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The US has unveiled an unusual new approach to saber-rattling with China: emotion predictions. According to Reuters, military commanders in the Pacific have developed a tool to forecast how the Chinese government will react to American actions in the region. A US defense official said the software calculates “strategic friction,” but provided little detail about how it works. We tried to dig up further information — but unearthed more questions than answers....

The US space policy keeps changing — at the expense of the next Moon landing The future of Artemis In December 2017, President Donald Trump signed “Space Policy Directive 1,” which reoriented NASAto a lunar landing by 2024. NASA implemented the Artemis program in the same year, and ithas been endorsedby the new Biden administration. This is the first time in decades that a new US administration has continued with the deep space human spaceflight policies of the previous one....

It’s been a long wait for theVerizoniPhone. In fact, in the states, we’ve been waiting for it since the iPhone was originally announced four years ago. Why? Primarily because AT&T is so lousy that we’ve essentially been carting around tiny tablets that are unable to make phone calls, while our friends on Verizon chirp away, beneath subway lines with four bars. In line at Verizon’s press conference today in New York City, over 85% of people waiting are clutching their AT&T claimediPhones,according toJonathan S....

In the U.S., we’ve been waiting a very long time for the elusiveVerizoniPhone. And today, Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s President and COO took the stage saying, “If the press writes something long enough, eventually, it will be true.” McAdam, the president of Verizon Wireless finally confirmed a CDMA version of the iPhone at today’s event, “Today we’re partnering with a giant of the industry, and that’s Apple.” Why have we been waiting for the iPhone on Verizon?...

Yesterday, we posted abouthow the reddit logo was created. Today, designerAlexis Ohanian, the founder ofBreadpig, “an uncorporation that deals in delightful geeky wares and helps people helping the world,” sent us the very first digital drafts of the lovable Reddit alien. (Thank you Alexis.) Ohanian says the name ‘snew was something he’d toyed with before coming up with reddit in the Alderman Library at his alma mater UVA. It was short for ‘what’s new....