Apple patent hints at foldable iPhone that automatically snaps shuts when dropped
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Quick Glance: Fallout Extended for Another Season on Prime
- Prime Video is expanding the Wasteland.
- Shortly after the premiere of the Fallout adaptation on Prime Video, an official renewal for a second season was announced.
- The first season received praise for its core trio of survivors and the faithful adaptation of game lore.
- Producers have already discussed incorporating iconic elements like Deathclaws and beloved locations in the upcoming season.
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- The 'halving' was integrated into Bitcoin's code at its inception to reduce the rate of new Bitcoins being created.
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Google Fires 28 Employees After Protests Over $1.2B Israeli Military Cloud Contract
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- Google terminated 28 employees on Thursday who had occupied its offices to protest against contracts with the Israeli government, as confirmed by a Google spokesperson.
- The protesters were arrested and after refusing to leave the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale or the workspace in New York City for nearly 10 hours, they were transferred to administrative positions to urge Google to terminate the Project Nimbus contract and cease business with the Israeli government.
- No Tech For Apartheid, a project by Jewish Voice for Peace and Linda Sarsour’s MPower Change, described the terminations as an "indiscriminate act of mass retaliation."
- The office occupations at Google were accompanied by demonstrations on-site and in Seattle, aiming to compel Google to withdraw from the project to establish cloud-based data centers and transition a significant portion of the Israeli government's IT infrastructure to cloud-based servers.
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Micron to get $6 billion from U.S. gov't to build memory fabs: Report: U.S. government to support Micron's EUV DRAM fab, other fab projects in the U.S ...
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theregister.com/2024/04/18/911_outage/
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- In Las Vegas, calls to 911 on both landline and mobile phones were inaccessible for about two hours before service was reinstated around 9 p.m.
- Throughout the outage, operators observed efforts to place calls from mobile phones and would subsequently return the residents' calls, with all attempted calls being successfully answered.
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TikTok Notes: Company tests direct competitor to the Instagram experience: TikTok has launched a new service called "TikTok Notes" on a trial basis ...
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The corporate world needs to collaborate on cyber risk: As threats morph, the cultural objections to working with the government must change too
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Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students: Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency
theregister.com/2024/04/18/feds_say_coding_boot_camp/
SpaceX Selling $399 Refurbished Starlink Dishes to US Users: The company finally expands sales of refurbished Starlink kits to select US states after opening ...
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Screen Skinz raises $1.5 million seed to create custom screen protectors: There has been much evolution in the personalized phone protector market ...
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Dell Spring Sale: Totally Excellent Deals on Laptops and Desktop PCs: We found some fantastic discounts for the Dell XPS desktop, Inspiron 16 Plus laptop ...
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Nothing Ear and Ear (a): New TWS headphones presented: Nothing has done a good job with its TWS headphones, the Nothing Ear (2). Now it's not even the Nothing ...
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The Morning After: Is the new Zephyrus G16 any good?: The biggest news stories of the day include Nintendo emulators on the App Store, silly AI bots and Sony's ...
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WhatsApp for Android: Adding messages to the contact note is being tested: WhatsApp is currently testing various things in its apps. This includes ...
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Apple To Take A Step Back With The iPhone 17 Plus Display Size, As Company Is Expected To Create A Wider…
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