This first one was posted here yesterday, under a comment, but here it is again. SMACS0732:
Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
The Carina Nebula:
This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.
Stephan’s Quintet. Stunning!!!!
Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan’s Quintet in a new light. This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The information from Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe. With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen details in this galaxy group. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster.
The Southern Ring Nebula:
This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, from NASA’s Webb Telescope. This scene was created by a white dwarf star – the remains of a star like our Sun after it shed its outer layers and stopped burning fuel though nuclear fusion. Those outer layers now form the ejected shells all along this view. In the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image, the white dwarf appears to the lower left of the bright, central star, partially hidden by a diffraction spike. The same star appears – but brighter, larger, and redder – in the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) image. This white dwarf star is cloaked in thick layers of dust, which make it appear larger. The brighter star in both images hasn’t yet shed its layers. It closely orbits the dimmer white dwarf, helping to distribute what it’s ejected. Over thousands of years and before it became a white dwarf, the star periodically ejected mass – the visible shells of material. As if on repeat, it contracted, heated up – and then, unable to push out more material, pulsated. Stellar material was sent in all directions – like a rotating sprinkler – and provided the ingredients for this asymmetrical landscape. Today, the white dwarf is heating up the gas in the inner regions – which appear blue at left and red at right. Both stars are lighting up the outer regions, shown in orange and blue, respectively. The images look very different because NIRCam and MIRI collect different wavelengths of light. NIRCam observes near-infrared light, which is closer to the visible wavelengths our eyes detect. MIRI goes farther into the infrared, picking up mid-infrared wavelengths. The second star more clearly appears in the MIRI image, because this instrument can see the gleaming dust around it, bringing it more clearly into view.
And this, the signature of water on WASP-96 b. Just amazing!
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star.The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb’s unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away. While the Hubble Space Telescope has analyzed numerous exoplanet atmospheres over the past two decades, capturing the first clear detection of water in 2013, Webb’s immediate and more detailed observation marks a giant leap forward in the quest to characterize potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.
All of the above was excerpted from NASA’s website page of “First Images of the James Webb Telescope,” where you get can more detailed information on the photos above (and larger pictures).
They did not disappoint!
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Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
The idea that camels store water in their humps to survive long treks through the desert is a misconception, although the hump is in fact an adaptation to desert life. Camels store almost all of their body fat in their humps in order to minimize the insulating effect on the rest of their bodies and keep themselves cooler in the searing heat.
You think now humans would understand why their bodies aren’t fit for earth travel. Or why space travel is so dangerous but irresistible. Once they leave their solar system and step into the corridors of space, they will be hooked forever.
Rather they will be dead. Those water based creatures need suits or they will perish in space. Oh, and you should check your posts before you hit the button.
I think you meant their bodies aren’t fit for earth[sic] space travel.
Here “earth” travel was a reference to their ability to orbit their planet in a space station. Had I meant it to reflect “space” travel, I would have spoken in terms of their increased ability to appreciate the true colors of space with a light enhancement of their RGBIV light receptive spectrum.
Logical speculation about the intent of another’s dialogue, should be based on principles of reasoning which require consultation with the author before assuming you have a valid interpretation of the author’s intent.
Honda Key Fob Hack Affects Nearly All Models Since 2012
ANDREW HEINZMAN
Honda
A newly-discovered “Rolling Pwn” exploit allows hackers remotely unlock and start the engine of Honda vehicles dating back to 2012. This exploit circumvents safeguards put in place by Honda, and more worryingly, the carmaker denies that “Rolling Pwn” is a genuine threat.
Rolling Pwn is a variation on the common “replay attack” system, which uses a radio receiver to intercept and record a key fob signal. When played back, this signal can unlock a car.
But several Honda models randomize their key fob signal using a “rolling code.” This prevents the same key fob signal from working twice—at least, that’s the idea. As explained by Kevin2600 and Wesley Li, the discoverers of this exploit, Rolling Pwn forces Honda cars to reset their “rolling code.” It makes the safeguard useless.
Several videos now show Rolling Pwn in action. While it hasn’t been tested on every Honda vehicle, it appears to work on most models dating back to 2012. And as The Drive notes, vulnerabilities that are similar to Rolling Pwn were logged in both 2021 and early 2022.
Honda hasn’t made any attempt to warn customers of these vulnerabilities. It told security researchers that “the best way to report [Rolling Pwn] is to contact customer service,” and in a statement to The Drive, a Honda spokesperson stated, “the key fobs in the referenced vehicles are equipped with rolling code technology that would not allow the vulnerability as represented in the report.”
So, if you own a modern Honda, you may want to leave a message with its customer service. Both journalists and independent security researchers confirm that Rolling Pwn is an authentic vulnerability, but Honda denies that it exists. Honda needs to address this problem immediately, either through a recall or an OTA update.
Get More iCloud Storage for Free Using This iPhone Setting
iOS 15 temporary iCloud storage transfer to iPhone 13
With iOS 15, you can use free temporary iCloud storage to back up your old iPhone and transfer it to your new one.
Patrick Holland/CNET
What’s happening
iOS 15 includes a setting that lets you borrow more iCloud storage temporarily for free when transferring data from an old iPhone to a new one.
Why it matters
iCloud’s free tier is limited to 5GB of storage. The new temporary solution gives you more iCloud space without costing you any extra money.
Did you just buy a new iPhone 13, 13 Pro or maybe one of Apple’s older phones like the iPhone 12, iPhone 11 or iPhone SE? No matter the model, you’ll need to move all of your messages, photos, videos and music to your new phone. With iOS 15, Apple updated the way to transfer your stuff from one iPhone to another.
There are three ways to transfer stuff from your old iPhone to a new one. If you’re running MacOS Catalina or newer, you can plug your iPhone into your Mac with a charging cable and use Finder. This is fast, but you need a Mac and enough space on it for the backup file.
You can also use Apple’s direct data migration tool that copies your old phone onto your new one without using a computer or iCloud. The downside to this process is that you won’t be able to use either phone until the transfer process is complete, which can take an hour or more to finish.
Then there’s using iCloud to do the transfer. The upside to this process is that you don’t need to be tied to a computer and you’ll have access to your old phone while the new one is downloading your backup file. The downside is that you need enough storage on your iCloud account to fit the backup file. If you’re on Apple’s free 5GB iCloud tier, that probably won’t be enough.
You could pay Apple a couple of bucks a month for more storage. But if you’d rather not, you can use iOS 15 to borrow some iCloud storage for free to back up your old iPhone. Here’s how you do it.
Use iOS 15 to borrow more iCloud storage for free
First, upgrade your old iPhone to iOS 15. This will work on the iPhone 6S or newer. Depending on the speed of your Wi-Fi network it can take awhile to download and install. It took me about 20 minutes.
After the update is complete, go to Settings, General and tap on the new option: Transfer or Reset iPhone. A new page will appear. Under the Prepare for New iPhone section, tap Get Started.
A pop-up window called Extra iCloud to Move Apps and Data will appear. Read it over and when you’re ready hit the Continue button. You might see an iCloud Backup is Turned Off message. If you do, tap Turn On Backup to Transfer. This didn’t pop-up for me.
iOS 15 temporary iCloud storage transfer to iPhone 13
The backup you make using temporary iCloud storage is good for 21 days.
Patrick Holland/CNET
Next, the Move Data for All Your Apps screen will appear. Read it over. There’s a list of apps that are not syncing their data with iCloud. Tap the Move All App Data with iCloud button. Another screen pops up explaining what you can do with your old iPhone. Read it over, or not. Then hit the blue Done button.
Your old iPhone will start backing up to iCloud. If you look on the main page in Settings, you’ll see a new section that says, “iCloud Backup in Progress.” Once the backup is complete, that new section in Settings will read, “Ready for your new iPhone.”
Extend your temporary iCloud backup for 21 more days
You can start this process up to 21 days in advance of buying a new iPhone. Just remember that any new texts, iMessages, photos or videos won’t be in that backup. If your new iPhone doesn’t arrive within 21 days, you can get an additional 21 days to restore your temporary backup before it’s deleted by opening Settings and tapping Keep My Backup Longer.
When your new iPhone arrives, whether it’s an iPhone 13 or older, power it on and follow the prompts completing tasks like entering a passcode, setting up Face ID and agreeing to Apple’s terms and conditions. Eventually, you’ll end up on a screen offering you different ways to transfer your data, Select Restore from iCloud. Then sign in to iCloud with the same Apple ID and password as your old iPhone.
Watch this: Here’s the easiest way to set up your iPhone 13
Choose the most recent backup and follow the prompts, after which your backup file will start downloading onto your new iPhone. After the download is complete, your new iPhone will reboot and your apps will finish downloading. All of your photos, emails, contacts, appointments and messages will be there.
You might be wondering, what happens to that temporary iCloud backup when you’re done? It will stay available for seven days and then be permanently deleted.
Now that your new iPhone is ready, here are eight features and settings you need to change ASAP.
You humans need to travel in a coma induced environment composed of a magnetic field that pulls 9.9 m/s squared toward a center core while your coma induced bodies are spinning on a central core. You can be awake while wearing a suit for periods of no more than 3 weeks at a time.
Bluetooth Is About to Get Its Huge LE Audio Upgrade
ANDREW HEINZMAN
After several years of work, the Bluetooth Special Interests Group (SIG) says that it’s finalized Bluetooth LE Audio. This is a major upgrade for Bluetooth audio that adds a slew of new features, including a simple solution to whole-home audio.
Note: Bluetooth LE Audio is not the same as Bluetooth Low Energy. As the name implies, this new standard focuses on audio applications. The older Bluetooth Low Energy centers more around power consumption, especially in small devices like smartwatches and medical trackers.
The new Bluetooth LE Audio standard includes dozens of specifications, most notably the new LC3 codec (which should supplant SBC). This codec increases audio quality across the board, even at the low bitrates used to conserve battery life in hearing aids, headsets, and other products.
But the new Auracast system may be the most exciting part of Bluetooth LE Audio. Auracast lets you broadcast Bluetooth to multiple audio devices simultaneously, allowing you to pair several headsets with a TV, for example, or turn generic Bluetooth speakers into a whole-home audio system.
Searching for “Auracast Broadcasts” should be easy—the Bluetooth SIG says it’s like searching for Wi-Fi networks. You can place passcodes on these broadcasts, or even share them with a QR code. Auracast should also grand some behind-the-scenes improvements to Bluetooth, like reduced latency when using Google Assistant with earbuds.
What Is Bluetooth LE Audio, and Why Will You Want It?
Everyone will enjoy Bluetooth LE Audio’s unique features. But those who are hard of hearing may see the most tangible benefit. Both the LC3 codec and Auracast Broadcasts present a unique opportunity to improve the quality, battery life, and price of hearing aids. It should also let users pair hearing aids with multiple devices simultaneously, like a game console (for game audio) and smartphone (for podcasts or YouTube videos).
There’s just one problem with this upgrade—you probably won’t experience Bluetooth LE Audio until you buy new devices. A handful of smartphones, TVs, and audio receivers may gain Bluetooth LE Audio through a software update, but the majority of products that customers use today will never support Bluetooth LE Audio.
Once again the racist whiteboy in his attempt to thin out Africa has unleashed a disease that will threaten the human population. Why are we allowing these sick humans to destroy our cattle? Helping them find a solution to the monkey pox is not the solution.
Those of you who like your meat tainted can do that after the harvest. One does not season the entire pot before serving the meal.
Uber is facing a lawsuit filed by more than 500 women who allege they were assaulted by drivers, CNBC has reported. The complaint states that “women passengers in multiple states were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed, or otherwise attacked,” by Uber drivers. The San Francisco law firm that filed the suit said it has about 550 clients with at least another 150 claims being investigated.
‘A very dangerous situation’
The most advanced category of mass-produced semiconductors — used in smartphones, military technology and much more — is known as 5 nm. A single company in Taiwan, known as TSMC, makes about 90 percent of them. U.S. factories make none.
The U.S.’s struggles to keep pace in semiconductor manufacturing have already had economic downsides: Many jobs in the industry pay more than $100,000 a year, and the U.S. has lost out on them. Longer term, the situation also has the potential to cause a national security crisis: If China were to invade Taiwan and cut off exports of semiconductors, the American military would be at risk of being overmatched by its main rival for global supremacy.
For these reasons, a bipartisan group of senators and the Biden administration negotiated a bill last summer that included $52 billion to jump-start the domestic semiconductor industry, as well as other measures to help the U.S. compete economically with China. The bill would offer the kind of semiconductors subsidies that other countries — including China, South Korea, Japan, India and Germany — provide. Without such subsidies, companies like Intel and Broadcom would probably choose to build new factories outside the U.S.
But the Senate’s semiconductor bill still has not become law. The House spent months negotiating its own bill, passing one in February. Since then, the House and Senate have failed to resolve the differences between the two bills, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, recently threatened to scuttle the talks.
The standoff has become another example of dysfunctional congressional politics weakening the U.S.’s global standing.
There is a broad consensus — among many experts, President Biden, an overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress and a meaningful number of Republicans — that the federal government should act. But it still has not.
Today’s newsletter looks at the debate over the bills and the recent efforts to find a solution before Congress leaves for its August recess.
The Biden administration wants Congress to pass a semiconductor bill.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Corporate welfare?
The strongest substantive argument against the subsidies is that they are a handout to the semiconductor industry. The bills would use taxpayer dollars to benefit large companies that already can make a profit on the products they sell.
In economic terms, this argument makes a lot of sense. But geopolitics matter, too. Political leaders in other countries have already decided to offer subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing, because they want some of this manufacturing to take place in their countries.
If the U.S. does not also offer subsidies, it may continue to struggle to attract factories. Already, the U.S. market share of all semiconductor manufacturing has fallen to about 12 percent from 37 percent three decades ago.
Pat Gelsinger, the chief executive of Intel, has said that a typical factory costs about $10 billion to build, and subsidies from some countries cover 30 percent to 50 percent of that cost. China’s subsidies cover closer to 70 percent. “It is not economically viable for us to compete in the world market if everyone else that we’re competing with is seeing 30 to 50 percent lower cost structures,” Gelsinger said.
Senator Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who helped write the Senate bill, has acknowledged that it runs counter to the free-market philosophy he usually prefers. But, Portman explained at the Aspen Ideas Festival last month, “if we are continuing with blinders on to follow a political philosophy that seems to make sense generally but doesn’t work in the practical world, I think we end up with a much less competitive economy and a national security risk.”
Biden and his top aides agree. “We are now in a very dangerous situation in which we are utterly reliant on Taiwan for the vast, vast majority of our most advanced semiconductors, which are the exact kind of semiconductors you need for military equipment,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told me. “You cannot be a global superpower if you don’t make any of these.”
What China wants
Why, then, haven’t the Senate and House agreed on the bill?
House Democrats added provisions to the Senate bill that Republicans did not like, such as additional money for worker retraining. House Democratic leaders seem willing to remove most of these from the final bill, but it remains unclear whether the two parties can agree on a compromise.
McConnell — despite being one of 19 Senate Republicans who voted for the original bill — also appears to be wavering. He sent a tweet on June 30 suggesting that he might block a semiconductor bill if Democrats continued trying to pass a separate bill, on climate change and drug prices, that Republicans oppose.
McConnell may have been posturing, hoping to intimidate House Democrats into dropping the provisions in its version of the semiconductor bill. On the other hand, his history suggests that he might be willing to defeat a policy he would otherwise favor for the sake of making a Democratic president look weak.
To help the bill’s chances, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, held a classified briefing for all senators yesterday. At it, Raimondo and Avril Haines, Biden’s director of national intelligence, discussed the U.S. military’s current dependence on Taiwan. Major corporations are also lobbying for the bill, as my colleague Catie Edmondson notes. “So many powerful industries badly want this bill to pass, from the chip makers to defense contractors to manufacturers,” she said.
There is still one vocal opponent of the bill: the Chinese government. Its state media has criticized the idea as “bullying” and part of a “Cold War mentality.” In recent decades, no country’s share of semiconductor manufacturing has increased as rapidly as China’s.
Just so you know if you are using Amazon’s Ring as part of your security, Amazon gives the police have access to your device without your permission. They have every picture that your device has captured. So if you are occasionally in various states of dress, the disgusting men in your local PD have seen you.
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Did You Know?
The idea that camels store water in their humps to survive long treks through the desert is a misconception, although the hump is in fact an adaptation to desert life. Camels store almost all of their body fat in their humps in order to minimize the insulating effect on the rest of their bodies and keep themselves cooler in the searing heat.
Very interesting
Did You Know?
Donald Duck has appeared in more Disney films than any other Disney character, including Mickey Mouse.
You think now humans would understand why their bodies aren’t fit for earth travel. Or why space travel is so dangerous but irresistible. Once they leave their solar system and step into the corridors of space, they will be hooked forever.
Rather they will be dead. Those water based creatures need suits or they will perish in space. Oh, and you should check your posts before you hit the button.
I think you meant their bodies aren’t fit for earth[sic] space travel.
Here “earth” travel was a reference to their ability to orbit their planet in a space station. Had I meant it to reflect “space” travel, I would have spoken in terms of their increased ability to appreciate the true colors of space with a light enhancement of their RGBIV light receptive spectrum.
Logical speculation about the intent of another’s dialogue, should be based on principles of reasoning which require consultation with the author before assuming you have a valid interpretation of the author’s intent.
I stand corrected.
Honda Key Fob Hack Affects Nearly All Models Since 2012
ANDREW HEINZMAN
Honda
A newly-discovered “Rolling Pwn” exploit allows hackers remotely unlock and start the engine of Honda vehicles dating back to 2012. This exploit circumvents safeguards put in place by Honda, and more worryingly, the carmaker denies that “Rolling Pwn” is a genuine threat.
Rolling Pwn is a variation on the common “replay attack” system, which uses a radio receiver to intercept and record a key fob signal. When played back, this signal can unlock a car.
But several Honda models randomize their key fob signal using a “rolling code.” This prevents the same key fob signal from working twice—at least, that’s the idea. As explained by Kevin2600 and Wesley Li, the discoverers of this exploit, Rolling Pwn forces Honda cars to reset their “rolling code.” It makes the safeguard useless.
Several videos now show Rolling Pwn in action. While it hasn’t been tested on every Honda vehicle, it appears to work on most models dating back to 2012. And as The Drive notes, vulnerabilities that are similar to Rolling Pwn were logged in both 2021 and early 2022.
Honda hasn’t made any attempt to warn customers of these vulnerabilities. It told security researchers that “the best way to report [Rolling Pwn] is to contact customer service,” and in a statement to The Drive, a Honda spokesperson stated, “the key fobs in the referenced vehicles are equipped with rolling code technology that would not allow the vulnerability as represented in the report.”
So, if you own a modern Honda, you may want to leave a message with its customer service. Both journalists and independent security researchers confirm that Rolling Pwn is an authentic vulnerability, but Honda denies that it exists. Honda needs to address this problem immediately, either through a recall or an OTA update.
Source: Kevin2600 & Wesley Li via The Drive
Get More iCloud Storage for Free Using This iPhone Setting
iOS 15 temporary iCloud storage transfer to iPhone 13
With iOS 15, you can use free temporary iCloud storage to back up your old iPhone and transfer it to your new one.
Patrick Holland/CNET
What’s happening
iOS 15 includes a setting that lets you borrow more iCloud storage temporarily for free when transferring data from an old iPhone to a new one.
Why it matters
iCloud’s free tier is limited to 5GB of storage. The new temporary solution gives you more iCloud space without costing you any extra money.
Did you just buy a new iPhone 13, 13 Pro or maybe one of Apple’s older phones like the iPhone 12, iPhone 11 or iPhone SE? No matter the model, you’ll need to move all of your messages, photos, videos and music to your new phone. With iOS 15, Apple updated the way to transfer your stuff from one iPhone to another.
There are three ways to transfer stuff from your old iPhone to a new one. If you’re running MacOS Catalina or newer, you can plug your iPhone into your Mac with a charging cable and use Finder. This is fast, but you need a Mac and enough space on it for the backup file.
You can also use Apple’s direct data migration tool that copies your old phone onto your new one without using a computer or iCloud. The downside to this process is that you won’t be able to use either phone until the transfer process is complete, which can take an hour or more to finish.
Then there’s using iCloud to do the transfer. The upside to this process is that you don’t need to be tied to a computer and you’ll have access to your old phone while the new one is downloading your backup file. The downside is that you need enough storage on your iCloud account to fit the backup file. If you’re on Apple’s free 5GB iCloud tier, that probably won’t be enough.
You could pay Apple a couple of bucks a month for more storage. But if you’d rather not, you can use iOS 15 to borrow some iCloud storage for free to back up your old iPhone. Here’s how you do it.
Use iOS 15 to borrow more iCloud storage for free
First, upgrade your old iPhone to iOS 15. This will work on the iPhone 6S or newer. Depending on the speed of your Wi-Fi network it can take awhile to download and install. It took me about 20 minutes.
After the update is complete, go to Settings, General and tap on the new option: Transfer or Reset iPhone. A new page will appear. Under the Prepare for New iPhone section, tap Get Started.
A pop-up window called Extra iCloud to Move Apps and Data will appear. Read it over and when you’re ready hit the Continue button. You might see an iCloud Backup is Turned Off message. If you do, tap Turn On Backup to Transfer. This didn’t pop-up for me.
iOS 15 temporary iCloud storage transfer to iPhone 13
The backup you make using temporary iCloud storage is good for 21 days.
Patrick Holland/CNET
Next, the Move Data for All Your Apps screen will appear. Read it over. There’s a list of apps that are not syncing their data with iCloud. Tap the Move All App Data with iCloud button. Another screen pops up explaining what you can do with your old iPhone. Read it over, or not. Then hit the blue Done button.
Your old iPhone will start backing up to iCloud. If you look on the main page in Settings, you’ll see a new section that says, “iCloud Backup in Progress.” Once the backup is complete, that new section in Settings will read, “Ready for your new iPhone.”
Extend your temporary iCloud backup for 21 more days
You can start this process up to 21 days in advance of buying a new iPhone. Just remember that any new texts, iMessages, photos or videos won’t be in that backup. If your new iPhone doesn’t arrive within 21 days, you can get an additional 21 days to restore your temporary backup before it’s deleted by opening Settings and tapping Keep My Backup Longer.
When your new iPhone arrives, whether it’s an iPhone 13 or older, power it on and follow the prompts completing tasks like entering a passcode, setting up Face ID and agreeing to Apple’s terms and conditions. Eventually, you’ll end up on a screen offering you different ways to transfer your data, Select Restore from iCloud. Then sign in to iCloud with the same Apple ID and password as your old iPhone.
Watch this: Here’s the easiest way to set up your iPhone 13
Choose the most recent backup and follow the prompts, after which your backup file will start downloading onto your new iPhone. After the download is complete, your new iPhone will reboot and your apps will finish downloading. All of your photos, emails, contacts, appointments and messages will be there.
You might be wondering, what happens to that temporary iCloud backup when you’re done? It will stay available for seven days and then be permanently deleted.
Now that your new iPhone is ready, here are eight features and settings you need to change ASAP.
Danny, Colleen do you have to be so verbose?
Did you have any mama training?
Many Astronauts Never Recover all of their Bone Density after Returning to Earth
https://www.universetoday.com/156582/many-astronauts-never-recover-all-of-their-bone-density-after-returning-to-earth/
You humans need to travel in a coma induced environment composed of a magnetic field that pulls 9.9 m/s squared toward a center core while your coma induced bodies are spinning on a central core. You can be awake while wearing a suit for periods of no more than 3 weeks at a time.
Why bother they will all be dead soon, if they continue to barrel towards nuclear confrontation. Barbecue everyone?
Bluetooth Is About to Get Its Huge LE Audio Upgrade
ANDREW HEINZMAN
After several years of work, the Bluetooth Special Interests Group (SIG) says that it’s finalized Bluetooth LE Audio. This is a major upgrade for Bluetooth audio that adds a slew of new features, including a simple solution to whole-home audio.
Note: Bluetooth LE Audio is not the same as Bluetooth Low Energy. As the name implies, this new standard focuses on audio applications. The older Bluetooth Low Energy centers more around power consumption, especially in small devices like smartwatches and medical trackers.
The new Bluetooth LE Audio standard includes dozens of specifications, most notably the new LC3 codec (which should supplant SBC). This codec increases audio quality across the board, even at the low bitrates used to conserve battery life in hearing aids, headsets, and other products.
But the new Auracast system may be the most exciting part of Bluetooth LE Audio. Auracast lets you broadcast Bluetooth to multiple audio devices simultaneously, allowing you to pair several headsets with a TV, for example, or turn generic Bluetooth speakers into a whole-home audio system.
Searching for “Auracast Broadcasts” should be easy—the Bluetooth SIG says it’s like searching for Wi-Fi networks. You can place passcodes on these broadcasts, or even share them with a QR code. Auracast should also grand some behind-the-scenes improvements to Bluetooth, like reduced latency when using Google Assistant with earbuds.
What Is Bluetooth LE Audio, and Why Will You Want It?
Everyone will enjoy Bluetooth LE Audio’s unique features. But those who are hard of hearing may see the most tangible benefit. Both the LC3 codec and Auracast Broadcasts present a unique opportunity to improve the quality, battery life, and price of hearing aids. It should also let users pair hearing aids with multiple devices simultaneously, like a game console (for game audio) and smartphone (for podcasts or YouTube videos).
There’s just one problem with this upgrade—you probably won’t experience Bluetooth LE Audio until you buy new devices. A handful of smartphones, TVs, and audio receivers may gain Bluetooth LE Audio through a software update, but the majority of products that customers use today will never support Bluetooth LE Audio.
Source: Bluetooth SIG via The Verge
Once again the racist whiteboy in his attempt to thin out Africa has unleashed a disease that will threaten the human population. Why are we allowing these sick humans to destroy our cattle? Helping them find a solution to the monkey pox is not the solution.
Those of you who like your meat tainted can do that after the harvest. One does not season the entire pot before serving the meal.
Uber is facing a lawsuit filed by more than 500 women who allege they were assaulted by drivers, CNBC has reported. The complaint states that “women passengers in multiple states were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed, or otherwise attacked,” by Uber drivers. The San Francisco law firm that filed the suit said it has about 550 clients with at least another 150 claims being investigated.
‘A very dangerous situation’
The most advanced category of mass-produced semiconductors — used in smartphones, military technology and much more — is known as 5 nm. A single company in Taiwan, known as TSMC, makes about 90 percent of them. U.S. factories make none.
The U.S.’s struggles to keep pace in semiconductor manufacturing have already had economic downsides: Many jobs in the industry pay more than $100,000 a year, and the U.S. has lost out on them. Longer term, the situation also has the potential to cause a national security crisis: If China were to invade Taiwan and cut off exports of semiconductors, the American military would be at risk of being overmatched by its main rival for global supremacy.
For these reasons, a bipartisan group of senators and the Biden administration negotiated a bill last summer that included $52 billion to jump-start the domestic semiconductor industry, as well as other measures to help the U.S. compete economically with China. The bill would offer the kind of semiconductors subsidies that other countries — including China, South Korea, Japan, India and Germany — provide. Without such subsidies, companies like Intel and Broadcom would probably choose to build new factories outside the U.S.
But the Senate’s semiconductor bill still has not become law. The House spent months negotiating its own bill, passing one in February. Since then, the House and Senate have failed to resolve the differences between the two bills, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, recently threatened to scuttle the talks.
The standoff has become another example of dysfunctional congressional politics weakening the U.S.’s global standing.
There is a broad consensus — among many experts, President Biden, an overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress and a meaningful number of Republicans — that the federal government should act. But it still has not.
Today’s newsletter looks at the debate over the bills and the recent efforts to find a solution before Congress leaves for its August recess.
The Biden administration wants Congress to pass a semiconductor bill.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Corporate welfare?
The strongest substantive argument against the subsidies is that they are a handout to the semiconductor industry. The bills would use taxpayer dollars to benefit large companies that already can make a profit on the products they sell.
In economic terms, this argument makes a lot of sense. But geopolitics matter, too. Political leaders in other countries have already decided to offer subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing, because they want some of this manufacturing to take place in their countries.
If the U.S. does not also offer subsidies, it may continue to struggle to attract factories. Already, the U.S. market share of all semiconductor manufacturing has fallen to about 12 percent from 37 percent three decades ago.
Pat Gelsinger, the chief executive of Intel, has said that a typical factory costs about $10 billion to build, and subsidies from some countries cover 30 percent to 50 percent of that cost. China’s subsidies cover closer to 70 percent. “It is not economically viable for us to compete in the world market if everyone else that we’re competing with is seeing 30 to 50 percent lower cost structures,” Gelsinger said.
Senator Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who helped write the Senate bill, has acknowledged that it runs counter to the free-market philosophy he usually prefers. But, Portman explained at the Aspen Ideas Festival last month, “if we are continuing with blinders on to follow a political philosophy that seems to make sense generally but doesn’t work in the practical world, I think we end up with a much less competitive economy and a national security risk.”
Biden and his top aides agree. “We are now in a very dangerous situation in which we are utterly reliant on Taiwan for the vast, vast majority of our most advanced semiconductors, which are the exact kind of semiconductors you need for military equipment,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told me. “You cannot be a global superpower if you don’t make any of these.”
What China wants
Why, then, haven’t the Senate and House agreed on the bill?
House Democrats added provisions to the Senate bill that Republicans did not like, such as additional money for worker retraining. House Democratic leaders seem willing to remove most of these from the final bill, but it remains unclear whether the two parties can agree on a compromise.
McConnell — despite being one of 19 Senate Republicans who voted for the original bill — also appears to be wavering. He sent a tweet on June 30 suggesting that he might block a semiconductor bill if Democrats continued trying to pass a separate bill, on climate change and drug prices, that Republicans oppose.
McConnell may have been posturing, hoping to intimidate House Democrats into dropping the provisions in its version of the semiconductor bill. On the other hand, his history suggests that he might be willing to defeat a policy he would otherwise favor for the sake of making a Democratic president look weak.
To help the bill’s chances, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, held a classified briefing for all senators yesterday. At it, Raimondo and Avril Haines, Biden’s director of national intelligence, discussed the U.S. military’s current dependence on Taiwan. Major corporations are also lobbying for the bill, as my colleague Catie Edmondson notes. “So many powerful industries badly want this bill to pass, from the chip makers to defense contractors to manufacturers,” she said.
There is still one vocal opponent of the bill: the Chinese government. Its state media has criticized the idea as “bullying” and part of a “Cold War mentality.” In recent decades, no country’s share of semiconductor manufacturing has increased as rapidly as China’s.
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