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On both phones, the crease—the point in the display where it folds—looks significantly less obvious and feels better than on prior models, with less of a bump as your fingers swipe across the screen. That’s great, but my biggest design complaint with these Folds is the camera jutting out on the back. It means that whenever you set the phone on any surface, it rocks so much that it’s annoying. A case doesn’t really fix this either. Google’s figured this out with a horizontal camera bar for its Pixels (and so has Apple, apparently).The Fold8 is immensely nicer to use…

Bitcoin’s calm near $62,941 masks a split in Bitcoin futures positioning: either a downside break or an upside breakout could gain speed from forced trades.At 09:30 UTC on Aug. 15, CoinGlass showed $47.88 billion of Bitcoin open interest, $38.49 billion of 24-hour futures volume and $2.234 billion of spot volume. Futures turnover was 17.23 times CoinGlass’s spot-volume measure during the same rolling window.The ratio measures relative trading activity. Open interest measures contracts that remain outstanding, and every contract has a long and a short. The aggregate therefore leaves direction unresolved.The directional evidence splits across markets. Small positive funding on offshore…

A low dose of digoxin may help people with heart failure avoid hospitalization and reduce the risk of death, according to three studies led by UMCG cardiologists Dirk Jan van Veldhuisen, Kevin Damman, and Peter van der Meer. The researchers believe the new findings could eventually influence heart failure treatment guidelines and make this inexpensive medication available to many more patients. Heart failure is a serious and growing health problem. More than 500,000 people in the Netherlands are estimated to have the condition, and that number is expected to increase in the years ahead. In people with heart failure, the…

Claim: In August 2026, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey unveiled a statue of Molech (also spelled Moloch), a pagan god who the Bible associates with child sacrifice, in front of the state Capitol. Rating: A rumor spread online in August 2026 that Massachusetts Democrats had installed a demonic statue in front of the state Capitol building. According to the claim, the statue was of Molech (also spelled Moloch, which is how we’ll refer to the figure from here on), an ancient god who, according to multiple passages in the Old Testament, was related to child sacrifice.  (X user @Howodd69) The story spread…

The University of Cambridge has defended its mental health support for the academic Jason Arday.The university said it had continued to provide Arday with extensive mental health support and security measures, including installing panic alarms and screening racist emails and post, after he resigned from his post as professor of sociology of education earlier this month.He quit after widespread press coverage of accusations of plagiarism and inconsistencies in statements about his career and achievements.A University of Cambridge spokesperson said: “Our support continued in the face of intense public and media scrutiny and after his resignation. Our thoughts and deepest condolences…

A man has received threats from the Taliban after his work for the Afghan police was revealed by a Ministry of Defence leak and the UK refused his application for resettlement.Hamid* worked for the Afghan national police special unit and received certificates for his work signed by senior British figures praising his “dedication, unparalleled service and leadership”. His details were also included in an accidental 2022 leak by an MoD official that identified 18,700 Afghans who had worked with or for the British government.Hamid said he had received a number of threats from the Taliban, including a video he shared…

British-made drones are being used to strike targets in Russia for the first time.The drones, built by two separate British companies, have been used in mainland Russia in widespread and successful targeting of military and industrial targets, including refineries and warehouses of online retailer Wildberries. The strikes, first reported by the Sunday Times, external, are said to have caused more than £35bn in economic damage. A well-placed military source confirmed to the BBC the UK drones had been used.British manufactured Storm Shadow missiles had earlier been used in the conflict, although this new phase is having a far more decisive…

Kerry Wan/Kyle Kucharski/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.The Google Pixel 11 Pro and the Apple iPhone 17 Pro are two very different smartphones, but they’re each positioned at the top of their respective lineups. They each target power users who want the best on offer but don’t need a big 6.9-inch display, and both phones have flagship chipsets, 6.3-inch AMOLED screens, versatile cameras, and multiple AI-powered features. But should you go for iOS or Android?Also: Google Pixel 11 vs. Pixel 9: Why I’m considering the upgrade this yearI haven’t had a chance to compare their camera performance yet,…

“The old ‘long bitcoin, short the bankers’ trade is over: banks have moved from resisting digital assets to building and enabling or distributing them through custody, tokenization and regulated trading,” Dori said.He attributed the shift to client demand and clearer rules, calling it structural rather than cyclical.Early bank entrants included Swissquote, which added bitcoin trading in 2017, DBS in 2020 and BBVA in 2021. BNY Mellon started institutional crypto custody in 2022, the same year Nubank launched bitcoin and ether trading and LGT added crypto services.St.Galler Kantonalbank and Santander followed in 2023, while Zürcher Kantonalbank added retail trading in 2024,…

Palestinian politicians and analysts have warned against what they describe as an Israeli plan to illegally annex the occupied West Bank by implementing a series of decisions and actions under different pretexts.Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz, on Friday, ordered the military to prepare a plan for transferring civilian law enforcement in the occupied West Bank to the Israeli police.According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the decision follows criticism over the army’s handling of Israeli settlers who besieged a Palestinian home in the village of Qusra.Katz justified the shift, saying, “The army’s role is to combat Palestinian terrorism … and not chase hilltop…