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The Bill, titled Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, explains that it was made specifically to blast the Chinese government for the international human rights violations it has committed against those minority groups. It accuses China of arbitrarily detaining 1.8 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups in mass internment camps and subjecting them to forced labour, torture, political indoctrination, and other severe human rights abuses. China has faced growing condemnation for its treatment of Uyghur Muslims and other Muslim minorities, with numerous reports stating that Chinese authorities have been tracking the movements of these people....

The carriers’ decision came in response to an eleventh-hour plea from multiple airlines and aircraft manufacturers, all of which claimed that continuing with deployment of C-Band 5G services at any US airport could result in delays for both passenger and cargo flights due to the risk of C-Band towers interfering with radio altimeters. This was the latest chapter in a roller-coaster series of events that began with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) approval of C-Band use for commercial services nearly two years ago....

BEC attacks are one of the most lucrative forms of cyber crime: according to the FBI, the combined total lost is over $43 billion and counting, with attacks reported in at least 177 countries. These attacks are relatively simple for cyber criminals to carry out – all they need is access to an email account and some patience as they try to trick victims into making financial transfers under false presences....

Since the split, I’ve been using a combination of Firefox and Brave. They’re both very capable browsers that do what I think every good browser should do – let you browse the web without getting in the way. I’ve been trying to reduce on the number of tabs I have open, and making more use of bookmarks (yeah, remember bookmarks?) I use bookmarks not only as a permanent aide-memoire but also as a temporary repository....

The Enduro 2 may be one of the biggest upgrades yet over a previous Garmin device, partly because the original Enduro was a bit of a letdown in key areas where it should not have been weak. The Enduro 2 now has everything we see in the Fenix 7X Sapphire Solar and more. It has the longest battery life of any existing Garmin watch and while it is clearly targeted at endurance athletes looking for a GPS sports watch that performs for days, it’s also an excellent option for those of us who exercise regularly and don’t want to charge up our watch frequently....

On Thursday, the retail giant group reported net profit after tax dipped by 14% from AU$1.41 billion to AU$1.21 billion for the half year. Earnings before interest and tax came also came in 12% lower at AU$1.9 billion. Revenue remained stable at AU$17.7 billion, which was partly underpinned by the 37.5% uplift in online sales across the group to AU$1.9 billion, excluding Catch. Including Catch, this amounted to AU$2.5 billion....

In case you’ve not noticed it, here it is on the iPhone 13 Pro Max. Well, it’s built into the camera array, so that should be a clue. Yes, it’s a camera. Well, actually, it’s a scanner. A LiDAR scanner. LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. It fires out infrared light and then uses that light to build a 3D picture of its surroundings. The iPhone uses the LiDAR scanner to create depth maps for camera tricks such as portrait mode, and to also help speed up autofocus....

Digital nomads have multiplied in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic led to more remote work and many companies becoming remote-first or completely remote. People who want more out of their remote career — and whose jobs don’t require a fixed location — often embrace the digital nomad lifestyle. Digital nomads may move to another country or state and stay there for weeks or months, or they may hop locations every couple of weeks....

Also: Best VPN for torrenting A byte is eight bits, or eight items that can either be a one or a zero. A character like “a” is 1 byte. Back in the day (before 2017) a Twitter tweet was limited to 140 characters, which would have been 140 bytes. Today, of course, a tweet maxes out at 280 characters or 280 bytes. Depending on context, a kilobyte (KB) is either 1,000 bytes or 1,024 bytes (or roughly four maxed-out tweets)....

With the steep financial and regulatory hurdles, however, that’s just buzz for now. Businessweek reports. Many new options being explored impair or manipulate a mosquito’s sense of smell. They can detect us by smelling for the carbon dioxide we exhale. Their 80 or so odor receptors are all tuned to specific scents ranging from cholesterol on our skin to body odors emitted by beer drinkers. The Kite Patch by Olfactor Laboratories, for example, is a 1....

It has 30 preset effects channels, allowing you to play around with different sound profiles, from country and classic rock to thrash metal and even simulated acoustic tones. It also has 30 blank channels for you to create your own tone profiles or tweak presets to give a unique-to-you sound. Also: Buy the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 for their bassy sound, not their connectivity The built-in tuner makes it fast and easy to check sound accuracy and change your guitar’s tuning for playing songs in Drop D, E-Flat, or custom tunings (like the B F# B E G# C# in A Day to Remember’s song “Bad Vibrations”) so you can learn to play songs by your favorite artists or create your own....

So I’m not going to take the “Let’s all quit Twitter” viewpoint, or “Elon Musk should be prohibited from buying Twitter” standpoint, or even the “Twitter is going to hell in a neoconservative handbasket” perspective. But we should examine why we care about Twitter at all. It serves an important function, as an instantaneous publicly viewable broadcast message bus, for individuals, brands, governments, and everything in-between. But it also has many weaknesses, including that it is not a public good – it is a corporation, and if Elon Musk gets his way, it will be again a privately owned one....

The feature should make much it easier for Windows 11 users to set up a new Windows PC. Rather than having to go find previously installed apps in the Store’s Library section and re-installing them, it gives users a one-click option to restore apps on the new device. The feature will be tested in the near future in a Windows Insider channel, according to Microsoft. “To make it easier for customers to transition to their new PCs quickly and seamlessly, we will soon test a new feature in the Windows Insider channel that helps customers automatically restore their apps, previously installed from the Microsoft Store, to their new Windows device,” Giorgio Sardo, general manager of the Microsoft Store, said in the Windows Developer blog....

In other words, the pandemic has hastened a trend long in the making. Some of it has to do with the rise of the freelance worker. Nearly 50% of millennials are freelancers, and employers are limited in how and when they require contract employees to be on-site. But the wind has been blowing this way for some time, and the pandemic has now forced companies with both freelance and stable on-site workforces to reevaluate their stance on remote work....

Your contribution to Sidewalk is a small portion of your internet bandwidth – 80Kbps, capped to a maximum of 500MB a month. In return, you get access to Sidewalk, and if your internet goes down, or you have a device that’s in a location where it has a poor connection, your devices get to tap into that shared bandwidth in order that your devices can continue to send you notifications....

Puzzles are often a gentle, cerebral endeavor that you can work through alone or in a group. But MSCHF has imagined a new puzzle that gives you that same challenge with a new layer: The 2 Million Dollar Puzzle offers the chance to win up to $1 million when you finish and scan your puzzle. During this Memorial Day Sale, you can get one ($30), two ($56), three ($80), or four ($100) 2 Million Dollar Puzzles....

We went back and forth for a while, trying to get sharing to work. It’s relatively easy to fix, but there’s one step that’s not intuitively obvious. First, I’ll discuss what we tried, and then I’ll show you the simple (but somewhat inconvenient) step to making it all work. Most likely, if you can’t see the green Share Screen button, the host doesn’t have screen sharing enabled. This isn’t done per meeting but instead is part of the host’s settings....

ZoomInfo said that by adding Chorus’ technology to its platform, it will gain middle-of-the-funnel intelligence that bolsters ZoomInfo’s existing top-of-the-funnel strength. “For example, the combined company will expand visibility into companies’ buying committees by identifying and recommending other key contacts involved in the buying decision or referenced by participants in conversations,” ZoomInfo said in a press release. “As Chorus recognizes meeting invitees and participants and listens for their sentiments, motivations, and concerns, ZoomInfo will further enrich the profile of each member with detailed contact and company intelligence....

On Thursday, fraud prevention company Sift said the ring, dubbed Proxy Phantom, is using over 1.5 million sets of stolen account credentials in automated credential stuffing attacks against online merchants. Credential stuffing attacks generally rely on a database of stolen credentials – potentially sourced from data breaches or data dumps leaked and sold online – to slam a domain with login requests. Many of us use the same username and password combinations across different services – although we shouldn’t – and so a data breach at one company could lead to account compromise at another....

The US chip maker announced on Monday that the purchase “further strengthens Qualcomm’s 5G infrastructure solutions to fuel the digital transformation of industries, power the connected intelligent edge, and support the growth of the cloud economy.” The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rumors of a potential deal appeared several weeks ago, with Calcalist estimating the purchase would be made for $300 million. Founded in 2013, Cellwize is an Israeli startup and the developer of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI)-based radio access network (RAN) automation and orchestration technologies, non-real-time intelligent RAN Intelligent Controllers (Non-RT RICs), and Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) systems....