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Apple's India manufacturing: Apple exported more than 1.5 trillion rupees ($17.4 billion) in iPhones from India in the last fiscal year, the nation's technology minister said Tuesday, underscoring the US company's efforts to diversify away from China. US consumer surge: American shoppers are snapping up iPhones at retail stores in fear of Apple raising prices in response to the Trump administration's tariffs. Another essential everyone's buying up: olive oil. Meta's new teen safety measures: Teens under age 16 will no longer be able to host live videos on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger without parental consent, Meta said Tuesday. Underage users also won't be able to send direct messages suspected of containing nude images.

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China got the worst of the Trump White House's new tariffs, with an eye-watering 104% levy kicking in on goods shipped to the US from Wednesday. Any hopes for a last-minute intervention to halt or delay the tariffs were dashed overnight, and global economies wrestled with a new trade regime.

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Solar-powered gadgets have to date been various degrees of underwhelming, but Lenovo's latest concept device caught the attention of Luz Ding, a longtime energy reporter. She explains the math that suggests that a 14-inch laptop with solar cells on its cover could actually sustain itself through light to moderate use just with that mini power plant.

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