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Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm?

Stephen Witt’s new book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, is out this week, just as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have prompted fears...

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., on March 18, 2025.
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Uber wades into a fierce price war to stay competitive in India

India’s homegrown ride-hailing startups are forcing Uber to rethink its strategy. In February, the Silicon Valley giant ditched its commission-based pricing for two- and three-wheeler segments, allowing drivers to pay...

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New Delhi, Indien. Blick von der Dachterrasse des Vivek Hotel in New Delhi auf das pulsierende Leben dieser Großstadt. © Andy Ridder / VISUM
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iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs

At a Huawei store in a bustling shopping mall in northern Hong Kong last week, shoppers flocked to the Mate XT, the world’s first tri-fold smartphone, which can turn into...

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A woman looks at her smartphone while walking past an Apple-authorized store offering government subsidies on electronic devices, with discounts of up to 15% or 500 yuan, on March 10, 2025 in Chongqing, China.
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Myanmar’s internet blackout is costing lives in earthquake-hit areas

As Myanmar remains shaken by last week’s devastating earthquake, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives, a lack of connectivity is proving to be an obstacle to relief and rescue...

(250401) -- MANDALAY, April 1, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Members from the China Search and Rescue Team carry out rescue work at a quake site in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. Following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, multiple Chinese rescue teams have arrived in the disaster-stricken areas, working with local responders around the clock to search for survivors.
The rescuers combed through the ruins of apartments, hotels and hospitals to find signs of life. Continuous aftershocks, power cuts, destroyed roads and communication interruptions made their rescue work even harder.
Meanwhile, more Chinese rescue teams are heading to Myanmar, bringing in earthquake experts, structural engineers, medical personnel and canine units, as well as life detectors, demolition equipment and field hospital systems. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
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After U.S. failure, Vietnam’s EV leader turns to markets dominated by Tesla and BYD

Vietnam’s leading automaker remains undeterred despite a botched U.S. expansion and $9.8 billion in accumulated losses. VinFast shipped its first electric vehicles to the U.S. in 2022, and has been...

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A red VinFast electric vehicle travels along a street on July 28, 2024, in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Linh Pham for Rest of World)
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This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans

President Donald Trump’s administration last week added 80 companies — mostly Chinese — to a list of firms barred for national security reasons from acquiring U.S. technology. The move expands...

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China’s SpaceSail is expanding where Elon Musk is stumbling

China’s satellite internet upstart seems to be taking aim at Starlink. SpaceSail, a Chinese space company backed by the Shanghai municipal government, has been entering markets where Elon Musk has...

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The sixth batch that will constitute the Spacesail Constellation group is launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, Jan. 23, 2025.
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Turkey’s brain drain is taking its female coders with it

In the summer of 2013, Gülçin Yildirim, a database administrator, received an invitation for a meeting at an Istanbul chocolate shop with 11 other female coders. They were there to...

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A student at a game design lab at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Turkey.
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A former Meta employee reviews the new Facebook memoir

Last week, I read Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People and was reminded of Carl Jung’s Everyman archetype — someone who fears being left out, and often compromises their morals in order...

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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., center, Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, center left, and Robert Greifeld, chief executive officer of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., center right, remotely ring the opening bell for trading at the Nasdaq MarketSite from the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, California, May 18, 2012.
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Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road 

Earlier this year, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum beamed as a rendering of  three boxy, compact electric vehicles was displayed on a screen during a media briefing in the capital city....

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Roberto Capuano Tripp, head of the Sustainable Development project for Mexico City, explains the Olinia project at a press conference led by the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum.
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