How to Set Up Your New iPhone (2025)

Photograph: Simon Hill A Quick Word on eSIM Apple has supported eSIM technology since the iPhone XS. It’s basically an electronic SIM card instead of the tiny, physical chip you insert into your phone for cellular connectivity. The iPhone 14 series was the first to completely get rid of the physical SIM card slot (in…

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Meta’s Smart Glasses Might Make You Smarter. They’ll Certainly Make You More Awkward

On an earnings call this summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an ambitious claim about the future of smart glasses, saying he believes that someday people who don’t wear AI-enabled smart spectacles (ideally his) will find themselves at a “pretty significant cognitive disadvantage” compared to their smart-glasses-clad kin. Meta’s most recent attempt to demonstrate the…

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RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Votes Down Its Own Proposal to Require Prescriptions for Covid-19 Shots

In another vote, advisers recommended adding language on the shot’s risks to the vaccine’s information sheet, which is already required by law. The committee’s focus on Covid-19 vaccines reflects Kennedy’s long-held suspicion of them. Since taking office in February, Kennedy has canceled a half-billion dollars in mRNA vaccine research and separately ended a major contract…

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