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  • When Can You Get All the Shit Apple Announced? 

    Image: Screenshot You won’t be able to get the new face-watching iPhone X until November, but you also won’t have to wait nearly as long for software updates to any Apple Watch, iPhone, or Mac you already own, nor will you have to wait as long for the new iPhone 8, Series 3 Watch, and…

  • 23andMe Wants to Turn Your Genetic Data into a Drug-Discovery Goldmine

    Image: 23andMe Since launching a decade ago, the consumer genetic testing company 23andMe has sold people more than two million DNA tests revealing information about their health and ancestry. Mail-in spit tests, though, aren’t the company’s long-term plan for striking it rich. On Tuesday, we got a peek at what is: Turning the genetic data…

  • Jeff Sessions Was Lobbied to Exclude Democrats From Trump’s Election Fraud Panel [Updated]

    Source: Campaign Legal Center via US Department of Justice. (b)(6) is a FOIA exemption related to personal privacy, which is supposed to be weighed against public interest in disclosure. The email was sent to Sessions’ aide Peggi Hanrahan, who then forwarded the letter to the attorney general. It was acquired this month under the Freedom…

  • Why a Drug Company Is Selling Patents to a Native American Tribe

    Photo: AP Some especially strange and unprecedented news broke late last week: Drug company Allergan sold the patent for its medication Restasis to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in Upstate New York. The tribe will exclusively license the drug back to the company, saving the potentially vulnerable patent from the competition of generic drug makers.…

  • iPhones Compared: How the iPhone X Stacks Up Against iPhone 8 and 8 Plus

    All images: Apple With Apple switching up its game and announcing three new iPhones today instead of the usual two, there’s now some confusion between which features come on which handsets. So to make things a bit clearer, here’s a rundown of all the major differences between the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and the…

  • Face ID Raises Some Scary Questions—Here Are Some Answers

    Apple announced today that its newest phone, the ten-year anniversary iPhone X (or iPhone Ten, if you prefer), will unlock using facial recognition—and people are already panicking about it. But it seems like Apple has anticipated a lot of the concerns and we might not need to freak out quite yet. Facial recognition is just…

  • How Much Will the Expensive Ass iPhone X Cost on Apple’s Upgrade Plan?

    Everything Apple Announced Today Holy heck, everyone, Apple just announced new iPhones, and for the first time in years, they… Read more If you’re unfamiliar with Apple’s program, the idea is that you pay Apple directly and it’ll give you a no-interest loan for a new unlocked iPhone that you pay back in 24 monthly…

  • Irregularities in vakbondsprotest in Paris

    PARIS – In a vakbondsdemonstratie in Paris against the proposed easing of the French labour law, Tuesday, riots broke out. Groups of masked young people threw stones and other objects at police, who responded with tear gas and the deployment of water cannons. Some of the rioters were arrested and taken away. How many arrests…

  • Mogherini wants, closing detention centres in Libya

    STRASBOURG – The treatment of migrants in Libyan detention centres is inhumane and unacceptable. The EU therefore calls on the authorities in Libya that they are closed if there is no improvement, said european buitenlandchef Federica Mogherini Tuesday in a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “People are there if the animals are treated.…

  • ’Suspicious Solo murder case took revenge’

    MOUSCRON – The 18-year-old Nathan D. is Tuesday night accused of murder in Alfred Gadenne, the mayor of the Belgian city of Mouscron. That has his lawyer said. The suspect is Friday, brought in the court of Mountains. The alleged offender, that Gadenne (71) Monday night the throat doorsneed when the gate to the municipal…