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Google has already released a bunch of beta builds of the upcoming Android 14 release, and other manufacturers joined in, but not Samsung.Or rather, not yet.According to a new rumor on the matter, the Korean company plans on releasing the first beta build of One UI 6, its skin based on Android 14, in the third week of July.

Here's a handy list of all of Google's Pixel phones and their respective levels of water resistance and IP ratingsGoogle Pixel Phones IP Ratings (By Model)
What Does "IP" Stand For?The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) uses Ingress Protection (IP) ratings to specify the environmental protection offered by electrical enclosures.

The new Motorola Edge+ (2023) for the US market is showing a lot of promise - last week's poll shows that 45% of voters are interested in the Moto flagship.Mostly the same hardware is available as the Edge 40 Pro elsewhere, but the thing about the US market is that there are very few competing brands, especially in the flagship segment.

Today Apple and Google jointly unveiled that they've teamed up to address the problem of unwanted tracking through dedicated location tracking devices like Apple's AirTag.These have notoriously been used to track individuals without their knowledge, and it apparently got to a point where the companies finally felt the need to intervene in some way.

The linear TV industry's measurement debacle spilled over into the streaming-focused NewFronts last week.Smart TV manufacturers Samsung, Vizio, LG Ads and Roku all held NewFronts presentations where they bragged about their automatic content recognition (ACR) data, which the industry has been putting on a pedestal because it can add a level of consistency to TV measurement.

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The Los Angeles and Long Beach port docks were humming Thursday after the longshore workers union and employers reached a possible labor deal after months of increasingly contentious talks.The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Assn., which represents shipping lines and terminal operators, said late Wednesday that they had tentatively agreed to a new six-year contract covering 22,000 workers at 29 West Coast ports.

Preparing for the threat of massive flooding during California's "Big Melt," federal engineers have been releasing more Kern River water from Lake Isabella than is flowing into the reservoir from the snowbound peaks of the southern Sierra Nevada.The action is needed, officials say, to prevent water from spilling over the reservoir dam and sending floodwaters rolling into low-lying areas that include the city of Bakersfield, farm towns, Highway 99, and portions of Kern County's famed oil patch - an intrusion that would risk significant ecological harm.

H undreds gathered for a silent walk to mark the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell blaze which claimed 72 lives.The west London tower block became a scene of devastation as a blaze ripped through the building with many advised to remain in their homes to wait for help from the emergency services which in some cases never came.

S eventy-two people died at Grenfell.Today, 72 months after the inferno, survivors, the bereaved and campaigners say there is still no justice.But they are also crystal clear that time, delays, prevarication and even wilful obstruction will not break their inexorable quest for justice over the appalling failures at Grenfell, which brought so much horror, grief and shame to Britain on that night six years ago.

Gary can start to subpoena gun sales records, a judge ruled Monday.The city's lawsuit - filed in 1999 - wants those records from Westforth Sports and other gun shops to see how weapons sold locally to suspicious buyers end up in violent street crimes.Gun manufacturers and retailers are fighting this, calling the city's efforts a "fishing expedition" last week in court.

Promotion: architects and designers are increasingly finding new ways to use cork outside of cork stoppers as a way to reduce the carbon footprint of their projects, according to Portuguese company Amorim Cork Composites.As the innovation arm of the world's largest cork producer Corticeira Amorim, Amorim Cork Composites, has seen a marked uptick in interest over the last few years, whether producing furniture for designer Tom Dixon and the Campana Brothers, creating door handles for architect Eduardo Souto Moura or supplying wall panels for Counterspace's 2021 Serpentine Pavilion.

The Spanish pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale spotlights the country's agro-architectural infrastructure, with imagery by photographer Pedro Pegenaute.Pegenaute visited over 50 sites across the country to create a photography series that reveals the buildings and landscapes involved in producing everyday food products.

E Ink devices have long grown past the simplistic and often unattractive slabs of plastic they can shove inside purses and bags, though there are definitely still plenty of those around.Even Amazon has added the ability for readers to also be curators and creators, adding the all-powerful pen to at least one of its Kindles.

Naviva, A Four Seasons Resort, is a luxury tented resort located in Punta Mita, Mexico, designed by Luxury Frontiers.Set amidst a verdant jungle, the adults-only property consists of 15 high-end tents spread over 48 acres of private peninsula.The resort's architectural aesthetic is grounded in the principles of biophilic design, an approach that seamlessly blends human constructs with the natural environment.

It's a great time to be alive right now, in terms of product development.We're seeing a lot of designers and manufacturers experiment with various materials, especially those that are more earth-friendly than the usual things like plastics, polyester, nylon, and others that may not be so great for the environment in the long run.

The group is suing to stop Medicare from being able to access lower drug prices.The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America building facade is pictured in Washington, D.C., on October 20, 2017.Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call The U.S.'s largest lobbying group, the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has become the second prominent group to file a lawsuit to stop a plan for Medicare to be able to negotiate the prices for a handful of drugs, joining pharma giant Merck in alleging that the plan is unconstitutional.

In Colombia, a new illicit product is on the rise.Desperate consumers are sneaking it in suitcases from abroad, hoarding it in their homes, paying outrageous prices online and lining up at clandestine locations to buy it.The contraband? Dijon mustard.A new health law intended to improve Colombians' diets which are heavy on meat and fried food has led to the disappearance of a host of fare from market shelves, including the French delicacy of the condiment world.

General Motors and Stellantis paid a combined $363.8 million in penalties for failing to meet federal fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks they produced in previous years, according to federal government documents posted on Friday.G.M. paid $128.2 million for failing to meet the targets with the light trucks it sold in 2018 and 2019, according to documents published on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website.

When the health workers arrived at Upendo Primary School on the edge of the Tanzanian capital, they instructed girls who would turn 14 this year to line up to get a shot.Quinn Chengo held an urgent, whispered consultation with her friends.What was the injection for, really?Could it be a Covid vaccine?

British and Dutch plans to help Ukraine obtain F-16 fighter jets have put the United States and some of its closest European allies at odds yet again over what weapons the West should send Kyiv to defend against Russia's invasion.Even if the Biden administration overcomes its long-held reluctance to give Ukraine the American-made planes, the F-16 would not be used in combat for months at least, officials and military analysts say.

People are having to pay more for baby formula in Canada and that's putting pressure on families who can't afford to shoulder those cost increases.A prominent infant food insecurity expert says it's a long-term problem that's getting worse."If you're a very low-resource family, where you're relying often on food-charity responses, then those babies, I would say, are some of the most food-insecure Canadian citizens," said Lesley Frank, a Canada research chair in food, health and social justice at Nova Scotia's Acadia University.

France's top food companies are to cut prices on hundreds of products from next month with the country's government threatening financial sanctions if they break that promise.As soon as July, prices of certain products will go down, the finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, told BFM TV on Friday after meeting representatives of the food industry the previous day.

Unlock the secrets of Resin Shilajit and discover its potential benefits.Our ultimate guide provides sourcing and usage tips for this ancient and potent healing substance.Boost your energy, improve cognitive function, and enhance your overall health and wellbeing with Resin Shilajit.This blog post is a must-read for anyone looking to tap into its power.

When Rachel Karlic and her sister, Rebecca Hinsdale, were students at Western Michigan University, they sometimes played pinball with their friend Kate Porter in a 24-hour video rental store near campus.The store was called Video Hits Plus, with the Plus maybe referring to the basement attractions, which, in addition to the pinball machines, included an air hockey table and a pornographic video section.

For the first time since 2017, the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France will feature a handful of cars from the major automakers this weekend, competing for the top prize.Toyota, which has won the last five years as the only big automaker, now faces a crowded field.Fighting for overall victory will also be factory-backed cars from Cadillac, Peugeot and Porsche, along with independent entries from Glickenhaus, Vanwall, Jota and Action Express Racing.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which was first held in May 1923 to help spur innovation in the growing automotive industry by emphasizing not just speed, but also efficiency, reliability and endurance.It is a very demanding race, and the greatest race, said Tom Kristensen, who has won Le Mans a record nine times.

The company claims that the plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices violates the First and Fifth Amendments.A Merck flag flies in front of the company's building on October 2, 2013, in Summit, New Jersey.Kena Betancur / Getty Images Merck announced on Tuesday that it is suing the government over a recently approved plan to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, aiming to stop one of the nation's first efforts to take a small step toward lowering sky-high drug prices in the U.S.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington on Tuesday, claims that the plan is unconstitutional and calls it a "sham" and "tantamount to extortion."

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Despite the many things that divided them - sweet versus salty, sour versus chocolate, Flamin' Hot versus BBQ - everyone at the 26th annual Sweets & Snacks Expo at Chicago's McCormick Place last month could agree on one thing: the past three years have been long and trying.For candy and snack manufacturers, the pandemic era has been marked by shortages, inflation, and manufacturing difficulties.

Does Apple's iPhone 11 have 5G?Here's everything you need to know about 5G - or the lack thereof - on the iPhone 11, including the Pro and Pro Max modelsiPhone 11 5G: Key Takeaways



iPhone 11 and 5G: The iPhone 11, released in September 2019, does not support 5G connectivity.This was a strategic decision by Apple based on the maturity and infrastructure of 5G at the time.

Electric vehicle batteries present a number of challenges.They're expensive.They use materials like cobalt that are linked to environmental and human rights abuses in the supply chain.They can catch fire.They're fairly slow to charge.And while multiple companies are working on alternatives, the R&D process for designing a new battery can take a few years.

Electric vehicle batteries present a number of challenges.They're expensive.They use materials like cobalt that are linked to environmental and human rights abuses in the supply chain.They can catch fire.They're fairly slow to charge.And while multiple companies are working on alternatives, the R&D process for designing a new battery can take a few years.

Today AMD announced additional details about its new Ryzen 7040U series of laptop chips, which bring the company's newest Zen 4 CPU architecture and RDNA 3 integrated graphics into thin-and-light laptops.Though just part of AMD's ( often-confusing) Ryzen 7000 laptop lineup, the 7040U processors will be the ones to hold out for if you want to maximize performance without stepping up to a larger laptop with a dedicated GPU.

Ministers are planning a crackdown on waste by getting people to cut down on what they put in recycling bins.According to the i newspaper, the Government wants to limit the amount of wishcycling which sees the recycling process contaminated by items which cannot be processed.They will ask people to be more selective in what they send for recycling in a bid to reduce the amount of material which needs to be separated at processing centres and sent to landfill.

Hundreds of women with advanced womb cancer are to be offered a lifeline treatment after it was approved for NHS use.NHS England said that it was rolling out a life-extending combination of drugs which can halt disease progression for twice as long as standard chemotherapy.The health service said between 500 and 700 women will benefit every year.

Activity for UK manufacturing firms fell last month in the face of subdued demand and customers cutting costs, according to an influential survey.The S&P Global/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI fell to a three-month low of 47.8 in April, down slightly from the 47.9 scored in March.Any score below 50 is considered a decline for the sector.

Here's one of the improvements Google might want to look into for the Pixel Watch 2: better glue.Android Police spotted a few reports of the back panels of some Pixel Watches just falling off.A few posts on the PixelWatch subreddit have photos of this phenomenon; several commenters say it happened to them, too.

By Narayan Annamalai When cybersecurity measures fail, the results can be devastating and costly.In the past year, network security failures have led to downed websites, delayed flights, unavailable video games, and much more.Such incidents can erode customer, investor, and board member trust and result in the types of headlines you don't want.

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Two Korean auto manufacturers reached a $200-million settlement in a class-action federal lawsuit alleging that a security loophole, which later went viral on social media, left the vehicles vulnerable to thefts, according to lawyers for the manufacturers and car owners.

You've probably noticed ads for these superfood powders scattered across social media or on your favorite podcast.Athletic Greens, Daily Greens, Supergreens mix just one scoop of these multivitamin powders into a glass of water or a shake, their marketing typically says, and you can get all of the vitamins and minerals you need for the day, as well as added health benefits like a stronger immune system, less stress, better digestion and more energy.

The advertising watchdog is banning growing numbers of advertisements that exaggerate the benefits of health and beauty treatments such as Botox, lip fillers and diet aids.The Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) action is part of a crackdown against beauty clinics and manufacturers of aesthetic products over how they promote themselves.

Food Fresh is the only grocery store in a rural stretch of southeastern Georgia.It has many five-star Google reviews touting its freshly butchered meats, tomato bar and friendly service.Yet it faces a threat to its survival that no amount of management skill can overcome.Big retailers like Walmart and Kroger have a handle on suppliers that I can't touch, said Food Fresh's owner, Michael Gay.

Ministers are working with supermarkets to voluntarily cap the price of basic food items in an effort to ease the UK's cost of living squeeze, but insists it is not considering imposing price caps.With food and drink prices rising at the fastest pace in more than 40 years and no let-up in sight, the Treasury and supermarkets have been discussing a possible voluntary scheme for maximum prices for certain goods.

Hyundai and Kia agreed to a $200 million settlement stemming from a class-action lawsuit related to a rash of car thefts inspired by a viral social media challenge on TikTok.The so-called "Kia Challenge" on the social media platform has led to hundreds of car thefts nationwide, including at least 14 reported crashes and eight fatalities, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

James Cridland, radio futurologist, is a conference speaker, writer and consultant.He runs the media information website media.infoand helps organise the yearly Next Radio conference.He also publishes podnews.net, a daily briefing on podcasting and on-demand, and writes a weekly international radio trends newsletter, at james.crid.land.

Dezeen has teamed up with Material Bank for a live panel talk next week in London exploring how its easy-access platform is changing the way that architects and designers specify materials.Titled "Material Bank: it has never been so easy to source and sample materials", the talk will identify how the digital platform can support architects, designers and material manufacturers.

The rise of ChatGPT and the surge of attention it has brought to artificial intelligence (AI) technology is close to unprecedented.After its public launch in November 2022, ChatGPTs' monthly active user base surged to 100 million in January.According to analysts at UBS, no other consumer internet application has grown its audience so rapidly.

Enabling humans to see through physical objects has long been the stuff of science fiction novels, comic books, and films.While X-rays serve as a valuable tool for medical diagnosis and body scanners, and x-ray scanners are now widely deployed at airports for security, genuine X-ray vision could profoundly change the way we see the world.

Last October, construction plans for a hulking semiconductor factory owned by a major state-backed company in central China fell into disarray.The Biden administration had escalated the trade war over technology, severing China's access to the Western tools and skilled workers it needed to build the most advanced semiconductors.

Dezeen Showroom: a modular light informed by ocean waves and a solar-powered mood lamp that mimics sunlight are among the latest lighting designs to be featured on Dezeen Showroom.Other lighting products include a collection of outdoor lights by Danish brand Nordlux, a portable lamp by French brand Petite Friture and glass table lamps by British brand Voltra.

We live in a toxic food environment, and Big Food has extremely clever marketers and food scientists.That all of us eat a lot of Big Food's produce means those people are very good at their jobs.It doesn't mean we have failed if we eat what the industry makes.In the UK, about 50% of the average adult's diet, and 65% of a child's, is ultra-processed.

Opinion We can all agree that securing our software is a good thing.Thanks to one security fiasco after another - the SolarWinds software supply chain attack, the perpetual Log4j vulnerability, and the npm maintainer protest code gone wrong - we know we must secure our code.But the European Union's proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) goes way, way too far in trying to regulate software security.

Those of us who need a laptop for resource-hungry tasks such as 3D rendering or video editing are used to making the trade-off between power and portability.Until very recently, we've been restricted to the larger form factors as the more powerful GPUs haven't been available in smaller laptops.But now we're starting to see a new generation of lightweight 14-inch laptops with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptop GPUs that can deliver the high performance needed to accomplish these kinds of tasks.

The United States is facing what some experts are calling a new era for bird flu.Since January 2022, the country has been battling the biggest outbreak yet of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife.The virus is a major threat to commercial and backyard flocks, and it has started to show up in hundreds of mammals, including a handful of pet cats.

The US is set to announce a $1.2 billion aid package to Ukraine as early as Tuesday, according to a US official familiar with the package, with Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces looming.The package will include drones, artillery ammunition and air defense missiles, the official said, as well as other capabilities.

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track.The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 5/6/23 featuring funding details for Airspeed, Fedi, Openlayer, and twelve other deals representing $426M in new funding that you need to know about.

Apple has released the first-ever security updates for its Beats and AirPods products to patch a vulnerability that can be exploited to gain access to headphones through a Bluetooth attack.The flaw is tracked as CVE-2023-27964 and it was reported to Apple by Yun-hao Chung and Archie Pusaka of Google ChromeOS.

In 2021, we announced a conceptual collection - SEYUN - designed and manufactured by Zaha Hadid Design and Karimoku Furniture.Today, we're happy to share that it's left the proverbial nest behind and exists as a chair, an armchair, and a table in different dimensions.Introduced at Milan Design Week 2023, the SEYUN collection echoes Hadid's design language and is crafted in oak using a combination of machine-made and hand-finished processes.