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Google’s Next Radical Pixel To Get A Major Display Upgrade

Google’s heavily rumoured upcoming foldable phone could use a Samsung-made display a new report has claimed. Not just any Samsung display, according to Korean publication ETNews, but one of the company’s most celebrated inventions – an Ultra Thin Glass (UTG) panel. For the uninitiated, UTG is essentially a razor thin piece of glass that can be flexed to a point without breaking. The idea is that it provides better, more study, tactile feedback than the plastic panels used in the… Source link

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China lifts cap on births in major policy shift

(Adds quote)    By Tony Munroe and David Stanway    BEIJING, May 31 (Reuters) – Married Chinese couples may have up to three children, China announced on Monday, in a major shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country.    Beijing scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit to try and stave off risks to its economy from a rapidly aging population. But that failed… Source link

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10 Major Companies That Accept Bitcoin

filadendron / Getty Images Elon Musk made waves in February when he announced that Tesla was buying $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin and accepting the world’s most popular cryptocurrency as payment for its vehicles — yet another first for Musk in the auto industry. The revolution was short-lived. Support Small: Don’t Miss Out on Nominating Your Favorite Small Business To Be Featured on GOBankingRates — Ends May 31 What is often left out of the discussion about Bitcoin is how terrible it is… Source link

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Phil Mickelson becomes oldest major winner ever

In a career full of memorable moments, Phil Mickelson’s now signature one fittingly came with a wedge in his hand. He’d arrived at the final round of the PGA Championship with a 1-stroke lead that no one thought would hold. Not with the major assassin Brooks Koepka walking alongside. A rocky start (two bogeys in his first three holes) only reaffirmed the prevailing sentiment that at 50 years old, Mickelson contending at a major was a fun story that would end with a fizzle. Then came the… Source link

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Phil Mickelson in contention to become oldest major winner

The Telegraph USPGA Championship 2021 tee times for the first round, including Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood and Bryson DeChambeau The second major of the year gets underway at Kiawah Island Resort’s Ocean Course on Thursday, featuring a total of 156 professional players, including 99 of the world’s top 100. The longest course in championship history has dominated the build-up, with the Pete Dye-designed layout on South Carolina’s Atlantic coast capable of playing to a maximum of 7,876 yards…. Source link

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Dodgers, Albert Pujols agree to major league contract, per report

Albert Pujols has found a new home, and he didn’t have to go far.  Pujols is reportedly in agreement with the Los Angeles Dodgers on a contract for the rest of the MLB season. According to Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times, Pujols will be playing for the Dodgers and not one of their minor league affiliates.  Pujols, 41, spent the last nine seasons with the Los Angeles Angels, and had played about five weeks of his 10th season before he was abruptly released on May 6. The reasons for… Source link

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Robinhood Has Restored Crypto Trading After ‘Major Outage’

Bloomberg As Sanjeev Gupta Rose From Trader to Tycoon, Several Banks Backed Away (Bloomberg) — British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s companies seemed to be prospering until his main lender, Greensill Capital, imploded last month. But long before Greensill collapsed, several banks had cut off the commodity trading business of Gupta’s Liberty House Group.Four banks stopped working with Gupta’s commodity trading business, starting in 2016, after they became concerned about what they… Source link

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