Behind the staggering death toll in Italy's worst-hit region are families whose lives have been ripped apart by Covid-19, Federica Marsi reports from Bergamo.
Reported by Independent 15 hours ago.
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'We want justice for our loved ones': How Italy's government failed to protect Bergamo
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Leaked iPhone 12 Pro Max Schematics Show Thinner Design, Smaller Bezels, LiDAR Camera, and More
YouTube channel EverythingApplePro and Max Weinbach have shared what they're claiming is a sneak peek of Apple's hitherto unreleased "iPhone 12 Pro Max," based on alleged leaked CAD designs.
The key thing about the CADs is they line up with rumors suggesting that Apple's new iPhone will take many design cues from the iPad Pro. The schematics show a squared-edged stainless steel frame between two pieces of glass, replacing the rounded stainless steel frame of the iPhone 11 series.
In order to house the bigger 6.7-inch OLED screen, the device will be slightly wider and taller, and the bezels have been shaved to an impressive 1.55mm, compared to 2.52mm on the 6.5-inch iPhone 11 Pro Max.
They also mirror rumors that the new iPhone 12 Pro Max will have a thickness of 7.4mm, which would be quite a bit thinner than the 8.1mm thick iPhone 11 Pro Max. However, the camera bump is said to be slightly thicker, 1.26mm rather than 1.21mm, although the cameras themselves don't protrude as much.
One oddity in the designs is that the size of the notch is the same as the one found on Apple's current iPhone lineup. Previous rumors suggest Apple has designed a smaller notch, although Weinbach claims that these details weren't finalized when the CAD was made, which is a genuine possibility.
Other key takeaways from the video:· Fourth camera sensor for the LiDAR Scanner.· Slightly increased diameter of camera lenses.· Thicker antenna lines on sides of handset for 5G.· SIM card tray relocated to other side of device.· Smart Connector-esque input where SIM card try used to be.· One less speaker hole on right side speaker grille.· 10 to 15 percent louder speakers.· Power button sits slightly lower on device.
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· New colors could include light blue, violet, and light orange.
Weinbach has accurately revealed a new iPhone color in the past, and has previously claimed that the iPhone 12 in Navy Blue could replace the Midnight Green finish available for iPhone 11 Pro models.
Weinbach also accurately predicted that the volume HUD would become less obtrusive in iOS 13, but he has also shared several Apple-related rumors that did not pan out, including the iPad getting a native Calculator app in iOS 13 and the HomePod launching in Austria and Italy within 2019. Weinbach has a more established track record with Android-related rumors, but this could be set to change.
Apple is expected to offer four iPhones in three different sizes this year: A 5.4-inch iPhone, a 6.7-inch iPhone, and two 6.1-inch iPhones. One 6.1-inch model and the 6.7-inch model will be higher-end iPhones, while the other 6.1-inch iPhone and the 5.4-inch iPhone will be lower-end models and successors to the iPhone 11.
Related Roundup: iPhone 12
Tags: Max Weinbach, EverythingApplePro
This article, "Leaked iPhone 12 Pro Max Schematics Show Thinner Design, Smaller Bezels, LiDAR Camera, and More" first appeared on MacRumors.com
Discuss this article in our forums Reported by MacRumours.com 15 hours ago.
The key thing about the CADs is they line up with rumors suggesting that Apple's new iPhone will take many design cues from the iPad Pro. The schematics show a squared-edged stainless steel frame between two pieces of glass, replacing the rounded stainless steel frame of the iPhone 11 series.
In order to house the bigger 6.7-inch OLED screen, the device will be slightly wider and taller, and the bezels have been shaved to an impressive 1.55mm, compared to 2.52mm on the 6.5-inch iPhone 11 Pro Max.
They also mirror rumors that the new iPhone 12 Pro Max will have a thickness of 7.4mm, which would be quite a bit thinner than the 8.1mm thick iPhone 11 Pro Max. However, the camera bump is said to be slightly thicker, 1.26mm rather than 1.21mm, although the cameras themselves don't protrude as much.
One oddity in the designs is that the size of the notch is the same as the one found on Apple's current iPhone lineup. Previous rumors suggest Apple has designed a smaller notch, although Weinbach claims that these details weren't finalized when the CAD was made, which is a genuine possibility.
Other key takeaways from the video:· Fourth camera sensor for the LiDAR Scanner.· Slightly increased diameter of camera lenses.· Thicker antenna lines on sides of handset for 5G.· SIM card tray relocated to other side of device.· Smart Connector-esque input where SIM card try used to be.· One less speaker hole on right side speaker grille.· 10 to 15 percent louder speakers.· Power button sits slightly lower on device.
·
· New colors could include light blue, violet, and light orange.
Weinbach has accurately revealed a new iPhone color in the past, and has previously claimed that the iPhone 12 in Navy Blue could replace the Midnight Green finish available for iPhone 11 Pro models.
Weinbach also accurately predicted that the volume HUD would become less obtrusive in iOS 13, but he has also shared several Apple-related rumors that did not pan out, including the iPad getting a native Calculator app in iOS 13 and the HomePod launching in Austria and Italy within 2019. Weinbach has a more established track record with Android-related rumors, but this could be set to change.
Apple is expected to offer four iPhones in three different sizes this year: A 5.4-inch iPhone, a 6.7-inch iPhone, and two 6.1-inch iPhones. One 6.1-inch model and the 6.7-inch model will be higher-end iPhones, while the other 6.1-inch iPhone and the 5.4-inch iPhone will be lower-end models and successors to the iPhone 11.
Related Roundup: iPhone 12
Tags: Max Weinbach, EverythingApplePro
This article, "Leaked iPhone 12 Pro Max Schematics Show Thinner Design, Smaller Bezels, LiDAR Camera, and More" first appeared on MacRumors.com
Discuss this article in our forums Reported by MacRumours.com 15 hours ago.
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Italy to Launch App That Traces Coronavirus Contacts - Official
Reported by RIA Nov. 15 hours ago.
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COVID-19 Chronicles: Eric Miller, PADT
What it does: Works with manufacturing companies on product design and engineering, including 3D printing Employees: 85, including the firm’s three partners Founded: 1994 Eric Miller got his first glimpse of how troublesome the novel coronavirus could be in January when business partners weren’t showing up at conferences in China. Then trade shows were canceled. By February, Wuhan was shut down and the virus had roared into Iran and Italy. Miller, CEO of Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies…
Reported by bizjournals 14 hours ago.
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Graphic: How air quality has improved during the coronavirus crisis
To contain the coronavirus pandemic, billions of people have been told to stay at home. In China, authorities placed almost half a billion people under lockdown, the equivalent of nearly 7% of the world's population. Many other countries have since taken similar measures, initially in hard-hit Italy and Spain, and more recently in the United States and India.
Reported by Reuters India 13 hours ago.
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Italy Trade Surplus Rises In February
Italy's trade surplus increased in February as exports increased and imports declined, data from the statistical office Istat showed on Friday.
Reported by RTTNews 13 hours ago.
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Lockdowns continue but some restart light - the week
Another three weeks of lockdown was last night confirmed for the UK which is said to be some two weeks behind hard hit Italy in the coronavirus pandemic. That country is now slowly loosening some restrictions (bookshops and children's clothing stores may reopen; lockdown otherwise continues into May). But there were glimmers of the start of a slow return to auto production in the news this week.
Reported by Just-Auto 12 hours ago.
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Beaumont's bid for re-election boosted by Italy's backing
Sir Bill Beaumont's hopes of re-election as chairman of World Rugby are boosted after he is publicly backed by the Italian federation.
Reported by BBC Sport 13 hours ago.
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Italy plans to use app to trace contacts of people infected by coronavirus
'It will be a pillar of our strategy to deal with the post-emergency phase,' special commissioner for emergency says
Reported by Independent 12 hours ago.
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Italy's firms shake lockdown using shortcut in coronavirus law
Weeks into Italy's coronavirus lockdown, thousands of Italian entrepreneurs have been given a bureaucratic shortcut to market. The government last week extended non-essential business closures to May 3.
Reported by Reuters India 11 hours ago.
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'No one is prepared for this' - Italian doctors fight to keep home patients alive
For doctors in northern Italy, fighting what is still Europe's worst outbreak of COVID-19, the frontlines have moved beyond hospitals as special teams try to keep patients alive at home, away from the saturated wards where thousands have died.
Reported by Reuters 11 hours ago.
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Coronavirus: German and Australian tracing apps 'ready in weeks'
Italy, Germany and Australia all announce progress on their tracing apps for the population.
Reported by BBC News 12 hours ago.
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Italian police probe nursing home with 190 reported COVID-19 deaths
Investigation also involves other care homes in coronavirus-hit northern Italy, where directors are suspected of culpable negligence.
Reported by CBS News 11 hours ago.
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‘I’m Terrified.’ Inside a Hospital Preparing for Italy to Reopen
Reported by TIME 11 hours ago.
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Take Five: Euro zone, earnings, economy
It's going to be a big week for the euro zone. Italy's bond yields are drifting higher, concerns are growing about its debt ratios and anti-euro sentiment is rising in bloc's third-biggest economy.
Reported by Reuters India 10 hours ago.
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Masked China Plays With Soft Power In Southern Eastern Europe – OpEd
When the first shipment of face masks and medical equipment from China arrived in Belgrade, the president of Serbia was kissing the Chinese flag at the airport. Meanwhile, Hungarian and Czech officials have been critical of EU aid in the fight against Covid-19 and have chosen to praise China.
The image of China was damaged by its initially sluggish reaction to the spread of the new coronavirus, along with its attempts to keep silent about an epidemic being on the rise. Beijing, which is now stressing that it has given much effort to protect the rest of the world, cannot fight the criticism any longer. In reality, China – then and now – does not care about the “rest of the world”, and the safety measures implemented in Wuhan came much too late, giving the disease time to spread in the entire province and then be brought abroad by Chinese residents.
This is a scenario we can now see in Russia, where hospitals in Moscow and other large cities have been overcrowded by people suffering from “pneumonia”.
This is an approach shared by authoritarian regimes – to not say anything until the problem reaches critical mass and it is impossible to “shove” it under the carpet.
Now, China is polishing its image in other countries by employing “face mask diplomacy” which is a combination of political agenda and aid deliveries aimed at presenting China as a generous and capable ally. The problem lies in the fact that not all of this “humanitarian” aid is of good quality or, in fact, safe. When the crisis was at its peak and Beijing finally grasped the true scale of the pandemic, it began nationalizing its stocks of facial masks in local factories, despite most of them being already sold or ordered by partner companies all over the globe. Now, when the spread of the virus has been contained the government has begun engaging in charity events.
We should note that for years China has strengthened its political and economic influence in numerous countries in southern Eastern Europe via its global investment projects. After the Covid-19 pandemic began, these Chinese PR stunts have found listening ears in such countries as Serbia and Hungary, where populistic leaders try to maintain good relations with both China and Russia. The deliveries of Chinese face masks and medical equipment were also praised by Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovakia. But it was later revealed that a part of the equipment sent by China turned out to be defective. In addition, all deliveries coming from China are classified as aid, but they are in fact regular commercial packages that are being paid for by European nations.
China has notably increased its activity on the political, economic and social playing fields, which can be observed not only in Europe, but also elsewhere around the world. That which was achieved by Beijing with its soft power instruments over the course of 20 years collapsed in a couple of months, and for this reason Chinese communists have launched large-scale campaigns to polish their image – engaging not only diplomatic channels, but also people from Chinese-sponsored institutions.
Face masks will not save the world from Covid-19, but a timely reaction from the Chinese government regarding the spread of the virus would have. Instead, China continues to lie and hide the true damage done by the coronavirus. The numerous lives lost to the virus in the US and Europe are forcing us to be highly skeptical of the data coming out of Beijing concerning the infection and death rates in the country.
*Konstantin Zigar is a Polish journalist and graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University as an historian.
The post Masked China Plays With Soft Power In Southern Eastern Europe – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review. Reported by Eurasia Review 9 hours ago.
The image of China was damaged by its initially sluggish reaction to the spread of the new coronavirus, along with its attempts to keep silent about an epidemic being on the rise. Beijing, which is now stressing that it has given much effort to protect the rest of the world, cannot fight the criticism any longer. In reality, China – then and now – does not care about the “rest of the world”, and the safety measures implemented in Wuhan came much too late, giving the disease time to spread in the entire province and then be brought abroad by Chinese residents.
This is a scenario we can now see in Russia, where hospitals in Moscow and other large cities have been overcrowded by people suffering from “pneumonia”.
This is an approach shared by authoritarian regimes – to not say anything until the problem reaches critical mass and it is impossible to “shove” it under the carpet.
Now, China is polishing its image in other countries by employing “face mask diplomacy” which is a combination of political agenda and aid deliveries aimed at presenting China as a generous and capable ally. The problem lies in the fact that not all of this “humanitarian” aid is of good quality or, in fact, safe. When the crisis was at its peak and Beijing finally grasped the true scale of the pandemic, it began nationalizing its stocks of facial masks in local factories, despite most of them being already sold or ordered by partner companies all over the globe. Now, when the spread of the virus has been contained the government has begun engaging in charity events.
We should note that for years China has strengthened its political and economic influence in numerous countries in southern Eastern Europe via its global investment projects. After the Covid-19 pandemic began, these Chinese PR stunts have found listening ears in such countries as Serbia and Hungary, where populistic leaders try to maintain good relations with both China and Russia. The deliveries of Chinese face masks and medical equipment were also praised by Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovakia. But it was later revealed that a part of the equipment sent by China turned out to be defective. In addition, all deliveries coming from China are classified as aid, but they are in fact regular commercial packages that are being paid for by European nations.
China has notably increased its activity on the political, economic and social playing fields, which can be observed not only in Europe, but also elsewhere around the world. That which was achieved by Beijing with its soft power instruments over the course of 20 years collapsed in a couple of months, and for this reason Chinese communists have launched large-scale campaigns to polish their image – engaging not only diplomatic channels, but also people from Chinese-sponsored institutions.
Face masks will not save the world from Covid-19, but a timely reaction from the Chinese government regarding the spread of the virus would have. Instead, China continues to lie and hide the true damage done by the coronavirus. The numerous lives lost to the virus in the US and Europe are forcing us to be highly skeptical of the data coming out of Beijing concerning the infection and death rates in the country.
*Konstantin Zigar is a Polish journalist and graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University as an historian.
The post Masked China Plays With Soft Power In Southern Eastern Europe – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review. Reported by Eurasia Review 9 hours ago.
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Italy's daily coronavirus death toll rises, new cases broadly stable
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 575 on Friday, up from 525 the day before, while the number of new cases declined slightly to 3,493 from a previous 3,786.
Reported by Reuters India 9 hours ago.
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'No fast way back to normal': How some European lockdowns are easing already
German and Danish school children are returning to classes, and Lithuania is allowing small shops to reopen. Even countries devastated by COVID-19 novel respiratory disease are taking steps to ease lockdowns. Italy is reopening some businesses, including bookstores and children's clothing stores, and Spain has allowed construction and factory workers to return to their jobs.
Reported by CTV News 8 hours ago.
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AP Top Stories April 17 A
Here's the latest for Friday, April 17th: Trump gives governors a road map for recovering; Germany says virus outbreak now manageable; Singapore sees second record day of new coronavirus cases; Pro cyclist helps his community in Italy.
Reported by USATODAY.com 8 hours ago.
Reported by USATODAY.com 8 hours ago.
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Italy's coronavirus deaths edge higher, new lockdown approach urged
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 575 on Friday, up from 525 the day before, while the number of new cases declined slightly and scientists warned that infections were now mainly happening among family members.
Reported by Reuters 7 hours ago.
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