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How to Use Your Phone as a Bedside Alarm Clock With StandBy and Bedtime Modes

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Whether you use your phone as an alarm to get up in the morning, like to listen to podcasts or sleep sounds as you drift off, or simply want to be sure the battery is full come morning, a nightstand charger is a handy gadget. We are big fans of wireless chargers. Android phones and … Read more

India set to clock up to 8% GDP growth as it boosts manufacturing capacity, minister says

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Workers assemble mobile phones at a Dixon Technologies factory in Noida, India, on Jan. 28, 2021.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images India could clock up to 8% annual GDP growth for several years as it focuses on boosting its manufacturing capabilities, a key government minister told CNBC on Thursday. “Every sector of the economy … Read more

‘Doomsday Clock’ at 90 seconds to midnight amid nuclear and AI threats

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The world remains the closest it has ever been to the symbolic hour of the apocalypse, with the Doomsday Clock set once again to 90 seconds to “midnight” for 2024. Wars in the Middle East, Ukraine, a spiraling climate crisis and the rise of artificial intelligence are … Read more

Doomsday Clock: Humanity Is As Close As Ever to Destruction

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A panel of international scientists on Tuesday kept the ominous Doomsday Clock set to 90 seconds to midnight, warning that humanity is as close as ever to destruction due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, and the threat of artificial intelligence. The timing of the clock, maintained by the Bulletin of the … Read more

Deputy district attorney faces DUI, reckless driving charges after police clock her at 73 in 35 mph zone

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Clark County deputy district attorney was booked on a DUI charge after she was clocked at 73 mph in a 35 mph zone, according to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrest report. Kayla Farzaneh-Simmons was driving a white KIA SUV westbound on Sunset Road at about 5 p.m. on … Read more

Presidents Xi and Biden Seek to Turn Back the Clock in San Francisco

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It was 1985 and a fresh-faced Xi Jinping’s first trip to the U.S. (or anywhere outside of China, so it’s believed.) Wearing a brown jacket over gray pullover, necktie tidily knotted, the then 31-year-old princeling flashes a carefree grin for the camera in front of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a pose replicated by countless … Read more

How the Giants lost to the Bills: Tyrod Taylor’s botched clock management, goal-line call on final play doom New York

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The Giants came into the “Sunday Night Football” clash against the Bills as 15-point underdogs, the largest spread of the season to date. Yet it wasn’t until the final second of the game that the outcome would be decided. New York had the ball back trailing 14-9, and marched right down the field on the … Read more

Israeli rabbis work around the clock — even on the Sabbath — to count the dead from Hamas attack

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SITRIYA, Israel — Rarely do rabbis spend the Sabbath counting bodies. But on Saturday, a week after Hamas militants blew easily past Israel’s fortified security fence and gunned down hundreds of Israelis — at music festivals, in their homes, in cars while trying to flee — Israel’s military rabbinate made an exception. At Shura military … Read more

Wake up gently with this sunrise alarm clock, now $30 off for October Prime Day

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Allison Murray/ZDNET Like most people, I have a hard time falling asleep at night and waking up in the mornings. My nightly routine consists of either scrolling through my phone in bed or falling asleep to the sounds of Netflix. And my morning routine isn’t much better: I go from snoozing the alarm to checking … Read more