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Floods in Australia are getting worse as thousands more flee Sydney homes

Volunteers from the State Emergency Service and the Rural Fire Brigade are seen evacuating residents of the Woronora River area as flood waters rise on July 4, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. Sean Foster | Getty Images News | Getty Images Torrential rains continued to hit Australia’s east coast on Tuesday, intensifying the flood crisis in …

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The next morning: Xiaomi’s flagship phone has a Leica camera with a massive one-inch sensor

Just six months after its last flagship launch, Xiaomi has announced another. The Xiaomi 12S Ultra includes a one-inch, 50.3-megapixel Sony IMX989 main sensor. And unlike the Sony Xperia Pro-I, the Xiaomi 12S Ultra apparently uses the entirety of its one-inch sensor. And the camera unit itself? Well, it looks giant. Xiaomi Inside, there’s a …

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In a major potential breach, a hacker offers to sell a database of Chinese police.

In what may be one of the largest known personal data breaches in China, a hacker is offering for sale a Shanghai police database that could contain information about perhaps a billion Chinese citizens. While it was not possible to immediately verify the scale of the leak, which the hacker said in a forum post …

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‘Stranger Things’ fans found an explanation for Hopper having a sword at random

Photo credit: courtesy of Netflix – Netflix Stranger Things is unquestionably a brilliantly written show and as a result there are very few holes in the plot. Like, these writers explain literally everything. But! Fans were briefly confused by Hopper using a straight sword to fight a Demogorgon. A fan of Twitter and HITC found …

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The White House official who is reportedly disputing Trump’s stock bill on Jan. 6 has a history of lies for him, former aides say.

Trump’s White House official who is said to be disputing Cassidy Hutchinson’s explosive testimony has a history of lying to former President Donald Trump, two former White House aides said. In his testimony before the select committee investigating the Capitol riots, Hutchinson, a former chief aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, …

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