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• Tim Cook might have helped Apple avert a wider crisis in China.
• iPhone sales rose 12% in China in March after months of decline.
• The reversal hasn't come easy though: Apple has been forced to slash prices of its top models.

It looks like Tim Cook can breathe a small sigh of relief about Apple's prospects in China — for now.

After months of freefallling

• TikTok users are reveling in how a Stop & Shop self-checkout pronounces "organic bananas."
• The video has racked up 7.3 million views, and people are trying to figure out what makes it so funny.
• It's drawn more positive attention to self-checkouts, which have typically been subject to scrutiny.

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• Long queues formed at major UK airports after a nationwide outage affected electronic passport gates.
• Many were stuck for more than an hour in hot corridors with no water and little information.
• "It's absolute chaos. They're telling us nothing," one passenger told BI's reporter, who

• After failing to replicate the routine of Apple CEO Tim Cook, I was ready to try something new.
• I tried following the morning routine of Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel.
• I'm starting to see the appeal of waking up early, but 5 a.m. is still

Terra Quantum has today revealed its TQ42 Cryptography library — an open-source suite of quantum-resistant algorithms designed to help developers and businesses protect data from current and future cybersecurity threats. The new cryptography library provides developers with post-quantum algorithms and security and key management functions. They can be used across a range of applications, including

Tencent and Remedy, the developer of Control and Alan Wake, have completely scrapped their joint gaming project codenamed Kestrel, which they have been working on since 2021. The companies were originally developing a free-to-play co-op shooter until they decided to go in a different direction in November last year. They went back to the drawing board, renamed their project from Vanguard to

Microsoft is attempting to solve the problem of coming up with a good prompt for generative AI, aiming to turn everyone into a prompt engineer. In the coming months Copilot for Microsoft 365, the paid service that adds an AI assistant to Office apps, will be updated with a new auto-complete feature that offers suggestions to improve AI prompts.

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• I quit after working at Disney World for three months through the Disney College Program.
• I didn't have a say in where I worked and was tossed around between parks.
• After a few years away, I'm ready to go back as a guest, but not an employee.

It was always my dream to work at Disney World, and in 2019, it came true when I was hired

In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software products and operating systems, was found to have been implanted with a backdoor.

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• Uber shares dropped as much as 8% in premarket trading after reporting first quarter results Wednesday.
• The ride-hailing giant saw gross bookings climb 20% and revenue slightly beat expectations.
• Earnings-per-share was significantly below Wall Street forecasts, however.

Uber's share price dropped as much as 8% in premarket trading Wednesday after it reported a mixed bag of

• A 2,300-passenger cruise is due to set sail in February and will let passengers go nude.
• The Big Nude Boat will take passengers on an 11-day trip from Miami around the Caribbean.
• The company has policies for its nude passengers, including no naked butts on any public surfaces.

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• OpenAI is targeting some Google's employees, The Verge reported.
• Sam Altman's company is trying to poach Googlers for a ChatGPT search engine, per the report.
• Big Tech is engaged a fierce competition to acquire and retain top AI talent.

OpenAI appears to be going after some Google employees.

The Verge reported that the company behind