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Indonesia might lift its iPhone ban for $1 billion

The iPhone 16 might just finally be coming to Indonesia. The island nation has reached an agreement with Apple to lift the country's ban on iPhone 16 sales, Bloomberg reports, citing familiar sources. Apple must invest $1 billion in Indonesia and train locals in the company's research and development to create their own products.<br /> Indonesia banned the iPhone 16 in October, following Apple's failure to meet its 1.71 trillion rupiah ($109 million) local infrastructure investment by about $15 million. Since then, Apple has pledged more and more money to overturn it. First, the company offered $10 million, before raising it to $100 million. By December, Indonesia’s investment minister, Rosan Roeslani, reported Apple had increased that number to the current sum of $1 [...]

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iPhone 16e review: What's your acceptable compromise?

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Match Score: 133.18

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iPhone 17e review: The economical choice

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Match Score: 106.15

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Match Score: 94.53

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Indonesia announces a social media ban for anyone under 16

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Match Score: 85.33

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Austria is pursuing a social media ban for kids under 14

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Match Score: 79.94

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Indonesia is lifting its ban on Grok, but with some conditions

Grok is once again available in Indonesia, after the country lifted its ban on the AI chatbot that was seen generating millions of sexualized deepfakes, thousands of which included children. The count [...]

Match Score: 75.09

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Indonesia suspends TikTok’s operating licence for allegedly withholding data

Indonesia has suspended TikTok’s operational registration status in the country, alleging that the social media platform did not fully co-operate with a request to share its data during nationwide p [...]

Match Score: 75.06

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Match Score: 70.55

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Meta Ray-Ban Display review: Chunky frames with impressive abilities

I've been wearing the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses daily for ten days and I'm still a bit conflicted. On one hand, I'm still not entirely comfortable with how they look. I've [...]

Match Score: 69.76