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Google asked by US lawmakers to correct abortion research leading women to 'wrong clinics'

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 US lawmakers have asked Alphabet's main Google search engine to provide accurate results to people who want an abortion, instead of sometimes sending them to "crisis pregnancy centers" that keep women away from procedures. The request came in a letter whose primary signatories were Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, which was sent to Google on Friday and first reported by Reuters. The letter was prompted by a study released last week by the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate. The study found that 11% of search results for “abortion clinic near me” or “abortion pill” in some states were for anti-abortion centers. The investigation was conducted in the 13 states with laws that would ban abortion if, as expected, the US Supreme Court accepted the landmark 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, which legalized it nationwide earlier this month. Google declined to comment on the letter to Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's chief executive officer, but said of the report, "
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iOS 16 Will Not Reach iPhone 6s, iPhone 7 SE; Apple Watch Series 3 is not eligible for watchOS 9.

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  Apple has confirmed that iOS 16 will not be available for older iPhone models than the iPhone 8. This means that iOS 16 will not be available to iPhone 7 and 6s owners, as well as the original iPhone SE owners. Apple quietly removed the Apple Watch Series 8 model from its compatible Apple Watch models list for watchOS 9. Both watchOS and iOS 16 will be available to test under public betas starting in July. They will then be made available as free software updates to eligible hardware later this summer. The new software will not work with the iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone 7 Plus. Instead, the compatible model list for iOS 16 updates starts with the iPhone 8 (2020) and iPhone SE (2021). The oldest eligible device for iOS 16 is the iPhone 8, which was launched in 2017. The iPhone 6s series was released in 2015. The iPhone 7 and iPhone SE models were launched in 2016. These models, even though they are old, received iOS 15 last summer. This is a departure from the way that m
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WhatsApp Will Stop Supporting iOS 10, iOS 11 Soon

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  WhatsApp will soon stop supporting iOS 10, and iOS 11, according to WABetaInfo. Although the reasons for the new development are not yet clear, the instant messaging service is generally dropping support for older versions of Android and iOS in order to introduce new features that may not work on those systems. Screenshots obtained by WABetaInfo show that WhatsApp will stop supporting iOS 10 and iOS 11 after October 24, 2022. This can also be confirmed by looking into the WhatsApp Help Center, which mentions iOS 12 and newer versions as supported and recommended operating systems, with no mention of previous versions of iOS. iOS 10 or iOS 11 users need to upgrade to iOS 12 to continue using WhatsApp. This means you cannot use it on iPhone 5 and iPhone 5C. Updating to a newer version of an operating system is also important as it usually includes the latest software patches and security features. It comes just days after WhatsApp Desktop was revealed to be testing a feature that would
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