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Apple's first folding phone is generating serious demand. The iPhone Duo hits shelves today, and Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak is reassuring buyers that not all units shipped out during preorders. Slip times appeared within minutes of the October sixteenth launch, so if you secured one, you may be in luck.
Powering the devices of tomorrow is becoming its own headline. Amazon is committing over one billion dollars to a proposed nuclear facility in Indiana, backed by twelve small modular reactors from X-energy. The project could deliver nine hundred sixty megawatts to the regional grid, with helium-cooled TRISO fuel technology at its core — a significant bet on next-generation energy.
And from the world of software development, a thought-provoking argument is circulating today that we probably cannot fully automate the software engineer away. The piece challenges assumptions about AI replacing developers entirely, suggesting that human judgment, context, and creativity remain genuinely difficult to replicate at scale — a trade-off worth watching closely.
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