China’s BYD overtakes Tesla’s electric car sales in last quarter of 2023

The spice saffron fetches huge sums of money, but is hard to grow and Indian production is falling.

Listen to article (2 minutes) Parents have long been frustrated by internet platforms that treat teen accounts much the same as adult accounts. Data-collection laws protecting children under 13 don’t extend to older minors. Social media’s biggest operator is addressing this with a shift in content filtering. Meta Platforms plans to automatically restrict teen Instagram…

U.S. antitrust cases against tech giants Google and Meta Platforms are expected to come to a head in 2024, likely producing long-awaited rulings that could shape the legacies of top Biden administration regulators. Silicon Valley and its critics have seen their patience tested on some of these cases. A U.S. antitrust case brought against Alphabet’s…

IF IT WERE up to my laptop’s webcam, I’d look like a potato on video calls. To make sure I don’t, I often spend the better part of an hour setting up for a 15-minute check-in. I’ll use floor lamps to offset harsh fluorescents and stack my laptop on books to meet my colleague’s gaze….

Baidu has called off a $3.6 billion deal to buy JOYY’s video-based entertainment live-streaming business in China. As of the end of December, the closing conditions for the share purchase agreement had yet to be fully satisfied, Baidu said in a filing late Monday. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Seaweed, coffee bean shells and fungus are all being employed to cut the use of plastic in furniture.