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First room temperature and pressure superconductor discovered
Just a word of caution: Non-peer reviewed, non-replicated, rushed-looking preprint, on a topic with a long history of controversy and retractions. So don't get too excited yet.
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Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
Guys, if you don’t like these proposals from Google, you need to switch to Firefox now! It’s the only way to defend freedom on the web!
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So long, small phones
They will have to pry my iPhone 13 mini from my cold dead hands! Small phone gang unite! ✊
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fuuuuuuuuuuture
I hope not! Firefox FTW!
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Great news! Web apps represent the democratization of mobile apps, empowering independent developers free from the constraints of the App Stores
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xkcd #2907: Schwa
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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.
Back to pirating 🏴☠️ Arrrr!
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Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks
Didn’t Windows used to have a browser selection screen already? What happened?
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Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU
Lots of other websites have already copied the "pay or consent" ad model
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Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
There were 500 smartphone brand to begin with?
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No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here
Good! Stay out of the EU with your data-stealing apps! 🇪🇺
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Google hides the install button for most Play Store results
Google's constant A/B testing is really tiring and confusing. One day a feature is there, next day it’s nowhere to be found
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Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 seconds
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Not even that. For example if there are 10 assembly lines in parallel that the slowest step takes 60 seconds, you still get a phone each 6 seconds
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What songs do you like that are in a language which you don't speak?
99 Luftballoons - Nena https://open.spotify.com/track/2IJftBfq7pJ43tfnOR0RB3?si=Tj9rOKguQkOmpb3jJM27uw
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Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us
Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a plot device in a fiction book that are designed to initially look good and then fail spectacularly. Not sure they are the best to base your Robot Constitution on.
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The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
Copying here this caution comment from a user on Reddit:
Non-peer reviewed, non-replicated, rushed-looking preprint, on a topic with a long history of controversy and retractions. So don't get excited yet.
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I hate to sound like a "Reddit Holdover", but is anyone else confused by the swap of downvote/upvote colors?
Yes! Why are the colors swapped?
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Do you think Android will one day become so restrictive that sideloading (installing apps outside of Playstore) will become extremely limited, or completely banned?
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Yup! Sideloading is legally required to be available by the EU Digital Markets Act by March 2024. Both Apple and Android must comply!
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What are some things that Linux can't do, but Windows can?
Play lots of AAA games
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xkcd #2910: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald