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K-pop prides itself on vertiginously high standards in all aspects of production, from its choreography to the carefully curated public images of its stars. So it’s surprising that the European leg of the biggest tour ever by an all-female K-pop act begins a tad late. A bemused American voice apologises for “technical difficulties” over the PA. (Blackpink’s world tour has transferred from a successful run in the US.) There’s little for “Blinks” – Blackpink fans – to do but watch the band’s videos and bash their…

What’s got two thumbs, can perform over 240 PFLOPS, and just gave Europe a 50/50 share of the world’s top four most powerful supercomputers? This supercomputer right here: “This supercomputer right here!” Dubbed the “Leonardo HPC System,” what you see above is the world’s fourth most powerful supercomputer and a potential quantum leap towards the creation of Europe’s first exascale computer. Greetings, humanoidsSubscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chip maker, is preparing another multibillion-dollar factory investment in Arizona, people familiar with the plans said. TSMC plans in the coming months to announce it will build a cutting-edge semiconductor plant north of Phoenix, beside another chip factory that the company committed to in 2020, according to people familiar with the expansion plans. The scale of the investment is expected to be roughly similar to the $12 billion it…

Online retailer Shein is on track to generate revenue of $24 billion this year, according to people close to the company, putting it within striking distance of the world’s largest fast-fashion giants—just a decade since its founding.Shein, which was started in China and is now based in Singapore, has grown rapidly thanks to a unique business model that has enabled the company to sell a large assortment of apparel at ultralow prices and respond quickly to shifting fashion trends. Women’s tops retail on its website for as…

Florida company Apocalypse 6x6 has carved out an interesting niche for itself, taking the most offensively massive Yank tanks on the market, expanding them in all directions, adding more wheels and selling them for insane prices, presumably to the kind of people that wear wall-of-text t-shirts fantasizing about what they'll do to you if you treat their daughter wrong.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: six-wheel, Off-road, Crazy Florida company Apocalypse 6x6 has carved out an interesting niche for…

Mark Zuckerberg wants a fresh start. He’s betting his company’s future on the metaverse, imagining a world powered by AR glasses that’s lifted from the pages of science fiction. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still here in the present, grappling with Facebook and Meta’s powerful influence over the real world. We explore the original source of that influence in the inaugural episode of the new season of Land of the Giants, Vox Media Podcast Network’s award-winning narrative podcast series about the most influential tech…

13 years later, James Cameron returns with `Avatar : The Way of Water` and the teaser is finally out and promises a breathtaking experience. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, `Avatar: The Way of Water` begins to tell the story of the Sully family -- Jake, Neytiri and their kids -- and the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure. "I know one thing," Sam Worthington`s Jake Sully tells Zoe…