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 Apple is accelerating its manufacturing shift away from China, with plans to assemble all U.S.-bound iPhones in India by the end of 2026, according to a new Financial Times report.
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Intel chief financial officer David Zinsner told analysts on Thursday that Intel sold more volume in its Raptor Lake chips than Lunar Lake, suggesting that customers preferred the higher-performance Raptor Lake chips that debuted in 2023 versus the latest Lunar Lake chip that launched last September.
Meanwhile, Zinsner suggested that Intel's future is extremely uncertain, due to the Trump administration's varying economic policy. "The very fluid trade policies in the U.S. and beyond, as well as regulatory risks, have increased the chance of an economic slowdown with the probability of a recession growing," Zinsner said. "This makes it more difficult to forecast how we will perform for the quarter and for the year, even as the underlying fundamentals supporting growth I discussed earlier remain intact."
Zinsner also gave an enormous range for the company's spending plans of between $8 billion and $11 billion, because Intel doesn't know what the future of the CHIPS Act might be.
Older, cheaper, higher-performance Intel CPUs are the favorite
The surprise, however, was how Intel's customers are dealing with tariffs — simply buying older products instead. Intel executives said that the Intel 7 process — the foundation of the Raptor Lake chips — was constrained, and so was production of the chip itself. That's because customers
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AI company Perplexity announced in February that it was building its own browser called Comet. In a recent interview with the TBPN podcast, CEO Aravind Srinivas gave some insight as to why the business appeared to be branching out from its artificial intelligence focus: It's to collect user data and sell them targeted advertisements.
"That's kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you," he said. "We plan to use all the context to build a better user profile and, maybe you know, through our discover feed we could show some ads there."
If that all sounds familiar, it could be become Google's Chrome browser has taken a similar approach. In fact, Comet is built on Chromium, the open-source browser base from Google. That's not to say Perplexity wouldn't take the chance to go straight to the source and acquire Chrome in the aftermath of Google's recent monopoly court ruling regarding online search. In the ongoing hearings about Google and its potential sale of Chrome, Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko
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If you're just looking for solid laptop recommendations, then you've come to the right place. The PCWorld team has personally tested every laptop below, using hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge to help you find the best one for your needs.
Why you should trust us: It's in our name: PCWorld. We've been reviewing laptops for over 40 years, with exacting standards applied to all facets of the user experience, from performance benchmarks, to features, to the rigors of daily use. Our experts know their stuff and have curated a comprehensive list of the best laptops for college students, with their particular needs in mind.
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Dell Inspiron Plus 14 - Best overall for students
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Meta says users can enable the feature to keep specific conversations away from the company's AI features.
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 Meta today announced that it is adding several new web features to the Threads social network, as well as officially relocating the website to a new domain. Threads is migrating from Threads.net to Threads.com, and Threads.com will be the new default domain name.
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 Netflix today announced that it is introducing a new subtitle option that only shows subtitles for spoken dialogue, aimed at those who don't need captions, but prefer to watch movies and TV shows with the subtitles turned on.
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 When an iPad running iPadOS 19 is connected to a Magic Keyboard, a macOS-like menu bar will appear on the screen, according to the leaker Majin Bu.
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The Pro Click V2 Vertical is definitely the more interesting design, if only by virtue of its novelty. The flat bottom and 71.7-degree tilt puts your hand into a "handshake" position with the outer edge resting on the lip of the device, a form factor you'll no doubt recognize from other mice like Logitech's MX Vertical. Razer seems to have borrowed the top edge and button from similar designs in this sector, and thrown in thumb buttons above and below the standard resting place.
But this is Razer we're talking about, so naturally you get features like 30,000 DPI sensor and an RGB ring that goes nearly all the way around the base. Razer's promo page says this can be used for "reactive RGB notifications" using the Chroma program, you know, in case you needed to justify this thing on an expense report. The battery lasts for up to six months with a USB-C recharge and it can connect over wired, Bluetooth, or 2.4GHz dongle modes.
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 Back when Meta first introduced its Twitter competitor Threads, many noted that the company had failed to secure the threads.com domain and instead launched the website at threads.net. At the time, the Threads dot com domain belonged to a messaging app startup that said it was reluctant to rebrand its business.
But that startup was later acquired by Shopify and Meta did eventually acquire the coveted threads.com domain for an undisclosed amount. Now, Meta is finally moving Threads' website to threads.com, and adding some much needed functionality to the web version of Threads.
The update adds a new composer that pops up in its own window so you can continue to browse your feeds as you type out a new post. It also allows you to scroll your various custom feeds in a single-column view (much like Threads' mobile app), and finally adds a menu shortcut for saved posts. (Previously, the only way to view saved posts on web was to add it as a pinned column.)
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 A leaker known as Majin Bu today claimed that iOS 19 will enable support for at least a limited version of Stage Manager on iPhone models with a USB-C port.
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Apple today shared a new ad that highlights a key advantage that iPhone 16 models have over Android smartphones: the Ceramic Shield.
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 Apple has seemingly had one of its most useful AI tools blocked from Meta's apps. Writing Tools, which is an Apple Intelligence feature, is not available to use in Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger.
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