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2022-05-07 09:34:10 MotorolaEdge30 is launching on the 12th of May.

6.79mm
6.5" 144Hz FHD+ 10-bit OLED with HDR10+ support
Snapdragon 778G+
4,020mAh + 33W
50MP (OIS) + 50MP (UW + Macro) + 2MP Depth
32MP selfie camera
Stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos
In-display fingerprint scanner
Android 12

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2022-02-25 18:33:37 The US government is ending the China Initiative. Now what?

The US Justice Department said Wednesday it is ending its controversial China Initiative and will pivot to a new strategy to counter threats from nation states. The program began under the Trump administration as an effort to root out economic espionage, but drew criticism for falling short of that stated goal while increasingly focusing on…

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2022-02-23 15:55:03 The end of passwords

In the early 1960s, MIT professor Fernando Corbató was developing a new kind of shared computer system and wanted a way for people to be able to protect their private files. His solution was a password. Over the years, Corbató’s fix won out over other means of authentication and became the standard way we log…

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2022-02-19 07:13:24 This super-realistic virtual world is a driving school for AI

Building driverless cars is a slow and expensive business. After years of effort and billions of dollars of investment, the technology is still stuck in the pilot phase. Raquel Urtasun thinks she can do better. Last year, frustrated by the pace of the industry, Urtasun left Uber, where she led the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving research…

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2022-02-17 13:37:00 Innovation is slowing down—and Big Tech is to blame

In 2005, years before Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa came on the scene, two startups—ScanSoft and Nuance Communications—merged to pursue a burgeoning opportunity in speech recognition. The new company developed powerful speech-processing software and grew rapidly for almost a decade—an average of 27% per year in sales. Then suddenly, around 2014, it stopped growing. Revenues…

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2022-02-17 13:36:12 This fuel plant will use agricultural waste to combat climate change

A startup plans to build a new type of fuel-producing plant in California’s fertile Central Valley that would, if it works as hoped, continually capture and bury carbon dioxide. The facility, developed by Mote of Los Angeles, would use the mounds of agricultural waste produced on the state’s sprawling almond orchards and other types of…

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2022-02-15 12:00:14 A new map of NYC’s cameras shows more surveillance in Black and brown neighborhoods

Areas of New York City with higher rates of “stop-and-frisk” police searches have more closed-circuit TV cameras, according to a new report from Amnesty International’s Decode Surveillance NYC project. Beginning in April 2021, over 7,000 volunteers began surveying New York City’s streets through Google Street View to document the location of cameras; the volunteers assessed…

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2022-02-10 19:33:25 SpaceX just lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm. There could be worse to come.

On February 4, a geomagnetic storm caused by the sun knocked up to 40 new SpaceX Starlink satellites out of orbit. Now experts are worried about whether mega-constellations planned by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and others will be resilient to such events in the future. SpaceX had launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites on…

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2022-02-10 07:12:18 Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy

On a foggy morning in early February last year, dozens of journalists from around the world gathered outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Some walked around to find the best camera position; others climbed a ladder to peer into the fenced-off compound, its tall red-brick buildings hidden behind a thick mist. Security guards in blue…

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2022-02-08 16:06:17 The metaverse is a new word for an old idea

I have spent a lot of my career, both in Silicon Valley and beyond, insisting that all our technologies have histories and even pre-histories, and that far from being neat and tidy, those stories are in fact messy, contested, and conflicted, with competing narrators and meanings. The metaverse, which graduated from a niche term to…

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