Despite a slowing economy, recurring trade frictions and intensifying price competition, the value of China’s exports rose in 2025 by 6.1 per cent, year on year, to a record 26.98 trillion yuan (US$3.87 trillion) – cementing its position as the world’s largest trading nation. Behind that growth, China’s export machine is increasingly being shaped by…
alengo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The new year has brought new bugs to Windows. Many of the latest bugs were caused by the January update. Some bugs have been fixed, but others remain unresolved. A new year, a new round of bugs to frustrate Windows users….
Jan 24, 2026, 08:50 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — It’s Day 8 at the Australian Open and that means it’s time for fourth-round action to begin. World No. 1s Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka will return to Rod Laver Arena eyeing their places in the last eight, as will Coco Gauff and top-ranked Australian Alex…
Jake TrotterJan 24, 2026, 07:44 PM ET Close Jake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football. He also writes about other college sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. Trotter resides in the Cleveland area with his wife and three kids and is a fan of his hometown Oklahoma City Thunder. He…
The UFC might soon have its first challenger for Ilia Topuria’s lightweight championship, as Justin Gaethje will face Paddy Pimblett for the interim title in the main event at UFC 324. Gaethje, a former divisional interim titleholder, earned this opportunity by winning three of his past four fights, including his most recent unanimous decision win…
The NBA game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors was postponed on Saturday afternoon following anotherfatal shootingby a federal officer in Minneapolis. The game was rescheduled for Sunday afternoon. The Timberwolves and Warriors are also scheduled to play on Monday night. The league announced the decision was made to “prioritize the safety and…
Sundance Institute hosted a celebration to honor founder Robert Redford on Friday night at Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Park City, Utah, where a couple of high-profile presenters nearly stole the show by sharing memories of the late icon. Sundance veteran and newly-minted Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke had the honor of kicking off the night’s…
After German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to make Europe “the antithesis to state-sponsored unfair trade practices”, the massive pressure the country’s automotive industry faced from China was laid bare in new figures. Over the course of 2025, German car and car part shipments to China saw dramatic slumps, while Chinese shipments to Germany across many…
Director Casper Kelly made his name with the 2014 viral horror short for Adult Swim, Too Many Cooks. The film is basically an 11-minute TV theme tune that layers needling repetition, perky vocals and inane lyrics with increasingly surreal elements to skewer vintage network staples — from chipper family sitcoms through cop shows, primetime soaps,…
The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving the COVID unemployment assistance program in Guam — and Microsoft complied. Typically, companies resist handing over encryption keys to authorities. Most famously,…
