Gmail debuts a ‘Purchases’ tab to monitor packages, tariffs, and more
Gmail’s new “Purchases” tab is for those of us who like to know where each and every package is, right now — and in the age of tariffs, it’s not such a bad idea. Beginning…
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Asus moves US-bound manufacturing to avoid tariffs
China has been the manufacturing juggernaut of the world for decades, thanks to low labor costs and a lot of business-friendly moves from the government. But now that the U.S. is apparently on a very…
Trump closes the online shopping loophole that beat tariffs
An executive order by President Trump will eliminate the de minimis exemption on tariffs on a worldwide basis, essentially making everything you buy subject to tariffs from the country of origin. The order will take…
AMD debuts a cheaper Ryzen AI 300 laptop chip as tariffs slow PC sales
Whether it’s tariffs or some other reason, CPU makers seem to be pushing downward into cheaper alternatives, expanding their available market. The most recent example is AMD’s latest addition: the Ryzen AI 5 330, its…
U.S. PC market stalls in Q2, anticipating tariffs
PC sales worldwide have steadily grown since late last year. The U.S. PC market, however, has crashed back to earth. IDC’s preliminary numbers for the second quarter of 2025 show flat year-over-year growth of 0…
What tariffs? Philips Hue lights get early Prime Day discounts
As promised, the U.S. retail prices of several key Philips Hue products have jumped in response to tariffs. Just don’t tell anyone at Amazon, where a variety of Hue lights remain on sale in the…
US delays extra 25% tariffs on GPUs, motherboards to September
One of the stranger effects of the Trump administration’s trade war with China has been to cause a noticeable uptick in the PC market as businesses and consumers rush to buy new computers before the…
Most Trump tariffs struck down by US federal court as ‘illegal’
The Trump administration’s unprecedented and unpredictable import taxes on goods and materials coming into the United States, which have sewn chaos both domestically and internationally for months, are illegal. That’s according to the Court of…
Weirdly, tariffs are expected to grow the PC market
Researcher IDC has unexpectedly concluded that the current administration’s see-sawing tariff plan is going to actually help the PC market grow in 2025. IDC said Wednesday that it now expects that the PC market will…
Trump backs down: China tariffs set at 30% for now
The last few months of PC news has been dominated by one thing: US president Trump’s attempt to implement foreign economic policy using almost nothing but import taxes. The wild and escalating tariffs with China…