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• Halsey’s record label won’t release a new song until it goes viral on TikTok. Is this the future of the music industry?

  28-05-2022 12:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Sunday, popular American singer songwriter Halsey shared a video on TikTok with tinny music in the background, the on-screen text reading: Basically I have a song that I love that I wanna release ASAP but my record label won’t let me. I’ve been in this industry for 8 years and I’ve sold over 165 million records. And my record company is saying that I can’t release it unless they can fake a viral moment on TikTok. Everything is marketing. And they are doing this to bas
  
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• Velotric Discover 1 review: A premium-feeling ebike at a not-so-premium price

  27-05-2022 23:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  I tend to gravitate toward ebikes that are light and nimble. I like ebikes that feel more like regular bikes, especially those that use torque sensors for the smoothest pedaling experience. The Velotric Discover 1 isn’t quite that. But for an MSRP of $1,899 (currently on sale for $1,399), it’s a pretty sweet ride in an accessible form factor and a strong first entry for a new company entering a crowded ebike market. The Discover 1 doesn’t stand out in any single metric, but it
  
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• Watching this AI-assisted art video is like tripping on acid in the Matrix

  27-05-2022 23:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jason Silva, futurist and host of National Geographic’s “Brain Games,” recently published a mind-bending YouTube video combining the technological prowess of AI with the artistic creativity of someone who believes in the power of psychoactive experiences. It’s called “Dreaming while awake: a journey into ourselves.” The description on Silva’s YouTube channel describes the video as: The first art piece of the singularity: born from a human-AI collab
  
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• Does it matter whose brain cells we use in gadgets of the future?

  27-05-2022 18:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The year is 2030 and we are at the world’s largest tech conference, CES in Las Vegas. A crowd is gathered to watch a big tech company unveil its new smartphone. The CEO comes to the stage and announces the Nyooro, containing the most powerful processor ever seen in a phone. The Nyooro can perform an astonishing quintillion operations per second, which is a thousand times faster than smartphone models in 2020. It is also ten times more energy-efficient with a battery that lasts for ten day
  
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• New research highlights roundabouts as a cycling safety hazard

  27-05-2022 17:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  This week, new research found that roundabouts are overrepresented in bike accidents.  Dutch traffic bureau VIA looked at registered accidents at intersections that involved cyclists between 2014 and 2021. It found most of the intersection bike crashes in the Netherlands occur at roundabouts. Specifically, 12% of the total bike crashes involved intersections or almost one in eight. Roundabouts are designed to improve traffic flow — particularly for car drivers — by removing sto
  
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• Machine learning has an alarming threat: undetectable backdoors

  27-05-2022 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. If an adversary gives you a machine learning model and secretly plants a malicious backdoor in it, what are the chances that you can discover it? Very little, according to a new paper by researchers at UC Berkeley, MIT, and the Institute of Advanced Study. The security of machine learning is becoming increasingly critical as ML models find their way into a growing number of applications. The new study focuses
  
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• The 5 best websites to build your online portfolio… and get hired

  27-05-2022 16:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you want to find your dream job, you need to stand out from the crowd. It’s not enough to meet the job requirements, have a decent CV, and a few good references. In today’s competitive job market, job seekers need to go above and beyond to cut through the noise and kick off their career. One of the best ways to do this is to create an online portfolio. A good online portfolio will give you a clean and organized place to showcase your past work, talk about your experience, and sha
  
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• Watch with envy as this hoverboard soars over Paris

  27-05-2022 15:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Over the last few years, we’ve seen more and more new kinds of aviation vehicles come on the market, from flyboards to flying motorbikes to eVTOLs. So when we saw a video of a hoverboard being flown in Paris this week, we just knew we had to share it with you.  What’s a better fuck you to city traffic than whizzing through the air above it? A video on YouTube by Omni Hoverboard shows a man flying the hovercraft, using a handheld device to steer, over a large ornamental pond out
  
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• An in-depth look at the race to charge your phone in mere minutes

  27-05-2022 13:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sorry if this triggers your anxiety: remember how we once to charge our phones overnight so they were ready for action the next day? It took hours to charge devices from 0 to 100%, and we would frantically look for chargers if the battery level went below a certain threshold. That has changed in the last couple of years, during which we’ve seen the evolution of charging tech that fully juices up phones in under half an hour. Phew. Good old days There’s also a fast-charging arms race
  
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• How the Internet of Trees can make our cities greener

  27-05-2022 12:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Parks, small woodlands and even simple patches of grass not only keep a city attractive, but also help people find a sense of bliss in an otherwise bustling urban environment. With new technologies, we can plan and monitor these urban “green spaces” better than ever before. As several studies have highlighted, nature within urban settings plays a pivotal role in combating many of the global public health challenges commonly associated with urbanization. This includes 
  
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• The UAE’s AI minister wants ‘murder’ in the metaverse to be a real crime

  26-05-2022 21:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Omar Sultan Al Olama, the United Arab Emirates minister of artificial intelligence, yesterday told an audience at the World Economic forum in Davos that it’s his belief that people who commit “serious crimes” in the metaverse should be punished with real-world criminal consequences. Per an article by CNBC’s Sam Shead, the minister views this as a necessary measure to protect people’s mental health: If I send you a text on WhatsApp, it’s text right? It might t
  
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• DuckDuckGo faces widespread backlash over tracking deal with Microsoft

  26-05-2022 20:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  DuckDuckGo’s reputation for protecting privacy has taken a hit after revelations emerged of a tracking deal with Microsoft. Security researcher Zack Edwards this week revealed that DuckDuckGo’s mobile browsers allow some Microsoft sites to bypass its block on trackers. While the browser blocks Facebook and Google trackers, DuckDuckGo makes an exception for Microsoft. Edwards found that the browsers allow allows data to be sent to Microsoft’s LinkedIn and Bing domains “Yo
  
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• How to stop annoying cookie pop-ups from ruining your browsing

  26-05-2022 18:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  The road to hell is paved with good intentions — or, as you may call them, “cookie pop-ups.” The pop-ups have scarred the internet since the EU made them mandatory for most sites. The lawmakers were understandably concerned about companies tracking users as they browse the web. The notifications are their attempt to protect our privacy. Well, thanks — I hate them. No one reads the stoopid banners, sites use dark patterns to trick us into accepting their worst terms,
  
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• Cobalt-free batteries are here, so why are we still mining the mineral?

  26-05-2022 16:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  For a long time, we’ve been hearing that cobalt is terrible. Its mining is linked to child labor, environmental damage, and loss of habitat to local wildlife — and its use is increasing.  But there are some signs for the better. We decided to take a look. The numbers are going up According to The Cobalt Institute, electric vehicles are the highest drivers of cobalt demand, consuming 59,000 tonnes, or 34% of the global total in 2021.  EVs are the biggest users of cobalt. Cr
  
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• Tech industry groups are watering down attempts at privacy regulation, one state at a time

  26-05-2022 15:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  By: Todd Feathers and Alfred Ng In late 2019, Utah state senator Kirk Cullimore got a phone call from one of his constituents, a lawyer who represented technology companies in California. “He said, ‘I think the businesses I represent would like to have some bright lines about what they can do in Utah,’ ” Cullimore told The Markup. At the time, tech companies in California were struggling with how they could comply with a new state law that gave individual Californi
  
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• OnePlus’ sub-$40 Nord Buds are an impulse purchase you won’t regret

  26-05-2022 13:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last year, more than 300 million truly wireless earbuds (TWS) were shipped worldwide. While Apple is the leading company in the sector with its AirPods, they cost more than $150. The leading price point in the market is under $50, with a 36% market share, according to research firm Counterpoint. This is the segment OnePlus wants to dominate with its sub-$40 Nord Buds. It’s a no-frills release from the company that attempts to give you just the basics of wireless audio — and it prett
  
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• How to make performance reviews less terrible — even for remote employees

  26-05-2022 12:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Few office workers seem to like performance reviews, those annual examinations of how well workers are doing their jobs. And many seem to outright hate – or fear – them. A 2015 survey of Fortune 1000 companies found that nearly two-thirds of employees were dissatisfied with performance reviews, didn’t think they were relevant to their jobs – or both. In a separate survey conducted in 2016, a quarter of men and nearly a fifth of women reported crying as a result of a bad
  
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• OpenAI punished dev who used GPT-3 to ‘resurrect’ the dead — was this fair?

  26-05-2022 10:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Machine-learning systems are increasingly worming their way through our everyday lives, challenging our moral and social values and the rules that govern them. These days, virtual assistants threaten the privacy of the home; news recommenders shape the way we understand the world; risk-prediction systems tip social workers on which children to protect from abuse; while data-driven hiring tools also rank your chances of landing a job. However, the ethics of machine learning remains blurry for ma
  
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• A ‘doorway’ on Mars? How we see things in space that aren’t there

  26-05-2022 10:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Enthusiasts lit up social media recently with images of what appeared to be a “doorway” into a hillside on Mars. Was it, some wondered, evidence that the red planet could be, or have been, inhabited by aliens? The “door” was imaged by Nasa’s Curiosity rover on May 7 on the slopes of Mount Sharp, the central massif within Gale crater, where it landed in 2012. Described on one website as a “pharaonic tomb door”, because of its resemblance to some ancient
  
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• Moneybags Musk won’t use Tesla shares to secure financing for his Twitter acquisition

  26-05-2022 10:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  There’s a new development in the Twitter–Elon Musk deal, and this time, it’s a financial one rather than a juicy controversy. In his latest step, Musk has removed Tesla shares as collateral to secure financing for his acquisition of Twitter. He declared the expiry of margin loans in a new filing with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC). When Musk first penned the offer to buy Twitter, he committed $21 billion of his own money, and the rest was acquired through loans. H
  
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• Big hair and glasses make good headphones sound bad — here’s what you can do

  26-05-2022 00:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Headphones don’t like my hair. That’s an unfortunate truth for someone who has spent half of his life being a little obsessed with headphones. Getting good sound quality out of most headphones requires a good seal, but years of testing headphones have shown most simply don’t try to account for more voluminous hairstyles like the fro I’ve been growing over the pandemic. People who wear glasses often face similar issues, as the glasses can interfere with the seal to a simi
  
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• How fintech startups can help the underserved and make a profit

  25-05-2022 21:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Working as a tech journo, I meet many people with big, world-changing ideas. But despite the hyperbole, when I ask about how they are going to achieve their aims – or indeed if they are already up and running, who they have helped – the Zoom call often gets really quiet.  So when I meet someone who is making the lives of some of the most disadvantaged people in the world a better place, and they’re using tech to do so, I get wildly excited.  This week I had the pleas
  
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• NASA taps into the magic of diffraction to build solar sailing spacecraft

  25-05-2022 21:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sails have propelled earthlings across the seas for millennia, but NASA believes their future is off-world. The space agency has unveiled plans to develop a new solar sail system for a demonstration mission. Dubbed Diffractive Solar Sailing, the project won Phase III of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which supports visionary space technologies. Those picked for Phase III are the closest to becoming real — so a spacecraft powered by solar sails isn&rsq
  
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• Electric mobility is hot, but its lithium-ion batteries are burning

  25-05-2022 17:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Not a week goes by without seeing a video, news item, or tweet about a lithium-ion battery fire. Just over the weekend, there was news in Canada of a Tesla Model Y 2021 driver who had to break a window to escape after his car shut down and caught fire unexpectedly. The car lost power, locked him inside, and started filling up with smoke. The problem is big. Incidents range from exploding roadside mopeds to ebike batteries that catch fire while charging at home, to fires burning on cargo ships h
  
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• Google takes on OpenAI with flashy text-to-image generator

  25-05-2022 15:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI imagery competition is getting personal. Google this week unveiled a new challenger to OpenAI’s vaunted DALLE-2 text-to-image generator — and took shots at its rival’s efforts. Both models convert text prompts into pictures. But Google’s researchers claim their system provides “unprecedented photorealism and deep language understanding.” Human raters preferred Imagen over DALLE-2 for both sample quality and image-text alignment. Credit:
  
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• Apple is finally forcing mobile devs to let you delete your app account easily

  25-05-2022 13:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple’s finally cracking down on apps that don’t easily let you delete your account and data when you want to leave their service. Starting June 30, the company will enforce a policy that apps that provide sign up (or account creation methods) features, will also need to make sure they allow users to delete their account through that interface. Here’s what the company says in its developer guidelines: If your app supports account creation, you must also offer account deletion
  
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• What are nuclear isomers? And why are they so awesome?

  25-05-2022 09:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best scientific work. In 1921, he was studying radioactivity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, Germany, when he noticed something he could not explain. One of the elements he was working with wasn’t behaving as it should have. Hahn had unknowingly discovered the first nuclear is
  
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• 9 Reasons to Hire a Social Media Marketing Agency

  25-05-2022 03:22 via skyje.com
  
  Working with an agency to boost your social media presence could be one of the best investments you can make for your brand. That is possible, but it requires a great deal of time,...
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• There’s nowhere to hide: This drone can track targets through forests

  24-05-2022 23:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  A team of researchers from Austria recently developed an AI-powered drone capable of tracking moving objects through dense foliage. So much for escaping to the woods and living off the land if the machines ever rise up against us. Per the team’s research paper: While detecting and tracking moving targets through foliage is difficult (and often even impossible) in regular aerial images or videos, it becomes practically feasible with image integration … This finding together with the
  
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• Proper use of Git tags

  24-05-2022 23:32 via blog.aloni.org
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• Lesser-Known And Underused CSS Features In 2022

  24-05-2022 22:45 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/05/lesser-known-underused-css-features-2022/
  
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• The 5 Elements of a Strong Brand Strategy

  24-05-2022 21:31 via shopify.com
  
  https://www.shopify.com/blog/brand-strategy
  
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• Google Street View now lets you ‘time travel’ on your phone. Here’s how

  24-05-2022 20:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  While the real-life Delorean still can’t go back to the future, Google’s Street View vehicles can now transport us to the past. Historial images captured by the cars have been assembled in a tool that shows how places have changed over time. The feature was previously only available on the desktop version of Google Maps, but is now available on smartphones. “Street View is all about capturing the world as it changes, and it’s also a powerful way to reminisce about the pa
  
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• Spotify’s Embodiment Of Emotional Design

  24-05-2022 20:16 via raw.studio
  
  https://raw.studio/blog/spotify-embodiment-emotional-design/
  
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• Nora - Never Rebuild Project Management System in Your Notion again

  24-05-2022 19:29 via getnora.page
  
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• First Look At The CSS object-view-box Property

  24-05-2022 18:19 via css-tricks.com
  
  https://css-tricks.com/first-look-at-the-css-object-view-box-property/
  
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• Elon Musk’s obsession with bots will do nothing to stop Twitter spam

  24-05-2022 17:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, even dismissing Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal’s public response. Later, Musk put the deal on hold and demanded more proof. So why are people arguing about the percentage of bot accounts on Twitter? As the creators of Botometer, a widely used bot detection tool, our group a
  
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• The Instagram rebrand embraces the “squircle”

  24-05-2022 17:05 via itsnicethat.com
  
  https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/instagram-rebrand-graphic-design-230522
  
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• Polestar invests in fast-charging tech that promises 160km of range in 5 minutes

  24-05-2022 16:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  The EV industry is striving to develop fast-charging batteries that’ll make range anxiety a thing of the past — and it seems that whoever gets there first will have an enviable advantage. On Tuesday, Polestar officially threw its hat in the ring, announcing its investment in the Israeli battery manufacturer StoreDot. To create extreme fast-charging (XFC) batteries, StoreDot has used two different techniques. First up, it has replaced the conventional graphite in the battery’s
  
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• Min-Max-Value Interpolation Calculator

  24-05-2022 16:29 via min-max-calculator.9elements.com
  
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• Oi, Apple! Here’s what you must do to make the HomePod a success

  24-05-2022 15:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fans of Apple-powered smart devices, rejoice — it’s rumored there’ll be a new HomePod released either at the end of 2022, or the start of 2023. What’s currently unclear is whether this will be a direct replacement for the now-discontinued original HomePod, or if Apple is going to release a model that’s sized in between this and the mini — as has been reported in the past. It isn’t all plain sailing though. According to renowned leaker and analyst, Ming-
  
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• Next.js Layouts RFC

  24-05-2022 15:09 via nextjs.org
  
  https://nextjs.org/blog/layouts-rfc
  
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• The rumored iPhone selfie camera upgrade should come to all Apple devices

  24-05-2022 14:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  At last: Apple’s apparently upgrading the selfie camera on the upcoming iPhone 14. That’s from a report from a South Korean outlet Electronic Times Internet, which noted that the company has placed an order with LG Inno for front cameras that might cost thrice as much as that of the iPhone 13. Sure, there’s no guarantee that using a costlier component translates to the iPhone 14’s selfie camera being otherworldly. But combining Apple’s camera computing and new hard
  
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• Time to write better alt text for accessibility

  24-05-2022 14:28 via uxdesign.cc
  
  https://uxdesign.cc/time-to-write-better-alt-text-for-accessibility-5637e370de4f
  
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• This app is the latest weapon in the fight against domestic violence

  24-05-2022 13:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, worldwide, nearly one in three (27%) women aged 15-49 years have been subjected to some form of physical and/or emotional violence by their partners. Domestic violence hasn’t decreased in the digital era, as abusers often use technology to stalk, exploit, and control their victims. According to research, such technology-based abuse features everyday tools, from smart devices to online platforms and mobile apps. For example, abusers who h
  
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• Renault’s ambitious concept car is hydrogen-electric and made from milk bottles

  24-05-2022 13:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Renault’s newest concept car isn’t just a looker — there’s a lot more to this prototype than just design. And yes, milk bottles are involved. Credit: Renault An unusual hybrid Called the Scenic Vision, the vehicle is a hybrid, but not in the usual sense. Its 215hp electric motor and 40kW battery are coupled with a 16kW hydrogen fuel cell. The car maker explains that by combining electric and hydrogen power, it can run a battery that’s twice as light, while offering
  
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• The metaverse could lead to an urban exodus

  24-05-2022 13:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Several companies, including Apple and Microsoft, are betting that the world of tomorrow will, at least in part, be carried out in the metaverse. To this end, Microsoft recently acquired the video game giant Activision Blizzard for US$68.7 billion. As more of our daily activities take place online, we believe it’s time to consider how this may eventually play out; if tomorrow’s city dwellers prefer the metaverse to brick-and-mortar stores and other urban amenities, wh
  
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• Have aliens visited Earth? US Congress doesn’t rule it out

  24-05-2022 13:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs). The last investigation of this kind happened more than 50 years ago, as part of a US Air Force investigation called Project Blue Book, which examined reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (note the change in name). The current hearings are the result of a stipulation attached to a 2020 COVID-19 relief bill, which required US Intelligence
  
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• You don’t need a 200MP phone, but Motorola is making one anyway

  24-05-2022 09:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Once upon a time, 8 megapixels on a smartphone camera was a big deal. 50 megapixels used to be impressive. Then 100 MP phones arrived and that was neat too, I guess. But does anyone really want 200 megapixels? That’s what Motorola seems to be banking on with its upcoming flagship phones.  Lenovo’s general manager posted an image teasing a 200-megapixel smartphone on Weibo (Lenovo owns Motorola). The post didn’t reveal much about the device beyond a July release date, alth
  
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• Building a button component

  24-05-2022 01:33 via web.dev
  
  https://web.dev/building-a-button-component/
  
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