QPORIT

Several items of note, today:

Ketanji Jackson was officially confirmed to join the Supreme Court when an opening arises.  The next opening is expect to occur at the end of this term, with the retirement of Justice Breyer.  The confirmation vote was 53 to 47, with Senators Murkowski (AK), Collins (ME), and Romney (UT)  (the only Republicans) voting with all the Democrats to confirm.

Several Republicans (actually RINO's, Republicans in name only, since they do not seem to believe in a republic) try to have it both ways: to support the nomination in public, while voting against her in the Senate. (Not voting for someone you claim to believe deserves confirmation becomes another example of the extreme partisanship in the RINO party.  Extreme partisanship, fealty to the defeated former President  (dPP) and in some cases even support for Putin and current Russian aggression, characterize the RINO's. "Washington" is not partisan: Extreme partisanship is a policy of the RINO's alone.)

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Meta (formerly Facebook) has cancelled F8, their once premiere developer conference. There is speculation that "Meta Connect" (formerly Oculus Connect, then Facebook Connect) will become their premiere developer event in the late summer or early fall.

F8 PAUSE

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/04/06/pausing-f8-in-2022/

Meta also announced a new business event, Conversations, about messaging.

META CONNECTIONS - May 19, 2022

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/03/31/introducing-conversations/

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Apple has announced their 2022 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC22) for June 6-10.  It will be online, but there will also be a limited number of developers and students on-premise for the keynote.  

WWDC22 - June 6-10, 2022

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/

Apple also announced the "Swift Student Challenge" where "Talented students can showcase their creativity for the opportunity to receive an award."

SWIFT STUDENT CHALLENGE

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/swift-student-challenge/

Labels: Apple, coding, developers, F8, Ketanji Jackson, Meta, Meta Connect, Meta Conversations, SCOTUS, Swift Student Challenge, WWDC

# posted by QPORIT @ 4:54 PM