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A look at the impact of Shein and Temu on China’s exports; government data shows exports via e-commerce grew 19.9% YoY in H1 2023, while overall exports fell (South China Morning Post)

South China Morning Post: A look at the impact of Shein and Temu on China’s exports; government data shows exports via e-commerce grew 19.9% YoY in H1 2023, while overall exports fell — – China’s exports via e-commerce are surging, boosted by apps like Shein and Temu — Newcomers are tapping China’s vast …

Android 14 update tracker: When will your phone get it?

In February 2023, Google officially announced the first developer preview of Android 14. Months later, on October 4, 2023, the company launched the stable version. That might be all well and good, but which phones will get Android 14? When can I update to Android 14? We’ve got some answers for you below! This article

Audacity Runs Surprisingly Well in Your Browser

Audacity is an extremely popular open source audio editor, with hundreds of millions of downloads on the books. But due to some controversy over changes the Muse Group wanted to implement when they took ownership of the project back in 2021, the userbase has fractured somewhat. Some users simply stick with an older version of

Samsung is adding support for mobile driver’s licenses to Samsung Wallet

Samsung is going to let customers in Arizona and Iowa add their driver’s licenses to Samsung Wallet beginning later this month, Samsung’s Sally Hyesoon Jeong said onstage at the 2023 Samsung Developer Conference on Thursday. It’s unclear when more states might be supported, but Jeong did say that starting next year, Samsung customers will also

Sources: AT&T is exploring options for its 70% DirecTV stake, such as adding a new investor or selling the stake and exiting the venture as early as August 2024 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: AT&T is exploring options for its 70% DirecTV stake, such as adding a new investor or selling the stake and exiting the venture as early as August 2024 — – Telecoms giant majority owns DirecTV with private equity TPG — Declining pay-TV customer base has cut into AT&T’s cash flow

Google Pixel 8 trade-in deals: Here’s how much you can save

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority As impressive as the new Google Pixel 8 is, the new $699 retail price of this generation is no small outlay. The good news is that you probably won’t need your old phone once you’ve upgraded to the Pixel 8, so you might as well use it to

Android 14 lands on the Xiaomi 13, 13 Pro, and 12T

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Xiaomi’s version of Android 14 is starting to roll out to its flagships. The stable update is available for the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro. The update will also come to the Xiaomi 12T. Now that the stable version of Android 14 is out, the update should start arriving

12 Best Target Circle Week Deals (2023): iPads, Apple Watches, and Legos

Target’s big Circle Week sale gets out ahead of Prime Day and runs through October 7. We’ve rounded up our favorite discounts.

Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh

The Steam Deck, in its bundled carry case. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Think we’re not getting a new Steam Deck just because Valve isn’t ready to upgrade its performance? Think again: Valve already put a new Steam Deck through the FCC’s certification process on August 13th, agency documents reveal. Image: FCC

Everybody’s Talking About the Wrong Sam Bankman-Fried Book

Going Infinite, Michael Lewis’ book about Sam Bankman-Fried, is out this week. But it’s Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up that really lays out the FTX saga.

Microsoft rolls out a new version of Microsoft Teams, in preview since March 2023, rebuilt from the ground up to be less resource-hungry on Windows and macOS (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft rolls out a new version of Microsoft Teams, in preview since March 2023, rebuilt from the ground up to be less resource-hungry on Windows and macOS — Microsoft is rolling out a new and improved version of its Microsoft Teams chat client today.

Filing: UK chip designer Graphcore needs funds to keep operating as a “going concern”, after 2022 revenue fell 46% YoY and pretax losses grew 11% YoY to $204.6M (Jamie Nimmo/Bloomberg)

Jamie Nimmo / Bloomberg: Filing: UK chip designer Graphcore needs funds to keep operating as a “going concern”, after 2022 revenue fell 46% YoY and pretax losses grew 11% YoY to $204.6M — – Revenue fell 46% and the company cut staff and closed offices — Chipmaker must raise money to continue as ‘going concern’

Samsung just turned its soundbar into a SmartThings hub

Samsung’s newest soundbar, the HW-Q900C, is now capable of being a SmartThings hub, | Image: Samsung At its annual developer conference today, Samsung once again put its SmartThings smart home platform front and center, announcing that its newest soundbar, the HW-Q900C, is now capable of being a SmartThings hub, complete with support for Zigbee, Thread,

Messari: funding to crypto companies fell to ~$2.1B in Q3 2023, across 297 deals, the lowest since Q4 2020, after a peak of ~$17.5B across 900+ deals in Q1 2022 (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Messari: funding to crypto companies fell to ~$2.1B in Q3 2023, across 297 deals, the lowest since Q4 2020, after a peak of ~$17.5B across 900+ deals in Q1 2022 — The amount raised by crypto firms in Q3 fell to just under $2.1 billion, across 297 deals, the lowest on

Google Pixel Watch 2 vs Samsung Galaxy Watch 6: Which should you buy?

Samsung is far from the only giant in the wearables space, but the brand has maintained a steady Wear OS lead in recent years. Once the original Google Pixel Watch arrived, things started heating up. Now, Google is ready with its second-generation device, and the choice is even tougher for shoppers. Should you consider the

Samsung Galaxy S20 FE vs Galaxy S23 FE: Should you upgrade?

For the patient, Samsung’s FE models can be a way of getting many of the features of the company’s flagship phones without paying flagship prices. The last great FE was the Galaxy S20 FE however, and Samsung skipped the option entirely with the S22 series. So now that we have the Galaxy S23 FE, should

Hackaday Superconference 2023: First Round of Speakers Announced!

Hackaday Supercon 2023 is almost upon us, and looking over the roster of fantastic talks gets us in the mood already. We hope that it has the same effect on you too. Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference and you need to be there! We’ll announce the rest of the speakers, the workshops, and give

Los Angeles-based Machina Labs, which is using AI and robotics to build “software-defined factories”, raised a $32M Series B, taking its total funding to $45M (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Los Angeles-based Machina Labs, which is using AI and robotics to build “software-defined factories”, raised a $32M Series B, taking its total funding to $45M — “Flexibility” isn’t a word one often applies to the manufacturing process. Changing things up on the assembly line …

The last-gen Apple Watch Series 8 is nearly half off

The last-gen Apple Watch Series 8 offers many of the same features as the newer model. | Image: Apple Google may have just released the Pixel Watch 2, but the Apple Watch is still the better buy if you own an iPhone. And right now, you can get the 41mm GPS-enabled Apple Watch Series 8

Spuds Lend a Hand In The Darkroom

If film photography’s your thing, the chances are you may have developed a roll or two yourself, and if you’ve read around on the subject it’s likely you’ll have read about using coffee, beer, or vegetable extracts as developer. There’s a new one to us though, from [cm.kelsall], who has put the tater in the

Pokémon’s new live-action drama series heaps on the nostalgia in new trailer

Nanase Nishino as Madoka Akagi. | Image: TV Tokyo / The Pokémon Company The Detective Pikachu movie proved that The Pokémon Company is more than capable of producing solid live-action projects for the big screen. And from the looks of TV Tokyo’s new upcoming Pokémon-inspired show PokéTsume, that’s true of episodic series, too. Set in

Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a live-action adaptation

Image: CD Projekt Red Get ready for a live-action adaptation of CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 universe. The game developer is teaming up with Anonymous Content, a media company that has worked on series like True Detective and Shantaram, on a new “live-action project” based on the popular video game. It might be a while

Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search

Untruths spouted by chatbots ended up on the web—and Microsoft’s Bing search engine served them up as facts. Generative AI could make search harder to trust.

John Wick: Chapter 5 — Expected release date and the latest rumors

Spoiler alert: It looks like John died at the hands of Donnie Yen’s Caine at the end of John Wick 4. That made it look like there wouldn’t be any more movies, because how can you watch John Wick…without John Wick in it? The fifth film has been announced and is under production — so

Epic Games plans an Unreal Engine per-seat licensing fee for non-gaming sectors like film and TV; Tim Sweeney says “financial problems” hit Epic ~10 weeks ago (Bryant Francis/Game Developer)

Bryant Francis / Game Developer: Epic Games plans an Unreal Engine per-seat licensing fee for non-gaming sectors like film and TV; Tim Sweeney says “financial problems” hit Epic ~10 weeks ago — A week after laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games announced that it’s increasing the price to use Unreal Engine …

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