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Apple chartered six planes to fly 600 tons of iPhones into the US from India to avoid President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs, Reuters reports. That’s an estimated equivalent of up to 1.5 million smartphones. The company relies on iPhone manufacturers located in both China and India; China has now been hit with tariffs totaling 145% and India tariffs of 26%, though Trump this week paused those on India for 90 days. Apple reportedly negotiated with Indian airport authorities to reduce the customs time at the airport in Chennai from 30 hours to six. Neither Apple nor the Indian aviation authority commented on the matter. According to data from Counterpoint Research, one-fifth of all iPhones sold in the US are imported from India. The rest will come from China.

ColorWare's new custom-painted Apple Pencil Pro is as close as you can get to using actual crayons on an iPad, and it's sure to bring back some fond memories.Your Apple Pencil Pro can now look like crayon. Image Credit: ColorWareColorWare, known for offering customized Apple accessories such as painted AirPods, unveiled a modified version of the Apple Pencil Pro that's meant to resemble a crayon. Dubbed the "Apple Crayon Pro," ColorWare's latest special edition design is available in seven vibrant colors — black, mint, pink, purple, red, white, and yellow.The company's limited edition product retains all the functionality of the standard Apple Pencil Pro, only in a new design that undoubtedly evokes nostalgia. The "Apple Crayon Pro" accurately imitates the wrapper of genuine crayons, and it even features a colored tip to match. If it wasn't for the word "Crayon" on the side, you might almost think it's an actual Crayola product. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Today, 5468796 Architecture received the RAIC 2025 Architectural Practice Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada as part of the organization’s 2025 Annual Award program that includes the RAIC Gold Medal as well as individual awards for Advocate for Architecture, Research & Innovation, and contributions to Architectural Journalism and Media in the country and abroad.The 18-year-old Winnipeg-based practice founded by Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic received the honor for their ability to match the country's inbound housing needs through a "profound" reading of capital financing and the application of two core tenants that challenge architecture to broaden itself into part of an urban strategy for the better social good. Their official citation from the 2025 jury reads: 

While the studio formerly known as 4A Games Ukraine (now Reburn) is currently working on La Quimera, project director Oleksandr Kostiuk has revealed more details about the upcoming sci-fi shooter. In an interview with WCCFTech, Kostiuk spoke about the game structure of La Quimera when compared to Metro Exodus, as well as how long it will take players to finish. When asked about La Quimera‘s focus on narrative might mean that it won’t have a semi-open world like we saw in Metro Exodus, Kostiuk said that it was a conscious decision by the studio to focus on making use of narrative acts that will guide players through the story. “Yes, we are highly focused on delivering a tight, story-driven experience where the narrative acts as a guide for the player through the world of the game,” said Kostiuk. “As a result, we’ve chosen a more linear approach for the design of our locations. That said, players will still be able to discover secret areas and optional zones that aren’t required for the main storyline.” Kostiuk also spoke about how the studio is approaching the idea of developing more content for the game. Since it is a much tighter and more linear experience than the studio’s previous works, it is currently considering how it can bring in more content for players while still sticking to its narrative focus. “The development of additional content for La Quimera is still in progress, and we’re carefully considering how best to expand on the experience while staying true to the core narrative,” said Kostiuk. On the question of how long La Quimera will take to finish, Kostiuk said that the studio wanted to focus on making a shorter game that offers up a tight experience. He explained that this comes from the hardships and challenges the studio faced due to the war in Ukraine. “Given the challenges we faced during the development of La Quimera due to the war in Ukraine, we made the decision to focus on a more compact experience while still including the most essential elements of the game,” explained. According to Kostiuk, the main storyline of La Quimera will take seasoned FPS players around 5 hours to finish. He does point out, however, that more content is available in La Quimera in the form of additional challenges, as well as co-op gameplay that can also do quite a bit in extending play time. “The main storyline for a solo player will take seasoned FPS fans around 5 hours to complete,” said Kostiuk. “If you are looking for some additional challenge with your friends playing cooperatively, this should extend your playtime by quite a few hours.” La Quimera will be coming to PC on April 25. Leading up to its release, this weekend, the shooter will also be giving players a taste of things to come through a 24-hour closed beta that will throw players in the middle of a “pivotal mid-game mission”. This beta will be playable both solo as well as in co-op.

The Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi) is a medium-sized bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is found in the north-west of the Indonesian island of Bali, and nearby offshore islands. The Bali myna has a length of around 25 centimetres (9.8 inches) and is almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, and black tips on the wings and tail. It has blue bare skin around the eyes, greyish legs and a yellow beak. Both sexes are similar. The species is critically endangered and fewer than 50 adults were assumed to exist in the wild in 2020. This Bali myna perching on a branch was photographed in West Bali National Park. Photograph credit: JJ Harrison Recently featured: The Jewish Cemetery Gatekeeper Florence Price Archive More featured pictures

April 12: First day of Passover (Judaism, 2025); Third Month Fair begins in southwest China (2025); Cosmonautics Day in Russia; Yuri's Night NATO F-15 fighter aircraft during Operation Deny Flight 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised by Bishop Paulinus of York. 1204 – Troops of the Fourth Crusade entered Constantinople and began a sack of the city, temporarily dissolving the Byzantine Empire. 1910 – SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched in Trieste. 1980 – Samuel Doe took control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, overthrowing President William Tolbert and ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession. 2014 – A fire broke out near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless. Vladislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (d. 1125)Nicola Amati (d. 1684)Zelia Nuttall (d. 1933) More anniversaries: April 11 April 12 April 13 Archive By email List of days of the year About

Mysterious Jawbone Found at an Antique Shop in Taiwan Belonged to a Male Denisovan, Scientists Say The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of modern humans. It suggests the species lived in diverse environments Researchers extracted ancient proteins from the bone and tooth enamel. Chun-Hsiang Chang, Jay Chang Fossil collector Kun-Yu Tsai was perusing antiques in 2008 when an unusual-looking jawbone caught his eye. Intrigued by the object, he purchased it and ultimately donated it to the National Museum of Natural Science in Taiwan. For years, the fossilized jawbone has perplexed researchers. It’s similar to the mandibles of modern humans, but it’s thicker and has bigger teeth—it’s also missing the prominent chin that humans have today. As a result, scientists suspected it belonged to a human ancestor, but they didn’t know which one—until now. The jawbone belonged to a Denisovan, an extinct hominin species first described in 2010, scientists report this week in the journal Science. The discovery suggests Denisovans were adaptable to a variety of environments and climates, from chilly, high-elevation places like Siberia and the Tibetan Plateau to warm, humid locales like Taiwan. Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of the lower jawbone, known as Penghu 1, for more than a decade. Before ending up at the antique shop in southern Taiwan, it had been dredged up from the Penghu Channel by commercial fishermen. Over time, the bone had taken on a muddy, dark brown hue, while the five still-attached teeth had turned black. At first, researchers tried to extract DNA from the mandible. But because of Taiwan’s warm, muggy climate, which degrades ancient DNA, these attempts were unsuccessful. Undeterred, they decided to try another method: investigating ancient proteins embedded in the fossil’s bone and tooth enamel. Proteins often outlast DNA in fossils, and they can serve as unique signatures for a species. The jawbone belonged to a male Denisovan, an extinct relative of modern humans. Cheng-Han Sun This “paleoproteomic” technique worked. Researchers discovered two protein variants found only in other Denisovan fossils—a smoking gun for identifying which species Penghu 1 had come from. “[The variants] don’t exist in the Neanderthals,” says Bastien Llamas, a geneticist at the University of Adelaide in Australia who was not involved with the research, to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Anna Salleh. “They don’t exist in humans. They’ve only been detected so far in Denisovans.” They found another protein that’s coded for on the Y chromosome, which revealed the jawbone belonged to a male. Researchers still don’t know when the Denisovan lived, however. They’ve tried numerous ways to come up with a date range for the fossil, including radiocarbon and uranium-series dating. But because of the bone’s condition, they have only been able to narrow down the timeline to two wide potential periods: either between 10,000 to 70,000 years ago or 130,000 to 190,000 years ago. These time frames are associated with lower sea levels, which would have put the fossil discovery site above water, according to Science’s Michael Price. Now that the jawbone has been confirmed as belonging to a Denisovan, it joins the very small ranks of known Denisovan fossils. Only a handful of bones and teeth have been unearthed since scientists first identified the species 15 years ago, so “every piece that is informative changes our picture” of the Denisovans, says study co-author Frido Welker, a molecular anthropologist at the University of Copenhagen, to Scientific American’s Cody Cottier. Meanwhile, scientists are still piecing together how Denisovans fit into the human family tree. Their DNA has been found in modern humans, which points to interbreeding between Denisovans and Homo sapiens. But when and where did the two species overlap? The lack of Denisovan fossils makes these questions even harder to answer, but findings like Penghu 1 “help expand our understanding of where those interactions might have taken place,” says Kelsey Witt, a geneticist at Clemson University who was not involved with the research, to Science. Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.

For a while, it looked like President Donald Trump was going to have Big Tech’s back.Now, the tech industry is collateral damage in his global trade war.On Thursday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen floated the idea of placing “a levy on the advertising revenues of digital services” if tariff negotiations with the US go south. This would be the opposite outcome that tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg were hoping for when they threw their support behind the new administration. To someone like Zuckerberg, Trump was supposed to be the strong-armed leader to bring the overbearing EU to heel. Instead, the rhetoric between the US and EU is ratcheting up just weeks before the EU is already set to fine Meta (and Apple) for violating its Digital Markets Act. While certainly more of a self-inflicted wound, Elon Musk’s popularity in the US has “inverted as his support for President Trump has increased,” Nate Silver wrote this week. Tesla’s stock price, meanwhile. has lost over a third of its value this year, and, thanks to tariffs, the company has removed the option to buy new, US-made vehicles in China. As I predicted last week, TikTok is particularly screwed by Trump’s extra-aggressive China tariffs, which the country has promised to “fight to the end.” Even as it’s still business as usual for TikTok’s rank and file, the app’s fate in the US feels increasingly precarious. When asked this week about the extended deadline to reach a TikTok deal in the US, a spokesperson for China’s commerce ministry said the government “opposes practices that ignore the laws of the market economy, plunder by force, and damage the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises.” “There’s not going to be much dialogue until that’s resolved,” one of TikTok’s aspiring bidders, AppLovin CEO Adam Foroughi, said this week of the tariffs. The situation is such a mess that the US stock market tanking also “drowned out the ability to infer feedback” from shareholders about AppLovin’s bid, Foroughi told Bloomberg. If anything, this week is a reminder that the tech industry has grown so large and influential that its leading companies are tools for leverage between countries. In times of relative peace, that influence can be beneficial for Big Tech. When things get hostile, Big Tech is put in the crosshairs.ElsewhereMore knives out for OpenAI: While OpenAI’s counter-suit against Elon Musk was expected, I took note of the growing coalition (which includes ex-OpenAI employees) pushing this week to block OpenAI’s switch from a non-profit. Has OpenAI abused its legal status as a charity? Almost certainly. Is enough money and momentum at stake for it not to matter? Probably. But I’m still expecting this detaching from the governing non-profit to be messier than most expect. Google’s layoff confusion: While layoffs have been expected in Google’s Platform and Devices division for a while, some employees were surprised at the terms of the cuts when they finally arrived this week. The hundreds of people impacted get 60 days of garden leave and then 14 weeks of severance, plus one additional week per year served. Strangely, that’s more paid time than was given to the people in the same organization who took voluntary layoffs in January. More headlines: AI models are letting down their guard… ByteDance reportedly made $39 billion from TikTok last year, a 63-percent increase and about 25 percent of its total revenue… Waymo is coming to Market Street in downtown San Francisco… Google employees are now free to talk about the company’s monopoly case against the Department of Justice… Microsoft fired two employees for protesting during its 50th anniversary event… and after denying the reports for weeks, the company finally confirmed that it’s “slowing or pausing some early-stage” data center projects.Job boardSome noteworthy job changes in the tech world:Guillaume Princen is joining Anthropic to lead its EMEA business. Clete Willems is Netflix’s new head of global policy.Mira Murati nabbed Alec Radford and Bob McGrew as advisors for her new AI lab.Dina Powell McCormick and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison joined the board of Meta.Hugo Barra joined the board of Sonos.More linksFrom CEO Andy Jassy’s annual letter to Amazon shareholders (and apparently Nvidia): “AI does not have to be as expensive as it is today, and it won’t be in the future. Chips are the biggest culprit.”The Information’s Wayne Ma interviewed Apple insiders about the leadership failure behind the company’s AI morass. My favorite details: that employees jokingly refer to the AI org as “AIMLess,” and that it took two years to remove the “hey” from the “hey Siri” voice command. A new IEA report says that power for data centers will “account for almost half of the growth in electricity demand between now and 2030.”Video of Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams testifying before Congress.Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke’s memo to employees about using AI at work.OpenAI leaders discuss what went into building GPT-4.5. Meet the “Technology Brothers.”If you haven’t already, don’t forget to subscribe to The Verge, which includes unlimited access to Command Line and all of our reporting.As always, I want to hear from you, especially if you have feedback on this issue or a story tip. Respond here or ping me securely on Signal.Thanks for subscribing.See More:

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