Month: April 2024
The legal challenges that lie ahead for TikTok — in both the US and China
After failing to stop a bill that could ban TikTok in the US unless it separates from its China-based owner ByteDance, the company now faces two big hurdles: the US judicial system and the Chinese government. TikTok has promised to bring a legal challenge against the law that was signed…
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Intel’s Russia business made no money last year – and only has one employee
Intel’s Russian operations resulted in nil profit last year as a result of sanctions and restrictions imposed within the country by Western governments following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, according to a recent Abachy report. In a similar vein to its rocky year globally, the company’s…
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iPads join iPhones in requirement to follow strict EU rules
Following an almost eight-month investigation into whether Apple’s iPadOS holds enough market power to warrant stricter regulation, the European Commission has now designated the iPad operating system as a Gatekeeper service under its flagship Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules. “The Commission concluded that iPadOS constitutes an important gateway for business…
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The Morning After: How many Vision Pro headsets has Apple sold?
Apple Vision Pro headset production is reportedly being cut, sales are reportedly “way down.” But but but wait: Wasn’t the Vision Pro meant to change the world of VR/AR, ushering in an era of spatial computing? Is the dream over? Hah, no. As Sam Rutherford laid out just before the…
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MSI goes full Team Green, declaring it’s ‘focused’ on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, with AMD models now vanishing from shelves
MSI is focusing pretty much on Nvidia’s graphics cards, it would seem, and has more or less stopped making AMD GPUs. Or at least the amount of MSI’s Radeon graphics cards on shelves has dwindled considerably, to the point where it’s been noticed by several sources – one of which…
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Fiido Air review: so lightweight you’ll forget it’s an e-bike
Yes, that’s an electric bike, though you wouldn’t know it from looks alone, or from hoisting it up some stairs since it weighs as much as a regular city bike at just 30 pounds (about 14kg). What you’re looking at is the Fiido Air, a carbon fiber e-bike from the Chinese…
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