Filing shows Apple supplier Luxshare plans to buy a 62.5% stake in Pegatron's Kunshan unit in eastern China for about $300M, as it seeks to compete with Foxconn (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Filing shows Apple supplier Luxshare plans to buy a 62.5% stake in Pegatron's Kunshan unit in eastern China for about $300M, as it seeks to compete with Foxconn  —  - Pegatron to sell majority stake of Kunshan campus to Luxshare  — Apple's fostering Chinese suppliers to boost ties with Beijing

Transgender people say games help them explore their identities; character creation in RPGs like Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 makes fewer gendered assumptions (Zachary Small/New York Times)

Zachary Small / New York Times:
Transgender people say games help them explore their identities; character creation in RPGs like Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 makes fewer gendered assumptions  —  Transgender people have turned to games, some with robust character creators, as places where they can safely express themselves.

As more high-performance computing chips pushed past 1 kW in 2023, like Nvidia's GH200 Superchips, many manufacturers embraced direct liquid cooling (Tobias Mann/The Register)

Tobias Mann / The Register:
As more high-performance computing chips pushed past 1 kW in 2023, like Nvidia's GH200 Superchips, many manufacturers embraced direct liquid cooling  —  Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid  —  ANALYSIS As Moore's Law slowed to a crawl, chips …

A look at the challenges Amazon faces in selling cars in the US: only 11% of its customers report buying $1,000+ items, dealerships sell most new cars, and more (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the challenges Amazon faces in selling cars in the US: only 11% of its customers report buying $1,000+ items, dealerships sell most new cars, and more  —  Company aims to make online car purchases as seamless as getting everyday essentials  —  Willie Hall loves to browse and buy cars online, but he wants more options.

China struggles to contain a shadow market for business data, as most companies shun the 48 official exchanges for data sales set up by local governments (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
China struggles to contain a shadow market for business data, as most companies shun the 48 official exchanges for data sales set up by local governments  —  Dozens of marketplaces have sprung up since a 2020 initiative but most transactions still happen on the black market

Amazon Prime Video plans to start showing ads starting on January 29, with an option for customers to pay an additional $2.99 per month to avoid the ads (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge:
Amazon Prime Video plans to start showing ads starting on January 29, with an option for customers to pay an additional $2.99 per month to avoid the ads  —  Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service …