Month: July 2024
Temu, Shein and Aliexpress are attracting US customers in their millions, poll shows — and that’s despite the fact the vast majority do not trust these online Chinese retailers in the first place
A recent poll by ecommerce marketing company Omnisend of 4,000 people across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia found Chinese marketplaces are growing in popularity. The findings show 60% of respondents have shopped at Chinese online retailers in the past year, with 50% shopping at more than one. In terms…
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iPhone SE 4 tipped to be a controversial but powerful upgrade that lands in early 2025
The iPhone SE 4 rumors went quiet for a while, but they’ve ramped again in a big way – with fresh speculation suggesting that Apple‘s iPhone SE 3 successor could make some major changes when it lands early next year. This latest leak from the largely reliable Ice Universe on Weibo…
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Should you buy or wait for an iPhone?
There comes a point in every year where the question is whether to buy a current-generation iPhone or wait for the next model. In this case we’re talking about the iPhone 15 verses the iPhone 16. As someone who’s been covering Apple products for many years now, the easy answer…
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My iPad runs Windows XP now, and it’s all I ever wanted
Apple recently approved a new emulator app called UTM SE that enables your iPhone or iPad (or Vision Pro!) to masquerade as PC hardware and run honest-to-goodness computer desktop operating systems. Some of you asked in the comments section of my last story how it runs — a fair question…
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Biden gives states billions of dollars for EV chargers, heat pumps, and other green tech
With the US facing the prospect of another four years of former President Donald Trump rolling back environmental protections at the federal level, the Biden administration is putting billions of dollars of climate funding into the hands of local governments. The Biden administration announced $4.3 billion in funding today for…
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Rivian’s sporty R3X will be the first R3 to hit the streets
Rivian’s R3X electric SUV will arrive before the base model, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says on today’s episode of Decoder. Even though Scaringe still doesn’t provide an exact date when the performance variant will roll out, it will be “as soon as we possibly can.” “We’re launching R2 first, allowing…
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