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The state purchased materials to make hydrogen cyanide gas, which has been used in some past U.S. executions in addition to being used by Nazis during World War II in concentration camps, the Associated Press reported. The gas was used to kill 865,000 Jews at Auschwitz alone. “Whether or not one supports the death penalty as a general matter, there is general agreement in American society that a gas devised as a pesticide, and used to eliminate Jews, has no place in the administration of criminal justice,” the American Jewish Committee wrote in a statement....

A clip is circulating on TikTok after an American woman came across a news article referencing the hottest day of the year in England so far. The clip shows her reading the headline, which says: “UK sees hottest day of 2021 as temperatures soar to 31.6°c.” In a voiceover, the woman named Rae, says in the clip, “I wonder how much that is in Fahrenheit,” which has since been deleted....

We may, for the first time ever, have found an encouraging model for cooperation in a region long bedeviled by conflict: the Middle East. In recent months, we have witnessed the paradigm-busting peace and normalization agreements between Israel and moderate Arab countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and now Morocco. In addition to advancing social and economic developments in the Middle East, the new alliances are positioned to counter radical Islamist regimes, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, and radical terrorist groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Al-Qaeda and ISIS....

Some people, though, are stuck in the past. Rather than join this solution-based effort, they are waging a 20-year old campaign to blame climate change on energy manufacturers. Scapegoating energy companies may make for good politics in some circles, but climate change is no more their fault than ours. We need energy to turn on our lights, fuel our cars, power our workplaces and produce goods. The challenge is figuring how to sustain modern life and the climate....

Sin embargo, actualmente existen muchos modelos diferentes por lo que puede ser difícil elegir un nuevo modelo. Antes de elegir un nuevo disco, es importante que tengas en cuenta distintos factores, como por ejemplo la capacidad del disco, el rendimiento, la fiabilidad que ofrece y, sobre todo, el precio. Una de nuestras marcas de confianza a la hora de elegir un nuevo disco externo, es Samsung. En este caso, nos ha llamado la atención su nuevo modelo Samsung 860 Evo....

Shocking revelations found that the e-commerce giant is destroying tens of millions of items per year rather than restocking and reselling them, with the cost of destruction lower than processing and reselling. Until there is serious, provable change, moves like these only further issues with Big Tech, especially with issues like greenwashing.

Despite having smart features, the device does actually work like a normal automatic soap dispenser too. It can hold 12 ounces of soap, and will automatically dispense it to your hand when you activate the sensor. As the device uses variable sensing, it’ll dispense more or less soap depending on how close your hand is to the nozzle. The unusual smart home device retails for $54.99, making it much more expensive than any other soap dispenser you’ll buy....

title: “Amazon Unveils New Echo Show 15 Smart Display” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-28” author: “Nancy Daniels” The Echo Show 15, due out later this year, looks to stand above the previously released Echo Show 10, starting with an improved screen. The Echo Show 15 sports a 15.6-inch display that can support up to 1080p video streaming, which you can, of course, use to watch things on various streaming services. Or you can ask Alexa to show the Photo Frame and use it as a very large digital slide-show for preloaded photos....

There’s been plenty of excitement surrounding the new Ryzen 7000 Series, which AMD debuted in August 2022. But the bulk of its CPUs are usually announced at CES, and the company hasn’t disappointed in the first week of 2023. Here’s everything you need to know. AMD Ryzen 7000 Series release date AMD revealed the first Ryzen 7000 Series processors on 29 August 2022. That’s earlier than we’d usually expect, but makes sense given there were no desktop CPUs in the Ryzen 6000 Series....

Standard music streaming has been capped at 320kbps for a long time but HD pushes things up to 850kbps, while Ultra HD goes up to 3730kbps. Compressed audio at 320kbps is easier to stream, especially via mobile networks due to less data but with the emergence of 5G and faster home broadband, higher quality is more viable. Tech Advisor’s Reviews Editor, Chris has been reviewing all kinds of tech for over 10 years and specialises in audio....

The deals are pretty impressive and you should definitely check them out to see which device is right for you. Grab the Perfect Fire Tablet There are so many Fire tablets you can get this year for Prime Day. The tablets are available, but they come with awesome perks, like headsets and screen protectors for kids, keyboards, and more. These are just amazing deals! For Kids Fire 7 Kids Pro: $49....

Earlier this month, AMD and Microsoft announced plans to fix the slowdown cropping up between some AMD processors and Windows 11. Now, as promised, we have a couple of new patches that should take care of the problem. A recent update on AMD’s initial report of the problem now shows resolutions for both primary causes of these performance drops. The L3 cache latency issue, which would cause the cache to take up to three times longer to access, is being addressed by a new Windows 11 22000....

An offer open till 7 November will let you try the service free for 90 days. There’s a lot to be said for listening to your favourite music through the best quality headphones but emphasis isn’t always placed on the source of the music itself since Spotify and Apple Music started to rule the industry. That might be set to change. Henry is Tech Advisor’s Phones Editor, ensuring he and the team covers and reviews every smartphone worth knowing about for readers and viewers all over the world....

Building on technologies introduced with the RX Fury, the Radeon RX Vega range is a big step up from the Radeon RX 500-series cards (which launched only recently), and includes a host of new features designed to dramatically increase performance. The RX Vega currently comes in three varieties: the RX Vega 56, the faster RX Vega 64 and a high-end RX Vega 64 with liquid cooling. Here, we’re concentrating on the standard Vega 64....

title: “Amazon Prime Shoppers Get Early Access To Holiday Savings This Year” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-15” author: “Dorothy Piccirillo” The Prime Day Early Access Sale runs from October 11 (12 a.m. PT) through October 12 and will be available for Prime members in 15 different countries, including: Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK, and the US.

title: “Amazon S Prime Video App Avoids The Apple Tax " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-31” author: “Carolyn Hill” “My understanding is that Apple views the Mac and iOS stores as one and the same, i.e the ‘App Store’. Hence the single guidelines document, which makes no distinction between platforms apart from just a handful of platform specific cases,” professional App Store critic Kosta Eleftheriou told Lifewire via direct message. Prime Example Of course, you can do all of this via the browser, but then you may miss out on neat features like being able to download videos for offline viewing....