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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who was present alongside Chinese Communist Party Foreign Affairs Commission Director Yang Jiechi at the tense Alaska talks last Thursday, was set this Friday to head to Tehran to meet with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and President Hassan Rouhani. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told reporters Tuesday that the JCPOA was “at a critical juncture,” but blamed Washington for not moving first to lift sanctions, an action Tehran has said it would answer by reinstituting the nuclear limits. The urgent task is for the United States to return to the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue and lift the relevant sanctions as soon as possible,” Hua said, “while Iran will resume compliance with the agreement, so as to jointly push the comprehensive agreement back on track.” “China hopes that all parties concerned can increase their sense of urgency, meet each other halfway, and strive to reach consensus on some initial steps as soon as possible,” Hua said, “so that the United States and Iran can resume the process of implementing the contract.

Twenty years ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs poached Ron Okamoto away from Adobe to become vice president of developer relations and later help build the App Store. Now, we’re learning he has retired — less than a couple months before Apple’s App Store is set to go on trial. The eagle-eyed Mark Gurman at Bloomberg spotted that not only was Okamoto listed as a potential witness in that trial, but that court documents describe him as the former VP of worldwide developer relations, not the current one. He’ll seemingly be testifying about the App Store’s policies, business model, how it compares to developing for macOS, and the “transformation of the application software business.

Both the X3 Pro and the F3 use new Qualcomm chips that are essentially updated and repurposed flagship-class processors from the past couple of years, which make them an interesting price-performance proposition. The processor appears to be a new version of the Snapdragon 855, Qualcomm’s flagship part from two years ago found in phones like the Galaxy S10 and the Pixel 4. The Poco F3, meanwhile, is a higher-end device that’s one of the first phones to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 870, which was announced a couple of months ago. Poco hasn’t announced full global release details yet, but the X3 Pro costs €199 for a model with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (or €249 for 8GB/256GB), while the F3 is €299 for 6GB/128GB and €349 for 8GB/256GB.

While the respective NCAA tournament runs by Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA and USC are collectively a surprise, ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas broke down why the four Pac-12 programs each have tools for an Elite Eight appearance. And to have (freshman center) Evan Mobley as player of the year in the Pac-12 and then defensive play of the year — as you know, Scotty, the last player to do that in a major conference, the only guy to do that, was Anthony Davis at Kentucky in 2012. In the West Region, seventh-seeded Oregon (21-6) and sixth-seeded USC (24-7) are set for a head-to-head matchup. ’s sort of unfortunate for the Pac-12, in this regard — only one of those teams can get to Gonzaga to play ’em because if they win their games, they have to play each other to get there.

Several of San Francisco Bay Area’s largest technology companies including Twitter Inc and Google plan to keep their offices largely closed for months more despite the government allowing them on Tuesday to be opened in a limited capacity. Among the few companies aiming to take advantage of the easing were SAP SE, which said it is strongly considering partially reopening its Bay Area offices within weeks, and Slack Technologies, which is weighing a date to invite back some workers. San Francisco ecommerce software startup Fast will open its doors – and windows for safety – to up to 25% of its 56 Bay Area employees on Wednesday, spokesman Jason Alderman said. Facebook Inc, whose offices otherwise remain closed globally until July 2, said this month it is opening 10% of seats in Seattle area offices to help workers struggling at home.

The A button becomes the Spacebar, X button becomes the Q key, Y button the E key, and the B button the F key. But instead of having dedicated key bindings for specific in-game actions, it seems like whatever the A or L2 buttons do will be mapped to specific keys on a Mac keyboard without a way to re-bind them. Would the Q key be the PlayStation X button or the PlayStation Square button, since it’s in the same position on the controller as the Xbox X button? So why Apple is choosing to handle PC gaming controls this way instead of letting the app developers map the best key bindings for their games isn’t clear.

White House officials told governors in a private call Tuesday that the federal retail pharmacy program is slated to receive 1.5 million J&J shots next week, according to one source on the call. States are set to receive around 2 million doses, according to three individuals with knowledge of the administration’s distribution plans. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday confirmed that 4 million doses are on hand for delivery next week. In a statement to POLITICO Monday, J&J spokesperson Jake Sargent said that the company “expect[s] to deliver 20 million single-shot vaccines by the end of March.

Marcus Mariota is happy that he gets to remain as a part of the Las Vegas Raiders going forward despite taking a pay cut to remain with the team. Via Rob DeMello of KHON2, Mariota said that the chance to stay with the Raiders overcame any concerns over trimming his salary for the upcoming season. ” Mariota accepted a deal that cut his salary from $10.725 million to just $3.5 million for this season. It does have incentives included to where he can earn up to $8 million should he get the chance to play and hit performance goals.

Asian shares skidded to a two-week trough on Wednesday and the dollar neared four-month highs as coronavirus lockdowns in Europe and potential U. S. tax hikes hit risk appetite, leading to a flight to safety. The index has had a disappointing run in March after five straight months of gains, as risk assets were earlier spooked by fears inflation will pick up at a faster-than-expected pace led by successful coronavirus vaccine rollouts and massive U. S. fiscal stimulus. The safe-haven yen was broadly stronger, and Australia’s dollar – considered a liquid proxy for risk – slipped as low as $0.7583, a level not seen since Feb.5. [O/R] Brent crude futures rose 22 cents to $61.01 a barrel, after tumbling 5.9% and hitting a low of $60.50 on Tuesday.

Deshaun Watson’s attorney says that one of the female massage therapists accusing his client of sexual assault attempted to “blackmail” the Texans quarterback before filing a civil lawsuit. In January of this year, a woman attempted to blackmail Deshaun by demanding $30,000 in exchange for her Bruney then said the woman’s “business manager” followed up with Bruney, telling him if the encounter was made public it would be embarrassing for both of them. (two more women came forward since this statement) during the past seven days in a manner calculated to inflame the public and malign Deshaun’s otherwise sterling reputation,” Hardin said in a statement.