding bigger loans to men than women, based simply on which gender got... Read more âș
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Slow and steady wins the race. Weâve all heard this phrase thousands of times, but is it really true for our modern time where new businesses and technologies are getting launched every day? You can definitely finish the race being slow and steady but thereâs no guarantee of winning it. This thing is even more true for tech where each day new frameworks, libraries, tools, and websites are getting launched.... Read more âș
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Weâve been hearing rumors that Apple would get rid of the notch for ages, but reports to that effect seem to be heating up. Earlier this week, a report by Korean publication The Elec suggested that Apple is getting rid of the notch on the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, although it will remain a fixture of the cheaper non-Pro models. Instead, Apple is rumored to use a hole-punch... Read more âș
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You know youâre in for a treat when a pre-print AI research paper begins by explaining that nobody really knows what AI is and ends by solving artificial general intelligence (AGI). The paperâs called âCo-evolutionary hybrid intelligence,â and itâs a work of art that belongs in a museum. But, since itâs state-sponsored research from Russia that was uploaded to a pre-print server, weâll just talk about it here. The research... Read more âș
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Lithium-ion batteries are the catalyst for our EVs, but theyâre not perfect. Specifically, one of their main disadvantages is the flammability of the organic electrolytes currently used for their production. Thankfully, hope is on the way. A team of researchers from Germany and Japan have developed a solution to fix this problem by replacing organic electrolytes with aqueous (water-based) ones. Sounds simple, but it isnât At first thought, the use... Read more âș
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 Mercedes-Benz has reached a major milestone in the autonomous car race, allowing drivers to take their eyes off the road⊠but only if theyâre stuck in German traffic jams⊠in 2022. Yesterday, the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) granted Mercedes-Benz system approval of Level 3 autonomous under UN-R157. With the opening of the Road Traffic Act (StVG) for Level 3 systems in 2017, Germany was the first country... Read more âș
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Twitter went through a major overhaul in 2021. It wasnât as dramatic as Facebook changing its name to Meta, but thereâs a long list of things it did: swapping out its CEO, introducing new communication features, and trying to be dev-friendly again. Apart from this, the company acquired at least seven startups this year â the most in the last five years. These firms can be key to how Twitter... Read more âș
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In the mid-1990s, there was research going on at Stanford University that would change the way we think about computers. The Media Equation experiments were simple: participants were asked to interact with a computer that acted socially for a few minutes after which, they were asked to give feedback about the interaction. Participants would provide this feedback either on the same computer (No. 1) they had just been working on... Read more âș
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Welcome, weary traveler. Have a rest. Take off your shoes. Let me massage your feet with this homemade oil I made from out-of-date salad cream and some spit. Isnât that better? You have come here today because you want to know how to update your AirPods firmware? Maybe you have the AirPods Pro? The AirPods Max? Or, indeed, maybe the new AirPods 3? The older models, perhaps? Well, come closer,... Read more âș
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I love the use of technology like blockchain and distributed ledgers, but only when it solves real-world problems. I recently sat down with Nikhil Bharadwaj, co-founder, and CEO of electric vehicle charging company Xeal, to learn about a problem that had plagued the companyâs early days. They were installing chargers at apartment buildings in underground parking garages. However, this is a space where itâs challenging to gain Wi-Fi internet connectivity.... Read more âș
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