📱 Break Your iPhone 13 ? You Could See A Lot of This…

Image: Apple Toolbox

🤔 Why it’s important: A good portion of the $4 billion phone repair industry comes from fixing broken iPhone screens.

Moving forward, Apple’s move gives the industry two choices: 1) join the company’s reportedly restrictive “authorized” repair network or 2) use a workaround that requires microsoldering, as well as other skilled work.

• Microsoldering calls for thousands of dollars of equipment and quite a bit of practice. “Three out of 10 shops solder,” a repair tech told iFixit. “One out of [those] three can do BGA work.”
• Those in Apple’s network only need to log the repair using the company’s proprietary software, which allows the tech to repair the screen without disabling any functionality.

In other words, for those who can access Apple’s network, replacing a screen on the iPhone 13 is the same. For independent shops – and ultimately consumers – everything is different.

😤 Zoom out: Making phones difficult and costly to repair isn’t anything new for Apple – or other phone manufacturers – so historically, third-party repairers have been a solid option.

• Apple’s in-network repair charges for the iPhone 12 increased by up to 40% compared with the iPhone 11, and ​​Samsung’s line of Galaxy phones are also rather tricky for third-party repairers to fix.

📸 The big picture... Support for right-to-repair, proposed legislation advocates say would put every repairer on the same foot and provide consumers with more options, has been gaining steam in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the U.S.

• This past February, the EU voted to establish a ‘right to repair’ legislative framework, and last November, 75% of Massachusetts voters approved an automotive right-to-repair measure.

🎁 A stampede of fans surging toward the stage during Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston killed at least eight people between 14-27 years old, officials said on Saturday.

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The conservative-leaning Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the emergency stay while considering an official injunction, saying the measure – which applies to roughly ⅔ of American workers – raises “grave statutory and constitutional issues.”

• The petition was filed this month by Texas AG Ken Paxton, who was joined by the AGs of Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah, in addition to several companies.

📜 Background: President Biden last week set a January 4 deadline for employers to comply with his administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate or face fines of up to nearly $14,000 per violation.

• Since then, more than two dozen states have filed or are planning to file suits in opposition to the private business mandate. (What are their chances of winning ?)

⚖️🇺🇸 Zoom out… Nineteen Republican-led states have also sued the Biden administration over a separate mandate requiring vaccines for employees of federal contractors, which is set to take effect December 8.

• Roughly 4 million federal workers are to be vaccinated by November 22 under a separate executive order, which faces at least one lawsuit filed by a federal corrections officers union in Florida last week.

📝 Looking ahead: Expect a lot more court decisions regarding the Biden administration’s various vaccine mandates, with the Supreme Court likely to weigh in at some point.

The arrival of COVID pills could complicate (or clarify) matters further.

• The UK became the first country to approve molnupiravir, Merck's oral COVID treatment, on Thursday. An FDA advisory committee meets later this month to consider it for approval.
• Paxlovid, a COVID pill developed by Pfizer, reduced the risk of hospitalization or death for unvaccinated adults in at-risk populations by 89% during a large study, the company said Friday.

🚢 The Great Ocean Cleanup

Images: The Ocean Cleanup

Over the course of nearly four months, Jenny made nine extractions totaling over 63,000 pounds of trash. The mountain of recovered waste arrived in British Columbia, Canada, this month, with much of it set to be recycled.

🤿 A deeper dive… This wasn’t a one-time deal, but rather a testing phase.

• The nonprofit behind the project, The Ocean Cleanup, is hoping to deploy Jenny and enough of her friends to reduce the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 50% every five years. (It’s currently ~2x the size of Texas).

⛽ On the horizon ?… A new study from Harvard, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution suggests vessels that collect trash – like those mentioned in this article – could eventually be powered by the waste they collect.

Image: Western Australian Police

After more than three decades of experience in the force, NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller is rarely phased by any situation. But on November 3rd, he couldn’t help but weep.

🏕️ Setting the scene… Four-year-old Cleo went missing nearly three weeks ago, abducted from her tent in the middle of the night while on a camping trip with her family.

• Horrified and fearing the worst, a massive search party set out to bring Cleo home. Miraculously, the toddler was found last week in good health and spirits.

What is the only monarchy in the world ruled by a queen other than Elizabeth II ?

A) Denmark
B) France
C) Belgium
D) Spain

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A) Denmark

There are 17 monarchies in the world "ruled" by a queen, and 16 of them count Elizabeth II as head of state.

• The 17th can be found in Denmark, where the reigning monarch Queen Margrethe II holds no political power.