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TORRAS FlashEye-Dot Makes Phone Charging a Lot Less Mysterious

Fast chargers do not usually tell you much about what they are doing. You plug in your phone, see the charging icon appear, and trust that the charger, cable, and device have negotiated the speed you expected. Finding out how…

TORRAS FlashEye-Dot Makes Phone Charging a Lot Less Mysterious

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Policy committee approves Rs33bn budget for Universal Service Fund

ISLAMABAD: The Policy Committee of the Universal Service Fund (USF), chaired by Information Technology Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja, approved the fund’s Rs32.90 billion budget for 2026-27 on Tuesday. USF’s key target is to expand digital connectivity across unserved and underserved areas of the country.

Oracle SQL: Pseudo-Columns

1. Overview & Core Concepts Definition: A pseudo-column behaves like a table column, but it is not actually stored on disk in the table.

  • Pseudo-columns behave like regular columns but don't store data physically.
  • ROWID, ROWNUM, NEXTVAL, CURRVAL, COLUMNVALUE, ORAROWSCN, UID, and USER are key pseudo-columns.
  • Pseudo-columns are evaluated after WHERE clause but before ORDER BY and GROUP BY.

New Mac Mini Has Two Storage Downsides, Including Unremovable SSD

As confirmed by the website "Expand Mac mini," NAND storage in the new Mac mini models with the M6 and M5 Pro chips is soldered to the logic board, whereas the previous models with the M4 and M4 Pro chips have removable storage that can be upgraded. In other words, the new Mac mini does not support aftermarket storage upgrades.

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