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By Nader Ibrahim
January 19, 2026
Even a device as simple as a computer mouse still has plenty of room for improvement. Modern versions are becoming lighter, more ergonomic, and often even look nothing like their traditional counterparts. The NanoFlow i2 Air incorporates some revolutionary features and is now available for backing on Kickstarter.
It is claimed to be the world’s smallest horizontal mouse, measuring 31 × 39 × 75 mm (1.22 × 1.54 × 2.95 in) and weighing just 35 g (1.25 oz), which makes it smaller than your earbuds case. It takes up very little space, fits easily in a pocket, and can be used on almost any surface.
The mouse was designed specifically for modern, flexible work conditions and is targeted at laptop users, digital nomads and travelers. And if you need to work in quiet places or late at night, you’ll likely appreciate how quiet the mouse’s clicks are – just under 20 dB.
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One of the main goals behind this invention is to reduce wrist strain caused by traditional computer mice. While those are designed to be pushed against flat surfaces, the NanoFlow i2 Air uses forward-balance fingertip control. This design basically removes unnecessary palm contact, so force and control come from the fingertips rather than the palm.
As a result, muscle load is reduced and the wrist is placed in a more natural, relaxed position. The mouse has anti-slip rubber grips on both ends, allowing the fingers to maintain a steady hold. It also features an electroplated shell for easy cleaning.
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The mouse is claimed to perform well on nearly any surface – from small coffee tables to sofas, airplane trays, or even your own lap – so any location can become a temporary workplace when needed, as long as you can balance your laptop there. Thanks to its ergonomic design and compact size, this device can be used on much smaller surfaces than a traditional mouse.
A one-hour fast charge via USB-C reportedly provides up to 40 hours of usage. The device can be still used while charging, allowing you to keep working without interruptions. It also features a smart standby mode that automatically turns the device off when not in use.
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Supporting both Bluetooth and 2.4G wireless connections, the mouse can connect to two devices at the same time and instantly switch between them, which is a great feature for multitasking between a laptop and a tablet. The NanoFlow i2 Air doesn’t require any drivers and is compatible with Windows, macOS, Linux, iPadOS, and Android devices that support Bluetooth or USB receivers.
The product is currently designed for right-handed users only and is available in color choices of black and white.
Assuming the Kickstarter campaign is successful, shipment is expected to begin at the end of March. Early backers can purchase the product for US$79, with a planned retail price of $99.
NanoFlow i2 Air — The Smallest Horizontal Mouse
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Over the past year, United States President Donald Trump has unleashed a slew of policies that have upended businesses, supply chains and jobs.
Yet the US economy seems to be growing at a healthy clip, and the unemployment rate is in a safe zone.
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The reality, experts say, is that the stock market boom has helped to mask deeper underlying problems in the economy.
Since taking office, Trump has imposed a range of tariffs on countries, including key trading partners, leading to predictions of inflation skyrocketing, manufacturing screeching to a halt and unemployment soaring.
None of those scenarios came true.
Inflation, while above the Federal Reserve’s target, was a modest 2.7 percent in December.
The unemployment rate was relatively low, at 4.4 percent, last month. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 4.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025, the fastest in two years.
“The shock and awe we anticipated just didn’t materialise,” Bernard Yaros, lead US economist at Oxford Economics, told Al Jazeera.
Yaros said the limited fallout could be attributed to the relative lack of retaliation by other countries and the stock market rally that quickly followed Trump’s dialling back of the steepest tariffs announced on “liberation day“.
Since Trump’s April 2 announcement, the stock market, which is heavily weighted towards the “magnificent seven” tech companies, has risen nearly 30 percent, boosting Americans’ paper wealth and encouraging households to loosen their purse strings.
Gains in net wealth have driven almost one-third of the rise in consumer spending since the COVID-19 pandemic, Oxford Economics said in a research briefing in October.
At the same time, the gains have not been distributed evenly.
The top 10 percent of earners are now estimated to account for roughly half of all spending, the highest proportion since officials began compiling data in 1989, according to Moody’s Analytics.
“The gains are going a lot to people in higher income brackets – they are the ones who have the stock portfolios – and are going to people in sectors and occupations tied to AI,” Marcus Noland, executive vice president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Al Jazeera.
“But, these numbers mask the unevenness in the growth in this economy.”
A careful parsing of the data reveals that unevenness. For instance, despite the impressive GDP numbers, that growth is not being accompanied by an increase in hiring.
While hospitality and healthcare added workers last year, retail, manufacturing and construction – sectors that rely heavily on migrants – all shed jobs.
As a result of the Trump administration’s mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and tightening of legal migration pathways, the US last year experienced negative net migration for the first time in at least half a century, according to a Brookings Institution analysis.
“And through this very public and brutal way of going about deportations, they have discouraged illegal immigration, but also intimidated immigrants in the US,” Noland said, adding that the US workforce is projected to see a net decline of two million workers this year.
The “bifurcation” in the US economy is also being felt across the business world, with smaller companies lacking the deep pockets to stockpile inventories or negotiate with suppliers in the face of increased tariffs.
“The surge in policy uncertainty this year has had an outsize effect on smaller firms,” Oxford Economics said in a November report.
These firms are also seeing little benefit from the boom in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry since revenues have been driven by capital-intensive chip manufacturing and cloud services.
While AI proponents believe the world is on the cusp of huge gains in productivity that could dramatically raise living standards, there are concerns about large numbers of people being put out of work.
“This could be the new norm – jobless growth. That’s one reason people are not feeling so great,” Yaros said.
“While a lot of hype about AI and productivity benefits from AI are still to come, we think that is a risk to the labour market if it continues to hold back hiring.”
The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota, one of the protest’s organizers, shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.” The 37-year-old mother of three was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month amid a surge in federal immigration enforcement activities.
The protesters allege that one of the church’s pastors — David Easterwood — also leads the local ICE field office overseeing the operations that have involved violent tactics and illegal arrests.
U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said her agency is investigating federal civil rights violations “by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers.”
“A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws!” she said on social media.
Attorney General Pam Bondi also weighed in on social media, saying that any violations of federal law would be prosecuted.
Nekima Levy Armstrong, who participated in the protest and leads the local grassroots civil rights organization Racial Justice Network, dismissed the potential DOJ investigation as a sham and a distraction from federal agents’ actions in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
“When you think about the federal government unleashing barbaric ICE agents upon our community and all the harm that they have caused, to have someone serving as a pastor who oversees these ICE agents, is almost unfathomable to me,” said Armstrong, who added she is an ordained reverend. “If people are more concerned about someone coming to a church on a Sunday and disrupting business as usual than they are about the atrocities that we are experiencing in our community, then they need to check their theology and the need to check their hearts.”
The website of St. Paul-based Cities Church lists David Easterwood as a pastor, and his personal information appears to match that of the David Easterwood identified in court filings as the acting director of the ICE St. Paul field office. Easterwood appeared alongside DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at a Minneapolis press conference last October.
Cities Church did not respond to a phone call or emailed request for comment Sunday evening, and Easterwood’s personal contact information could not immediately be located.
Easterwood did not lead the part of the service that was livestreamed, and it was unclear if he was present at the church Sunday.
In a Jan. 5 court filing, Easterwood defended ICE’s tactics in Minnesota such as swapping license plates and spraying protesters with chemical irritants. He wrote that federal agents were experiencing increased threats and aggression and crowd control devices like flash-bang grenades were important to protect against violent attacks. He testified that he was unaware of agents “knowingly targeting or retaliating against peaceful protesters or legal observers with less lethal munitions and/or crowd control devices.”
“Agitators aren’t just targeting our officers. Now they’re targeting churches, too,” the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency stated. “They’re going from hotel to hotel, church to church, hunting for federal law enforcement who are risking their lives to protect Americans.”
Black Lives Matter Minnesota co-founder Monique Cullars-Doty said that the DOJ’s prosecution was misguided.
“If you got a head — a leader in a church — that is leading and orchestrating ICE raids, my God, what has the world come to?” Cullars-Doty said. “We can’t sit back idly and watch people go and be led astray.”
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ReutersAt least 39 people have died and dozens more have been injured after two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain, the country’s Civil Guard has said.
The incident near the city of Córdoba has been described by local officials as Spain’s worst rail crash in more than a decade.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the scene on Monday, where he announced a three-day mourning period.
Here’s what we know about the incident so far.
The crash occurred at around 19:45 local time (18:45 GMT) on Sunday, about an hour after one of the trains departed Málaga for Madrid.
The train derailed and crossed over to the opposite track, operator Adif said.
It then collided with an oncoming train travelling from south Madrid to Huelva, which was forced into an embankment running alongside the track, Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente said on Sunday.
The majority of those killed and injured were in the front carriages of the Huelva-bound train, he added.
What caused the train to derail remains unclear.
Officials say an investigation has been launched but it is not expected to determine what happened for at least a month.
Puente has described the crash as “extremely strange” and said all the railway experts consulted by the government “are extremely baffled by the accident”.
The president of Spain’s state-owned rail operator, Renfe, said he had “discarded” the possibility that the incident occured due to excessive speed or human error.
Álvaro Fernández Heredia told Spain’s national radio RNE that even if a mistake had been made, a system within the train would have fixed it.
He added that both trains were travelling under the maximum speed limit on the stretch of track where the crash happened.
Fernández Heredia suggested a mechanical fault or an infrastructure issue was a more likely cause.
Meanwhile, at a news conference during his visit to Adamuz, Prime Minister Sánchez vowed to uncover the cause of the crash and thanked emergency workers for their help “in a moment of such pain and tragedy”.
Spanish Guardia Civil / Handout via ReutersThere were around 400 passengers and staff on the two trains, operated by Iryo and Renfe, according to a statement from Renfe.
It is not clear if there are people still trapped inside the carriages but rescue teams are on site.
“The problem is that the carriages are twisted, so the metal is twisted with the people inside,” Francisco Carmona, head of firefighters in Córdoba, told Spanish public broadcaster RTVE.
“We have even had to remove a dead person to be able to reach someone alive. It is hard, tricky work,” he added.
The president of the Andalusian regional government, Juanma Moreno, told local outlet Canal Sur that they are waiting for “heavy machinery” to “practically lift” parts of the second train, which “has taken the worst part of this accident”.
“Until the heavy machinery can do its job and free the wagons from the track”, emergency services will not be able to start “searching and identifying” any remaining victims, he added.
The 39 victims of the crash have not yet been identified, with Puente saying the death toll “is not yet final” as investigations into the crash commence.
As of Monday afternoon, 122 people had received medical assistance, 48 of whom remained hospitalised, local emergency services said.
Among the 48 victims still in hospital, five are under the age of 18.
Moreno said teams are working to identify those who have died.
ReutersPassengers on board the Madrid-bound train described the moment of impact feeling like an “earthquake” and said it shattered the train’s windows, displaced luggage and threw people to the floor.
“I was in the first carriage. There was a moment when it felt like an earthquake and the train had indeed derailed,” journalist Salvador Jimenez told Canal Sur.
“There were people screaming, calling for doctors,” he added.
Another passenger, Lucas Meriako, told Spanish broadcaster La Sexta Noticias he was in the fifth carriage of the same train when he started to “feel some banging” that got louder and louder.
“Another train passed us and everything started vibrating. There was a jolt behind us and the feeling that the whole train was going to fall apart,” he described.
Universal Music Group has announced the launch of Sound Generation, its new music education initiative designed to expand access to music education for young people around the world.
The programme will debut via a UK pilot before rolling out internationally later this year. It will provide free digital resources to support teachers and students through creativity, collaboration and curriculum-based activity, and aims to address declining participation in music education, particularly among younger students and schools with limited resources.
Built in collaboration with Camden Music Service, part of Camden Learning, a school-led partnership between borough schools and the local authority, the initiative draws directly on the success of Feversham Primary Academy in Bradford. Feversham was placed among the global top 10 in the World’s Best School Prizes in 2023 for its music-led curriculum.
UMG says Sound Generation comprises ten curated activities for Key Stage One students, inspired by Feversham’s approach, which the school leadership says helped drive “significantly improved SATS results at the end of Key Stage Two”.
“Music ignites the spark of true learning, tapping into something deeper than the everyday. The power of music improves maths, English, behaviour and attitudes to learning.”
Jimmy Rotheram, Feversham Primary Academy
Jimmy Rotheram, Music Lead & Naveed Idrees OBE, Headteacher, Feversham Primary Academy, said: “Music ignites the spark of true learning, tapping into something deeper than the everyday. The power of music improves maths, English, behaviour and attitudes to learning. At Feversham, we have harnessed this force of human nature to bring happiness and academic success for everyone. This means daily musical development, a strong curriculum, highly trained staff and parity with numeracy and literacy. The arts are the bedrock of academic success across all subjects, and provide the beating heart of our school.”
“We’re delighted to be working with UMG UK on a project that puts children’s creativity at the heart of learning.”
Gareth Gay, Camden Learning
Developed to deliver the diverse range of skills needed across music creation, the set of digital resources was designed to be easily integrated into primary school lessons, whether delivered by a music teacher with extensive experience or someone at the start of their career. These resources have been created by music teachers, for all teachers, ensuring they are practical, engaging, and grounded in classroom experience.
Gareth Gay, Head of Camden Music Service, Camden Learning, added: “We’re delighted to be working with Universal Music Group UK on a project that puts children’s creativity at the heart of learning. Camden has a long history of innovative, forward-thinking music education, and Sound Generation builds on that spirit by giving teachers fresh ideas, shared expertise, and the confidence to deliver exciting music lessons. Most importantly, it will help more children experience the joy and benefits of a high-quality music education, wherever they are on their musical journey.”
This announcement follows UMG UK’s partnerships with The Reading Agency, and Roundhouse, and marks the next iteration of its work to further music education in the UK.
Commenting on the launch, Sharlotte Ritchie, Senior Director, Global Impact & Communications at UMG, said the company wants to “address this challenge globally” and ensure more children access the developmental benefits of music.
“The benefits of high-quality music education span learning, development, and wellbeing and we want as many young people across the UK – and the world – to have access to this as possible.”
Sharlotte Ritchie, UMG
“We believe all young people should have access to high quality music education – but too often we hear this is not the case. Sound Generation is designed to address this challenge globally. The benefits of high-quality music education span learning, development, and wellbeing and we want as many young people across the UK – and the world – to have access to this as possible. By partnering with the experts at Camden Music Service, and taking inspiration from Feversham Primary Academy, this pilot programme marks our first step in making this a reality.”
“It’s fantastic that Camden is helping to launch the Sound Generation pilot. Our borough has a long and proud history with music, and we know how powerfully it can shape children’s lives.”, added Councillor Marcus Boyland, Cabinet Member for Best Start for Children and Families. “This programme gives our teachers new, joyful ways to bring music into the classroom – opening up opportunities for every child to discover their talents, build confidence and develop a love of learning that stays with them. I’m proud that Camden is playing a role in shaping a programme that will soon reach schools across the UK, and I’m excited to see how our pupils grow and thrive.”
The launch comes amid ongoing debate around the future of music education in the UK. In March 2025, Ed Sheeran wrote to UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and UK government officials calling for immediate, long-term funding for UK music education.
UMG expects to release further detail on national and international expansion in the next months.Music Business Worldwide
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Donald Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on allies over Greenland are ‘completely wrong’, adding that Greenland’s future should be decided solely by the people of Greenland and Denmark.
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A huge explosion at a factory in northern China has killed four people and injured 84 others, with six people still missing, state media reported.
The blast happened at around 15:00 local time (07:00 GMT) Sunday at Baogang United Steel plant in Inner Mongolia, causing noticeable tremors in the area.
Footage online showed the explosion sending large plumes of smoke into the sky, while the ground was littered with debris, including collapsed ceilings and pipes.
Five among the dozens hospitalised suffered serious injuries, state media reported. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blast.
Baogang United Steel is a major state-owned iron and steel enterprise.
China has a long history of industrial accidents, from factory explosions and mine collapses to mudslides.
In 2015, two massive explosions in the port of Tianjin killed 173 people, leaving hundreds more injured and devastating large areas of the city.
In May last year, an explosion in a chemical plant in the eastern province of Shandong killed five people and injured at least 19. The blast ripped the windows of building nearby from their hinges.
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