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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In a move clearly inspired by the hyperrealistic movie Armageddon, NASA has decided to attack an asteroid. The space agency, however, has recklessly overlooked Michael Bayâs ingenious idea of training oil drillers to become astronauts. Nor will the NASA nerds follow the directorâs advice of blasting the rock with a nuclear bomb. Instead, they want to smack it with a spacecraft. Life disregarding art Smaller asteroids frequently strike the Earth,... Read more âș
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We reported in September that the UK was making the installation of EV chargers a prerequisite for newly built homes and offices. But now itâs official, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson formally announcing the initiative at the CBI annual conference. From 2022, new homes and buildings such as supermarkets, shopping malls, and workplaces will be required to install electric vehicle charging points. Specifically, new office blocks will need to... Read more âș
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Time and again, I see too many businesses overlooking their email signatures when communicating with customers. You might think that this small detail at the end of every email you send is insignificant. But just think about it â itâs at the end of every email you send. And with 310 billion emails expected to be sent and received every day in 2021, you want your emails to stand out... Read more âș
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Apple is making a car. Maybe. Supposedly. Probably? Rumors about the mythical Apple Car, codenamed âProject Titan,â have been making the rounds for a good 6+ years now, with the project reportedly stagnating and pivoting multiple times. Now the latest batch of rumors suggest the project is back on again, this time focusing on a shared autonomous vehicle that may not even have a proper steering wheel (although a driveable... Read more âș
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Researchers at the University of Houston and the University of Washington today published new research indicating gender stereotypes play a huge role in whether children choose to pursue an eventual career in computer science or engineering. Up front: The researchers conducted a series of studies and experiments involving more than 2,200 children. The teamâs goal was to determine how gender stereotypes affected school-aged children in order to glean insights into... Read more âș
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New York recently passed a bill providing guidelines for the operation of automated hiring software in the city. Allegedly, city councilâs aim with this legislation was to protect New Yorkers from biased AI. But, from where weâre sitting, it looks like itâs going to do the exact opposite. Up front: The bill, dubbed int 1894-2020, was meant to address the issue of bias in AI software. Companies such as HireVue... Read more âș
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Crypto bros could soon have a new dream destination. At a conference on Saturday, the president of El Salvador unveiled plans to build the worldâs first âBitcoin City.â Dressed in all white and donning a backward baseball cap, President Nayib Bukele looked more like a pop star than a politician as he described an ecological metropolis funded by Bitcoin-backed bonds. He compared his strategy to that of Alexander the Great... Read more âș
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Is there ever a week without some kind of fuck up at Tesla? If it was a lesser brand, Iâd think it was a ploy for publicity, but the latest app bug was way too severe for that. Last Friday, the BBC wrote that about 500 users reported an error on the Tesla app at around 4:40 ET (10:40 CET) that left car owners unable to unlock the doors or... Read more âș
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If you use â123456â, âpasswordâ or âqwertyâ as a password, youâre probably aware that youâre leaving yourself vulnerable to hackers. But youâre also not alone â these are three of the top ten most common passwords around the world, according to a new report. In partnership with independent researchers, password management service NordPass compiled millions of passwords into a dataset to determine the 200 most commonly used passwords around the... Read more âș
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TLDR: The Complete Limited Edition Mac Bundle is our best Mac package of the year, 12 killer apps on sale for an obscenely low price while it lasts. Every year, itâs one of TNW Dealsâ most popular holiday season items, so itâs no surprise Mac users who have been good all year are now asking for the latest edition of The Complete Limited Edition Mac Bundle ($16.22 with code MACBUNDLE40).... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2022 Javascript Developer Bootcamp Certification Bundle features over 120 hours of intensive JavaScript training to turn any learner into an expert fast. Johnny-come-latelys to the coding scene can gush about their Pythons or their Ruby on Rails all they want. But when itâs all said and done, JavaScript still rules the programming roost. The venerable language has been the core of the web and web development for 25... Read more âș
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The eye-popping sale price of US$69 million on March 11, 2021, for a non-fungible token created by the digital artist Beeple sent shock waves through the art world. More multimillion-dollar sales of these digital assets that exist on a blockchain and are maintained on networked computers soon followed. At the same time, art museums have faced substantial financial shortfalls accelerated by a decline in visitors and donations induced by the... Read more âș
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Weâve been all-in from the get-go. Committed to total transparency about electric vehiclesâ climate impact, and our progress towards a sustainable mobility. When we published our first Polestar 2 Life Cycle Assessment in 2020, including its full methodology, we encouraged other car makers to become more transparent about their productsâ climate impact. Instead, several well-known brands released their own report that attempted to contradict ours. The Astongate scandal, as it... Read more âș
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Itâs usually around this time of year you hear people complain about their phones slowing down. Apple and Google release new versions of their operating systems (OS) and suddenly thereâs a slew of people claiming their old devices have started to lag â conveniently just before Christmas. But do manufacturers really slow down our phones on purpose to nudge us towards shiny new ones, as has been claimed? The answer... Read more âș
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TLDR: With more than 90 courses included, the complete Infosec4TC Platinum Membership Cyber Security Training can help anyone become a knowledgeable cybersecurity specialist. If you think foreign hackers and cybercrime are mostly just stuff out of the movies, the headlines refute that theory almost every day. Earlier this month, we learned cybercriminals had breached nine different organizations in the defense, energy, health care, technology and education industry, including at least... Read more âș
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In the midst of the scandals of the Facebook papers, Facebook rebranded the company as Meta. The new name was designed to reflect a focus beyond the Facebook social network platform, and into the metaverse â the extension of the internet into three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) spaces. However, given Facebookâs handling â or mishandling â of their current social responsibilities, we should be cautious about how much control a single... Read more âș
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TLDR: The VPN Unlimited and PlayStation Plus Subscription Bundle offers a year of premium PlayStation Plus membership, as well as a lifetime of online security for under $50. If youâre salivating at the thought of the biggest and best games coming to your PlayStation in the coming year, the 2022 calendar is already filling up with some amazing top-shelf possibilities. From God of War Ragnarok to Batman spinoff RPG Gotham... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2022 Premium Computer Science Career Path Certification Bundle features nearly 90 hours of training in computer science to understand data analysis tools and how they work. Amazon is one of the biggest companies in the world, which means theyâve proven they know a good thing when they see it. So it should come as no surprise that one of the planetâs largest retailers â and a company that... Read more âș
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This article was originally published on .cult by Nate Rosidi. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. Youâre a fresh graduate and youâre thinking of starting your career in a data-related role, but on the LinkedIn Jobs portal, you come across so many different job descriptions for data... Read more âș
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Another day, another problematic AI study. Todayâs snake oil special comes via Tel Aviv University where a team of researchers have unveiled a so-called âlie-detection system.â Letâs be really clear right up front: AI canât do anything a person, given an equivalent amount of time to work on the problem, couldnât do themselves. And no human can tell if any given human is lying. Full stop. The simple fact of... Read more âș
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