As China continues to suffer an economic slowdown as trade-related tensions with the US drag on, the CEO of what is essentially the Google of China has sent out a letter to his employees with an ominous warning drawn from pop culture: Winter is coming.

Baidu CEO Robin Li wrote in his letter that the Beijing-based search engine company earned 100 billion yuan (the US equivalent of $14.6 billion) in revenue last year. But analysts, according to The South China Morning Post, had forecast 101.45 billion yuan, with the revenue miss coming as the second-largest economy in the world continues to be saddled with its slowest growth in decades, blamed in large measure on the US trade war, which has spurred hiring freezes and job cuts in China.

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It’s not just Apple: Baidu CEO warns employees that ‘winter is coming’ originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 21:03:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A few years ago, Google unveiled a bunch of bold plans for the future of technology, including Project Jacquard, which aimed to add smart features to clothing that would give users the ability to perform various tasks on their devices by simply touching their clothes. Levi’s partnered with Google to launch a first smart jacket, which hit stores in late 2017. It turns out that Apple is also interested in intelligent fabric, but that doesn’t mean it’ll make any Apple Jackets of its own.

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Apple might use smart fabrics to make future electronic devices originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 20:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s not all that often that China breaks entirely new ground when it comes to space science but that’s exactly what the country did earlier today by successfully landing its Chang’e 4 spacecraft on the Moon’s surface. China’s space agency was quick to post new photos snapped from the lander, declaring the touchdown and deployment of its lunar rover a success.

This is the very first time that any country has performed a soft landing or rover deployment on the far side of Earth’s natural satellite, and it’s a huge win for Chinese scientists who have been planning out this mission for years.

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China’s lunar probe sends back its first photos of the far side of the Moon originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 19:06:27 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Disney officially closed out 2018 in style. The company added a few extra billion to its coffers thanks to an insanely successful run at the box office over the past 12 months, releasing one hit after another.

And the company is poised to do it again this year, with a slate of ten 2019 releases — almost all of which should be monster successes for the company.

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Look out Netflix: Disney made an insane amount of money at the box office in 2018 originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 18:04:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The relentless march of technology is allowing scientists to consider the possibility of human exploration of the Solar System and beyond but, even as we dream of the day where man sets foot on Mars, we have to consider how we’ll protect our home planet from major threats in the future. The possibility of an asteroid-borne apocalypse is a real one, and NASA wants to make sure mankind is prepared to defend itself from such events.

To that end, NASA is already planning the first real planetary defense test mission. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART for short) is a planned mission that will send a spacecraft designed as a “kinetic impactor” directly into a non-threatening asteroid in order to test the feasibility of using a similar system for avoiding an asteroid strike in the future.

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NASA’s first planetary defense mission will send a spacecraft crashing into an asteroid originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 17:15:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The 2018 iPad Pros are the best tablets money can buy right now. They are more powerful than most computers, including some MacBooks and iMacs, according to benchmark tests, and have fantastic potential. The new iOS tablets can easily replace computers for most needs, but they’re still not true laptop or desktop alternatives.

I would love an iPad Pro experience that was more like what macOS has to offer, although that’s not where Apple’s iOS is heading. Apple has always maintained that it’s not making touchscreen laptops and that it doesn’t intend to merge iOS and macOS. But a developer just proved that it’s not that hard to bring one of the best things of macOS — the iconic menu bar — to iOS apps.

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Developer dreams up a stunning macOS-style menu bar for iOS originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 16:44:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re looking for a battery case that will more than double the battery life on your new Google phone without adding too much bulk, you’ve come to the right place. The NEWDERY 4700 mAh Slim Google Pixel 3 Battery Case has a nice sleek design that’s slim at the top so it’s still easy to reach the fingerprint scanner. It also has a USB-C charging port so you don’t need to worry about carrying a microUSB cable like you would with most comparable battery cases. It’s available for either the Pixel 3 or the Pixel 3 XL, and both models are just $39.99 right now.

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Double your Pixel 3’s battery life with this $40 battery case originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 16:13:28 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After what has been possibly one of the most excruciating waits in television history, Game of Thrones will return for its eighth and final season in April 2019. That’s a full twenty months after season 7 concluded way back in August of 2017, but fans are hoping that the extended off-time will have been worth it. Unfortunately, the waiting continues for now, but the cast and crew are at least starting to talk about the upcoming season.

In an interview with TV Guide this week, showrunners Benioff and Weiss, along with actors Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Emilia Clarke (Daenarys Targaryen), touched on how the stunning revelations of season 7 will affect the final six episodes, especially when it comes to the show’s impromptu heroes: Jon and Dany.

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‘Game of Thrones’ cast and crew talk Jon and Dany heading into season 8 originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 15:42:44 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You’ve got a smartphone that support wireless charging. So does your significant other. And you might also have other devices that support wireless charging, like this awesome wireless charging case for Apple AirPods. Now that wireless charging is so common, why should you need multiple charging pads to refuel all these devices? Check out the JE Qi Triple Wireless Charger Station on Amazon. It barely costs more than a single-device charger from a top brand but it works with three devices at once.

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Charge three devices on one pad with this $30 wireless triple charger originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 15:11:08 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Two of Apple’s biggest rivals in the smartphone game likely broke out some bubbly over the past 24 hours in celebration of the good fortune that’s suddenly come their way.

Over the past 24 hours, it should go without saying, investors, analysts and talking heads have scrutinized the potential fallout from Apple CEO Tim Cook’s surprise letter to investors Wednesday, in which Cook relayed that Apple was revising its revenue guidance lower for the typically busy holiday quarter. Apple’s stock, naturally, got slammed. Market watchers berated the company for coasting on the iPhone’s success for too long. Blame was placed in large measure on a slowdown in Apple’s business in China, which likewise stems from US-China trade tensions.

Samsung and Huawei, meanwhile, don’t have anything to worry about regarding their own businesses. Huawei for obvious reasons, and Samsung for reasons that we’ll get into it. Basically, this is good news for both.

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Apple’s bad news for investors might be good news for Samsung and Huawei originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 14:48:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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