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I recently visited Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of China and saw everything from food delivery drones to robotaxies, police robots and more. It kinda blew my mind!

China is planning to have 3x as much battery production capacity in 2025 as global demand. Prices are crashing globally, driving EV prices down as well. What is China doing? How did they get here? What should the rest of the world do? The Story Behind

Tim Cook is a political mastermind and the smartest CEO, especially during a trade war. He expertly manages political tensions with Trump in the US while also keeping his relationship with China healthy.

Trump's America threatens European soveregnity to its core. France has long been strivingt for strategic autonomy and proves that this is possible in Europe in a military, energy and technological sense as well. Here's what we can learn from them.

Many are thinking abot switching from, or even boycotting Google, Microsoft, Apple & Co, so I tried using only European alternatives or open source software for a month. I tried a Linux laptop from Tuxedo, e/OS on a Fairphone 5, Nextcloud and more.

Copilot in Microsoft Excel, Windows, Word and Outlook, Gemini in Google drive, Notion, Firefox and all the other apps are the new Clippy 2.0. They are annoying and get in the way. This is a rant. Thanks, I hate it.

AMD fell behind Intel in the CPU race, but then, starting in 2012 when Lisa Su came to the company, they slowly built themselves back to a strong position. Now, having switched from GlobalFoundries to TSMC and moved from Bulldozer to Zen, they are doing great.

The Fairphone 6, a.k.a. the Fairphone Gen. 6, is a modular, repairable phone with a focus on fair use materials and better supply chains. In my full review I found it's also a pretty good phone now.

I visited CREAL in Switzerland to see their light field displays in AR headsets, smart glasses and a vision care system that lets you take an eye test to figure out what glasses you need.

The Trump administration negotiated to receive a 10% stake in Intel, making the US government Intel's largest shareholder. Here's how I think they can use their power to force Intel to win.

I visited Damascus, Syria for a family trip & documented what technology looks like there today. I visited the airport, trains, cars, busses, solar panels and more.