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• Apple will sell spare parts to fix your iPhone as pigs learn to fly

  17-11-2021 23:51
  
  Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, let alone in 2021: Apple today announced Self Service Repair, a program that will allow everyday customers to buy genuine Apple repair parts and tools to fix their own broken devices, starting with the iPhone 12 and 13. In related news, the domestic pig, Sus domesticus, has recently been spotted flying south for the winter. Seriously though, my mouth was agape as I read Apple’s press release. I can still hardly believe it as I type
  
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• How the laws of physics could prevent AI from gaining sentience

  17-11-2021 21:08
  
  A renowned theoretical computer science expert recently released an astonishing physics pre-print paper that tosses fuel on the fiery debate over… whether humans could use wormholes to traverse the universe or not. Don’t worry, I’ll explain what this has to do with self-aware robots in due course. Fun with physics First, however, let’s lay the foundation for our speculation with a quick glance at this all-new wormhole theory. The pre-print paper comes courtesy of French
  
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• Lowering the age of a licence won’t solve the truck driver shortage

  17-11-2021 18:35
  
  Think back to when you were a kid, and people asked what job you wanted to do when you grew up. Did you say a truck driver? Well, now, once you turn 18, you can become one. But why would you want to?  The Developing Responsible Individuals for a Vibrant Economy (DRIVE-Safe) is changing to allow 18-year-olds to drive trucks across states. While  48 out of 50 US states currently allow 18-year-olds to obtain a Commercial Driving License until federal law is changed, they cannot driv
  
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• New extinguisher addresses unique challenges of fighting EV fires

  17-11-2021 17:20
  
  Contrary to what many skeptics preach, there’s not enough data yet to confirm that EVs are more likely to catch fire than internal combustion engine cars. But there’s un irrefutable fact: when electric vehicles do catch fire, they burn fiercely and require a new skillset for emergency respondents to fight the flames. Austrian firefighting equipment manufacturer Rosenbauer has developed a special EV fire extinguisher, specifically designed to tackle the complexities of EV fires, Ride
  
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• This LED floor lamp can bathe your room in 16 million colors — and you’ll barely know it’s there

  17-11-2021 15:00
  
  TLDR: The Lamp Depot Minimalist LED Corner Floor Lamp casts up to 16 million colors and over 300 different lighting patterns to remake a room strictly through lighting. For their hundreds of different possible styles and configurations, lamps don’t always get loads of attention as central room decor. But it’s tough not to earn some attention when you’re not even sure that a lamp IS a lamp. That’s part of what makes the Lamp Depot Minimalist LED Corner Floor Lamp ($89.99,
  
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• Twitter’s auto-refresh fix could make wading through the cesspit worthwhile

  17-11-2021 14:01
  
  Twitter may be a cesspit, but sometimes it’s worth trudging through toxic waste in search of buried treasure. If you find a pithy wisecrack or a memorable meme, dysentery doesn’t feel so awful. Unless, of course, Twitter’s auto-refresh vaporizes the tweet before you’ve pulled it out of the pigshit. After tormenting users with this issue for years, the bird app has finally shown some mercy. Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will no longer automatically refresh your fee
  
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• What does it take to create an object that travels at 1% the speed of light?

  17-11-2021 12:36
  
  Light is fast. In fact, it is the fastest thing that exists, and a law of the universe is that nothing can move faster than light. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second) and can go from the Earth to the Moon in just over a second. Light can streak from Los Angeles to New York in less than the blink of an eye. While 1% of anything doesn’t sound like much, with light, that’s still really fast – close to 7 million miles per hour! At 1% the speed
  
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• If this self-driving library came to my town, maybe I’d read a damn book

  17-11-2021 10:23
  
  I love reading books and that’s why I have a membership card for my city’s public library. Do I visit it often? No, I don’t. I’m normally too busy or lazy to leave the house just for that. For the same reasons, I have a stash of books that I did manage to borrow from the library, which I return long after the due date and end up paying some pretty big fines. But what if I could have access to books while strolling around the city to get a coffee or something? That’
  
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• Can we please stop talking about ‘digital transformation’?

  17-11-2021 08:30
  
  I don’t want this to be my Jerry Maguire moment but to be honest, I’m sick of hearing the words ‘digital transformation.’ What does it even mean anymore? It’s such a hyped-up term, overused by a market saturated with evangelists spouting conceptual nonsense, amplifying its enigma-like existence (and profiting handsomely from it). It normally starts with the C-Suite coming back from a strategy week, a Silicon Valley trip, or a CMO change — in tow is a strategi
  
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• Remember Windows Media Player? Microsoft is finally replacing it

  17-11-2021 06:37
  
  When’s the last time you used Windows Media Player? What about Microsoft’s Groove Music app? If you’re anything like me, it was probably right after getting a new computer or completing a fresh install, when you tried to play some music or videos only to remember you haven’t installed foobar2000 or VLC yet. Needless to say, the antiquated Windows Media Player looks completely outdated with Windows 11‘s modern UI, and Groove has been lackluster since Microsoft gave
  
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• IBM announces Call for Code 2021 grand prize winner

  17-11-2021 02:49
  
  IBM and David Clarke Cause just announced Saaf Water as this year’s 2021 grand prize winner! Saaf Water is the first team from India to take the grand prize and their amazing story represents everything that’s good and necessary about the Call for Code challenge. Per an IBM press release: Saaf Water will receive $200,000 and support to incubate, test, and deploy their solution from the IBM Service Corpsand expert partners in the Call for Code ecosystem. The India-based team will als
  
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• Edward Snowden dunks on Search gurus in hilarious Twitter clapback

  17-11-2021 00:11
  
  I don’t usually pass along Twitter gossip like it’s news, but it isn’t everyday the world’s most famous whistle-blower gets into a tissy with the underground rulers of all things search. Let me rewind: Edward Snowden, everybody’s favorite fugitive-turned-technology-critic, shot out a seemingly off-the-cuff post on Twitter today professing his disdain for the current state of internet search: Is it just me, or have search results become absolute garbage for basicall
  
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