Reuters: Apple airlifts 600 tons of iPhones from India ‘to beat’ Trump tariffs, sources say
Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India, after it stepped up production there in an effort to beat President Donald Trump’s tariffs, sources told Reuters.
The details of the push provide an insight into the U.S. smartphone company’s private strategy to navigate around the Trump tariffs and build up inventory of its popular iPhones in the United States, one of its biggest markets.
Analysts have warned that U.S. prices of iPhones could surge, given Apple’s high reliance on imports from China, the main manufacturing hub of the devices, which is subject to Trump’s highest tariff rate of 125%.
UN–L: Nebraska Today: Novel spider research featured in New York Times
A recent study by University of Nebraska–Lincoln biologists Brandi Pessman and Eileen Hebets was featured in The New York Times' Trilobites column on March 22. (The article requires a subscription.)
The researchers published one of the first studies demonstrating that one type of animal, when faced with human-generated noise, can alter how it receives sound-based information. In a recent Current Biology publication, the researchers demonstrated that the webs of funnel-weaving spiders transmit vibrations differently in response to increased local environmental noise. This flexibility in web transmission properties suggests that the spiders may intentionally spin their webs differently to manage surrounding noise and receive crucial sensory information.
In a particularly novel finding, the study also shows that individual webs transmit vibrations differently depending on whether the web’s architect was collected from an urban or rural environment. This suggests that a spider’s past exposure to environmental noise — and possibly its genetic makeup — shapes its web-building flexibility.
“These spiders have come up with an incredible solution — they are able to use their webs as both a hearing aid and hearing plug,” Hebets, George Holmes Professor of biological sciences, told the Times.
ScienceAlert: This Simple Trick Could Help You Hear Better in a Noisy Room
Have you ever had trouble taking in information in a noisy environment? A new study suggests that tapping your fingers in a steady rhythm could help you ‘tune in’ through the noise.
Last Updated: 12.Apr.2025 23:42 EDT
