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Where did all the small phones go?
Eric Migicovsky wonders where did all the small phones go? Launching a new phone company isn’t an impossibility, but will he?
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Framework’s new laptop means the promise of modular gadgets might be coming true
The upgradeable laptop gets its first big upgrade.
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Pollution killing 9 million people a year, Africa hardest hit - study
Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated 9 million per year since 2015 – countering modest progress made in tackling pollution elsewhere, a team of scientists reported Tuesday.
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Pebble founder: it’s your "last chance" to make a small Android phone happen
Eric Migicovsky, who founded and helmed the Pebble smartwatch company and who’s working on a chat app that will bring iMessage to Android, has a new quest: getting someone, anyone, to make an Android phone you can actually use in one hand. He wants to, as he put it in an interview with The Verge, “unionize” a community of small phone lovers to get sway with phone manufacturers and suppliers.
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The Great Crypto Grift May Be Unwinding
As an inevitable crash occurs, many of the swindles and alleged swindles are coming to light.
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Diet plays key role in ADHD symptoms in children
Here’s a good reason for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to eat their fruits and vegetables: It may help reduce inattention issues, a new study suggests. As part of a larger study, researchers asked parents of 134 kids with ADHD symptoms to complete a detailed questionnaire about the typical foods the children ate, including portion sizes, over a 90-day period.
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Link between COVID-19 and Parkinson’s disease risk grows with new findings
A few years after the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic doctors around the world began to notice an increase in new Parkinson’s disease cases. This link between viral infection and increased Parkinson’s risk has been an ongoing mystery to scientists for well over a century. And the association isn’t just…
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How Disney Won The Streaming War?
Riding the wave of home entertainment are streaming platforms like Netflix, Prime, Apple+, and Disney+. In a decade-long journey of streaming platforms, Disney+ is a relatively new contender which has taken the streaming world by storm. As of 2022, Disney+ has more than 137.7 million paying subscribers on its platform.
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This super-smart tech could cut CPU thermals by 150%
Scientists may have found the answer to smaller and faster chips that could usher in the future of processors, and that answer might be using silicon-28 nanowires. Although the technology was initially dismissed as not very effective, further research and tweaks showed that the material may be able to conduct heat up to 150% more efficiently.
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Thousands of intestinal viruses have now been mapped. And they can be used to fight antibiotic...
A new method developed at the University of Copenhagen has been used to identify more than 1,000 bactericidal viruses in the human intestines. The researchers believe the discovery may help fight antibiotic resistance.
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Google 'private browsing' mode not really private, Texas lawsuit says
The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a "private browsing" mode, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed on Thursday, filing an amended privacy lawsuit against the Alphabet Inc(GOOGL.O) unit.
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Ransomware gang threatens to overthrow Costa Rica government
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A ransomware gang that infiltrated some Costa Rican government computer systems has upped its threat, saying its goal is now to overthrow the government. Perhaps seizing on the fact that President Rodrigo Chaves had only been in office for a week, the Russian-speaking Conti gang tried to increase the pressure to pay a ransom by raising its demand to $20 million.
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Older people using TikTok to defy ageist stereotypes, research finds
Older TikTok users are using the online platform, regarded as the virtual playground of teenagers, to defy ageist stereotypes of elderly people as technophobic and frail. Research has found increasing numbers of accounts belonging to users aged 60 and older with millions of followers. Using the platform to showcase their energy and vibrancy, these TikTok elders are rewriting expectations around how older people should behave both on and off social media.
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Google Is Sharing Our Data at a Startling Scale
It transmits our locations and browsing habits 70 billion times a day to advertisers amid trillions a year by other firms, a new report shows.
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Apple will let your subscription apps charge you more money without asking
Apple has updated its App Store rules to make it so subscriptions can auto-renew without your explicit permission, even if the developer has raised the monthly or annual price. Before the rule change, users would have to manually opt-into a subscription renewal if it came with a price bump; now, that won’t necessarily be the case, though you’ll still be notified about the price change before it happens. Apple says it’s making the change to help avoid the situation where users unintentionally lose access to a subscription because they missed an opt-in message.
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Most cannabis use is depicted positively on TikTok, study finds
Cannabis use is widespread and becoming more normalized as it becomes legalized in more areas around the world. Another method cannabis use is becoming normalized is through social media platforms such as TikTok.
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Contact lens that can release drug could be used to treat glaucoma
Invention can deliver medication after detecting pressure in the eye from fluid buildup, scientists say
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El Salvador’s president is hosting the Davos for Bitcoin with more than 40 countries represented
The discussion will focus on Bitcoin along with other subjects like crypto’s role in the digital economy.
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Congress holding UFO hearing Tuesday morning: Watch it live (and what to expect)
The proceedings begin at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).
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Google and Samsung join forces to make it easier to sync fitness data between apps
Google and Samsung have partnered to create Health Connect, a platform and API (application programming interface) that gives developers a toolset to sync users’ health data between Android apps and devices. This should make it easier for users to keep track of their health and fitness data across several different platforms.
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The dramatic untold story of what happened inside Apple after Steve Jobs died and Tim Cook and...
When Apple founder and impresario Steve Jobs died in 2011, there were two competing narratives that dominated the conventional wisdom about the prospects for the company.
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It will soon be easy for self-driving cars to hide in plain sight. We shouldn’t let them.
If they ever hit our roads for real, other drivers need to know exactly what they are.
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C-SPAN Has Been Walloped by Cord-Cutting. Inside the Network’s Unlikely Fight for Eyeballs.
The venerable Washington cable network of respectful debate and government procedure has to slug it out for social media views. It’s complicated.
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NASA’s Mars helicopter was supposed to fly five times. It’s flown 28.
The helicopter was expected to make five flights over 31 days. It's made 28 over more than a year.
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Ella Mai - How feat. Roddy Ricch (Hip-Hop/Pop)
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Google updates Android Auto to better fit all the different sized touchscreens in cars today
Android Auto is getting another refresh, this time with a focus on the evolving nature of vehicle touchscreens. Google says the new split-screen display will be standard for all Android Auto users, allowing them to access key features like navigation, media player, and messages — all from one screen. Previously, the split-screen display was only available to owners of certain vehicles. Now, it will be the default user experience for all Android Auto customers.
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What’s beta than Android 13?
Introducing Android 13 Beta with updated privacy and security features, new ways to personalize your device, and the latest tablet and large screen tools.
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Crypto investors panic during market bloodbath: ‘I will lose my home’
Crypto investors panicked on Thursday as bitcoin plummeted to its lowest price in more than a year and other cryptocurrencies endured even worse sell-offs. Victims of the bloodbath — which comes amid a broader stock market rout — range from the billionaire crypto titans who run leading marketplaces such as Coinbase and Binance to lowly retail investors who have poured their life savings into cryptocurrencies.
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For the first time, researchers have observed an X-ray explosion on a white dwarf
When stars like our sun use up all their fuel, they shrink to form white dwarfs. Sometimes such dead stars flare back to life in a super-hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation. A research team from several German institutes including Tübingen University, and led by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), has now been able to observe such an explosion of X-ray light for the very first time.
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USB-C iPhone 15 in the works, claims Kuo, following supply-chain survey
The only examples of a USB-C iPhone we’ve seen to date have been DIY versions, but Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple will make the switch from Lightning to USB-C next year, in the iPhone 15. The report comes as something of a surprise, as although Apple has adopted USB-C for Mac and iPad, it had seemed the company planned to stick with Lightning until it switches to a completely portless phone …




















