Thomas Ricker

India seems increasingly destined to become the next factory for the world. Soon it will start shipping the iPhone 14 to Europe, and now some AirPods and Beats headphones are headed to India as well, according to Nikkei’s sources.

According to Bloomberg, India’s effort to become another factory to the world is succeeding with help from the Apple / Foxconn juggernaut. By March 2023, annual shipments of India-made iPhones, mainly to Europe and the Middle East, are set to reach $2.5 billion, almost double the $1.3 billion from the year prior.

After pulling search in 2010, Google has shut down one of its last remaining services in China, citing low usage. CNBC says that the service now redirects users to the Hong Kong version, which isn’t accessible from mainland China anyway.

From our own James Vincent on Wednesday reporting on what experts will be looking for during the Tesla Bot reveal later today:

911 million shares of Porsche (get it!) are now being traded in Frankfurt after parent company Volkswagen carved off a 12.5 percent slice of the iconic brand for public ownership. The Porsche IPO is expected to be one of the largest in European history. Shares are currently trading at €84 adding about €75 billion to VW’s coffers. Not bad for a day’s work.

Apple has responded to the removal of Russia’s largest social network from the App Store globally.

Just Google for “NASA DART.” You’re welcome.

Season 34 of The Simpsons kicked off on Sunday night with an opening credits “couch gag” based on the offline dino game from Google’s Chrome browser. Cactus, cactus, couch, d’oh! Perfect.

”It’s the most rugged and capable Apple Watch yet,” said Apple at the launch of the Apple Watch Ultra (read The Verge review here). YouTuber TechRax put that claim to the test with a series of drop, scratch, and hammer tests. Takeaways: the titanium case will scratch with enough abuse, and that flat sapphire front crystal is tough — tougher than the table which cracks before the Ultra fails — but not indestructible.