Month: May 2025
SanDisk Extreme Pro with USB4
A few years down the road, SanDisk has revamped the external drive. The SanDisk Extreme Pro now uses USB4, which promises to make accessing data stored on it even faster.It’s safe to say that content creators and others who work in video are very familiar with SanDisk’s range of external drives. The SanDisk Extreme range
iphhone to ship from Vietnam and India in Q3
There have been a lot of questions around how Apple will deal with the Trump administration’s extreme tariffs, and there are finally some answers — at least for the short term. Since China has been hit with 125% tariffs, Apple will maneuver around this by minimizing products going from China to the United States.Apple CEO
TikTok slapped fined $600 million over data sharing
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, which acts as the lead EU watchdog for many global tech firms headquartered in Dublin, led the investigation. It said TikTok failed to ensure that data accessed by employees in China was protected at a level “essentially equivalent” to EU standards, as required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The
Introduction of Meta AI app Premium
Meta Platforms is considering the introduction of a paid tier for its newly launched standalone AI app, Meta AI,the Meta AI app brings the company’s generative-AI assistant out of Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp and into a dedicated environment where users can chat with the bot and generate images on demand. Meta says the service already
Trump Freeze foreign Medical research fund
The Trump administration has frozen funding for most collaborations between medical researchers in the United States and abroad, with ripple effects to come for thousands of Europe-based scientists. The NIH allocated more than $35 billion (€33.6 billion) to universities, medical schools, and other institutions in 2023. Most of that money is spent in the US,
Apple Gains Market Share
The iPhone 16e, launched in February, gave Apple an unusual boost during what is typically a slower post-holiday quarter. Most vendors see Q1 dips as holiday-driven demand fades, but Apple’s timing helped it sustain interest and expand reach in more price-sensitive regions.Apple’s performance was also shaped by its strategic response to global trade risks. The
The launch of large language model, Grok 3.5
xAI recently secured $6 billion in funding from a mix of US venture capital firms, chipmakers such as Nvidia and AMD, and sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The funding is intended to accelerate the development of Grok and other AI infrastructure tools. The artificial intelligence venture xAI will release an early beta
ChatGPT-4 to Retire
ChatGPT-4 models have come on leaps and bounds since the original ChatGPT-4 was released, particularly with the new o3 and o4-mini models, and the Deep Research agent. While ChatGPT-3.5 (released in November 2022) showed us the potential for what an AI chatbot could be, it was ChatGPT-4 (released in March 2023) that really demonstrated what
The rise in Meta Earnings
Meta reported first-quarter financial results that reflected a great start to 2025. Revenue rose 16% year over year, but foreign currency adjustments cost the company what would have been an additional 3 percentage points of growth. The move higher comes after Meta stock had lost nearly a third of its value since late February. The
Nvidia Performance
The bearish argument has won out on Wall Street so far this year. While the AI rally can return if things improve, it remains speculative, whereas the reasons for Nvidia stock’s decline are genuine. Nvidia is at a true crossroads right now. We do not know for sure where the stock will go next, but