Here’s what we learned from iFixit’s iPhone 11 teardown
iFixit’s annual iPhone teardown is always a great opportunity to take a peek inside Apple’s latest hardware, but this year’s edition has raised some interesting questions. The big discovery is a second battery connector within the iPhone 11 Pro Max, which could be an indicator that the hardware was supposed to support bidirectional wireless charging at ...
Trump Marks Mars as NASA’s Next Target, Says Moon Is ‘Not So Exciting’
“We’re going to Mars,” Trump told reporters after a White House meeting with Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, marking Mars as a more exciting target than the moon. “We’re stopping at the moon. The moon is actually a launching pad,” Trump said. “That’s why we’re stopping at the moon. I said, ‘Hey, we’ve done the ...
Bernie Sanders: ‘We most certainly can cancel all student debt’
After opening musical acts from one-man-band Mike Hosty and singer-songwriter Samantha Crane, Sanders spent a large portion of his 39-minute speech taking jabs at President Donald Trump, wage inequality and continued to call for free public higher education. “We are going to cancel all student debt in America,” Sanders said, which drew cheers from the ...
Aid group says WHO is restricting access to Ebola vaccines in Congo
A rigid system of eligibility set by the World Health Organization means far too few people at risk of Ebola are being vaccinated in an outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo, the aid group MSF said on Monday. The medical charity Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said its efforts to get more people to be given ...
Trump wins big Ohio manufacturing investment from Australia’s Pratt Industries
President Trump welcomed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Wapakoneta, Ohio at Pratt Industries, along with factory owner Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt, as he touted an “economic revival” of the manufacturing industry with the promise of more foreign investment and a surge in new jobs. “We proudly declare Pratt Industries and the great, great state of Ohio open for ...
Apple iOS 13 Has 25 Great Secret Features
Launching alongside the new iPhone 11 (guide), iPhone 11 Pro (guide) and iPhone 11 Pro Max (guide) is Apple iOS 13. Unfortunately, the release suffers from serious problems so do not upgrade right now. This is a shame because iOS 13 hides many great secret features. Here are 25 of the best hiding beneath the surface. 3D Touch / Haptics 3D Touch Commands ...
A Massive Asteroid Collision Once Caused Earth To Cool And Enter An Ice Age. Can We Replicate It?
The evolution of life on Earth sometimes depends on astronomical events. We know this from the case of the dinosaurs, which were wiped out by a 10 km asteroid or comet striking the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico about 66 million years ago. However, scientists have only just discovered that a major ice age many millions ...
Muslim men blame racial profiling for flight cancellation
In the US, two Muslim men have demanded an inquiry after they say they were subjected to religious and racial profiling on a flight home to Dallas. Issam Abdallah and Abderraoof Alkhawaldeh claimed their flight was canceled because the crew members did not feel calm flying with the men. Mr. Abdallah told reporters, ‘It was ...
Twitter rolls out ‘hide replies’ to let you tame toxic discussions
Today, Twitter announced that it is giving people more control over the chats they start with the latest feature that allows them to hide replies. In Canada, the company has been testing this feature and is now rolling it out in Japan and the US too. This move is an element of an intensive effort ...
Xcode confirms Apple Watch S5 CPU is the same as S4, 10.2-inch iPad has 3GB RAM
Steve Troughton-Smith (developers) has discovered that on some new Apple releases Apple’s own Xcode is revealing some details of the hardware. Especially, while the Apple Watch Series 5 has 32GB of storage, the CPU in the device connected with that storage is alike to that of the Series 4 Apple Watch. Another user as a ...