Two IDIOTS Make a Hole in the Great Wall of China

Two people were arrested for ploughing an excavator through the Great Wall of China. A Broadway star to drops his lead role in a Tiananmen Square Massacre musical. And China is cracking down on iPhones just as Huawei rolls out it's most advanced smartphone yet.
 

China: police beat staff protesting over working conditions at iPhone factory

 

Footage shows security and police officers in China clashing with staff protesting over working conditions and pay at the world's biggest factory for iPhones, in Zhengzhou, China. Footage shows police beating protestors with poles amid riots. The Foxconn factory has been placed under strict lockdown restrictions, forcing factory staff to live and work on-site.

The highlighted segment above is the real reason for the unrest in China. It has nothing to do with a wage dispute

Frustration had been mounting over recent months at the plant over conditions, pay and the handling of positive Covid cases

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Today’s phones are hard to put down. Push notifications buzz in your pocket, red bubbles demand attention, and endless distractions sit at your fingertips. It can feel impossible to pull away from. But that’s kind of the point. When people talk about the “attention economy,” they’re referring to the fact that your time and attention are the currency on which today’s applications make money. Because apps profit off of the total time you spend on their platform, there’s a strong incentive to use psychological tricks to keep you endlessly hooked. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Tristan Harris, who runs Time Well Spent, is working to create a world where platforms can more honestly respect their users’ time.

Apple Proudly Anouces Payment By iPhone: Japan's Had That For Ten Years

Tim Cook CEO of Apple Corp proudly announced that the latest generation of the iPhone would allow users to to make purchases with their phone.  Japanese mobile phones have had that technology for 10 years.  For the average mobile phone user here it's second nature that such a application already exists.

Apple's Tim Cook must proud to be 10 years behind Japan.

 A type of Near Field Communication (NFC) chip, known in Japan as FeliCa, was introduced to the Japanese mobile market in June 2004 and has been been implanted in almost all phones sold in the country since.
   
Ten years ago the charismatic Takeshi Natsuno, who was then multimedia services director of Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo, extolled the benefits of swapping cash for cell phones.

“When I leave my house in the morning, all I take with me is my phone, which lets me do everything—pay, take public transport—simply by swiping a special reader in shops, stations or airports,” he said at the time.

Foxconn workers go on strike over iphone 5 working conditions

Thousands of factory workers at Foxconn went on strike Friday to protest their working conditions on the iPhone 5's production lines, according to a report from an independent workers' rights organization.

Workers at Foxconn's plant in Zhengzhou, China, were furious after management enacted "overly strict demands" for production of Apple's(AAPL, Fortune 500) new iPhone 5, according to a report late Friday from China Labor Watch (CLW), a New York-based advocacy group that works closely with sources in China.

The trouble began after workers were given new, impossibly strict standards, demanding precision down to increments as small as two-hundredths of a millimeter, according to CLW.
"Employees could not even turn out iPhones that met the standard," CLW's report said, because of "design defects" in the iPhone 5.
Foxconn's exacting demands, coupled with the fact that workers were not allowed to take vacation time during a recent week-long holiday, created a high-pressure situation. Workers and inspectors clashed in fights that sometimes turned physical, the CLW said, with some hospitalized as a result.

 These people are treated no better than indentured servants yet consumers in America and Europe are blissfully ignorant of the conditions Foxconn employee's are  forced to endure just so they can have the latest iPhone or iPad.