Companies are exploring new form factors for phones. Huawei's new phone looks interesting. Apple is planning a foldable phone with a liquid metal hinge. As my wife would say: more things to break.
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Chinese companies are reacting to Trump's tariffs by cutting prices – and moving out of China. Xi is not pleased about that. This is what the pro-tariff people were hoping would happen, while nay-sayers were thinking that all it would do is raise prices for Americans. That might happen if we were a tiny country, but the U.S. market is not one to deny, as even Canada is finding out.
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Harvard is turning into a community college, offering remedial math courses. It's not the place where the smart go to innovate. It's a DEI institution, where they have to accommodate those who got in for reasons other than merit. And since they're going to make it free for lower income folks, what's cachet of the Harvard name anymore?
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India is planning to issue a government-developed browser that they want everyone to use. This Redditor warns against this, as they will likely insert a government-created root certificate that will allow them to spy on people. If they wanted to, of course.
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Brain scans reveal when babies first form memories. Their hippocampuses start becoming functional around 12 months of age.
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If you're up for a Blade Runner ambient track to study with or just have in the background, this four-hour Eurorack-generated soundscape is for you.
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Revenues from Portland metro homeless services tax in 'fiscal valley of death'. Portland leadership is unhappy that they can't continue to get money to feed their municipal money sink. Up for discussion is the Metro Supportive Housing Services tax. They don't understand that when you feed the squirrels, you get more of them.
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Yikes. Multnomah County is spending money on AI licenses for its employees. Looks like some AI companies are going to get a lot of Portland-flavored training data. I'll bet some higher-up thought this would be a great thing to "modernize" the county.
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Crazy. This is how health insurance operates in California.
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Oregon Democrats – how can they justify this?
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