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Apple’s long-awaited mixed-reality headset, the Vision Pro, is here. Or not yet here, but announced. In a crescendoed moment of its software conference keynote this morning, Apple executives revealed a pair of smart goggles that portend a post-iPhone world. There’s Apple again, taking a wait-and-see approach. There’s Apple, taking aim at Meta. There’s Apple taking over … your face. 

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Vaishali Kanal’s wages don’t depend on how much she works. They depend on whether there is internet in her village or not. Kanal, 25, usually leaves her toddler at home in Palatpada, a remote village in western India, early in the morning, and goes to work on a nearby building site. But when we met on a scorching May afternoon, she was cradling her daughter in her arms. “If she is awake or crying, I take her with me,” she says. “It is tough to do backbreaking labor and take care of the toddler at the same time.”

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The liquidator of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is trying to retrieve nearly $4 billion for creditors—from another bankrupt crypto firm. After a hearing on June 15, a court in the Southern District of New York will decide whether to let FTX pursue Genesis Global Capital (GGC), a crypto lender, over payments said to have been made shortly before the exchange’s collapse amid allegations of fraud.

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