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Review of new $749 OnePlus 8T: nice performance and 65W fast charging with a 120Hz display, but fourth camera feels unnecessary and there's no wireless charging (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Review of new $749 OnePlus 8T: nice performance and 65W fast charging with a 120Hz display, but fourth camera feels unnecessary and there's no wireless charging — A capable, if incremental, update — OnePlus has always been very proud of the raw specs of its phones, and the OnePlus 8T is no different. https://bit.ly/3nQFxOs

Documents show how Clear, which lets its members skip security lines at 35 US airports, is building a digital ID system for storing health care info and more (Dave Gershgorn/OneZero )

Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Documents show how Clear, which lets its members skip security lines at 35 US airports, is building a digital ID system for storing health care info and more — 'You are your driver's license, your credit card, your health care card, your building access card' — In March, the air travel industry ground to a halt. https://bit.ly/3745pjD

Improvements to iPhone 12 Pro cameras include Deep Fusion for all cameras, larger image sensor in main lens, support for new "ProRaw" format, OIS for ultrawide (Andrew Hoyle/CNET)

Andrew Hoyle / CNET: Improvements to iPhone 12 Pro cameras include Deep Fusion for all cameras, larger image sensor in main lens, support for new “ProRaw” format, OIS for ultrawide — As a professional photographer, I've been blown away by how the iPhone 11 Pro has been able to replace my DSLR on photo shoots. https://bit.ly/3kaDEtL

Alleged iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max renders leak before Apple's event, showing color options, including blue, and LIDAR sensor (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Alleged iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max renders leak before Apple's event, showing color options, including blue, and LIDAR sensor — The best look yet at Apple's new iPhones — Apple will reveal its latest iPhones in just a few hours, but if you can't wait until … https://bit.ly/34QL6Ul

As Americans flock to payments apps from PayPal, Square, and Zelle, rates of fraud are also rising according to app reviews, often with little support (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: As Americans flock to payments apps from PayPal, Square, and Zelle, rates of fraud are also rising according to app reviews, often with little support — People are getting defrauded as they turn to Square's Cash App and PayPal's Venmo to do more online banking in the pandemic. https://bit.ly/36WTxA9

Facebook says its new policy that bans the denial or distortion of the Holocaust does not apply to other genocides, such as the Armenian or Rwandan genocides (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: Facebook says its new policy that bans the denial or distortion of the Holocaust does not apply to other genocides, such as the Armenian or Rwandan genocides — Facebook Inc. will ban posts that deny the Holocaust in a reversal of a long-held and controversial policy. https://bit.ly/2If2x9h

Facebook's ineffective content moderation efforts, unevenly enforced and handled by low-paid moderators, show it can't and doesn't have the will to fix itself (Andrew Marantz/New Yorker)

Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: Facebook's ineffective content moderation efforts, unevenly enforced and handled by low-paid moderators, show it can't and doesn't have the will to fix itself — The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem? https://bit.ly/34OcvGl