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In a sign of the times, Apples key manufacturing partners are ready to ramp up production in the US should the incoming Trump administration keep its promise to levy painful surcharges on Chinese imports.But, of course, these new factories wont necessarily create vast quantities of jobs, as they are likely to be focused on strategically important, high-value goods made inheavily automated plants.All the same, the news is that Apples big Taiwanese partners Foxconn, Pegatron, and Quanta Computer are ready to rapidly ramp up US manufacturing investment in response to any changes in national policy,explained Foxconn Chairman Young Liu. His company already has production centers in Texas, Wisconsin, and Ohio, and is ready for additional expansion, he said.Dealing with uncertaintyThis may be shrewd preparation, given that President-Elect Donald J. Trump has threatened to put a 60% levy on Chinese-made products once he re-takes power. Trump has just been elected. Its uncertain what policies he will implement. Well be watching to see what changes there will be from the new U.S government, Liu said, according toReuters.Liu was speaking during the companys stronger-than-anticipatedquarterly results call. The company revealed that net income for the quarter was $1.5 billion, with demand for server chips boosting performance. He expects Foxconn to take at least 40% of the global server market in future.That demand for server chips means the company can see even more value in US production, with Alphabet, Meta and Amazon set to spend billions on server infrastructure to drive AI this year. If you combine that demand with the growing recognition of the need to protect data sovereignty, you can surmise that making servers in this kind of quantity near or in the regions that are demanding them is a sensible business move for the company. (Liu actually uses the term sovereign server to articulate this.)Similarly, as tensions with China could increase under Trumps management, the Taiwanese firms may feel that manufacturing consumer products in the US is a price they can pay in exchange for some protection around their own national security. (And the strategic need to encourage companies to make chips in the US makes achieving that amatter of national security.)What about the iPhoneLiu was light with detail on the companys biggest client, though Apple critics seeking a little mood music might note his warning that the smart consumer products business will show a decline this year. This could either suggest iPhone sales are lower than anticipated or could hint that iPhones are eating the industrys lunch, with other smartphones Foxconn also makes for other brands not selling terribly well.Decoding the shadows surrounding the data, it is perhaps telling (and probably related) that Foxconns sales hit a record high in October, when the iPhone 16 was introduced.Im inclined to imagine the Apple smartphone is doing just fine.The new tech, US and India?The need to diversify manufacturing bases is generating international investments. Apple, Foxconn, and other Apple partners are also deeply immersed in building business in India, with Foxconn already putting $10 billion into that attempt.The company intends to makeeven bigger investmentsthere, even as alocal report claimsApple and its suppliers aim to make just under a third (32%) of all iPhones made globally in India by fiscal 2027.But even in India, the labor force is a cost, and Foxconn (and Apple) already have plans to reduce the number of workers involved in iPhone assembly, perhaps byas much as 50%.They hope to achieve this through automation and artificial intelligence, though there is a lot of work to do before robots can match human manufacturing success still, Apple has said itsmanufacturing headcount droppedfrom 1.6 million workers globally to 1.4 million in 2023.An iPod, a phone, a tool for international politicsJobs, international tension, money, the march of AI, trade wars and surveillance as a service., were through the smartphone looking glass, people, and no mistake.In the US, and elsewhere, weve quite clearly taken a long, long journey since the optimism and promise voiced by then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs when he described the first iPhone in 2007. He did not say an iPod, a phone, and a device that challenges economic and national security.It is only today, as the march of digital transformation continues, that this is what it turned out to be.You can follow me on social media! Youll find me onBlueSky, LinkedIn,Mastodon, andMeWe.

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This is todays edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology.Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AIs mindWe dont know exactly how AI works, or why it works so well. Thats a problem: It could lead us to deploy an AI system in a highly sensitive field like medicine without understanding that it could have critical flaws embedded in its workings.A team at Google DeepMind that studies something called mechanistic interpretability has been working on new ways to let us peer under the hood. It recently released a tool to help researchers understand what is happening when AI is generating an output.Its all part of a push to get a better understanding of exactly what is happening inside an AI model. If we do, well be able to control its outputs more effectively, leading to better AI systems in the future. Read the full story.Scott J MulliganWhats on the table at this years UN climate conferenceTalks kicked off this week at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running for a couple of weeks each year, the global summit is the largest annual meeting on climate change.The issue on the table this time around: Countries need to agree to set a new goal on how much money should go to developing countries to help them finance the fight against climate change. Complicating things? A US president-elect whose approach to climate is very different from that of the current administration (understatement of the century).This is a big moment that could set the tone for what the next few years of the international climate world looks like. Heres what you need to know about COP29 and how Donald Trumps election is coloring things.Casey CrownhartThis story is from The Spark, our weekly newsletter giving you the inside track on all things energy and climate. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.The must-readsIve combed the internet to find you todays most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.1 The FBI is investigating crypto predictions-betting platform PolymarketIts investigating whether the firm allowed US traders to bet on the election. (Bloomberg $)+ Doing so would have been a violation of an agreement with the US government. (NYT $)+ Polymarket claims to be a fully transparent prediction market. (WSJ $)2 OpenAI is calling for the US government to invest in AIWithout financial support, the US could lose crucial ground to China, it warns. (WP $)+ The firm floated the idea of building a colossal data center. (The Information $)3 AI-generated Elon Musk propaganda is rife on FacebookPro-Musk inspiration porn is the content of choice for spammers. (404 Media)+ Trump is surrounding himself with terminally online edgelords. (The Atlantic $)4 The online right has a misogynistic new rallying cryYour body, my choice is being spread by young men seeking to provoke. (New Yorker $)+ The upcoming presidency could usher in an age of gendered regression. (The Guardian)5 Chinas human factory workers are under pressureRobots are creeping into every level of the manufacturing process. (FT $)+ Three reasons robots are about to become way more useful. (MIT Technology Review)6 The future of chipmaking in AmericaEfforts to revitalize native facilities arent exactly going to plan. (Wired $)+ Whats next in chips. (MIT Technology Review)7 Blindbox live streaming is thrilling shoppers in ChinaYou never know what youre going to get. (NYT $)8 What the glacial Earth may have looked likeAround 700 million years ago, the entire planet was covered in ice. (Ars Technica)+ Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europas icy shell. (MIT Technology Review)9 How to protect the worlds largest single coral colonyThe newly-discovered colony is the size of two basketball courts. (Vox)+ The race is on to save coral reefsby freezing them. (MIT Technology Review)10 These researchers have reinvented the wheelThis morphing wheel can roll over obstacles up to 1.3 times the height of its radius. (Reuters)Quote of the dayShawty crunk, so fresh, so clean.Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO-turned rapper, debuts a reworked version of 2002 rap hit Get Low in a tribute to his wife, the Wall Street Journal reports.The big storyMarseilles battle against the surveillance stateJune 2022Across the world, video cameras have become an accepted feature of urban life. Many cities in China now have dense networks of them, and London and New Delhi arent far behind. Now France is playing catch-up.Concerns have been raised throughout the country. But the surveillance rollout has met special resistance in Marseille, Frances second-biggest city.Its unsurprising, perhaps, that activists are fighting back against the cameras, highlighting the surveillance systems overreach and underperformance. But are they succeeding? Read the full story.Fleur MacdonaldWe can still have nice thingsA place for comfort, fun and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet em at me.)+ This years gurning championship winning mugshots do not disappoint.+ What does it mean to have personal style, exactly?+ Amsterdams unofficial police cat is absolutely adorable (and he lives on a boat!)+ Save the wormsthis writer certainly is.

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Reviews weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here.Its time for a partythe Conference of the Parties, that is. Talks kicked off this week at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running for a couple of weeks each year, the global summit is the largest annual meeting on climate change.The issue on the table this time around: Countries need to agree to set a new goal on how much money should go to developing countries to help them finance the fight against climate change. Complicating things? A US president-elect whose approach to climate is very different from that of the current administration (understatement of the century).This is a big moment that could set the tone for what the next few years of the international climate world looks like. Heres what you need to know about COP29 and how Donald Trumps election is coloring things.The UN COP meetings are an annual chance for nearly 200 nations to get together to discuss (and hopefully act on) climate change. Greatest hits from the talks include the Paris Agreement, a 2015 global accord that set a goal to limit global warming to 1.5 C (2.7 F) above preindustrial levels.This year, the talks are in Azerbaijan, a petrostate if there ever was one. Oil and gas production makes up over 90% of the countrys export revenue and nearly half its GDP as of 2022. A perfectly ironic spot for a global climate summit!The biggest discussion this year centers on global climate financespecifically, how much of it is needed to help developing countries address climate change and adapt to changing conditions. The current goal, set in 2009, is for industrialized countries to provide $100 billion each year to developing nations. The deadline was 2020, and that target was actually met for the first time in 2022, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which keeps track of total finance via reports from contributing countries. Currently, most of that funding is in the form of public loans and grants.The thing is, that $100 billion number was somewhat arbitraryin Paris in 2015, countries agreed that a new, larger target should be set in 2025 to take into account how much countries actually need.Its looking as if the magic number is somewhere around $1 trillion each year. However, it remains to be seen how this goal will end up shaking out, because there are disagreements about basically every part of this. What should the final number be? What kind of money should countjust public funds, or private investments as well? Which nations should pay? How long will this target stand? What, exactly, would this money be going toward?Working out all those details is why nations are gathering right now. But one shadow looming over these negotiations is the impending return of Donald Trump.As I covered last week, Trumps election will almost certainly result in less progress on cutting emissions than we might have seen under a more climate-focused administration. But arguably an even bigger deal than domestic progress (or lack thereof) will be how Trump shifts the countrys climate position on the international stage.The US has emitted more carbon pollution into the atmosphere than any other country, it currently leads the world in per capita emissions, and its the worlds richest economy. If anybody should be a leader at the table in talks about climate finance, its the US. And yet, Trump is coming into power soon, and weve all seen this film before.Last time Trump was in office, he pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. Hes made promises to do it againand could go one step further by backing out of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) altogether. If leaving the Paris Agreement is walking away from the table, withdrawing from the UNFCCC is like hopping on a rocket and blasting in a different direction. Its a more drastic action and could be tougher to reverse in the future, though experts also arent sure if Trump could technically do this on his own.The uncertainty of what happens next in the US is a cloud hanging over these negotiations. This is going to be harder because we dont have a dynamic and pushy and confident US helping us on climate action, said Camilla Born, an independent climate advisor and former UK senior official at COP26, during an online event last week hosted by Carbon Brief.Some experts are confident that others will step up to fill the gap. There are many drivers of climate action beyond the White House, said Mohamed Adow, founding director of Power Shift Africa, at the CarbonBrief event.If I could characterize the current vibe in the climate world, its uncertainty. But the negotiations over the next couple of weeks could provide clues to what we can expect for the next few years. Just how much will a Trump presidency slow global climate action? Will the European Union step up? Could this cement the rise of China as a climate leader? Well be watching it all.Now read the rest of The SparkRelated readingIn case you want some additional context from the last few years of these meetings, heres my coverage of last years fight at COP28 over a transition away from fossil fuels, and a newsletter about negotiations over the loss and damages fund at COP27.For the nitty-gritty details about whats on the table at COP29, check out this very thorough explainer from Carbon Brief.DAN THORNBERG/ADOBE STOCKAnother thingTrumps election will have significant ripple effects across the economy and our lives. His victory is a tragic loss for climate progress, as my colleague James Temple wrote in an op-ed last week. Give it a read, if you havent already, to dig into some of the potential impacts we might see over the next four years and beyond.Keeping up with climateThe US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule to fine oil and gas companies for methane emissions. The fee was part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. (Associated Press) This rule faces a cloudy future under the Trump administration; industry groups are already talking about repealing it. (NPR)Speaking of the EPA, Donald Trump chose Lee Zeldin, a former Republican congressman from New York, to lead the agency. Zeldin isnt particularly known for climate or economic policy. (New York Times)Oil giant BP is scaling back its early-stage hydrogen projects. The company revealed in an earnings report that its canceling 18 such projects and currently plans to greenlight between five and 10. (TechCrunch)Investors betting against renewable energy scored big last week, earning nearly $1.2 billion as stocks in that sector tumbled. (Financial Times)Lithium iron phosphate batteries are taking over the world, or at least electric vehicles. These lithium-ion batteries are cheaper and longer-lasting than their nickel-containing cousins, though they also tend to be heavier. (Canary Media) I wrote about this trend last year in a newsletter about batteries and their ingredients. (MIT Technology Review)The US unveiled plans to triple its nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Thats an additional 200 gigawatts worth of consistently available power. (Bloomberg)Five subsea cables that can help power millions of homes just got the green light in Great Britain. The projects will help connect the island to other power grids, as well as to offshore wind farms in Dutch and Belgian waters. (The Guardian)

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The Unicode Consortium has issued its latest collection of emoji you could be using on an iPhone in late 2025, including a distorted face, a "fight cloud," and an apple core.Inbound emoji - Image credit: EmojipediaThe Unicode Consortium's Emoji Standard & Research Working Group is behind the creation and management of emoji characters. These images are included in iOS, macOS, and other operating systems around the world.Every year, the group proposes a collection of new emoji or changes to the existing roster to the Unicode Technical Committee. According to Emojipedia, 164 emoji symbols were submitted for addition in November. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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