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Expression ubthejudgeWill Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?
How Mail Protection Privacy will force the email economy to adapt
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Intel in talks to acquire RISC-V firm SiFive for $2 billion
Chip giant Intel has reportedly offered $2 billion to acquire SiFive, a chip startup founded in 2015 by researchers out of UC Berkeley, that designs computing cores using the RISC-V platform, which is often touted as an open source architecture.
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Dozens killed as two trains collide in southern Pakistan
At least 40 killed and more than 120 injured after express train derails and is hit by another train in Sindh province.
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Nasa plans return to Venus with two missions by 2030
Nasa is returning to Venus for the first time in more than three decades to gain a better understanding of the history of what scientists believe could have been the first habitable planet in the solar system. Plans for two separate and ambitious deep space missions to Earth’s nearest neighbour were announced on Wednesday by the head of the US space agency, Bill Nelson. Launches were targeted for a 2028-2030 time frame, he said.
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11 days ago
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Coinbase Card Users Can Now Spend Crypto With Apple and Google Pay
The Coinbase Card can now be added to both of the payment services, allowing crypto to be used at any location that accepts Apple or Google pay. The feature makes it easier to spend crypto for real-world items. "You can now use your Coinbase Card with Apple Pay and Google Pay to make it even easier to spend crypto¹ at home and on the go," said Coinbase's blog.
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2 weeks ago
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Apple Says iPad Pro's XDR Display Designed to Minimize Blooming, but Some Users Still Notice the Effect
Some users are noticing more blooming on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro's Liquid Retina XDR mini-LED display than expected, despite Apple's claims that the effect is minimized.
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Nvidia nerfs RTX 3080, 3070, 3060 Ti GPUs to shoo away Ethereum miners
Nvidia says it will slash the cryptocurrency-mining abilities of newly made RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards. Those cards will be marked as LHR, or Lite Hash Rate, to indicate their capabilities have been limited, and will ship from the end of this month. It is hoped that by halving the hash rate of these devices, alt-coin miners will be deterred from snapping up the kit, leaving more of it for PC gamers, which may result in retail prices coming down as supply gets closer to me...
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A NASA simulation revealed that 6 months' warning isn't enough to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth. We'd need 5 to 10 years.
Last month, experts from NASA and other space agencies around the world faced a troubling hypothetical scenario: A mysterious asteroid had just been discovered 35 million miles away, and it was heading for Earth. The space rock was expected to hit in six months.
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Elon Musk Is $20 Billion Poorer Since Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’
Tesla’s stock is down 15% so far this week, lowering the fortune of its billionaire cofounder.
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Elon Musk’s Deceptive and Deeply Awkward SNL Monologue
The Tesla billionaire poked fun at his silly tweets, discussed his Asperger’s, and plugged Dogecoin—with a little help from his mom.
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Chinese rocket wreckage drops into the Indian Ocean.
According to the country’s space agency, the remnants of a Chinese rocket hurtling down into Earth have plunged into the Indian Ocean. The majority of the rocket was lost when it re-entered the atmosphere, but debris was confirmed to have landed just west of the Maldives on Sunday by state media.
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Netflix viewing stats for series and movies in 2021
What are the most-watched TV series and movies on Netflix? Here are the Netflix viewing stats for series and movies in 2021. The metrics and viewing stats show us the most successful titles that have been broadcasted on the platform. As the number of subscribers went up, Netflix kept offering new series and films including original and licensed content.
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Bill to kill up to 90% of Idaho wolves signed by governor
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a measure that could lead to killing 90% of the state’s 1,500 wolves in a move that was backed by hunters and the state’s powerful ranching sector but heavily criticized by environmental advocates.
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California condors 'absolutely trash' woman's house, won't leave
Under normal circumstances, a person would welcome the opportunity to closely observe a group of California condors, North America’s largest flying land birds, which made a miraculous recovery after nearly becoming extinct in the 1980s.
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Emails between Steve Jobs and other Apple execs reveal conflict with Facebook has spanned more than a decade
An email chain revealed by Epic Games as part of its lawsuit against Apple provides earlier context about Facebook’s battle with Apple over its App Store. Last August, Facebook said Apple’s App Store rules were hampering it from releasing its Facebook Gaming app for iPhones in the way it wanted to.
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Origin of Covid — Following the Clues
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: the political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel.
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Its kinda inevitable at this point.
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It's Possible to Drill a Hole Through an AirTag
Unlike a Tile or some other item trackers, Apple's new AirTag does not have any holes or openings for attaching it directly to a keychain, forcing customers to purchase accessories like a leather key ring for this purpose.
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Sony has sold 7.8 million PS5 consoles
Yes, millions of people have actually managed to buy a PS5