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• Icahn steps up fight with Occidental over deal, wants board seats

  26-06-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  In a regulatory filing, Icahn said he planned to oust and replace four Occidental directors and change the company's charter through a stockholder consent solicitation to prevent it from ever engineering a similar takeover again.Responding to the filing, Occidental said it will review the latest materials filed by Icahn, and looks forward to addressing them in ongoing conversations with shareholders.Icahn, one of industry's most powerful activist investors, cast himself as one of the deal's most
  
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• The Border Crisis Isn’t Partisan

  26-06-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan bill to address the border crisis today. The House passed a partisan one yesterday. The president, unsurprisingly, has not been clear about what he will do. Meanwhile, the image of a father and daughter who died trying to cross the Rio Grande seems to have hardened positions on all sides.This is inexcusable. For the sake of expediency as well as decency, the House should pass the Senate’s bill and the president should sig
  
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• The Latest: Witness could face perjury in Navy SEAL trial

  26-06-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials have informed a Navy SEAL witness that he could face a perjury charge after he testified that he — and not Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher— had killed an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq.In an email sent Tuesday to a lawyer for Special Operator First Class Corey Scott, the Navy said it was considering charging Scott with lying under oath during Gallagher's court-martial.
  
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• President Trump calls out critics for 'presidential harassment'

  26-06-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Media, Democrats react to special counsel Robert Mueller's upcoming congressional testimony.
  
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• Democrats are ready to throw punches but vow debate won't become 'crazytown'

  26-06-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  For the past several months, the approximately two dozen Democratic presidential candidates have crisscrossed the country visiting key early states and introducing themselves to voters. As they move past this introductory phase of the primary, the candidates have begun to turn toward each other and fire their first shots.
  
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• The Latest: Zhang family says no promise body would be found

  26-06-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a scholar from China killed by a former University of Illinois doctoral student says they're aware he offered to divulge where her remains were but weren't convinced the body would actually be found.The defense said in a Tuesday filing that Christensen made the offer, asking for a life sentence in exchange.Jurors convicted Christensen Monday in a federal death-penalty trial of kidnapping Zhang in 2017 and beating her to death.
  
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• Senate Passes $4.6 Billion Border-Funding Bill after Rejecting Pelosi’s Version

  26-06-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The Senate on Wednesday passed a $4.6 billion spending package to alleviate the ongoing crisis at the southern border, just moments after rejecting a similar emergency-funding bill advanced by House Democrats that included restrictions on the funding of certain border-enforcement measures.Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who shepherded the more restrictive spending bill through the House on Tuesday, announced her caucus's opposition to the Senate bill before it was voted on, ensuring a contentious reconcil
  
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• Democrats hope Mueller testimony will have 'profound impact'

  26-06-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he expects special counsel Robert Mueller to have "a profound impact" when he testifies before Congress on July 17, even though Mueller has said he won't provide any new information.Mueller's unusual back-to-back testimony in front of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees is likely to be the most highly anticipated congressional hearing in years, particularly given Mueller's resolute silence throughout his two-year investigation into R
  
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• UPDATE 5-U.S. regulator cites new flaw on grounded Boeing 737 MAX

  26-06-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/SEATTLE, June 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has identified a new risk that Boeing Co must address on its 737 MAX before the grounded jet can return to service, the agency said on Wednesday.The risk was discovered during a simulator test last week and it is not yet clear if the issue can be addressed with a software upgrade or will require a more complex hardware fix, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.The FAA did not elaborate on the latest set
  
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• Understanding what makes captive gorilla hearts tick

  26-06-2019 22:03
  We've known for some time that heart disease is prevalent in captive gorilla populations and is a leading cause of death. This is why, in 2010, the Great Ape Heart Project based at Zoo Atlanta (www.greatapeheartproject.org) was formed. The project provides a network of clinical, pathologic and research strategies to aid in the understanding and treating of cardiac disease in all the ape species.
  
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• Learning from experience is all in the timing

  26-06-2019 22:03
  Animals learn the hard way which sights, sounds, and smells are relevant to survival. New research in flies shows that the timing of these cues plays an important role in how mental associations arise, and elucidates brain pathways involved in this process.
  
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• Honeybees infect wild bumblebees through shared flowers

  26-06-2019 22:03
  Viruses in managed honeybees are spilling over to wild bumblebee populations though the shared use of flowers, a first-of-its-kind study reveals. This research suggests commercial apiaries may need to be kept away from areas where there are vulnerable native pollinator species, like the endangered rusty patched bumblebee.
  
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• U.S. regulator cites new flaw on grounded Boeing 737 MAX

  26-06-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/SEATTLE (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has identified a new risk that Boeing Co must address on its 737 MAX before the grounded jet can return to service, the agency said on Wednesday.The risk was discovered during a simulator test last week and it is not yet clear if the issue can be addressed with a software upgrade or will require a more complex hardware fix, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.The FAA did not elaborate on the latest setback for
  
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• Ex-GOP House Staffer Rory Riley-Topping: Duncan Hunter Groped Me in 2014

  26-06-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Reuters/RTA former House Republican staffer on Wednesday alleged that Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) sexually assaulted her during a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in 2014. In an exclusive interview with Kremlin-backed news network RT, conservative commentator Rory Riley-Topping alleged that the Republican congressman grabbed her from behind at the event while she was a staffer for the House veterans committee.“Duncan Hunter had clearly appeared intoxicated and came up
  
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• Salt Lake City police say missing Utah college student texted someone at airport

  26-06-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck was last seen getting into a car at a local park at 3 a.m.; insight from Tim Doubt, Salt Lake City assistant police chief.
  
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• Tesla's senior production executive at Fremont facility quits - source

  26-06-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Hochholdinger, a former production executive at Volkswagen AG, is the latest high-profile executive to leave Tesla in the past two years as the automaker struggles to ramp up production of Model 3, which is seen as crucial for its long-term profitability. At Volkswagen, Hochholdinger spent 22 years supervising the production of Audi A4, A5 and Q5 models. Both Tesla and Hochholdinger did not respond to requests for comment.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters urge G20 to raise plight with China

  26-06-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong protesters marched to major consulates on Wednesday in a call for G20 nations to confront fellow member China over sliding freedoms in the financial hub, at a weekend summit in Japan.The semi-autonomous city has been shaken by huge demonstrations this month, with protesters demanding the withdrawal of a bill that would allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland.The massive rallies are the latest manifestation of growing fears that China is stamping down on the city's unique freedoms an
  
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• Venezuela government says thwarted attempted 'coup'

  26-06-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's socialist government said Wednesday it has derailed an attempted coup, claiming the United States, Colombia and Chile colluded in a plot by officers to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro and install a general in his place, a minister said.Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said the plan involved both active and retired army officers and was to have been executed between Sunday and Monday this past weekend.
  
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• Substitute teacher fired for filming porn video in school

  26-06-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A Texas school district has fired a substitute teacher after receiving a tip that she made pornographic videos that included footage recorded in a classroom.
  
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• Supreme Court Rebuffs Businesses, Won't Topple Regulation Precedent

  26-06-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected calls by business groups to overturn two decades-old rulings that have given federal agencies broad power to interpret their own regulations.Voting 5-4 on the central issues, the court on Wednesday reaffirmed rulings from 1945 and 1997 that typically require judges to defer to an agency on the meaning of ambiguous regulations. The court limited that legal doctrine, though, laying out new guidelines for when courts should yield to agencies.Chie
  
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• John Roberts Throws the Administrative State a Lifeline

  26-06-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  While there are many cultural and political causes for the growth of the federal administrative leviathan, it could not have become so powerful without considerable assistance from the Supreme Court. The Court has created, often out of whole cloth, judicial doctrines that magnify the problem: Congress is allowed to pass laws delegating its legislative authority to the executive branch; the executive branch, in turn, is given great leeway to interpret those laws as it sees fit; similar leeway app
  
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• Conservative U.S. Justice Gorsuch again sides with liberals in criminal case

  26-06-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The court ruled that the right of Andre Haymond to face a jury trial under the U.S. Constitution's Sixth Amendment was violated when a judge unilaterally imposed an additional prison sentence after Haymond violated the terms of his supervised release.Haymond originally was sentenced to just over three years in prison and 10 years of supervised release after being convicted by a jury in 2010 of possessing pornographic images involving children.After completing his sentence, Haymond was found in 2
  
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• Senate rejects House-backed version of border aid bill

  26-06-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill approved a day earlier by the House of Representatives that would have provided $4.5 billion to address a surge in migration at the U.S. border with Mexico, while setting new standards for the care of migrants taken into custody.Last month, President Donald Trump requested aid for programs to house, feed, transport and oversee a surge of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States.White House officials had said the bill would hamper
  
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• NATO weighs options to deter new Russian missile threat

  26-06-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  NATO defense ministers considered on Wednesday how to deter Russia from launching a missile attack at short notice on Europe if a landmark treaty against land-based nuclear warheads collapses next month.Barring a last-minute reversal by Russia that NATO does not expect, the United States is set to pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) on Aug. 2 citing Russia's development of a missile that breaks the accord.
  
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• "First Cut of Steel": The Navy's New Ballistic Missile Submarine Is Coming Soon

  26-06-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Using first-of-its-kind digital modeling techniques, and advanced training, the Navy has been making rapid progress staying ahead of the original construction schedule. The ship specs are 100-percent complete, the arrangements are 97.5 percent complete and the ship disclosures are already 43-percent complete.Almost nobody knows where they are at any given time, yet nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines quietly patrol dark domains of the undersea realm in strategically vital waters around th
  
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• Houston Texans QB Deshaun Watson takes part in life-changing activities in Israel

  26-06-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Watson joined American Voices in Israel for their annual trip to Israel. While there, he visited several biblical sites and was baptized.
  
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• NATO agrees response to new Russia missile

  26-06-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  NATO on Wednesday agreed a package of political and military measures to boost its defences against a controversial new Russian missile system.The alliance will review its air and missile defences, along with its intelligence and surveillance programmes, unless Moscow abandons its 9M729 ground-launched cruise missiles by August 2.The US and NATO say Russia is breaching the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with the missile and endangering peace in Europe.
  
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• Authorities looking into missing student's dating apps

  26-06-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Utah authorities are looking into a missing college student's dating appsafter she allegedly hopped into an unknown vehicle in North Salt Lake lastweek, according to the New York Post
  
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• New Mexico mother accused of boiling puppies to punishment children

  26-06-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A mother is accused of beating and torturing her children after forcing them to watch her kill their pets as a punishment. A New Mexico couple was arrested on Tuesday after the Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) launched an investigation following a report that the children were not getting adequate education. According to KOB-TV,court documents state that Martha and Timothy Couch would punish the children by killing their pets. One teen girl told police, "Martha took the puppies and
  
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• Former war refugee maps habitat for West African bird

  26-06-2019 19:38
  A former war refugee has projected the geographic distribution of a West African bird through 2050.
  
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• 'I told him not to' go, mother of drowned Salvadoran migrant laments

  26-06-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The mother of a Salvadoran man who drowned with his young daughter while trying to reach U.S. soil, becoming a global symbol of the perils of migration, said she had urged her son not to leave, fearing danger would meet him on the long journey north.A harrowing photograph of Oscar Alberto Martinez, 25, and his 24-month-old daughter Angie Valeria lying face down on the muddy banks of the Rio Grande river between the United States and Mexico ricocheted across social media this week.Speaking with R
  
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• Some gun owners balk at California's new ammunition law

  26-06-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Anyone looking to buy ammunition in the Golden State will now be required to show an ID and is subject to a spot background check and a $1 fee. The new law also bars online sales of ammunition, forcing buyers to use a licensed dealer, load their own or cross state lines.
  
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• Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Weigh Scrapping Another Precedent

  26-06-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority may be ready to overturn a longstanding precedent for the third time in recent weeks -- perhaps foreshadowing the vulnerability of its rulings on abortion rights.The justices will rule as early as Wednesday on a business-backed bid to overturn decades-old decisions that give federal agencies broad power to say what their regulations mean.The case is one of eight rulings due before the justices’ term ends this week. The cou
  
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• 2 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan; Taliban says they died in an ambush

  26-06-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Two U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the American-led NATO mission in Afghanistan said in a statement.
  
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• Viral video shows man dumping bucket of water on homeless woman from San Francisco rooftop

  26-06-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The San Francisco Police Department classifies the attack as a misdemeanor battery, and will investigate if the victim comes forward.
  
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• 13-year-old charged in attack on mom, teen in New Jersey

  26-06-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A 13-year-old boy is under arrest, accused of attacking a mother and her teenage son as they walked home from school with the woman's 1-year-old daughter in a stroller in New Jersey last week.
  
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• House Panel Subpoenas Kellyanne Conway over ‘Egregious’ Ethics Violations

  26-06-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A House panel voted on Wednesday to subpoena Kellyanne Conway's testimony after she failed to appear for a scheduled hearing to field questions from lawmakers about her alleged ethics violations.The House Oversight and Reform Committee called Conway to testify after the Office of Special Counsel, a federal ethics watchdog, called on President Trump to fire her earlier this month, citing “egregious, repeated, and very public violations” of the Hatch Act, which prohibits certain f
  
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• Police: 3 dead in shooting at California Ford dealership

  26-06-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Three people are dead after a man who was fired from his job at a Ford dealership in the San Francisco Bay Area fatally shot two employees.
  
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• Palestinian Windfall Hinges on Political Moves, U.S. Envoy Says

  26-06-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The financial bonanza the Trump administration envisions for the Palestinians is unlikely to materialize unless there’s progress toward resolving the 70-year-old conflict with Israel, according to a top U.S. envoy.“If we’re not going to get traction on the political aspect of the deal, I’m not sure we would take the time to try to get pledges," U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt said at an economic conference to drum up support for the U.S. plan in Bahrain
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez: Biden ‘Not a Pragmatic Choice’

  26-06-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says it would not be "pragmatic" for Democrats to choose former vice president Joe Biden as their 2020 presidential nominee."I think he's not a pragmatic choice," the Bronx progressive said in an interview released Wednesday by Vogue. "If you pick the perfect candidate like Joe Biden to win that guy in the diner, the cost will make you lose because you will depress turnout as well. And that’s exactly what happened [in] 2016. We picked the l
  
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• Saudi envoy blasts UN expert's report on Khashoggi killing

  26-06-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  In what amounted to a face-off at the U.N's top human rights body, Ambassador Abdulaziz Alwasil insisted that special rapporteur Agnes Callamard had failed to follow proper procedures and used flawed sourcing in her 101-page report made public last week."Accusations have been launched, and fingers have been pointed — (she is) supporting herself on non-credible articles or sources," he told the Human Rights Council, in Arabic through a U.N. interpreter.
  
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• Senate passes border spending package, setting up fight with House

  26-06-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers are now weighing whether to reconcile the measures before the recess
  
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• These $76 Sony headphones have almost too much bass, and they last for 30 hours per charge

  26-06-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  If you want a pair of wireless headphones with a ton of bass that won't break the bank, the Sony MDRXB650BT/B Extra Bass Bluetooth Headphones are exactly what you've been looking for. They cost a fraction of what you would pay for most wireless on-ear or over-ear headphones from Sony, and yet they deliver killer sound quality with all the bass you can handle. They also last for up to 30 hours per charge, which is nuts!Here are the highlights from the product page:* Connect and stream music easil
  
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• O’Rourke on haunting photo: ‘Trump is responsible for these deaths’

  26-06-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  O'Rourke responded to an Associated Press image of a drowned man and girl that was ricocheting around the internet.
  
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• Supreme Court rules for sex offender in child pornography case testing power of judges, juries

  26-06-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court ruled that even sex offenders deserve to have the reasons for their sentences determined by a jury, not a judge.
  
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• Trump says he 'decided not to kill a lot of Iranians' after drone shootdown

  26-06-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The downing of the drone came amid steadily escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran over that country’s nuclear program. Iran’s government said the drone was over its airspace.
  
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• Trump warns any conflict with Iran 'wouldn't last long'

  26-06-2019 17:31 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Wednesday he does not want a war with Iran but warned that if fighting does break out, it "wouldn't last very long," even as Iran's president tried to tamp down soaring tensions.Trump also hinted that any conflict would be waged with air strikes, saying there would no US boots on the ground.Washington has ratcheted up crippling economic sanctions on Tehran after the Islamic Republic's forces shot down an unmanned US drone in the Gulf region last week, following a seri
  
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• Oklahoma woman caught on own CCTV camera firebombing and shooting into neighbour’s home

  26-06-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  An Oklahoma woman was arrested after being caught on camera firing gunshots and throwing a lit towel into her next door neighbour's home. Firefighters were called to the burning property in Del City on June 10th, responding to 911 calls that reported flames coming from the garage door.Having contained the blaze, fire investigators learned there was an ongoing conflict between the owner of the burnt home and the next door neighbour, Annie Durham, 59.Shocking footage of the incident was captured o
  
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• Oppo's Under-Display Camera Is the Best Notch Killer Yet

  26-06-2019 17:14 via news.yahoo.com
  After weeks of hinting and teasing, Oppo has now showed off its under-display selfie camera. And it seems to be living up to Oppo’s promises.Credit: OppoMWC Shanghai, the cousin of the Barcelona-based MWC, is the place where Oppo finally unveiled its new tech, officially called ‘under-screen camera’ (via TechRadar). When you’re not using the camera, the screen just acts as a screen, although the image quality in the area surrounding the camera is noticeably worse, due to
  
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• Apple Reportedly Cancels Major iPhone 11 Camera Upgrade

  26-06-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple has reportedly scrapped plans to include a next-generation, quantum dot image sensor in this year’s iPhone, according to The Telegraph.Cupertino was reportedly working with U.K.-based Nanoco, a company that’s invested heavily in the research and development around quantum dot applications. It was never explicitly disclosed that Nanoco had a contract with Apple, though last year the supplier did say it had entered into an agreement with a "large, undisclosed U.S. listed corporat
  
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