Rahil Bhagat

Rare Apple 1 charity auction bids have already reached $500,000

If you are a fan of Apple, want to own a piece of tech history and have oodles of cash to burn, you’ll be happy to learn a very rare Apple 1 computer has just found its way on to the auction block. Apple’s first ever computer, the Apple 1, was originally released in 1976 …

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Apple’s latest numbers show a huge slowdown in China

Apple’s latest numbers are in — and while the company was quick to celebrate selling a billion iPhones, a closer look reveals a troubling trend for one of the company’s most important markets: China. Sales in the Greater China region (the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong) plummeted 33 percent year over year to $8.8 billion for the quarter that ended …

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Nvidia’s new $1,200 Titan X graphics card is an absolute monster

There is a new GPU king. Just weeks after the global rollout of its GTX 1070 and 1080 graphics cards, US chipmaker Nvidia has unveiled another product in its already breakneck 2015-2016 release cycle. Called the Titan X, it looks to be the most powerful graphics card that Nvidia has ever made. As the name suggests, the card is the …

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Stylish DIY Pokedex cover helps with Pokemon Go battery woes

As any seasoned Pokemon trainer will tell you, Pokemon Go has quite a habit of draining your phone’s battery life. This means that you either have to lug around an unwieldy portable power bank or simply go home and live in a world without Pokemon. As if anyone would want that. Related stories Pokemon Go: Gyms, candy, pokeballs and everything …

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Bizarre rap video from Chinese youth party is propaganda at its most cringeworthy

The Chinese Communist Youth League and CD REV, a rap group from southwest China, want to set the record straight on what the real China is like. The solution? A bizarre English-language hip hop track called “This is China” and an accompanying video, both of which dropped on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo late last week. The 4-minute song, which has …

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Singapore’s civil servants are set to lose internet privileges

By this time next year, Singapore’s civil servants will have lost access to the internet. The change, which was announced yesterday, is designed to prevent any leaks from work emails and shared government documents, as well as to safeguard the country’s serves from malware, The Straits Times reported. The ban, which will affect all 100,000 or so computers used by …

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Alibaba lures Chinese shoppers into VR with virtual celebrity dates

In Chinese Internet and text slang, “520” means “I love you“. Naturally, there’s a lot of romantic gift-giving going on come May 20. This weekend Taobao, an Alibaba-owned online marketplace similar to Amazon, encouraged people to shop via VR headset by offering interactions with a virtual boyfriend or girlfriend. To enter this brave new world of digital love, Chinese buyers …

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Meet Vivo, the world’s fifth largest smartphone maker

If you’re the kind of person who pays attention to devices in movies, you might have noticed that the phones and tablets in Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” all belonged to a brand called Vivo. Vivo is not some fictitious brand created by the Marvel writers. It’s actually some canny product placement by a Chinese smartphone maker that has been …

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Indonesian taxi drivers riot over Uber

Traffic in the Indonesian city of Jakarta was brought to a halt Tuesday due to violent protests against ride-sharing apps. The protests came from Jakarta’s taxi drivers, who caused traffic jams by blocking off several main roads. Some were also witnessed on social media damaging vehicles and confronting bystanders. Their actions came in response to the Indonesian government’s apparent refusal …

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Shamans using sites like Facebook for black magic, says Malaysian official

As shown by the recent news of ransomeware aimed at Macs, surfing the Internet can be hazardous. According to one Malaysian official, one of the risks is opening yourself up to black magic. Jazannul Azriq Aripin, a communications officer at government ministry CyberSecurity Malaysia, said he’s aware of cases where shamans, or “bomoh,” have snagged pictures of their victims from …

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