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Fast fashion, laptops and toys are likely to cost more due to US tariffs on Chinese imports
Fast fashion, laptops and toys are likely to cost more due to US tariffs on Chinese imports
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to chair summit tackling smartphone theft after Met seizes 1,000 stolen mobiles in just one week
Ukraine is ramping up fiber-optic drone production to counter Russian electronic warfare.
Bloomberg says Apple is unveiling a new iPhone SE next week before releasing it later this month.
This week's best tech deals include the Apple AirPods 4 for a new low of $100, plus discounts on Peacock, Sonos speakers, Roomba robot vacuums and more.
China's ability to launch DeepSeek's popular chatbot came under scrutiny before a US government advisory panel on Thursday, with one witness stressing the role that American technology played and another cautioning that the country's ability to "iterate" other breakthroughs in the industry could overcome this factor. Testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) also came with a warning about China's ability to dominate the "potentially world-changing technology of
Fans have been speculating about PC gaming mouse-like functionality for the Switch 2 ever since optical sensors appeared in leaks last month. Nintendo then teased the feature in the new Switch’s reveal trailer shortly after. Now the potential game-changer has been all but officially announced thanks to a new patent breaking down how the Joy-Con mouse functionality will work.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -TikTok said on Friday it was allowing U.S. Android users to download and connect to the short video app through package kits on its website, in an effort to circumvent restrictions on the popular platform in the country. Apple and Google have not reinstated TikTok to their app stores since a U.S. law took effect on January 19 requiring its Chinese owner ByteDance either to sell it on national security grounds or face a ban. President Donald Trump, who took office the day after the law went into effect, signed an executive order seeking to delay by 75 days the enforcement of the law.
Apple may announce a new iPhone SE soon, featuring Apple Intelligence and its first in-house modem, replacing Qualcomm chips
Smartphone companies should introduce “kill switches” in devices to combat the epidemic of muggings and thefts, Yvette Cooper has said.
Japanese startup ArkEdge Space said on Friday an observation satellite it helped build for Taiwan's space agency has captured what could be the world's best-quality Earth imagery from a spacecraft smaller than a suitcase. The small optical observation satellite ONGLAISAT took 2.5-metre resolution images after being released to orbit about 400 km above the Earth in December, the company said. "The pictures are as clear as aerial photography (despite) being taken by a satellite of this size," Takayoshi Fukuyo, chief executive of ArkEdge, which led the ONGLAISAT mission, told a media briefing earlier this week.
The chatbot app from artificial intelligence (AI) sensation DeepSeek has overtaken Doubao, the equivalent product from TikTok parent ByteDance, as China's most popular AI app, reflecting the continuing widespread interest in the Hangzhou-based start-up. Since DeepSeek's open-source V3 and R1 models sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street last month, the start-up has also been making waves back home as domestic graphics processing unit (GPU) makers, cloud service providers, busine
Investing.com - Qualcomm posted better-than-anticipated fiscal first-quarter results thanks to an artificial intelligence-fueled rebound in smartphone demand, although the results were overshadowed by the chipmaker's announcement that its lucrative patent licensing unit will not see sales growth this year.
The Metropolitan Police seized more than 1,000 stolen devices in one week.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders that U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in annexing Canada was a very real plan aimed at controlling the country’s vast mineral resources. Trudeau was caught on a hot mic giving his assessment of Trump’s treat to takeover America’s northern neighbor. “I suggest that not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st stat
The rising actor succumbed to flu complications, following Barbie Hsu's tragic death
Julia Fox attended a MAC event in New York wearing just a trench coat undone at the neck to reveal a very realistic naked breastplate that freed the nipple.
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said.
‘She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and 10 grandchildren,’ the family said in a statement
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Thailand's prime minister, seeking to allay security concerns among Chinese tourists visiting Thailand, said she had "Chinese blood in her" and that she had personally looked into security protocols in place to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens. Security in Thailand has become a trending topic of conversation among Chinese nationals, by far the largest group of foreign tourists to Thailand, since a minor Chinese actor was rescued from a scam centre in Myanmar after being abducted in Thailand last month.