Published on: 2025-04-20 06:55:42
Popular online shopping meccas Temu and Shein have finally broken their silence, warning of potential price hikes starting next week due to Donald Trump's tariffs. Temu is a China-based e-commerce platform that has grown as popular as Amazon for global shoppers making cross-border purchases, according to 2024 Statista data. Its tagline, "Shop like a billionaire," is inextricably linked to the affordability of items on its platform. And although Shein—which vows to make global fashion "accessibl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 11:55:42
Popular online shopping meccas Temu and Shein have finally broken their silence, warning of potential price hikes starting next week due to Donald Trump's tariffs. Temu is a China-based e-commerce platform that has grown as popular as Amazon for global shoppers making cross-border purchases, according to 2024 Statista data. Its tagline, "Shop like a billionaire," is inextricably linked to the affordability of items on its platform. And although Shein—which vows to make global fashion "accessibl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 18:41:00
Recap: A new survey spotlights the financial behaviors of young Japanese adults, revealing a significant and growing connection between gaming and personal spending. Conducted in February 2025, the annual online survey polled 1,000 individuals aged 20 to 29, exploring how this demographic navigates expenses across various aspects of life, with a particular focus on gaming and in-game purchases. One of the most striking findings of the survey is that 18.8 percent of respondents admitted to havin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 23:41:00
Recap: A new survey from SMBC Consumer Finance has spotlighted the financial behaviors of young Japanese adults, revealing a significant and growing connection between gaming and personal spending. Conducted in February 2025, the annual online survey polled 1,000 individuals aged 20 to 29, exploring how this demographic navigates expenses across various aspects of life, with a particular focus on gaming and in-game purchases. One of the most striking findings is that 18.8 percent of respondents
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 23:18:47
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Shein and Temu are preparing to raise their prices in the US. In almost the same notice to customers, the ultra-cheap retailers warn that they will start adjusting their prices on April 25th due to changes to “global trade rules and tariffs.” President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on goods imported from China to up to 145 percent, with the admin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 12:15:00
Cutting corners: A new report has reignited the debate over how much tax the world's largest technology companies pay, revealing that the so-called "Silicon Six" – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix – have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past decade than would be expected if their profits were taxed at the average statutory rate for US companies. The analysis, conducted by the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF), scrutinizes the financial records and tax
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 14:00:57
Elon Musk has gambled Tesla's future on the Cybercab — a small, autonomous vehicle intended to spearhead the automaker's charge into the robotaxi business and give it a pathway for growth as other electric vehicle makers increasingly eat its lunch. It was an already questionable move. And now, in a grim irony for Musk, it's looking even dicier thanks to the Trump administration he helped usher into the White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in highly visible support. As Reuters repor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 07:50:26
is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Apple’s making steady progress toward its climate goals, the company’s latest environmental progress report shows. Its planet-heating pollution shrank by 800,000 metric tons last year compared to 2023, about a 5 percent drop. Looking back over the past decade, Apple says its
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 18:21:40
In Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth's 1953 sci-fi classic "The Space Merchants," governments have been replaced by powerful corporations that have privatized nearly every corner of the globe. Thanks to overpopulation on all of the other continents, Antarctica has become a resort colony, chock full of tourists, equipment-rental companies, and violently invasive advertisements. It's a powerful novel — though one that was never meant to be taken as a suggestion. Unfortunately, a growing tourist i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 19:21:04
In the coming years, agents are widely expected to take over more and more chores on behalf of humans, including using computers and smartphones. For now, though, they’re too error prone to be much use. A new agent called S2, created by the startup Simular AI, combines frontier models with models specialized for using computers. The agent achieves state-of-the-art performance on tasks like using apps and manipulating files—and suggests that turning to different models in different situations ma
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 04:44:05
US Customs and Border Protection on Friday night published a list of products excluded from Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, including smartphones, computers and memory chips, along with other electronic devices and components. But in an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl on Sunday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the move doesn't mean these products will be exempt from tariffs altogether — they're just getting their own category. “Those products are going to be part of the semiconductor s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 02:45:06
Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Boozers beware: a new study has found links between heavy alcohol consumption, brain damage, and earlier death. As the American Academy of Neurology notes, Brazilian researchers established in a new study that heavy drinkers — defined as those who have "eight or more alcoholic drinks per week," so not a particularly gigantic quantity — have a greater risk of developing brain lesions that can cause issues with memory and cognitition. Known as hyaline arteriolo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 05:25:21
The Trump administration has excluded smartphones and other consumer electronics from its steep “reciprocal” tariffs in a significant boost for Big Tech as the White House battles to calm global markets after launching a multifront trade war. According to a notice posted late on Friday night by Customs and Border Patrol, smartphones, along with routers, chipmaking equipment, wireless earphones and certain computers and laptops, would be exempt from reciprocal tariffs, which include the 125 perc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 02:57:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: Battery life remains a top concern for smartphone and portable device users. While researchers actively explore alternatives to lithium-ion, manufacturers often rely on software-based solutions to boost efficiency. A recent study suggests that anxiety over remaining battery life sets in surprisingly early – especially among younger users. An online survey by Talker Research found that Ame
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 03:31:39
US Customs and Border Protection has published a list of products that will be excluded from Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, including smartphones, computers, semiconductors and memory cards, along with other electronic devices and components. The move comes shortly after Trump imposed a 125 percent tariff on goods from China, which the administration confirmed to CNBC and other outlets is in addition to the 20 percent tariff put in place earlier this year, bringing it to a total of 145 percent. Tr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:00:00
is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. When Nintendo announced the Switch 2 would cost $450, my initial reaction was disappointment. “Why does it cost so much more?” I thought to myself. “Why does Japan get it cheaper?” my brain jealously added, once I learned that Nintendo would sell a Japan-only model for the equivalent of just $333. It felt like Nintendo was about to overcha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 12:15:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Bottom line: PC gamers continue to show a strong willingness to spend on in-game purchases, according to the latest findings from Newzoo's 2025 PC and Console Gaming Report. It found that microtransactions accounted for a significant 58 percent of all PC gaming revenue in 2024, reaching $24.4 billion. This marks a year-over-year growth of 1.4 percent. The report pointed to three standout titles dri
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 09:38:12
China has once again raised its tariff on US goods to match Trump’s, for what it says is the final time. China’s tariff is now set at 125 percent, as it warns that the US is on track to become an economic “joke.” In a statement from China’s Ministry of Finance, which we’ve translated using Google, the country says that any further tariffs from the US side would “no longer make economic sense,” and that the US “will become a joke in the history of the world economy.” Trump initially set a tariff
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 08:21:34
President Donald Trump's major flip-flop on his aggressive tariff plan had global markets rallying on Wednesday. But analysts warned investors to look out for a "dead cat bounce," a term signifying a brief rebound during a moment of free fall or uncertainty. They were right to be skeptical. While Trump announced a 90-day pause of his aggressive so-called "reciprocal " tariffs, the administration still implemented a blanket ten percent tariff and maintained a steep 125 percent tax on Chinese go
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 19:59:10
The US Department of Justice has indicted Albert Sangier for defrauding investors with misleading statements about his Nate financial technology platform. Founded by Sangier in 2018, Nate claimed it could offer shoppers a universal checkout app thanks to artificial intelligence. However, the indictment states that the so-called AI-powered transactions in Nate were actually completed by human contractors in the Philippines and Romania or by bots. Sangier raised more than $40 million from investor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 10:58:57
The Nintendo Switch 2 is functionally similar to its predecessor. Sure, the detachable controllers can now each be used as a mouse (on your pants, no less), the screen is bigger, the hardware is more powerful and there's a built-in mic for voice chat . But otherwise the company isn't rocking the boat too much. At least not outside of its business model, as it may be preparing to sell the console at a loss. For most countries, President Donald Trump has paused the harshest tariffs that he announ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 19:46:37
Last week, President Donald Trump declared a series of tariffs that pitted the United States against the rest of the world. Big companies stayed nervously silent; small ones panicked. The stock market plunged. And surely worst of all, Switch 2 preorders were delayed. Then, the same day the largest tariffs went into effect, Trump hit the brakes with a “90-day pause.” But it’s only sort of a pause — and not on everything. Taxes on items from around the world remain higher than they were a week ago
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 23:38:00
The big picture: Android may be the dominant mobile operating system worldwide but in the US, the iPhone reigns supreme with a nearly 60 percent market share across all age groups. A recent survey found that the numbers are even more skewed among teenagers, with nearly nine out of 10 teens owning an iPhone. According to the latest survey by American investment bank Piper Sandler, 88 percent of US teens own an iPhone, and 25 percent plan to upgrade to the upcoming iPhone 17 before the end of the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 00:56:30
President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on the sweeping tariff plan that went into effect on Wednesday, April 9, and an increase to 125 percent on the tariff on imports from China. Even with the 90-day pause, there's still also a 10 percent tariff on all other imports to the US. "Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125 percent, effective immediately, " Trump poste
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 10:56:30
President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on the sweeping tariff plan that went into effect on Wednesday, April 9, and an increase to 125 percent on the tariff on imports from China. Even with the 90-day pause, there's still also a 10 percent tariff on all other imports to the US. "Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125 percent, effective immediately, " Trump poste
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 15:48:00
On Wednesday, Donald Trump, once again, took to Truth Social to abruptly shift US trade policy, announcing a 90-day pause "substantially" lowering reciprocal tariffs against all countries except China to 10 percent. Because China retaliated—raising tariffs on US imports to 84 percent on Wednesday—Trump increased tariffs on China imports to 125 percent "effective immediately." That likely will not be received well by China, which advised the Trump administration to cancel all China tariffs Wedne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:20:27
is platforms and communities reporter with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. Donald Trump is making it even more expensive for US consumers to shop online from Chinese retailers like Temu and Shein. In an executive order amendment published Tuesday night, Trump raised the tariff rate for packages valued under $800 entering the US from China and Hong Kong that previously were exempt. The increase essentially triples what sho
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 04:41:06
is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Hours after Donald Trump’s latest tariffs came into effect, China has announced retaliatory measures: an additional 50 percent tariff on US goods, on top of a planned 34 percent charge, and adding a further 12 US companies to its export control list. “The US’s practice of escalating tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake, which seriously infringes on China’s legit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 19:42:00
In a nutshell: Although spending on PC and console games declined slightly last year, and older titles take up the most playtime, analysts expect Nintendo and Rockstar to contribute to strong industry growth over the next few years. The optimism comes despite the recent announcement of historically high US tariffs that some analysts say will increase prices and lower sales expectations. Recent market reports from Newzoo and DFC Intelligence predict that US tariffs will slow but not stop PC and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 05:54:15
President Donald Trump’s promised higher tariffs have gone into effect today, targeting many countries whose goods imported to the US were already subject to a 10 percent base tariff that started on April 5th. The White House announced the tariffs on April 2nd, dubiously claiming they were “reciprocal” based on a nonsensical formula that far exceeded conventionally calculated tariffs. At the same time it declared a national emergency and stated that the higher tariffs would stay until Trump “de
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