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@vivekdhonde As in @toi:

An employee says Wistron Corp. promised a monthly salary of ₹21k to engineering grads but reduced it to ₹16k and then to ₹12k. While non-engineering grads, saw their salary sinking to ₹8k

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US Schools are buying phone-hacking tools that FBI uses to investigate

Cellebrite sells phone hacking tools which help intelligence agencies recover deleted data from phones and tablets

Gizmodo surveyed a random sample of 5000 US school districts and found 8 to have these tools

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When you make iPhones but don’t get paid enough buy one. 💥

Employees of an iPhone manufacturing plant in #Bengaluru destroyed the company’s furnitures, assembly units and even tried to set fire on vehicles. They complained of being underpaid by Wistron Corp., who runs the plant

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The biggest thing to be jealous about: Brazillians could buy #iPhones with chargers included!

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@backlon but looks like Apple has moved on to it's custom-built friend

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Umm, what should Apple do to save the environment then? 🤔

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Conversations in these spaces will be moderated by the host of that space. This should reduce harrassment and abuse, at least in theory.

Twitter plans to start it's testing with women and people from marginalized backgrounds.

(@jaypeters / @verge)

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Clubhouse is a invite-only social platform where users talk to everyone else in a voice chat rooms

Twitter is trying to compete with a way for people to create “spaces” for voice-based conversations

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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021.

After this date, you will have only 15GBs of space for Google Photos, Documents and etc.

Obviously, Google is doing so to promote it's Google One, which is there paid cloud storage service

(@backlon / @verge)

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Amazon's GameOn let's you record your screen playing mobile games, like PUBG or Angry Birds.

You can show off your skills by sharing the clip to your public GameOn profile.

You can also share or vote for clips of "Featured Challenges".

(@brando / @xdadevelopers)

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♻️ | A Canadian Recycling Firm Sold Products #Apple Sent To Them For Recycling.

— Apple sued this firm, GEEP asking for a $22.7M compensation.
— It sold 103k products it should have recycled.
— It denies any wrongdoings claiming 3 of its employees did this without its knowledge.

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📱- #iPhone12ProMax 👀

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Waiting for the #AppleEvent ?
Get ahead from everyone else. We have the exclusive leaks for you in this thread 👀

📱- #iPhone12mini 👀

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📱- #iPhone12Pro 👀

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There's no word on when it will be released or if it will be released. But it's most probably not gonna happen anytime soon.

👉 Launched in 2013, LG's G Flex had such a self repairing back that could recover from minor scratches such as with a knife. It wasn't effective though.

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#Apple publishes patent application for a foldable device with 'self-healing' display

— During charging, the display of the device would automatically repair itself without you having to do anything
— Repair will use 🔥,💡and ⚡, which is still cheaper than Apple's own charges

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#GoogleNews | Google will pay news publishers to make what it wasn't able to — a reliable news feed

— Invested: $1B
— Called: Google News Showcase — Where: Germany and Brazil
— In partnership with 200 news publishers.

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PS: His smile looks like Jeff Bezos'

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What is #Amazon's Explore?

— Live 1:1 classes and tours with a local expert.
— For eg, you can learn how to make smoked fish tacos in Mexico etc
— You can also take a virtual tour of historical and cultural landmarks of any country and even buy stuff from local store

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🇮🇳 #Tesla CEO Musk tweeted promising #India entry in 2021

@elonmusk says "Next year for sure," Musk said in reply to a post (@TeslaClubIN ) with a photograph of a T-shirt with the message, "India wants Tesla."