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Leaker: Foldable iPhone with liquid metal hinge undergoing carrier testing | Cult of Mac

“Apple is building its long-anticipated folding iPhone around a liquid metal hinge, and the device has now actually reached mobile carriers around the world for compatibility testing, a prominent Apple supply chain leaker said Tuesday. The Weibo-based account Fixed Focus Digital made the claims about the liquid metal hinge and its testing in a post. They added that development and manufacturing work on the device is now ‘progressing rapidly.’ The disclosure comes a day after Fixed Focus Digital described a vapor chamber cooling system inside the foldable. And yet another leak claims to show a new foldable iPhone being opened and closed with plastic wrap still on it, perhaps at a factory or testing facility:”

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There's a deadly 'rotating' soup of forbidden toxins at Lake Erie | Gizmodo

“Every year, Lake Erie experiences seasonal blooms of cyanobacteria, which produce blue-green toxins that pose health risks to humans and animals. Accordingly, officials and scientists consistently monitored these events — and realized that the situation was actually more dire than they thought. For one, the algal toxins are more accurately a soup of several compounds that team up differently according to the season. The algal blooms produce varying types of toxins as the weather shifts across three separate phases. Concerningly, these compounds include chemicals that evade detection via conventional monitoring.”

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The average person can't pass this general knowledge quiz, and it's kinda sad | Buzzfeed

“Apparently, my last basic knowledge quiz was a little too hard. So, I’ve done what any rational person would do and made this one even harder! Don’t worry, every question still falls under the umbrella of ‘basic knowledge.’ You’re just going to have to use slightly more brainpower than last time. This quiz will span 22 questions and touch on pop culture, English, science, geography, and history (with a bonus miscellaneous question or two). Good luck!”

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Scientists confirm: this is where free time goes to retire | Game smarter

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Ben Franklin wrote a satirical essay on farting. | History Facts

“Sometime around 1781, while serving as minister to France, Benjamin Franklin set his pen to paper to address an important subject. Not liberty, diplomacy, or trade relations — passing gas. ‘It is universally well known,’ the great statesman and polymath wrote, ‘That in digesting our common Food, there is created or produced in the Bowels of human Créatures, a great Quantity of Wind.’ Because letting this ‘wind’ escape is usually ‘offensive to the Company,’ he continued, most well-bred people try to restrain the ‘Efforts of Nature,’ at the risk of causing pain or even disease to themselves. The essay was addressed to the Royal Academy of Brussels in response to its ‘Mathematical Prize Question,’ though Franklin never actually sent it…”

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