2320 Interesting News

• Our Big Mac index can predict the future (sort of)
• A war correspondent's intimate portrait of an embattled minority
• In Xi Jinping's China, central planners rule
• X placed ads from Discovery, Showtime and USA Today on a neo-Nazi account
• Frank Drake believed that the universe had to contain other intelligent beings
• Latin America's prisons are overcrowded and violent
• A "Divine Comedy" ballet, 700 years after Dante's death
• China's graduates unconvinced by calls to toil in countryside
• Forget Teslas, India's EV revolution is happening on two wheels
• How a tide of tech money is transforming charity
• The Taliban embrace cultural heritage
• The mystery of gold prices
• February's earthquakes have damaged the Middle East's dams
• The New Minstrels Are Here
• Hormone tests for women's fertility seem not to work
• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News's ratings
• How to prevent sycophancy in China's civil service
• Is mining set for a new wave of mega-mergers?
• Indie games have entered the era of bespoke publishing
• 8 Best Deals From the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale (2023): Dyson Hair Tools, Fellow Grinder, Strollers
• China's rulers play the law-and-order card, and lose
• Poor areas suffered 3.5 times more damage in Turkey's earthquake
• KAL's cartoon
• Taylor Swift-Quake: Fans Cause Seismic Activity at Seattle Concert
• Savannah DeMelo's World Cup Trial by Fire
• Everyone Wants Ukraine's Battlefield Data
• How Kyiv fended off a Russian missile blitz in May
• Deflation is curbing China's economic rise
• Can AT&T and Verizon escape managed decline?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'Final Fantasy XIV' comes to Xbox next spring
• Hunter Biden's plea bargain will not stop Republicans chasing him
• Habitat loss and climate change increase the risk of new diseases
• Let's stick together: how holidays with grown-up children strengthen ties
• As Britons grow more unhappy with Brexit, what happens next?
• Places with high religious participation have fewer deaths of despair
• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
• The burning of the banlieues
• Inflation and rising demands on governments are changing economic policy
• Business
• John Romero's Doom Memoir Is Full of Fascinating Details
• China's alleged theft of a pineapple cultivar has Taiwan livid
• What to make of China's military drills around Taiwan
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
• For Western democracies, the price of avoiding a clash with China is rising
• What makes everyone so sure SAFE rounds are founder-friendly?
• One Canadian province has decriminalised drugs
• What is 5G? The Complete Guide to When, Why, and How
• Should you send your children to private school?
• China is exerting greater power across Asia—and beyond
• After a decade of SNP dominance, Scotland's politics is suddenly in flux
• Business
• Politics
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• Britain's economy may grow by more than expected, but inflation is stickier
• For Luxury Brands in America, the Easy Pickings Are Over
• The battle to control Mexican telecoms
• Meta Sees Ad Business Rebound but Warns of Higher Spending in Metaverse
• South Korea has had enough of being called an emerging market
• Political turmoil is tearing Peru apart
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why so much of the world won't stand up to Russia
• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
• Here's How AI Can Predict Hit Songs With Frightening Accuracy
• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
• Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine
• How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?
• America needs a jab in its corporate backside
• It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track
• Bank of Japan Hints It Will Accept Higher Rates, Lifting Bond Yields
• Hong Kong judge defies government's bid to ban pro-democracy protest song
• If it hadn't been for them meddlin' kids
• Sinéad O'Connor: a life in pictures
• Class Is in Session. The Teacher? Mark Morris.
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sequoia Capital Slashes Crypto Fund
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Large language models' ability to generate text also lets them plan and reason
• The Score: Mattel, PacWest, Meta and More Stocks That Defined the Week
• A step towards a contraceptive pill for men?
• Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Store API rules
• Britain's semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in
• Why Nigel Farage's bank account matters so much – podcast
• KAL's cartoon
• Children's centres in Britain are crammed again
• How long will the travel boom last?
• Share details of Turkey off the beaten track – and win a holiday
• Silvergate is the latest victim of the crypto meltdown
• Egyptians are disgruntled with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi
• Go First's insolvency tests India's bankruptcy regime
• The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• Twitter, now X, opens up its ad revenue sharing program with global creators
• China's Breach of Microsoft Cloud Email May Expose Deeper Problems
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive?
• The novel ways old people try to find love in China
• Ethnic conflict drags on in Manipur in India's north-east
• Intel Returns to Profit as PC Rebound Lifts Chip Demand
• Migration to Britain hits a record high
• What's News: Business & Finance
• How Jason Aldean Explains Donald Trump (And Vice Versa)
• KAL's cartoon
• New Trump Charges Highlight Long-Running Questions About Obstruction
• There's a Book for That
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why are more British adults still living with their parents?
• Keeping up with the Tokugawas
• Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones
• How a southern Italian crime family's reign ended in tragedy
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• British pension funds agree to invest more in private markets
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• Hungary is becoming more important to China
• Goldman Sachs: pull back on owning a consumer lending business
• Policymakers are likely to jettison their 2% inflation targets
• Instant payments finally reach America with FedNow
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new gravitational-wave detection has excited astronomers
• A battle of rickshaw apps shows the promise of India's digital stack
• The Life and Death of American Cities
• Neurons are not the only brain cells that think
• How well does your country provide for its citizens?
• Binyamin Netanyahu has lost his aura of invincibility
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A Ukrainian fencer penalized for refusing a Russian handshake is guaranteed a spot in the Paris Olympics.
• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Another comeback for China's street merchants
• Too many people take too many pills
• Mother pays tribute to young daughter killed in Walsall hit-and-run
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• In conversation with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
• AIDS Relief Program Under Threat as G.O.P. Insists on Abortion Restriction
• The best films of 2021
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Best Internet Providers in Scottsdale, Arizona - CNET
• Israel Has Already Lost
• This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close
• Oppenheimer Offers Us a Fresh Warning of AI's Danger
• Fusion power is coming back into fashion
• Wanted: a Britain economics writer
• Obituary: Mikis Theodorakis wrote the theme tune of "Zorba the Greek"
• Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
• The Best Personal Safety Devices, Apps, and Wearables (2023)
• A flare-up of violence in the Middle East
• Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• Gene-editing has created a generation of musical crops
• Uber's Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison
• CDC Finds Coronavirus and Other Infectious Agents in Unlicensed California Lab
• North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7bn of crypto last year
• Video: insights from the author
• Mortgage Refinance Rates on July 28, 2023: Rates Move Up - CNET
• How to Use Discord's Family Center With Your Teens
• Politics
• A short guide to corporate rituals
• How 'Minx,' a Comedy About '70s Porn, Survived a Hollywood Shake-Up
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• Julian Assange: US rejects Australia's calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks founder during Ausmin talks
• Can AI Replace Humans? We Went to the Fast-Food Drive-Through to Find Out
• What Is Genetic Testing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• America is courting India in part for its growing economic clout
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Many of China's top politicians were educated in the West
• Politics
• Fentanyl is spreading the opioid crisis into America's big cities
• The push to bring insulin prices down in America
• Xi Jinping reaches into China's ancient history for a new claim to rule
• Meta's Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race
• Why Elon Musk's Plan for a Super App Won't Be Easy in America
• How grassroots schemes are helping England's non-white cricketers
• Hong Kong starts its largest national-security trial
• Greece's prime minister wins an election, but lacks a majority
• Leaders of Islamic State have a short life-expectancy
• The Supreme Court declines to upend American election law
• The fight over working from home goes global
• Demand for chocolate causes more illegal deforestation than people realise
• AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact
• The Palestinian Authority is being eclipsed by radical militants
• The Unfamiliar by Kirsty Logan review – motherhood, queered
• 'Millennium Falcon' Comet Sprouts Icy Wings as It Loops around the Sun
• Carlee Russell is charged with kidnapping hoax
• Uzbekistan's president clings to power while passing liberal reforms
• Why Cape Town beats Johannesburg
• North Carolina may be the hottest political battleground of 2024
• Looking for the African middle class? Head to the bus park
• Hollywood's Strikes Will Disrupt Podcasts, Games, and TikTok Too
• The conflict in Ukraine risks inflaming the Sino-American rivalry
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey's president
• Taylor Swift's Seattle Tour Stop Clocks in on Seismometers
• German bosses are depressed
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• AI is making Washington smarter
• Shia Muslims are no longer in the ascendant
• Secret Invasion Director Ali Selim Won't Read the Bad Reviews
• The Philippines' proximity to Taiwan makes it central to Western strategy
• Can Inflatable Outdoor Furniture Ever Be Chic?
• European politics has gone from complicated to impenetrable
• Can UBS make the most of finance's deal of the century?
• Antarctic rocks can help sort stone tools from natural lookalikes
• Pablo Milanés, a great musician and a critic of Cuba's regime, has died
• China has its eyes on Okinawa
• Do Oddball Questions Help Companies Find the Best New Hires? Unlikely.
• The Xbox Series X is $50 off at Dell
• Parenting can be bad for the kids
• China's Communist Party is tightening its grip in businesses
• External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
• Politics
• Can Australia break China's monopoly on critical minerals?
• Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are missing in action
• This week's cover
• Is the US still capable of science moonshots?
• The growth of Africa's towns and small cities is transforming the continent
• Why Apple is betting big on India
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hello Kitty Island Adventure Is Out Exclusively on Apple Arcade - CNET
• A palatial museum of Edvard Munch's art opens in Oslo
• America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies
• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
• Joe Biden should run against the Ivy League
• An inquiry into Macron Derangement Syndrome
• Mykhailo Fedorov Is Running Ukraine's War Against Russia Like a Startup
• The Palestinians need new leaders
• The Key Number to Watch in U.S. Bank Earnings
• John Fetterman, Hoodie and All, Is Adjusting to Life in the Senate
• China's message to the global south
• The Biden administration embraces place-based industrial policy
• Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down
• Big pharma is warming to the potential of AI
• There's more than one way to spay a cat
• What is supercharging the global heat? – video explainer
• Ukraine's assault in Zaporizhia may be the focus of its offensive
• A short history of Hollywood's poison-pen letters to itself
• The Bank of Japan made an important change to its monetary policy, signaling that it would tolerate higher yields on longer-term Japanese government bonds.
• 'She found peace here': local people tell of Sinéad O'Connor's last years in Ireland
• China wants to change, or break, a world order set by others
• Who will succeed Shia Islam's top man?
• China's prime minister, Li Keqiang, is about to retire
• Japan offers Ukraine a lesson in reconstruction
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
• Why Spain's successful prime minister might lose his job
• An American soldier has deserted to North Korea
• How a balloon burst Sino-American talks
• Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
• China's new head of government, Li Qiang, has Xi Jinping's ear
• This week's covers
• Ticks Are Giving Tons of Americans an Allergy to Red Meat
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Brazil's foreign policy is hyperactive, ambitious and naive
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• Europe can't decide how to unplug from China
• Biogen will pay $7.3 billion to acquire Reata Pharmaceuticals, the owner of a rare-disease treatment with the potential to be a blockbuster.
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's data-security laws rattle Western business executives
• Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal
• Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• What war mobilisation might look like in China
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• Is China better at monetary policy than America?
• China's tolerance for public oversight is limited
• Once Russia's best friend in the West, Austria is facing trouble
• Bernard Haitink believed that genius should speak for itself
• Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
• The Viruses That Could Cure Cancer (or Wipe Out Humanity)
• NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform
• Streaming services are helping Arab producers liven up television
• My Balls-Out Quest to Achieve the Perfect Scrotum
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
• Sir Keir Starmer's magic lamp
• Wi-Fi signals could prove useful for spies
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• How Vladimir Putin provokes—and complicates—the struggle against autocracy
• How much is a human head?
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• America's jobs report is not as strong as it seems
• Sam Kerr declares herself fit and available for Matildas' must-win World Cup clash against Canada
• Venezuelan spymaster 'El Pollo' accused of flooding US with cocaine
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
• How China's police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
• Can Jordan fall in love with Saudi Arabia?
• Exxon, Chevron Remain Money Gushers
• Europe will need to fundamentally reset its fiscal policies
• Wild Donkeys Are on the Vanguard of Ukraine's Ecological Recovery
• Hong Kong puts a price on the heads of democracy activists
• The Kremlin is attempting one of the most complex corporate takeovers in history, seeking to seize control of the Wagner paramilitary group's global empire.
• Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
• The American left and right loathe each other and agree on a lot
• Vladimir Putin wants to militarise Russian schools
• Elon Musk's X Rebrand Cues Complications---and Porn Jokes
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• Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape
• Europe is struggling to rebuild its military clout
• Elon Musk's Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification
• Covid-19 has pushed governments to find new ways to help the poor
• Ticks and the Diseases They Carry Are Spreading. Can This Drug Stamp Them Out?
• Inside the shared studio of Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
• AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
• Patriotic Ukrainians are rushing to pay their taxes
• How much of a concern are China's overseas police stations?
• India's once-troubled banks are generating huge profits
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• The new king of beers is a Mexican-American success story
• My Soccer Dreams Came True
• It's Barbie time — the golden age of doing nothing
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• The opposition looks set to win Thailand's election
• Video games, power and diplomacy
• A huge Norwegian phosphate rock find is a boon for Europe
• Hailstorms pummel northern Italy after days of extreme heat – video report
• What makes a good office perk?
• This week's cover
• Tree-felling is at the centre of disputes across Britain
• Will Japan fight?
• How Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would govern Brazil
• On defence, America and India edge closer together
• Politics
• The Taliban go big on animal welfare
• NYC Blackout? Preparation Is Key.
• Joe Biden openly acknowledges his seventh grandchild for the first time
• China has not done enough to halt the wildlife trade
• Argentina reaches last-minute deal with IMF to avoid default
• A clue to China's true covid-19 death toll
• Workplace advice from our agony uncle
• Despite a crash, Indian railways have an impressive safety record
• Sheikh Hasina is Asia's iron lady
• As they cut back on hiring, Arab bureaucracies are spending more to get less
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Many thousands of Africans have disappeared in conflict
• Dervla Murphy let nothing stand in the way of adventure
• A dictator and his entitled son are holding Uganda captive
• Women Experience Greater Burdens from Extreme Heat
• Man City v Inter Milan is the most lopsided final in Champions League history
• Rishi Sunak has resolved to fight dirty. But will his opponent be Labour or his own MPs? | Katy Balls
• Chinese bubble tea chains go viral in South-East Asia
• Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
• Regulators put the future of America's crypto industry in doubt
• Sysreptor - Fully Customisable, Offensive Security Reporting Tool Designed For Pentesters, Red Teamers And Other Security-Related People Alike
• America is lavishing attention on Pacific island states
• George Alagiah, journalist and broadcaster, 1955-2023
• The world divided
• America is losing ground in Asian trade
• Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
• Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point
• How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• A biographer explores Greta Garbo's glamour and vacuity
• Why China fears Starlink
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A light show and a clown: Friday's best photos
• Mexico could elect its first female president next year
• Trader Joe's recalls its frozen falafel for possibly having rocks in it
• Voters give Britain's ruling Conservatives a historic mauling
• New drugs may protect girls having sex with older men from HIV
• French bulldogs are taking over America
• Lebanon's government is squeezing out Syrian refugees
• Madeleine Albright saw herself as an ambassador for freedom
• Alexander Lukashenko is the clearest beneficiary of Wagner's mutiny
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• How should Britain reform rape-trial laws?
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• KAL's cartoon
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• Phyllida Barlow had a lifetime of adventure making art
• Chinese nationalists are up in arms over the treatment of pandas
• Almost 50 Years Into the Crypto Wars, Encryption's Opponents Are Still Wrong
• Support for the hard-right AfD is surging in Germany
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• A former bureaucrat is giving Erdogan a run for his money
• Nigeria's new president scraps the fuel subsidy
• An Exodus of Talent Is Imperiling Goldman's Overhaul
• Exxon and Chevron collectively banked nearly $14 billion in second-quarter profits, down from last year's record-breaking levels but adding to their war chests.
• Are 'Cocaine Sharks' Really Scarfing Down Drugs off Florida's Coasts?
• Whoever runs Britain will struggle to get tough on China
• COP26 ends with a pact that is neither a triumph nor a trainwreck
• SOC-Multitool - A Powerful And User-Friendly Browser Extension That Streamlines Investigations For Security Professionals
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• India is getting an eye-wateringly big transport upgrade
• Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, quits politics
• The winners and losers from the $69bn Microsoft-Activision mega-deal
• The 26 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now
• Fad diets, midday sun and … coffee on the sofa: 12 doctors on the everyday dangers they avoid
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new generation of Argentine musicians is topping the charts
• Co-ordinated rocket salvoes suggest Israel's old enemies are reuniting
• Press freedom is under attack
• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• Why Africa is poised to become a big player in energy markets
• Meet the Psychedelic Boom's First Responders
• Antony Sher pushed the boundaries of Shakespeare's plays
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• Investors are seized by optimism. Can the bull market last?
• China controls the supply of crucial war minerals
• $1 Million Will Go to the Mathematician Who Busts the 'ABC Conjecture' Theory
• First Republic fails, and is snapped up by JPMorgan Chase
• Tony Bennett's most memorable duets – video obituary
• Climate Change: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Post-mutiny Moscow descends into factional murk
• A Leaked Memo Shows TikTok Knows It Has a Labor Problem
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• China's young want to work. For the government
• Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business
• Joe Biden needs Mexico's co-operation on migration
• 'People are like, Wow!': the man trying to make condoms sexy – podcast
• Fan fiction writers rally fandoms against KOSA, the bill purporting to protect kids online
• 'It makes sense': the UK homeowners renting out rooms in exchange for babysitting, cleaning or dog-walking
• How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Take Vacation This Summer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a "soup" of language
• Chicago hopes to become a world centre for quantum research
• Why foreign dignitaries wear red when meeting Xi Jinping
• Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts
• Hidden - Windows Driver With Usermode Interface Which Can Hide Processes, File-System And Registry Objects, Protect Processes And Etc
• Old tyres can become a climate-friendly fuel
• An acrimonious debate about covid's origins will rumble on
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• Adidas to Release Second Batch of Unsold Yeezy Shoes
• It doesn't take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry
• Are cities in Asia becoming better places to live?
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theatrical Movies, Ranked
• $2 Billion Default Followed Warnings to Everyone but Investors
• Jiang Zemin oversaw a wave of economic change, but not much political reform
• Rampant jihadists are spreading chaos and misery in the Sahel
• Vaping among schoolchildren has become a moral panic in Britain
• Microsoft Touts AI Potential as Growth Is Hurt by Cooling Cloud Demand
• What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
• Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter
• Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover
• Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
• Investors have reason to fear a strong economy
• Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
• Sergio Massa is the only thing standing between Argentina and chaos
• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• This week's covers
• Hands On With Google Search's Answer to ChatGPT
• Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people
• Who are the militias raiding Russia's Belgorod region?
• Perilous migrant crossings of the Mediterranean are rising
• Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics
• Tropical Storms Leave Behind Lots of Nasty Germs, Study Finds
• How the Human Genome Project revolutionised biology
• The Bank of Japan jolts global markets
• Prince Harry complains again, this time in court
• Businesses' bottleneck bane
• Reality TV Saved Me
• Viral New Superconductivity Claims Leave Many Scientists Skeptical
• Why aren't China and America more afraid of a war?
• Smartphone Shipments Have Dropped 24%, Analysts Say - CNET
• The world's religions face a post-pandemic reckoning
• The war in Ukraine is boosting Israel's arms exports
• The Anglophone military alliance in Asia is seriously ambitious
• British Airways owner IAG and Air France-KLM report record profits
• What's News: World-Wide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new TB vaccine could save 8.5m lives over the next quarter of a century
• EU's top regulator says region's banks are 'robust'
• Yurii Kerpatenko refused to bow to Russian orders
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
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• Just how good can China get at generative AI?
• Business
• Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than covid-19 last winter
• Israel's constitutional chaos is far from over
• Inside Walmart's Warehouse of the Future
• 'Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.' The Story of Oppenheimer's Infamous Quote
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• How LA's drag nuns took centre stage in the culture wars
• Spoutible's Low-Budget, Audacious Quest to Be the Next Twitter
• A pediatric neurosurgeon reflects on his intense job, and the post-Roe landscape
• Does the tank have a future?
• Poland's government may seek to bar opponents from politics
• Why the EU will not seize Russian state assets to rebuild Ukraine
• Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• Canada has a shortage of lifeguards
• The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not yet
• Better camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors
• Charles McGee faced adversity at home as much as abroad
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• How China sees Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• France's foreign-policy revolution
• Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
• Dismay and violence after a police killing in France
• Artifact's App Forces an AI Snoop Dogg to Read the News to You
• The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown
• Is China's attitude to genetically modified crops changing?
• Most fires in Greece were started 'by human hand', government says
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What shipwrecked insects reveal about life at sea in the 17th century
• A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• Intel Needs to Latch Onto the AI Boom
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• A digital payments revolution in India
• TETRA Radio Code Encryption Has a Flaw: A Backdoor
• Accounting for flood risk would lower American house prices by $187bn
• On China, Japan's PM wants diplomacy, not war
• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• Ukrainians have grown used to living with curfews
• The Tech CEO Who Uses His Phone the Old-Fashioned Way
• Erotic statues in Peru are challenging taboos
• Why Sequoia Capital is sawing off its Chinese branch
• This week's covers
• It is getting even harder for Western scholars to do research in China
• P.J. O'Rourke hoped to make life hell for do-gooders everywhere
• Devastating Wildfires on the Greek Island of Rhodes
• Why you have an accent in a foreign language
• Alabama Is Defying the Supreme Court on Voting Rights
• To understand Xi Jinping, it helps to be steeped in the classics
• Can the West win over the rest of the world?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• How Russian casualties in Ukraine compare with other wars
• A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
• The four women who shook up philosophy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Transcript: An interview with Sir Keir Starmer
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• Around the world in seven carts: how people shop for groceries internationally
• Apple's App Store tightens up on user privacy with new rules for app developers
• Sources and acknowledgments
• George Orwell's horticultural sensibilities
• Narendra Modi's yoga evangelism
• KAL's cartoon
• Britain plans new guidance on sex and gender in schools
• Can British seaweed farms bloom?
• Supply chains are back to normal. Why is inflation still so high?
• Egypt's army seems to want to make pasta as well as war
• The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom
• gravityLab wants to tackle the artificial gravity problem
• 5 Ways That Buying a Car Has Drastically Changed
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• Banks Are Halting Stock Buybacks Again as New Capital Rules Loom
• Syria's president wants non-Muslim religions to help end his pariah status
• The Economic Cost of Houston's Heat: 'I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore'
• How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine?
• Wrightbus bets on hydrogen buses
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• Russian hackers are preparing for a new campaign in Ukraine
• Nikki Haley, like other long shots, sees a path to victory
• An all-out strike brings Hollywood to a halt
• The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed
• Is China's recovery about to stall?
• NASA and DARPA Tap Lockheed Martin for a Nuclear Propulsion Demonstration
• Network_Assessment - With Wireshark Or TCPdump, You Can Determine Whether There Is Harmful Activity On Your Network Traffic That You Have Recorded On The Network You Monitor
• Desmond Tutu believed that truth was the best weapon
• More Americans than ever report a disability
• Dinner Party Recipes for Summer
• As the Hollywood Strikes Continue, AMPTP Could Be Bargaining—But It's 'On a Break'
• War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten
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