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Apple is set to finally kill off its proprietary en masse across its entire line of products, according to a new report. Twin reports last week noted the company would be removing it from its bestselling iPhone in 2025, while a further report this week now notes that the company plans to strip USB-C from other devices including AirPods, mice, and so on. Apple’s use of Lightning over USB-C has been contentious. While Android phone makers moved en masse to support the new standard, Apple had stayed resolutely with…

After Alec Baldwin was involved in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a movie set in October, it’s easy to wonder if his actor friend, Matthew Broderick, reached out to offer sympathy and to let him know that he, more than others, understands his unique anguish. Baldwin and Broderick will probably never reveal whether such a conversation took place, but Broderick, 60, also was involved in the death of another and has said things that suggest he’s experienced what experts say is the particular trauma,…

The largest fish on Earth is a shark. Capable of reaching a length of up to 60 feet — roughly the height of a four-story building — whale sharks, named for their size, are so large that they make great whites look like minnows. But even giants can disappear. Over the last several decades, more than half of all whale sharks have vanished from the ocean. Some populations have fallen by more than 60 percent. This decline has been something of a scientific mystery. It can’t be explained by known threats like overfishing.…

The first word that would pop into your brain to describe this drama, based on actual events, is “timely”. But, tragically, that means little given the regularity with which people die at the hands of US police, either by accident or design. The killing at the centre of director David Midell’s almost unbearably tense film happened in White Plains, NY, in 2011. However, as there are only audio recordings, forensic reports and witness statements to document what happened, Chamberlain’s death didn’t capture the public…

| It was his big line in the Suicide Squad movie and the subsequent Peacemaker TV series, as uttered by John Cena. "I cherish peace with all my heart. I don't care how many men, women and children I need to kill to get it." But in the TV show, when it came to killing a kid- even one who had been already killed, hollowed out and possessed by an alien invader – he just couldn't do it. Weakling. The comic book version which inspired the original, had The Peacemaker is Christopher Smith, a pacifist diplomat so committed to…

KANNUR: Inside India’s Bloodiest Revenge Politics By Ullekh NP Viking Penguin 2018, 223pp., Rs 499 Reviewed by Shashi Tharoor Kannur (or, as the Brits preferred to call it, Cannanore) is a lovely little town in north Kerala, located in a picturesque seaside setting near some spectacular beaches that ought to have made it a tourist paradise. It is better known, instead, as a town drenched in blood from repeated acts of political violence. Between 1991 and 2016, according to official crime statistics, 45…

Editor's note: Haruki Murakami pens another surreal tale called Killing Commendatore which is now out in the market and is available for purchase. For all the fans of this Japanese novelist, Killing Commendatore is about a thirty-something portrait artist in Tokyo, who lives a lonely life after being abandoned by his wife. In the story, the portrait artist finds himself living in another famous artist's home and accidentally discovers a strange painting in the attic. That painting open a circle of unusual situations and…

Over 80 percent of international trade is carried by sea. Much of what we use and consume everyday either has been or will be transported on huge vessels which plough the global ocean.  The courses these container vessels take are fixed shipping routes known as marine highways, which are not unlike motorways on land. These highways, upon which vessels travel back and forth, connect distant ports, often on opposite sides of vast oceans.Marine highways can also cut across the movements and migratory routes of marine…

Most of us have grown up with advisements to wear sunscreen when going out on the beach. Now, though, scientists are scratching their heads and asking an important question. Could sunscreen be dangerous to coral reefs? Scientists are asking the question now that several locations have banned the use of sunblocks by beach visitors. The bans kicked in after locals found high levels of some of the chemicals in sunblock in the water. Those chemicals, they believe, are associated with the declining health of nearby…

Google is killing off its lightweight YouTube Go app, an app designed for phones with low storage and limited access to robust LTE and 5G networks. The company cites improvements to the mainstream YouTube app that rendered this service redundant. The app will remain available for download in the Play Store until August. The app boiled down YouTube to its essentials and stripped away things that weren’t necessary like commenting, posting, or creating videos. “When we launched YouTube Go in 2016, it was designed for…