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Vrombr is a newly released AR racing game where you control real-life remote-controlled toy cars using your phone. Thanks to a camera embedded within the car itself you can watch the action from a driver's point of view and play a variety of game modes against other players, while your phone tallies up the points and any other variables. Sound familiar? Well, although Vrombr is rightfully proud of what is an intriguing mixture of game and toy, they're not quite the first to do it. Just recently toy manufacturer Hot Wheels debuted Rift Rally, which did a similar thing while overlaying AAA-quality graphics on real-life locations. Now Vrombr may just have an advantage, after all, if they can make their toys cheaper than Hot Wheels (this is after all, the Nerf effect of the big-name brand being super-expensive) then they could undercut the competition. But the first dev to think this? Eh, we're not so sure. Vroom vroom Overall, Vrombr does offer a pretty good lineup of modes and other neat additions to make this game well worth picking up. Although again, we feel that whether or not this game is going to be successful will depend on how cheap the physical cars are, it's all well and good having multiplayer but how many people can you think of that'd shell out fifty-quid for a toy car nowadays? Well in the meantime if you can't find anybody who'd want that, why not take a look at the latest entry in our regular feature of the top 5 new mobile games to play this week? Better yet you can always dig into our constantly-growing, comprehensive list of the best mobile games of 2024 (so far), featuring major releases, indie hits and more! Each of these lists is sure to have something for everyone. https://www.pocketgamer.com/vrombr/out-now/

When he started chatting with Terry Brash, indie game developer kindanice thought he was just swapping tips with a fellow dev. He didn't know that his new acquaintance was going to take his whole game, too. Kindanice related this story to PC Gamer over DMs this week, and shared screenshots of his conversations with Brash, who did not respond to a request for comment. The two developers first chatted a little over a year ago: kindanice was a fan of Brash's game Gunrun, and Brash was a fan of kindanice's game Dire Decks, a deckbuilding shooter combo published on itch.io. The developers swapped some coding knowledge and Brash invited kindanice to his game dev Discord server. A year passed, and then this week, Brash sent kindanice a Discord DM to share some cool news: He'd cloned Dire Decks in a new engine, added some new features, renamed it Wildcard, and put it on Steam under his own name. This isn't one of those gray area situations where one game derives its basic design from another, but brings its own look and spirit to the table (the dozens of Vampire Survivor-alikes come to mind). The games are visually almost identical, and Brash himself called Wildcard a "rewrite" and "clone" of Dire Decks when he introduced it to kindanice. Kindanice was taken aback: flattered, perhaps, but confused. He asked Brash if he really thought it was OK to take the art and concept of Dire Decks and put it on Steam under his own name without permission. Now Brash seemed taken aback: He pointed out that the code was original and that he'd redrawn the artwork, and asked if kindanice wanted an "inspiration" credit. "Bro... there's 'inspiration' and then there's blatantly copying an entire game," kindanice replied. The question of whether copyright law protected Dire Decks came up. Brash wasn't sure it did, but admitted he wasn't a lawyer. Kindanice felt he had a case, but changed tack, telling Brash that, regardless of what the law says, copying his game just wasn't a cool thing to do and that his other developer friends were shocked and weirded out by it. "I'm confused, what's weird here?" Brash replied. "I liked the game, so I made a clone with extra stuff. Happens every day homie." Kindanice asked Brash to remove Wildcard from Steam, and Brash refused. Kindanice then suggested that Brash's reputation would be harmed when the public found out what he'd done, but Brash didn't budge. "The decision's been made," said Brash. "I accept my fate." That was the last direct communication between the two developers. On June 3, kindanice posted publicly about the situation on X. "@terrybrash copied my game 'dire decks' and is releasing it on steam under a different name without my permission," said the developer. "I have tried to get him to take the game down but he is unwilling to do so. not sure what to do in this situation…" Brash continued to promote Wildcard on X after being called out by kindanice. He also posted an edited clip of the "Bold and Brash" SpongeBob episode in which his profile picture is dropped in the trash—I'm not sure precisely what he meant by that. Wildcard remains listed on Steam with a demo, and Brash has said that it will be free when it releases. Kindanice is currently working on his own expanded Steam version of Dire Decks. He's considered making a copyright claim against Wildcard, but says he'd still prefer it if Brash would remove the game from Steam voluntarily. You can find the current version of Dire Decks and kindanice's other games on his itch.io page. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/card-games/dire-decks-wildcard-clone/

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Vivo has indeed come a long way in the Indian market. What started off with the Vivo X1 in 2012 has now finally moved past the premium segment into the ultra-premium segment with the launch of its first foldable device, the X Fold 3 Pro. The latter, being the company's latest offering, packs in pretty much what one would expect from a foldable that's meant to compete with the OnePlus Open and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 (and soon Galaxy Z Fold 6). Just like its BBK sibling, OnePlus, Vivo has skipped launching a smaller clamshell foldable and directly gone with a book-style foldable instead. Has Vivo done anything differently? Let's find out. The Vivo X Fold 3 Pro is priced at Rs. 1,59,999 in India, which makes it the brand's most premium offering ever after its Vivo X100 Pro (a regular bar-shaped smartphone), which was launched earlier this year. With a price tag this high, buyers will certainly expect nothing but the best. The phone appears not too thick when folded but super slim when open. This is mainly down to the new hinge which supports the display with a minimal crease and lets both halves lay flat against each other. The phone measures just 5.2mm when unfolded, which is basically as thin as its USB-C port at the bottom. When folded, this doubles up to 11.2mm, which, despite appearing a bit chunky, does not feel too uncomfortable to hold. This is mainly down to its weight, which feels almost like a regular premium flagship at 236 grams. For reference, Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 5 weighs 253 grams (which is a bit over a quarter of a kilo), while Apple's iPhone 15 Pro Max (a regular bar-shaped smartphone) weighs 221 grams. While not as unique as the camera-focussed OnePlus Open (with its faux leather rear panel), it's still not as basic as Samsung's Galaxy Fold 5. You have a curved edge cover display which bends very little over the right edge of the phone, and the same goes for the rear panel (which is made of a plastic fibre) and bends over its left edge. When opened, the larger-than-usual foldable, with its massive 8.03-inch folding AMOLED panel, despite its size, feels comfortable to hold. Like many other features of this foldable, it too get's the “biggest on the block” bragging rights. The inner display has a 4:3.55 aspect ratio, which makes it better than the OnePlus Open's nearly square form factor, which, as pointed out in my [review], was not good for media consumption. The slightly rectangular inner folding display does make the 6.53-inch AMOLED cover display a bit narrower (21.1:9 aspect ratio) than the OnePlus', but it's not as narrow as the Galaxy Z Fold 5's remote-control-like (23.1:9) panel which felt a bit squished while typing. The foldable also has two fingerprint readers for convenience. There's one embedded into the cover display, while the second sensor is available upon unfolding the main display in the bottom area of the right half of the panel. The phone's design also focuses on durability. Vivo offers an IPX8 water resistance rating, which is the same as that of Samsung's phone. For its core hardware, Vivo has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. There's 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The phone also has space for two nano SIM cards. There's a massive 5,700mAh battery which is the biggest we have seen on any foldable to date in India. And it charges up using a 120W charger at 100W. Vivo's also thrown in the kitchen sink and offers 50W wireless charging as well, which happens via its special charging dock (sold separately). Vivo was never shy about camera performance with its premium devices, with every new generation attempting to outdo the other in our reviews of its X series smartphones. Its first foldable in India also gets the Zeiss branding along with its T-star coated lenses. There's a 50-megapixel primary camera with OIS accompanied by a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera and a 3X 64-megapixel telephoto camera (OIS) as well. Selfies are handled by two 32-megapixel fixed focus cameras, one located in the cover display and the second in the main display. As with every Zeiss-branded device from Vivo, this one also comes with numerous Zeiss lenses and styles in the various camera modes. Vivo has done things a bit differently from OnePlus when it comes to software. Apart from offering the latest Android 14-based Funtouch OS 14 out of the box, there are also several new generative AI integrations in the notes and recording apps, along with language translation. Vivo has also used AI for the phone's folding abilities to make them smarter. Indeed, Vivo has a solid contender for Samsung in the foldables space this year, packing in a few segment-leading hardware features. While Samsung has already taken a hit on a global level thanks to Huawei's reemergence, there's a lot banking on this year's new foldables from Samsung, which is also expected to arrive in a new ‘Ultra' flavour as well. For now, Vivo clearly seems to have enough when it comes to bragging rights, given its hardware specifications. But we will have to put the phone through its paces to see how it all comes together when used as a daily driver and is subjected to the wear and tear of daily usage. So, stay tuned to our detailed review of the Vivo X Fold 3 Pro, which will be out soon. https://www.gadgets360.com/mobiles/reviews/vivo-x-fold-3-pro-first-impressions-5823963#pfrom=indepth

You rarely forget your first time, and even though it’s been a year since my first exhilarating experience with Apple Vision Pro, I haven’t forgotten it. Now, though, I look back with a fresh perspective and new eyes and wonder: when I put on that mixed reality headset, did I also step inside Apple’s reality distortion field? I want to be clear; I stand by everything I wrote about my first hands-on demo, but it’s been 12 months of brief samplings of different aspects and eventually a review unit that I all but lived in while writing my exhaustive review. Vision Pro was Apple’s biggest swing in years. Meta all but owned the VR space with its VR headsets, but no one was buying the idea of the Metaverse, and the Meta Quest line (like other VR headsets) is still most po[CENSORED]r with gamers. With Vision Pro, Apple didn’t just intend to redefine VR and Mixed Reality; it wanted to redefine computing with Spatial Computing. And it was obvious from day one with Vision Pro that Apple poured everything it had into the headset. It looked nothing like the competition and the experience immediately outstripped anything you could find on Meta Quest and HTC Vice headgear. Even after those first few exciting Vision Pro encounters, the freedom of a review revealed unanticipated depths. Vision Pro felt like the most thought-through V1 piece of hardware ever. It was just as ready to game as it was to connect to your laptop and let you work. Apple even tried to account for the expected isolation of VR with unusual and possibly questionable ideas like EyeSight and Personas. The former puts a version of your eyes on a pair of displays on the outside of the headset, while the latter scans your face and creates an eerily accurate avatar that can appear in FaceTime calls and other interactions. Even if some ideas seemed ill-advised, I couldn’t shake the impression that this was a revolutionary step in mixed reality, VR, and computing. I felt that way for months, right up until after I finished my Vision Pro review. Waking up After finishing my review, I continued using Vision Pro, working, watching movies, watching incredible VR videos, playing games, messaging, making FaceTime calls, and installing the occasional update to fix things like my terrifying persona. But then, a week or more would pass, and I realized I hadn’t picked up the headset. https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/vision-pro-at-one-i-love-apple-revolutionary-headset-so-why-do-i-hardly-ever-use-it

Adata unveiled many new products at Computex this year, including an innovative new CPU cooler, an SFX power supply, and SSDs. This assortment played second fiddle to Adata's XPG Nia handheld gaming PC, which also appeared at its booth. First on deck was the Levante II, an AIO CPU cooler from its XPG gaming line. A much-needed refresh of the Levante X 360, the Levante II offers a few changes to address our concerns with the first model. Chiefly, the Levante II moves the AIO pump from the radiator down to the cooler head, creating a slightly thicker CPU block. This new design is patented by Adata, which is a big change for the vendor that traditionally uses Asetek-patented designs for its AIOs. The Levante II promises to keep the X 360's low noise and drop its price to $179 from $199. It will arrive sometime in Q3 2024. The XPG Hydro CPU cooler is perhaps more interesting due to its hybrid nature. The product is both a water cooler and an air cooler. The dual 120mm fans push air across the central radiator, which rests directly atop the CPU. The Hydro promises to be worth the novelty. Reading only 28 dB at max performance, the cooler approaches pure-AIO sound levels and promises to keep up that low noise performance at max loads when cooling up to 280W TDP. And because XPG is marketed towards gamers, we have a thin RGB line across the top of the cooler. The XPG Hydro will cost $109 when it arrives in September. Adata is not the most well-known name in power supplies, but it will seek to enter the market through the Pymcore SFX power supply. Likely named after Ant-Man from Marvel Comics (because one PSU referencing Marvel at Computex wasn't enough), the Pymcore was first spotted at CES in January, bringing the new 600W cable to small form factor builds. The power supply will be available from 850W to 1000W, ranging in price from $219 to $249, making it one of the most expensive SFX power supplies on the market. Adata is jumping into the interlocking fans market with its Hurricane Mag fans. Hurricane Mag is a series of 120mm fans that can magnetically lock together, joining the recent trend of bucking daisy-chaining PWM cables in favor of just daisy-chaining fans. Snapping together easily and quickly, the fans promise to make PC building much less painful. The fans will also come equipped with a forward/reverse flow switch, which is a welcome addition. The Hurricane Mag will be slightly above average pricing for its field, selling four fans in one package for $109 starting in August. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cooling/adata-shows-off-hybrid-airwater-cooling-tower-at-computex-new-psus-and-pcie-50-ssds-also-on-deck

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Sir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of "deliberately" lying about Labour's tax plans. In Tuesday evening's ITV debate, the prime minister repeatedly claimed a Labour government would mean £2,000 of tax rises per working household. The Labour leader said Mr Sunak "knew he was lying” when he made the claim - and he insisted Labour would not bring in tax rises for "working people". Like the Conservatives, Labour has pledged not to increase the rate of income tax, National Insurance and VAT if it wins the election. BBC Verify has analysed the costings and found Mr Sunak's £2,000 claim risks misleading people. The Tories insist the PM was not lying and Labour's plans would mean higher taxes. Speaking to the media for the first time since the debate, Sir Keir said: "Last night really mattered because what you saw was a prime minister with his back against the wall, desperately lashing out and resorting to lies - and he knew he was lying. And I don’t say that lightly.” He added: "The character of the prime minister was exposed last night.” During the debate, Mr Sunak's claim went unchallenged by the Labour leader for about 20 minutes, although he eventually called them "nonsense". Asked why he did not say earlier in the debate that the prime minister was lying, Sir Keir said: "What matters is the facts." Mr Sunak claimed "independent Treasury officials" had costed Labour's policies and they would mean “£2,000 in higher taxes for every working family in our country”. The Conservatives say this amounts to a £38.5bn spending "black hole", which Labour disputes. However, on Wednesday morning the BBC revealed the top Treasury civil servant had said the Conservative assessment of Labour's tax plans "should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service". In a letter to the Labour Party two days ago, Treasury permanent secretary James Bowler said: "As you will expect, civil servants were not involved in the production or presentation of the Conservative Party’s document ‘Labour’s Tax Rises’ or in the calculation of the total figure used." He added that the £38bn figure "includes costs beyond those provided by the civil service". The UK’s official statistics regulator says it is looking into the Conservatives' claim. The Conservatives came up with the £2,000 figure based on how much they say Labour's spending commitments would cost, dividing this by the number of UK households with at least one person working. It covers a period of four years. During the debate, Mr Sunak suggested the costings had been worked out by impartial civil servants, but they are based on assumptions made by Conservative-appointed special advisers. For example, one costing looks at Labour’s plan to have more services provided by the state instead of by private companies and it assumes that private companies are always 7.5% more efficient. But the civil servants doing the costings warned they had "low confidence" in the use of that figure. Former head of the civil service Lord O’Donnell said costing of opposition party policies was "one of the grubbiest processes I've ever been involved in" and that it had been carried out by both Labour and the Conservatives in the past. He told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme: "Ministers tell you to produce these costings on some assumptions they give you, which are dodgy assumptions designed to make the policy look as bad as possible." Conservative Treasury Minister Laura Trott denied Mr Sunak had lied and insisted independent analysis had identified a black hole in Labour's spending plans. She said: "This is underpinned overwhelmingly by Treasury analysis so if people think Labour are going to win this election they need to start saving." A Conservative Party spokesperson said: “We were fair to Labour in the production of the Labour tax rise briefing note and used only clear Labour policies, their own costings or official HMT [HM Treasury] costings using the lowest assumptions.” Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokeswoman Sarah Olney said: “Rishi Sunak’s latest attempts to deceive the British public are nothing new. He has spent years hiking people’s taxes to record levels while claiming to cut them. “Sunak promised to govern with integrity, but has ended up as a pound shop Boris Johnson.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ggr85dremo

Conservationists have been alarmed by the appearance of a grey squirrel near Oban. The animal has been seen on the Isle of Seil, one of Argyll's Slate Islands about 100 miles (161km) from the nearest other grey squirrels. Greys are native to North America and classed as an invasive species in the UK because of the threat they pose to native red squirrels. The Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels project said it was not known how the grey reached the area of Argyll. Seil is connected to the mainland by a short crossing dubbed the Bridge of the Atlantic but grey squirrels have not been spotted previously. Grey squirrels were first brought to the UK by the Victorians as an "ornamental species" in gardens of stately homes. They can out-compete smaller reds for food and habitat, and some also carry a virus fatal to the native species. Releasing greys in the UK was banned in 1930, but they have spread across England, Wales and large parts of Scotland. Katie Berry, of Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels, said the Seil grey squirrel was in an area previously known to only have reds. She said: "Seil is a very unusual location, in fact it's an almost impossible location for a grey squirrel to be in. "We cannot say for sure how it got there. Potentially it may have got up via some sort of transport." Ms Berry said it may have been carried to the area accidentally. The nearest other greys are found just north of Helensburgh. Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels has appealed for further sightings in Seil, around Oban and the surrounding areas. Ms Berry added: "We very much hope it is a one-off." The first grey squirrel was officially recorded in the Highlands 16 years ago. It was believed to have got to the outskirts of Inverness on the back of a lorry carrying hay or straw bales. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv22pxldrpeo

The new Toyota Corolla has been around for a couple of years now, but it seems Toyota found something it really wanted to improve: the interior touchscreen interface. New for 2025 is the FX special edition trim, which blends sportier accents inside and out, a larger 10.5-inch screen for connectivity and navigation, and a nod to classic Corolla from the 1980s. The new FX trim for 2025 is said to be inspired by the "iconic and sporty" Corolla FX16 that debuted back in 1987, which took the tuned 1.6-liter engine from the rear-wheel-drive '84 Corolla GTS and applied its power to the front axle of a hatchback version. Use of that Corolla's name therefore is slightly confusing, given the 2025 Corolla FX doesn't get a new engine, it's just more of an appearance pack for the existing SE trim line and, well, a bigger screen. Which is something of a disappointment for anyone who remembers the sporty FX16 original. This new Corolla keeps the same 169-horsepower 2.0-liter DOHC 16-valve engine generating 151 lb-ft of torque as every other non-hybrid, non-GR Corolla. The new FX special edition does add 18-inch satin black alloy wheels with matching lug nuts, black badges, black mirror caps, a large rear spoiler, and a black roof for a contrasted look on models with appropriate paintwork. The FX is offered in Midnight Black Metallic, Ice Cap white, and Underground grey colors. But, hey, more touchscreen! Where the standard Corolla only measures in with an 8.0-inch touchscreen, the new FX's unit grows to 10.5 inches, offering noticeably more screen real estate. You'll also get a 7.0-inch digital driver display and the XSE trim's wireless phone charger inside. The 10.5-inch screen will also now be available on other 2025 model Corollas soon as an upgrade. The interior is also treated to Moonstone sport fabric seats with orange accent stitching. Toyota says Safety Sense 3.0 (lane keep assist, lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, automated emergency braking) is also included in the FX package, as it is on every other current Corolla model. Pricing for the 2025 Corolla lineup is coming later this year, and the FX and new screen will be available this fall. https://www.motortrend.com/news/2025-toyota-corolla-fx-edition-first-look-review/

Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva claimed the biggest win of her career against an out-of-sorts Aryna Sabalenka to reach the semi-finals of the French Open. Second seed Sabalenka was seen grimacing and pointing to her stomach as she talked to medical staff in the middle of the first set. She continued to struggle and appeared to consider retiring from the match. Despite being far from her best, Sabalenka managed to move past her discomfort to complete the match. But it was Andreeva, ranked 38th in the world, who emerged victorious, wrapping up a 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-4 win. The 17-year-old is the youngest Grand Slam semi-finalist since Martina Hingis at the US Open in 1997. She will face Jasmine Paolini in the last four after the Italian stunned fourth seed Elena Rybakina earlier on Wednesday. "Honestly I was really nervous before the match, I knew she'd have an advantage," said Andreeva, who had lost both her previous meetings with the Belarusian in straight sets. "Me and my coach, we had a plan today but again I didn't remember anything. I just try to play as I feel." Andreeva capitalises on Sabalenka struggles After exchanging breaks early in the opening set, it quickly became apparent that Sabalenka was feeling under the weather. The Australian Open winner became increasingly frustrated with her below-par performance and called for the trainer as Andreeva broke to go 4-3 up. After talking to the match doctor and returning to the court, Sabalenka made a swiping gesture at her neck and seemed close to signalling her retirement. But she appeared to brighten and managed to level the set at 5-5 before digging deep in the tie-break to take the opener. The same problems returned for Sabalenka, however, and she often needed to crouch down and steady herself on her racquet - receiving a time violation on one occasion. The 26-year-old looked close to tears for much of the second set and made a slow, lethargic walk to her seat when Andreeva broke at 5-4 to force a decider. Both players struggled to hold serve as the match trundled past the two-hour mark, and Sabalenka continued to receive medical attention. Andreeva capitalised on her opponent's struggles and landed an outrageous lob on her second match point at 5-4 to seal a famous victory. Andreeva's rise continues It is another win that marks Andreeva's rapid rise to the top of the sport. When the latest rankings are released on Monday, she is set to find herself in the top 30 for the first time. Playing in her first Grand Slam quarter-final, Andreeva occasionally looked agitated by Sabalenka's discomfort, annoyed the world number two could hit stunning winners after struggling to stand up straight. But the teenager kept her nerve and calmly moved through the second and third set, using a powerful two-handed backhand and delicate drop shots to good effect. It continues a fantastic 12 months as she reached the last 16 at Wimbledon last summer and then thrashed three-time Slam finalist Ons Jabeur on her way to the fourth round at the Australian Open earlier this year. https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/articles/cp99l88dy0yo

Welcome to the new internet, Facebook. Meta has revealed a plan for the social media platform, which turned 20 this year, to win over Gen Z and increase engagement from the younger generation. Facebook execs presented their strategy for the “next 20 years” of Facebook at an event in New York City on May 31, focusing on Gen Z and artificial intelligence. The company handed out pamphlets to those who attended the event that read, “We are not your mom’s Facebook,” but rather, “a hub for all things culturally happening in the platform’s underground,” Axios reported. “We’re still for everyone, but we also recognize that in order to stay relevant, we have to build for… Gen Z,” President Tom Alison said at the event, according to Mashable. According to a 2023 Pew Research survey, only 33% of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 ever use Facebook, while just 3% use it almost constantly. Through research, “we noticed… this is the time in [Gen Z’s] life when they start making a lot of huge transitions: moving, going to college, getting their first job, getting their first apartment, finding a romantic partner,” Alison shared. “They want a way to explore their new interests and they want to find real people and real experts who share them. And that’s where we think Facebook comes in.” Facebook is focusing on three major features to get Gen Z on the platform: the feed, reels and creators. The company hopes that shifting the content of the user’s feed will attract younger audiences, shining a light on content relevant to them such as Facebook Marketplace, Facebook Dating, groups and events. According to employees, Facebook Marketplace is visited daily by more than 10 million of the platform’s 40 million daily active users in the U.S. and Canada between the ages of 18 and 29. Facebook has phased out certain features that weren’t central to a social feed, such as audio and news products. Similar to Instagram, Facebook will be putting an emphasis on Reels and short-form video, as well as making it easier for users to privately message these videos to friends and family. Meta has also developed a professional mode on Facebook in an attempt to make the medium more creator-friendly. There will be features for creators to monetize their posts and utilize AI tools to do a range of things from transforming photo backgrounds to crafting a post. Facebook has also updated the ranking technology with Reels and Feed to deliver more effective and accurate recommendations, according to the company’s blog post. With many of these changes seeming extremely similar to Instagram, it appears that there could be an identity crisis between the two Meta products. But Alison clarified that Facebook will focus more on connecting Gen Z to experiences while Instagram will continue to focus on content discovery and creator connection. https://nypost.com/2024/06/05/lifestyle/facebook-is-desperate-to-lure-gen-z-heres-how-theyre-doing-it-not-your-moms-facebook/

The Israeli military says it has begun a ground operation against Hamas in the Bureij refugee camp and east of the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Troops backed by air strikes were targeting “terrorists and terrorist infrastructure above and below ground”, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. The charity Médecins Sans Frontières said at least 70 dead people and 300 wounded, the majority of them women and children, had been brought to a hospital in Deir al-Balah since Tuesday. It comes as US, Egyptian and Qatari mediators meet in Doha and Cairo to discuss how to finalise a new ceasefire and hostage release deal. The US said on Tuesday it was still waiting for a response from Hamas to what it described as an Israeli proposal outlined by US President Joe Biden last week. Qatar said it had delivered the plan to Hamas representatives and noted that it was also still waiting for a clear position from the Israeli government. Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Wednesday the group would deal "seriously and positively" with a proposal based on an end to the war and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Israel's prime minister has insisted he will not agree to a permanent ceasefire before Hamas is defeated and the hostages it is holding are released. And on Wednesday, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant declared that "all negotiations with Hamas will be conducted under fire". Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza to destroy Hamas in response to the group's cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. At least 36,580 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Bureij is one of the smallest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps. It covers an area of 0.5 sq km (0.2 sq miles) and had 46,000 residents registered with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) before the war. The camp is just to the south of the Wadi Gaza riverbed and the IDF’s “Central Gaza Strip Corridor” - a section of land controlled by Israeli forces which runs east to west from the border with Israel to the Mediterranean Sea, dividing Gaza in two. The Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps are also located near Bureij, while the town of Deir al-Balah is about 5km (3 miles) to the south-west. The four areas are currently crowded with people displaced by fighting elsewhere, including many of the more than a million who have fled the southern city of Rafah since the start of an Israeli ground operation there a month ago. Earlier this year, IDF troops carried out a ground operation against Hamas fighters in the camps of central Gaza that lasted several weeks. On Wednesday, the IDF said the new "targeted" operation in Bureij and eastern Deir al-Balah was aimed at dismantling "terrorist infrastructure located several kilometres away from the border with Israel above and below ground". “The activity started with a series of aerial strikes on terror targets, including military compounds, weapons storage facilities, and underground infrastructure," its statement added. "During the strikes, several Hamas terrorists were eliminated.” Later, the IDF put out a new statement announcing that troops had “gained operational control” of eastern Bureij and eastern Deir al-Balah. It added that they had “eliminated terrorists” in the areas, destroyed rocket and mortar launchers, and located several tunnel shafts. A man from Bureij told BBC Arabic’s Gaza Today programme that his family fled the camp as the Israeli bombardment intensified on Tuesday. “We were stunned that the army was conducting a ground operation again in Bureij,” he said. “We were struck by shells falling on us from all sides, landing on citizens’ homes, on the streets... which led to the killing of a number of citizens.” “The situation in general is extremely difficult,” he added. “We left our homes in order to preserve our lives and the lives of our children.” A young woman said: “Fragments fell into our home and into some of the residential apartments in our building... We survived because we all were on the lower floors.” “We were in a residential building full of approximately 40 people, some of whom were residents of the building itself and others were people who were displaced from the north and the south, in Rafah... Now where should we head to from Bureij?” On Wednesday morning, Palestinian news agency Wafa cited medics and rescue workers as saying at least 11 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on several homes in Maghazi overnight. Another two people were killed in a strike on a home near the entrance to Bureij, while two more were killed by artillery fire in the Abu al-Ajen area, south-east of Deir al-Balah, it said. Later, Médecins Sans Frontières said its medical team on the ground had described the situation at Deir al-Balah's al-Aqsa hospital - one of the only remaining functional health facilities in central Gaza - as "apocalyptic". The charity said women and children made up the majority of the 70 dead people and 300 wounded, brought to hospital over the past 24 hours, and that many patients were suffering from severe burns, shrapnel wounds, fractures and other traumatic injuries. "The odour of blood when I entered the emergency room [this morning] was just overwhelming. People are lying on the floor. People are lying outside... bodies being brought in white plastic bags. The families standing over them and praying," MSF medical referent Karin Huster said in an audio message. "It's just an emotionally overwhelming situation. It's impossible for anyone to cope." At the start of its operation in Rafah on 6 May, the IDF told civilians to evacuate to an “expanded humanitarian area” stretching from the coastal al-Mawasi area to Deir al-Balah, where it said they would find tents, field hospitals and supplies. But Unrwa warned on Monday that space for displaced families in Deir al-Balah was “running out, as people continue arriving hoping for safety where there is none”. “Living conditions are not at all suitable for families and critical services, and supplies are limited,” it said. The IDF also said on Wednesday that troops were continuing “targeted operations” in Rafah. It added that they had “located weapons and eliminated armed terrorists”, without providing further details. Residents told Reuters that Israeli tanks had mounted raids into the centre of Rafah and deeper into the west before retreating to eastern and southern areas. As well as displacing civilians, the Rafah operation has resulted in the amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza dropping by two-thirds, according to the UN. Egypt has closed the nearby Rafah border crossing since Israeli forces took control of the Gazan side almost a month ago and the UN has said it is too dangerous to reach the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel. “In Gaza, delivering aid has become almost impossible,” outgoing UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told reporters on Tuesday. “We need all border crossings open. We need safe and unimpeded access. We need to prioritize humanitarian aid.” He spoke after an independent group of experts warned in a report that it was “possible, if not likely” that famine was under way in northern Gaza. However, the US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) said hostilities and access constraints had impeded the collection of data to prove that. A UN-backed assessment estimated in March that 1.1 million people across Gaza were facing catastrophic hunger and that famine was imminent in the north by May. Israel disputed the report, saying it contained factual and methodological flaws. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw44wpj99v7o

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