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President Trump awards big tech donors with nation’s highest science prizes

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On Thursday, at the Golden Age of American Innovation Summit, President Trump awarded Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD’s Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation’s top science prize. Dell Technologies’ Michael Dell and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella also received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

Together, the awardees have donated nearly $6 billion to efforts tied to Trump and his administration, according to The New Republic. Alphabet and Microsoft, for example, donated to the president’s inauguration fund and White House ballroom. AMD gave to a pro-Trump Super PAC and Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to help fund the Trump Accounts, the administration’s savings program for children. 

Trump said the honorees individuals had helped “pioneer an incredible future for America,” and that because of them, “we will always be on top. No one else can compete with us.” 

Nadella received his medal right after the administration indefinitely suspended Microsoft from the H-1B program, which lets U.S. companies hire skilled foreign workers.

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Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website

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With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to be the chief executive of Theranos before everything came crashing down.

(Every day, I am grateful to the American legal system for making the discovery process public.)

The environment that Lau created is ambitiously detailed, taking you right back to 2016, a time when iPhones had home buttons, and you had to slide your finger across the screen to unlock it. Even the MacBook Air is running OS X El Capitan.

You can click around the environment, which lets you look through the documents made public from the court case on Holmes’ iPhone and laptop screens. You can even run the Theranos Edison machine, the company’s ill-fated device that was supposed to be able to extract large amounts of health data from one drop of blood.

The project seems like it was mostly made for laughs, but it’s actually an interesting way to peruse the documents from one of the most infamous court cases in tech history — it’s a lot easier to navigate this than to source thousands of PDFs from court websites.

There’s another agenda, though. Lau is promoting a watch party that her company is throwing for Nathan Fielder’s upcoming documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything.”

Also, of course, she’s promoting the company itself. So, what exactly does Extend do? Apparently, it can “parse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy.” (I’m not really sure what that means, but if it makes something like this Holmes desk simulator possible, then I guess that means I’m bullish on b2b SaaS.)

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Samsung Wallet USDC Transfers: How the New Feature Works

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Samsung Wallet is adding USDC transfers to compatible Galaxy phones, allowing eligible US users to send stablecoins to crypto wallets or bank accounts abroad.

The post Samsung Wallet USDC Transfers: How the New Feature Works appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Wi-Fi 8 vs Wi-Fi 7: Is TP-Link’s Archer 8 Ultra Worth It?

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TP-Link’s Archer 8 Ultra brings Wi-Fi 8 to select markets, but high prices, limited client support, and unfinished features make Wi-Fi 7 the better buy for most users.

The post Wi-Fi 8 vs Wi-Fi 7: Is TP-Link’s Archer 8 Ultra Worth It? appeared first on TechRepublic.

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