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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook personally invested $1 million in Trump's inauguration

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    ike22w said:
    Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article. 
    He won the popular vote by 2,284,323 votes. The country stated who they wanted, but for perspective, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes in 2016. It’s not a big margin in the scheme of things. 
    Actually, just 1.5% ahead of Kamala, not even 50%, just 49.8%. The country decided they did not care about corruptness, narcism, bulling, retribution, criminal acts, insurrection, nor misogyny.

    Last time around Trump lost to Biden by 4.5% and he decided not to accept results and urge an insurrection, creating a huge controversy. Kamala lost by less and graciously accepted the results. Now Trump had to rescue Mike Johnson so he could certify the results of the election to allow him to be president. Will see how long Trump lets Mike Johnson be speaker.

    Now everybody knows that to get something done, you have to pay for acces and favors. So greed and hate won this time. It will be interesting to see how many MAGA fanatics are thrown under the bus every day for lack of money, access, brown-nosing, or influence.
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  • AirPods Pro crackling issue target of new class-action lawsuit

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    I had an Airpods Pro 1st generation that was denied the fix because their service program had expired. I had not used them much while exercising or in calls. The buzzing got worse if I used the airpods while moving or spoke. When i found about the service program it was too late. 

    The Apple staff acknowledged it was a common issue and recommended buying new AirPods rather than repairing them since they were no longer covered by the service program. 
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  • Apple closing seven Apple Stores in Texas due to COVID-19 spikes

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    Even the governor that has downplayed the virus and has rushed to reopen Texas in early May, is now calling for people to stay home:

    https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2020/06/24/texas-governor-says-state-facing-massive-covid-19-outbreak-expects-state-to-pass-5000-new-cases-again-wednesday/

    Houston area is at near capacity in hospitals. Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio metro areas have had significant increases in cases and hospitalizations.

    Texas has had 5x increase in daily positive cases since reopening, and is now #5 in the nation on number of cases:

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/texas-coronavirus-cases.html

    Also WHO clarified their comments to indicate the difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic:

    On Tuesday, Van Kerkhove and her colleague Mike Ryan, MD, executive director for health emergencies at the WHO, explained that there are two distinct kinds of silent transmission: “asymptomatic” (spreading a disease when you don’t have symptoms) and “presymptomatic” (spreading it before symptoms start). Both are difficult to stop. Presymptomatic spread is believed to be far more common than asymptomatic spread.

    Van Kerkhove said published and unpublished studies discussed in WHO briefings suggest that between 6% and 41% of people who test positive for the virus will be asymptomatic. Even less is known about what proportion of these people go on to infect others.

    The new coronavirus can infect the upper respiratory tract -- the nose and throat, said Ryan, adding that any situation where a person is expelling air under pressure may drive the virus out. He gave the example of someone shouting at their friend in a loud nightclub.

    “Some studies have been done on this -- singing, speaking loudly, exertion, maybe in a gym where you’re breathing very heavily,” he said. “Clearly that is playing a role in transmission, there’s no question.”

    While true asymptomatic transmission might be uncommon, what’s likely to be more common is presymptomatic transmission. Presymptomatic transmission also occurs with the flu. Studies have shown that people with COVID-19 can infect others anywhere from 1 to 3 days before they get sick, Van Kerkhove said.

    Ryan also pointed out that in COVID-19, a person’s viral load, the amount of the virus they have in their body, appears to peak right as they get their first symptoms.

    “That means you could be in a restaurant feeling perfectly well and just starting to get a fever, but you’re feeling OK, you didn’t think you needed to stay home. That’s the moment when your viral load could be quite high,” said Ryan.

    That’s why masks are important, he said, especially when you can’t stand or sit at a distance from others.

    “There is this period of time, you know, where even a professor of infectious diseases themselves wouldn’t know that I’m getting COVID,” Ryan said. “You’re not aware of your status.”

    “It’s because the disease can spread at that moment that the disease is so contagious,” he said. “That’s why it has spread around the world in such an uncontained way."

    https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200609/who-clairifies-comments-on-asymptomatic-covid-spread

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