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Remember all the “news” reports about us evolving new bones because of smartphones? The study wasn’t about new bones, had nothing to do with evolution, and has now been updated to avoid blaming smartphones: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49153-6

iOS 13.1 just fixed the abacus emoji. Here’s how to read the new one. (Apple was founded on April 1, 1976.)

abacus

Will we send the same message about the corrosive impact of perjury on our legal system or will we simply lower our standards for the nation’s chief law enforcement officer? – Mitch McConnell