Monday, September 1, 2025
Friday, August 29, 2025
iPhone 17 Secrets: Tech, Design & Apple’s Bold Move!
Apple is holding its next big launch event on September 9, as the rumors said it would. The company just officially confirmed this, and started sending out media invites.
At the event, Apple will unveil the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. The tagline Apple chose for this event is "awe dropping" - get it? It's a mix of "awe-inspiring" and "jaw-dropping".
The event will be taking place at 10 AM PT, at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park in Cupertino, California. That time translates as 1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM in Central Europe, and 10:30 PM in India.
The iPhone 17 Air will undoubtedly be the star of the show - the replacement for the Plus model in the line will be incredibly thin at under 6mm, but that does come with costs associated with only having one rear camera, and a tiny battery. It remains to be seen how it will be received.
One Minute Diamond History
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History of Writing and way of communication
The history and prehistory of writing are as long as the history of civilization itself. Indeed the development of communication by writing was a basic step in the advance of civilization.
Yet writing is little more than 5,000 years old. The oldest writings that have come down to the present day are inscriptions on clay tablets made by the Sumerians in about 3100 bc. The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Egyptians in the Nile River valley developed writing about 100 to 200 years later (see Egypt, ancient).
Writing is sometimes spoken of as humankind’s greatest invention. It was developed by many people in various locations over a prolonged period. The identity of the individuals responsible for the major steps in the development of writing is not known. Their names, like those of the inventors of the wheel, are lost forever in the dimness of the past.
How Early Humans Communicated
Long before the earliest writings of the Sumerians and the Egyptians were developed, people communicated with each other by a number of different methods. Early humans could express thoughts and feelings by means of speech or by signs or gestures. They could signal with fire and smoke, drums, or whistles.
Forerunner of Writing: Picture, or Idea, Writing
The need for communicating in a form less limited by time and space led to drawings or markings on objects of any solid material. These messages lasted as long as the materials themselves. Humans had been drawing pictures from earliest times. The prehistoric cave paintings were artistic and realistic representations of the world of primitive humans.
Sources: Britanica Kids.