Apple has discontinued its original HomePod after four years. It says that it will continue to produce and focus on the HomePod mini, introduced last year. The larger HomePod offered a beefier sound space but the mini has been very well received and clearly accomplishes many of the duties that the larger version was tasked with. The sound is super solid (especially for the size) and it offers access to Siri, Apple’s assistant feature.

We are focusing our efforts on HomePod mini. We are discontinuing the original HomePod, it will continue to be available while supplies last through the Apple Online Store, Apple Retail Stores, and Apple Authorized Resellers. Apple will provide HomePod customers with software updates and service and support through Apple Care.

Biggest reason are lacking Siri capabilities. Accuracy, features, music library put Siri in the least capable assistant territory while Amazon assistant is gaining momentum. Apple also still have very bad support for any languages except English, learning and resources allocated to other languages are minimal.

The translator into the Catalan language of a poem by the American poet Amanda Gorman, which she read at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, was suspended from work because he had "the wrong parameters" (aka being white). According to The Guardian, no one doubted the abilities of Viktor Obiols, but the customers thought that this translation should be done by "a young woman, an activist, preferably black, lesbian is best."

The translator into Catalan of a poem by American poet Amanda Gorman, which she read at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, said he was removed from the job because he had "the wrong parameters." According to The Guardian, this is the second time in Europe after Dutch writer Mareke Lucas Reineveld refused to translate Gorman's poem due to criticism that a black man should translate it and white must never be allowed to work on this.

“I was told that I am not suitable for this translation. Nobody doubted my abilities, but they were looking for a person with different parameters, considering that it should be a young woman, an activist, preferably black, ”said translator into Catalan Victor Objols.

Objols, who translated the works of Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, three weeks ago received an offer from the Barcelona publishing house Univers to translate Gorman's poem into Catalan with a foreword by American TV presenter Oprah Winfrey. He completed his work, but suddenly his publisher received a message, the essence of which boils down to the fact that Objols is "the wrong person."

This will have very bad consequences soon, as it is same horrible racism, but now it reversed sign.

A new type of avian influenza A (H5N8) virus, identified in February in several Mordor regions, is likely to mutate soon and can be transmitted from person to person. The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said this in an interview with TASS.

The forecast that this will happen has a fairly high degree of probability. This is likely to happen, - said Anna Popova. But we saw it before the disaster struck.

According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor, the detection of this virus in humans has become a "world-class discovery" and a natural result of the work of the entire sanitary and epidemiological surveillance system. She stressed that Mordor has time to develop tests and create a vaccine.

It will not be needed - this will be a lucky break. But if need be, we'll be ready. That is, we were able to see and warn the entire world community that there is a threat, - said Popova.

Remember - capitalism is just small dumpy road from one disaster to another, from one extreme fears to bunch of others.