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Is there a Windows PC alternative to the Mac Mini? This one I tested is so close (yet so far)
pros and cons Pros A genuinely whisper-quiet Windows 11 Pro mini PC. Comes with a three-year warranty, beating the competition that mostly offers a year. Easy to upgrade the RAM and M.2 storage drive. Cons No USB-C ports limit external expansion possibilities. Only single RAM and M.2 slots, so any upgrading means having to throw…
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Europes hollow Iran war outrage
Watching European capitals scramble to calibrate their response to the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, one is reminded of a recurring scene in a very bad play — one that has run, with minor variations, since Suez. Europe blusters. Europe convenes. Europe issues a communique. And then Europe does nothing. The pattern is so familiar…
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US revives railgun tests as Iran war bleeds air defenses
Missile salvos from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific are exposing the limits of interceptor-based defenses, and the US Navy’s renewed testing of its electromagnetic railgun suggests a possible answer. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that the US Navy has resumed live-fire testing of its prototype electromagnetic railgun (EMRG) after years of apparent…
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Kpop Demon Hunters wins two Oscars – what made it so viral?
“The worst of what I came from, patterns I’m ashamed of,” Rumi sings in What It Sounds Like – at one level, it is a reference to the marks on her skin, which give away her part-demon heritage, but what resonates is the scars she is trying to overcome.
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2 monks brawl during temple ceremony in Hong Kong, leaving 1 injured
Two monks have clashed during a religious ceremony at a historical Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong, leaving one injured and the other in police custody. Police officers were called to Chuk Lam Sim Yuen in Tsuen Wan at around 9.40am on Saturday after a report about a fight involving two monks, a force spokesman said….
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Couple arrested after toddler falls to his death from Hong Kong flat
A Hong Kong couple have been arrested after their one-year-old son fell to his death from a high-rise residential building in Tsuen Wan, the South China Morning Post has learned. Preliminary investigations showed that the living room windows in the family’s fifth-floor unit were neither locked nor fitted with grilles, according to a source. The…
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