A Journey Into the Heart of Labubu
The day after I failed to secure a Labubu from Pop Mart’s original store, I decide to console myself with a visit to Pop Land, the company’s 10-acre theme park in central Beijing—and perhaps the…
Category: TECHNOLOGY
Epic says it has proof Apple was scaring users off third-party app stores
The Epic Games Store has seen an uptick in downloads since the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) prompted Apple to streamline its process for installing third-party app marketplaces, according to a new blog published by…
Toyota adds another $1.5B to its bet on startups at every stage
Toyota is looking for the next new thing in mobility, climate, AI, and industrial automation. Its answer is $1.5 billion in new capital that will focus on, and invest in, the life cycle of startups…
Alexa’s survival hinges on you buying more expensive Amazon devices
The new Echo Studio (left) and Echo Dot Max (right) speakers. Credit: Amazon Among the new displays is the $180 Echo Show 8. It's 20 percent more than its predecessor from 2021 ($150). Additionally, Amazon…
TikTok, #freedom edition | The Verge
Hello and welcome to Regulator. Today is the last day of The Verge’s very good subscription sale: $4 for a month and $35 for the year, for full access to the entire site. Don’t delay!When…
U.S. government takes stake in Canadian lithium miner and its Nevada mining project
The U.S. Department of Energy has taken equity stakes in Canadian company Lithium Americas and its Nevada mining joint venture with General Motors as part of a renegotiation of a federal loan. Under the new…
DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs
The attention bottleneck In AI, "attention" is a term for a software technique that determines which words in a text are most relevant to understanding each other. Those relationships map out context, and context builds…
In 2022, the world axed a disease name seen as racist. US just switched back.
Switching names In November 2022, the WHO decided to change the name. The United Nations health agency noted that it had received reports from individuals and countries about the "racist and stigmatizing language online, in…
Here’s where to preorder all of Amazon’s new Alexa devices and when they arrive
Amazon’s fall hardware event had a little of everything: updated Echo speakers, several Blink security devices, and even a Kindle Scribe with a color screen. Most of the gadgets won’t ship for at least a…
Starbase hires Cameron County to police its streets and jail its offenders
Starbase is a city without a police department, but not without police. For months, Cameron County sheriff’s deputies have patrolled the roads and beaches surrounding SpaceX’s sprawling rocket facility in South Texas. Now, less than…