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is the company's latest budget model in its Spark series of smartphones. It arrives days after the debut of the Tecno Spark Go 2024 in November and is powered by MediaTek's Helio G85 processor, paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. It runs on HiOS 13, which is based on Android 13. The phone features a 6.6-inch LCD display with a 720p resolution and 90Hz refresh rate. The Tecno Spark 20 packs a 5,000mAh battery with support for 18W charging. Pricing for the Tecno Spark 20 is yet to be announced — the company has listed the smartphone's features and specifications on its website, but details about its availability are currently under wraps. The handset will be available in Cyber White, Gravity Black, Magic Skin 2.0 (Blue), and Neon Gold. Tecno Spark 20 specifications, features The dual-SIM (Nano) Tecno Spark 20 runs on Android 13-based HiOS 13 out-of-the-box. It sports a 6.6-inch HD+ (720 x 1,612 pixels) LCD display with a 90Hz refresh rate — it also features the company's 'Dynamic Port', a software feature that shows notifications and other device status-related information around the selfie camera cutout. The phone runs on a MediaTek Helio G85 chipset paired with up to 8GB of RAM. Honor X7b With Snapdragon 680 SoC, 90Hz LCD Display Launched: See Price The company has equipped the Tecno Spark 20 with a 50-megapixel primary camera along with an unspecified secondary camera with a dual flash. For selfies and video chats, the handset features a 32-megapixel front-facing camera which is also paired with two LED flash. The handset has up to 256GB of inbuilt storage that can be further expanded via a MicroSD card slot. Connectivity options on the Tecno Spark 20 include 4G, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.2, GPS, and a USB Type-C port. It features an accelerometer, e-compass, virtual gyroscope, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, and is also equipped with a fingerprint sensor for biometric authentication. The phone has a 5,000mAh battery with support for 18W charging. It measures 163.69 x 75.6 x 8.45mm https://www.gadgets360.com/mobiles/news/tecno-spark-200-price-launch-sale-specifications-feature-4626510

San Antonio cybersecurity services firm Jungle Disk is continuing its expansion streak with the recent acquisition of a cloud company focused on personal storage. The acquisition announced this week of ElephantDrive marks Jungle Disk’s first foray into the consumer market. ElephantDrive focuses on helping customers back up cloud storage of family photos, videos and important personal documents. Jungle Disk CEO Bret Piatt said he’s seeking to build the world’s leading backup and disaster recovery specialists. ElephantDrive plugs the consumer gap in the company’s portfolio of products, which caters to commercial clients from small businesses up to large enterprises.“Backup is getting more complicated,” he said, pointing to the rapid growth of cloud-based storage. Many businesses have come to recognize the value of backup specialists who can not only restore complex systems, but do so quickly. Jungle Disk became what is thought to be San Antonio’s second largest privately held tech company by revenue last year when it made several acquisitions of backup and recovery services described by one of the deal’s partners as being “much larger” than Jungle Disk. Those product groups acquired last year — KeepItSafe, LiveVault and OffsiteDataSync — are, like ElephantDrive, headquartered in Los Angeles. Those acquisitions were powered by local private equity money from Dry Line Partners and Porthcawl Holdings. Financial terms of ElephantDrive’s acquisition were not disclosed. Jungle Disk provides a suite of cybersecurity services like data backups and password management, among others, meant to protect data from system failures, human errors and cyberattacks. Piatt said Jungle Disk employs around 30 individuals in San Antonio and between 120 and 130 globally in offices in the Netherlands, Norway and elsewhere.The company was founded in Atlanta in 2006 but moved to San Antonio in 2010, the year after it was acquired by Rackspace. It was bought again in 2016 by Porthcawl Holdings, who today owns it along with Dry Line Partners. ElephantDrive CEO Michael Fisher said in a prepared statement that the acquisition of his venture would allow it to scale and further ensure “no family suffers the digital disaster of losing their treasured memories.” ElephantDrive will operate as a separate division, with Jungle Disk Chief Revenue Officer Nick Nelson becoming chairman and chief revenue officer. Fisher will continue to lead the group. https://sanantonioreport.org/jungle-disk-elephantdrive-acquisition/

ACER is now the latest OEM whose upcoming Intel Meteor Lake laptops have been listed ahead of launch. We have so far seen Samsung, Dell, HP, Alienware, & ASUS laptops leak out along with the preliminary prices. As for the models, the ACER SWIFT series has been revealed which comes in the standard 14" designs featuring either Core Ultra 7 or Core Ultra 5 configurations.The ACER SWIFT 14 variants are listed at €1249 for the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU variant and €999 for the Core Ultra 5 125H variant. The Core Ultra 7 155H offers up to 16 cores, 22 threads, a boost clock of up to 4.80 GHz, and 24 MB of L3 cache while the Core Ultra 5 125H offers up to 14 cores, 18 threads, up to 4.50 GHz boost clocks and 18 MB of L3 cache. The specifications are also confirmed by ACER itself on its official store webpage here. https://wccftech.com/acer-next-gen-intel-meteor-lake-cpus-listed-core-ultra-7-155h-1249-ultra-5-125h-999-euros/

hen I interviewed Henry Kissinger on Oct. 18, I didn’t know it would be one of the last — or perhaps the last — interviews he’d ever do. I spoke with him via Zoom as part of a WORLD.MINDS gathering. There were 25 people on the call, including historians Niall Ferguson and Stephen Kotkin, investor Bill Ackman, artist and architect Neri Oxman, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. We talked about the latest in the Israel-Hamas war, and he told the group that he didn’t think the two-state solution was viable, that instead the West Bank should be put under Jordanian control. He also said the U.S. should seek rapprochement with China and that the world was facing a crisis of leadership.The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Rolf Dobelli: Understandably, Israel is reacting with full force against Hamas. If you, Dr. Kissinger, were in Netanyahu’s shoes, would you have reacted differently? Henry Kissinger: Well, I’m not in Netanyahu’s shoes so that I cannot judge all the forces that impinge on him. I am in favor of a peaceful outcome. I don’t see a peaceful outcome with Hamas involved in the conflict. I would favor negotiations between the Arab world and Israel. I do not see, especially after these events, that direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are very fruitful. Dobelli: Can there ever be lasting peace in the Middle East without a two-state solution? Kissinger: A formal peace doesn’t guarantee a lasting peace. The difficulty of the two-state solution is shown by the experience of Hamas. Gaza was made quasi-independent by [former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon in order to test the possibility of a two-state solution. It has led, in fact, to a much more complex situation. It has become so much worse in the last two years than it has been in 2005. So the two-state solution doesn’t guarantee that what we saw in the last weeks won’t happen again. Dobelli: Imagine for a moment you are secretary of State. And we advance forward a few months. Hopefully then Israel has gotten rid of the Hamas terrorists. Then what do we do? What becomes of Gaza? How does Israel feel secure in that world? How do you negotiate such an outcome? Kissinger: I believe the West Bank should be put under Jordanian control rather than aim for a two-state solution which leaves one of the two territories determined to overthrow Israel. Egypt has moved closer to the Arab side, so Israel will have a very difficult time going forward. I hope that at the end of it there will be a negotiation, as I had the privilege to conduct at the end of the Yom Kippur War. At that time, Israel was stronger relative to the surrounding powers. Nowadays, it requires a greater involvement of America to prevent a continuation of the conflict. Dobelli: Would America be willing to show stronger support? Kissinger: It has to. Dobelli: It seems to me that the Biden administration is not sending a clear enough message to Iran that it will take military action against Iran if Hezbollah attacks Israel from Lebanon. Instead, its messaging has been almost to appease Iran by pretending Iran is not directly involved in the Gaza attacks. Would you be sending different messages to Iran if you were secretary of State today? Kissinger: I think if they wanted to do it they could do it. Hezbollah has tens of thousands of missiles on the northern border of Israel. That adds up to a dangerous combination. Dobelli: Is there the possibility for Russia to show greater involvement in the Middle East, partly as an attempt to divert attention from their problems in Ukraine? Kissinger: Before the Ukrainian war, Russia was generally in favor of Israel in the confrontation with Arabs. If Russia now would intervene, it has two options: to engage on the side of the Arabs or to appear as a mediator in the crisis — which would be strange in light of the Ukrainian war. Dobelli: Does the current crisis create the opportunity for the Chinese to attack Taiwan? Things have been awfully quiet there in the last weeks.In my opinion, China is not ready for such a conflict. It’s a theoretical opportunity. China, in my view, has the capacity to establish a relationship with the United States. But we have to pay attention that on our side the attitude that has developed may not make it impossible. Dobelli: So then what should the U.S. stance be towards China? Kissinger: The U.S. should reconcile with China. Dobelli: One of the great achievements of the Nixon-Kissinger years was to squeeze the Soviet Union out of the Middle East. You are more celebrated for the rapprochement with China than you are for squeezing out the Soviets from the Middle East. Do we need to squeeze Russia and or China out of the Middle East today? Is it a good idea or can they play a constructive role somehow, including in the current crisis? Kissinger: The ability to squeeze these powers out of the Middle East, or to encourage them to play a positive role depends fundamentally on China-American relationships. And those are not improving. Right now, the greatest difficulty with respect to Russia is that we have not heard what their thinking is, because there is no dialogue with Russia at all. Dobelli: The decades between 1990 and 2020 were geopolitically relatively calm. Why didn’t we use this time of opening and friendship to create a more peaceful world? Kissinger: Who should make the world peaceful? In the Middle East: If Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states were willing to put pressure on the radicals and impose a peaceful solution that would be the best outcome. But I fear that the events of the past weeks will force them into a more radical stance and that would lead to a situation in which the United States will have to balance the equation. Dobelli: There is a crisis of leadership in our world, a crisis of leadership in the United States, in Israel, in Russia. When you think about the leaders of the future, what are some of the qualities they should possess? I have no future plan except to be engaged in matters that are important and to which I can make a small contribution. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/02/henry-kissinger-interview-israel-hamas-war-00129374

BISMARCK, N.D. -- About 200 wild horses roam free in a western North Dakota national park, but that number could shrink as the National Park Service is expected to decide next year whether it will eliminate that po[CENSORED]tion. Advocates fear a predetermined outcome that will remove the beloved animals from Theodore Roosevelt National Park. An extended public comment period ends Friday on the recent environmental assessment of the park’s three proposals: reduce the horse po[CENSORED]tion quickly, reduce it gradually or take no immediate action. The horses have some powerful allies — including North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and U.S. Sen. John Hoeven — while advocates are pulling out all the stops to see that the animals stay. Park officials say they want to hear from the public. The horses are po[CENSORED]r with park visitors, who often see and photograph them along the park's scenic road and hiking trails through the rugged Badlands. Evaluating whether the horses belong in the park has “been a long time in coming, and it realigns us with our overarching policies to remove non-native species from parks whenever they pose a potential risk to resources,” said Jenny Powers, a wildlife veterinarian who leads the wildlife health program for the National Park Service.“This isn't an easy decision for us, but it is one that is directly called for by our mission and mandates,” she told The Associated Press last month. One of the horses’ biggest advocates fears park officials have already decided to oust the horses. Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates President Chris Kman cites several alternatives for keeping horses that park officials considered but dismissed in the recent environmental assessment. In the document, the Park Service said those alternatives wouldn’t be “in alignment with NPS priorities to maintain the native prairie ecosystem” and wouldn’t address the animals’ impacts, among its reasons. Kman said she is “optimistic that we will ultimately win this fight. I don’t have any faith that the park will do the right thing and keep the horses in the park.” Even if the horses ultimately stay, Park Superintendent Angie Richman said they would have to be reduced to 35-60 animals under a 1978 environmental assessment. The ongoing process is part of the park's proposed management plan for “livestock,” a term the horses' allies reject. Wild horses were accidentally fenced into the park in its early years. They were eventually kept as a historic demonstration herd after years of efforts to eradicate them, according to Castle McLaughlin, who researched the horses' history in the 1980s as a graduate student working for the Park Service in North Dakota. Wild horse advocates would like the park to conduct a greater environmental review, and want to ultimately see a genetically viable herd of at least 150 horses maintained. A vast majority of previous public comments opposed removal of the horses, making it "really difficult to understand why the government would choose to take them away from the American people,” said Grace Kuhn, communications director for the American Wild Horse Campaign. The wild horses “have a right to be in the national park” and align with Roosevelt's sentiment to preserve cultural resources for future generations, she said. “Essentially, the Park Service by implementing a plan to either eradicate them quickly or eradicate them slowly, they're thumbing their noses at the American public and their mission,” Kuhn said last month. Recent Stories from ABC News Burgum in January offered state collaboration for keeping the horses in the park. His office and park officials have discussed options for the horses. State management or assistance in managing the horses in the park are options North Dakota would consider; relocation is not, spokesperson for the governor's office Mike Nowatzki said Monday. Park officials “are certainly willing to work with the governor and the state to find a good outcome," Park Superintendent Richman said last month, adding that the park was working with the governor on “a lot of different options." “It would be premature to share pre-decisional discussions at this time,” she said Wednesday. Sen. Hoeven has worked on negotiations with park officials, and included legislation in the U.S. Interior Department's appropriations bill to preserve the horses. “If that doesn't get it done,” he would pursue further legislation, he said last month. “My objective is to keep horses in the park,” Hoeven said. The park's ultimate decision also will affect nine longhorn cattle in the park's North Unit. All of the horses are in the park's South Unit. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/decision-future-wild-horses-north-dakota-national-park-105118723

At the the Tesla Cybertruck's original 2019 launch, it was claimed that the skin would be made of the same stainless steel that is used by sister company SpaceX for its coming Starship spacecraft. That means 301 stainless steel and, in the Cybertruck, 3-mm thickness. Tesla at the time claimed this makes the truck bulletproof to 9 mm rounds but does not mention any armor rating certification, and a user on X (formerly Twitter) spotted a Cybertruck prototype on the highway with what appear to be bullet indentations all over it. Turns out, this was because Tesla shot at it, as CEO Elon Musk revealed during the Cybertruck's November 30, 2023 production reveal. So, is it even possible for the Tesla pickup to be bulletproof?"If fully hardened, 3mm of 301 stainless is more than adequate to stop any 9 mm Luger round I can think of, apart from exotic stuff like dedicated armor piercing bullets, which you're not going to find on gun store shelves," said Iain Harrison, editor-in-chief of Recoil as well as a competitive shooter and former British Army captain.Tesla said back in 2019 that each door panel will weigh about 60 pounds as a result of the thick stainless steel skin. The carmaker had thought about increasing the thickness to 4 mm for even more bullet resistance, but that would have made each door 80 pounds. We're still not sure, and Tesla's not saying yet, but Elon Musk says the Cybertruck will be resistant to .45 and 9 mm ammo, even showing a video of what likely is the same truck that X user above spotted in the wild being hit by a submachine gun and a handgun. Of course, it doesn't show the obvious: That you could likely shoot through the Tesla's glass at whomever's inside. Even the truck's so-called Armor Glass wouldn't hold up, though at the end of the clip below, Tesla shows the window rolling up from the bullet-dented door intact.Apparently, the Cybertruck may also have a bulletproof windshield. Tesla chief Elon Musk once said the laminated windshield, which appears to be completely flat, will stop a 9 mm round, as well. Back in 2019, we tested its strength by dropping weighed metal spheres from various heights. It didn't break. "Conventional auto glass is one of the hardest media to consistently defeat with handgun projectiles," Harrison added. "I've shot windshields with 9 mm hollow points, which barely made it through to the other side, so simply adding another layer to the sandwich would probably stop them. It's the same approach taken to make bullet-resistant screens in banks—just keep adding thickness until you reach the level of protection needed." A quick reference to the various civilian and military armor rating references shows it's at least plausible that a 3-mm-thick sheet of 301 stainless steel could successfully deflect a 9 mm Luger round—but it's not at all clear the same material could meet the full requirements for certification, which includes multiple impacts from a specific range, at a designated impact angle, among other requirements. To find out just how plausible a 3 mm stainless steel sheet is as ballistic armor, we spoke with Mark Burton, founder and CEO of Armormax, which has built armored vehicles for nearly every application imaginable for the past quarter century. "Stainless steel is generally not used for ballistic purposes," Burton said. "It's usually an air-hardened heat-treated steel. I'm not aware of any certification for stainless steel. To the best of my knowledge, it takes 1/8 of an inch of air-hardened steel to meet certification." When asked if Armormax had tested stainless steel for use as armor plating, Burton said, "We test all materials. It's not the most effective, so we don't pursue that." What does Armormax use instead? When it's not using air-hardened steel, it's using its own Armormax synthetic fiber laminate, which can be five to seven times lighter than steel (air-hardened or stainless) at the same level of ballistic protection. Although stainless steel may not be the most effective material for ballistic armor, it doesn't mean it's ineffective, and the thick stainless steel bodywork may present other advantages to the Cybertruck. However, barring a certification, the ballistic resistance of the Cybertruck's body panels and/or windshield is a nice bonus but not one that should be relied upon in situations that merit an actual armored vehicle. This story was originally published following Tesla's 2019 launch of the Cybertruck concept, and has since been updated as the truck's long-awaited production debut brought forth new information and possibilities for its bullet resistance. https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-electric-pickup-bulletproof-stainless-steel-body/

Where pickleball is (generally) an outdoor sport, padel is an enclosed variant of tennis (indoors or outdoors). According to the Padel Academy, the sport arose in 1969, just about the same time as pickleball’s invention in 1965. This was about the time that Enrique Corcuera decided to morph elements of platform tennis into squash, thus creating what the man humbly dubbed “Paddle Corcuera.”Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association explains that, in the 1800s, British cruise ship passengers passed the long days at sea smacking balls back and forth on the deck. The problem was, tennis rackets are meant to hit the ball a long way, and if a ball goes over the side of an ocean liner, it’s likely gone for good. So, paddles replaced traditional tennis rackets. In the 1910s, this new “platform tennis” planted roots in the New World, earning po[CENSORED]rity in metropolitan centers like Washington D.C. and New York City. Today, platform tennis is generally a cold weather sport, with a heater below the raised court to allow the surface to warm even in icy/snowy conditions.Corcuera challenged his friends to compete in “Paddle Corcuera,” and soon the sport seeped from his home in Acapulco, Mexico, to Spain and Argentina. The Padel Academy relates how his Spanish friend, Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, created Europe’s first two padel courts in a tennis club when he returned home to Marbella, Spain in 1974. And in 1975, Alfonso’s amigo, Julio Menditeguy, brought the sport back to his native Argentina. The sport took hold in Argentina and Western Europe. Today, the International Padel Federation (founded in 2000 in Lausanne, Switzerland) claims over 25 million players worldwide. And Lisandro Borges, president of the Argentine Padel Association, claims about 2 million Argentine people who play in 2,600 clubs on over 4,900 courts in the South American country (per Infobae). Just like tennis, there are regional, national, and world tours, a Grand Slam of padel, and celebrity adherents like soccer superstar Lionel Messi, who happens to have a padel court in the garden of his Barcelona home. People who know how to play tennis basically know how to play padel. Head describes padel as “a mix between tennis and squash.” This is because, like tennis, small yellow balls are used. Like squash, though, the balls have to be somewhat deflated for less bounce. Unlike squash, padel is usually played as a doubles game, but similarly, padel is played on a glass- and metallic mesh-enclosed court that allows the ball to rebound and remain in play. About one-quarter to one-third of the size of a standard tennis court, the game is high speed and played fast, which means covering this court as a singles player is so difficult that singles padel is rare. Scoring and gameplay are the same as tennis, with five-point games adding towards winning sets. Three key differences define padel: players are allowed to play off the side and back walls, players can only serve underhand, and, as of 2020, the adoption of the Golden Point. In order to speed the game up, instead of going to “deuce” when opponents are tied at three points apiece, the next point — the Golden Point — decides the game. https://www.themanual.com/culture/why-padel-is-the-new-pickleball/

A towering figure of Palestinian poetry, Darwish is, according to Arab American poet Naobi Nihab Nye, “the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world’s whole heart.” A good starting point for his work is ‘Mural’, which, according to critic Charles Bainbridge in a 2008 essay, is a “brilliant outcry at having little but language to uphold a sense of continuity.” Agi Mishol: She was a po[CENSORED]r Israeli poet who rose to acclaim by banishing the oppressor from her verses to examine the oppression . To express her metaphorical ability, critic John Taylor invokes pieces of hers in a 2008 essay in the Antioch Review which describe the “uprooting of Palestinian olive trees near Israeli settlements, a frequent act of humiliation and oppression… and a Palestinian woman, ‘only twenty / and your first pregnancy is a bomb,’ who blows herself up in a bakery .” Noor Hindi: A Palestinian-American poet and reporter whose poem ‘[CENSORED] your lecture on craft, my people are dying’ has a vast online fandom for responding to writing workshop techniques and subjects (‘Colonizers write about flowers. / I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks’), Hindi is one of the most po[CENSORED]r poets writing today. She has recently published a collection DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW. about language as a means of activism.He was a prolific and world-renowned Israeli poet who wrote in Hebrew, and according to translator Robert Alter, “is the most widely translated Hebrew poet since King David.” His works have been translated by, among others, poets Ted Hughes and CK Williams. Fleeing Hitler’s Germany, he moved to Palestine as a 12-year-old and fought on the side of the Israeli army. In a 1992 Paris Review interview, he said all poetry is political because “real poems deal with a human response to reality, and politics is part of reality, history in the making.” Fady Joudah: Born to Palestinian refugee parents in the United States and growing up in Libya and Saudi Arabia, Joudah, 52, is a practising physician in the US who also works with Doctors without Borders. He has translated multiple collections by Mahmoud Darwish. On some of his own pieces which deal with dispossession, he said in a 2008 interview, “I know our most natural tendency when we speak about the Other is to isolate ourselves as if we had nothing to do with them… [I want] the reader to feel we can’t just stop with the ‘they.’” https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/israel-palestine-conflict-five-poets-8992784/

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