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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Do Scientists Make Good Presidents?
• What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang
• Maya twins myth may have influenced child sacrifices, study suggests
• Trump promises to cut taxes and regulations in pitch to top US CEOs
• Just how rich are businesses getting in the AI gold rush?
• We're hiring a senior India correspondent
• KAL's cartoon
• Can playing cards help catch criminals?
• Fastest VPN of 2024 - CNET
• The India express
• How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
• Can Benetton be patched up?
• The Labour Party's grand bargain with business
• Haiti's transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
• Some Taiwanese worry that their lawmakers may sell them out to China
• The family feud that holds the Philippines back
• The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
• Why China's government is hushing up court rulings
• Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The children of Iran's revolution still want to go West
• Excuse Me, Is There AI in That?
• Iran and Israel's shadow war explodes into the open
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• Of Course HBO Has Renewed House of the Dragon for a Third Season
• The rise of user-created video games
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
• University protests about Gaza spread to the Middle East
• Colombia's leftist president is flailing
• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• What Cities Can Teach Us About Life Online
• The Lords of Silicon Valley Are Thrilled to Present a 'Handheld Iron Dome'
• KAL's cartoon
• When to sell your stocks
• Zombie Fire Season Is Here in the Arctic
• The truth behind Olena Zelenska's $1.1m Cartier haul
• The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches
• The EU Is Taking on Big Tech. It May Be Outmatched
• The temptations of deferred removals
• JAW - A Graph-based Security Analysis Framework For Client-side JavaScript
• Is Ukraine's offensive stalling?
• Saudi Arabia's investment fund has been set an impossible task
• An abortion ruling has Democrats hoping Florida is in play
• Issey Miyake saw clothes in a completely new way
• The Palestinians' new prime minister faces a nightmare
• The Czech arms billionaire at the centre of a US ammunition bidding war
• Frontline Formosa
• More women are getting onto corporate boards. Good
• Xi Jinping's surprising new source of economic advice
• Does Perplexity's "answer engine" threaten Google?
• Want to avoid woke stockmarket rules? List in Texas
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• Tell us about your best friend and your favorite things about them
• Eight charts illustrate 2023's extreme weather
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong
• Imperial borders still shape politics in Poland
• Africa Inc is ready to roar
• Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China
• Turkey's President Erdogan faces a new challenge from Islamists
• How two small Texas towns became the patent-law centre of America
• How countries rank by military spending
• Could the war in Ukraine go nuclear?
• Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
• In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
• Astronomers Should Take a Deeper Look at Naming
• You're Cleaning Your Grill Wrong. Here's How to Get Those Grates Sparkling for Summer - CNET
• Half of Northern Irish patients wait over a year for treatment
• A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
• A shadowy wartime economy has emerged in Gaza
• A difficult new world
• Waymo Issues Second Recall for Robotaxis After Telephone Pole Crash
• An electoral bruising for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
• GiveDirectly does what it says on the tin
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
• Best iPad Deals: Save Up to $200 on Apple's Latest and Best Tablets - CNET
• Apple seems to have persuaded OpenAI to work for exposure
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
• Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India's past
• Remembering the Normandy landings
• After the Yahoo News app revamp, Yahoo preps AI summaries on homepage, too
• Sergei Shoigu's sacking points to yet more attrition in Ukraine
• The Lords of Silicon Valley Are Thrilled to Present a 'Handheld Iron Dome'
• They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
• Argentina's Senate narrowly approved a government package of free-market reforms and fiscal measures designed to attract investment and revive a broken economy.
• New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
• Maya Widmaier-Picasso helped to revive her father's creativity
• Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals
• 'The gangs never used to kill children, now they do': how cocaine created Argentina's first narcocity
• Corruption is surging across Latin America
• Global firms are tapping India's workers like never before
• You can't mirror your iPhone while mirroring your Mac on Apple Vision Pro
• Exotic Quantum 'Bose-Einstein Condensate' State Finally Achieved with Molecules
• Ten charts reveal Narendra Modi's actual record in office
• As the French hard right triumphs in EU elections, Macron calls snap vote
• Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Will the class of '24 turn out like the boomers?
• From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Should every schoolchild eat free?
• What do Joe Biden and the boss of Starbucks have in common?
• China's currency is not as influential as once imagined
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done
• Why Mexico's largest-ever election matters
• What's News: Business & Finance
• Mysterious Hack Destroyed 600,000 Internet Routers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Is there a genetic link between endometriosis and the brain?
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• The End of El Niño Might Make the Weather Even More Extreme
• Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
• Tesla shareholders sue Musk for starting competing AI company
• Chinese nationalists have issues with "3 Body Problem"
• AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
• Good evening, Ms Bond. We've been expecting you
• Some would-be American immigrants are paying to get robbed
• I Made Salmon in the Air Fryer and It Couldn't Have Gone Better - CNET
• Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America's top oil company
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• The dwindling of the Panama Canal boosts rival trade routes
• Prabowo Subianto will be Indonesia's next president
• The best television shows of 2021
• Sellers Call Amazon's Buy Box 'Abusive.' Now They're Suing
• Five reasons why Indonesia's election matters
• Africa's coups are part of a far bigger crisis
• Kelp help? How Scotland's seaweed growers are aiming to revolutionise what we buy
• Here's Why Protest News Doesn't Tell You Much
• Is Britain levelling up?
• 17 Best Wireless Earbuds, Tested and Reviewed (2024)
• China's ties with Russia are growing more solid
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's left-wing president, is floundering
• Big tech's great AI power grab
• Why the Tesla shareholder vote won't be the end of Musk's Delaware fight
• Business
• The international criminal court should investigate Israel's hostage rescue raid | Kenneth Roth
• KAL's cartoon
• The failing ANC is rejected by over half of South Africa
• Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AI
• Gulf governments are changing, but not how they talk to citizens
• Nvidia's New Sales Booster: The Global Push for National AI Champions
• China's satellites are improving rapidly. Its army will benefit
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• Bitcoin's price is surging. What happens next?
• How China's public views Taiwan's elections
• Some corals are better at handling the heat
• War in space is no longer science fiction
• Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk's Big Payday
• The World Will Be Swimming in Excess Oil by 2030, IEA Says
• 'Everywhere is dangerous': Russia's attacks on Kharkiv's homes, shops and resorts
• Justice Thomas took more trips paid for by GOP donor than he disclosed, senator says
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• The Fundamentalist, the Technocrat, and the Reformist
• An AI Bot Is (Sort of) Running for Mayor in Wyoming
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's cover
• Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China
• Watch out Beijing, China's second-tier cities are on the up
• The 2024 US Open Is Designed to Thwart Golf's Big Hitters
• In today's China, to get rich is perilous
• Vast amounts of the world's shipping sails unseen
• The rise and rise of e-sports
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• Nigel Farage's Reform UK overtakes Conservatives in new opinion poll
• When academics meet "The Archers"
• Why caste still matters in Indian politics
• The best Windows laptops for 2024
• What will Prabowo Subianto's foreign policy look like?
• Tesla May Raise Model 3 Price In Europe Due to Tariffs
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History
• Millions of Chinese have embraced skiing
• LDAPWordlistHarvester - A Tool To Generate A Wordlist From The Information Present In LDAP, In Order To Crack Passwords Of Domain Accounts
• Advisers to British government: don't mess with graduate visas
• Three decades after Rwanda's genocide, the past is ever-present
• The Acolyte's Coven Has Evolved One of Star Wars' Biggest Spiritual Ideas
• America's rental-market mystery
• 'Brexit made Polish culture more visible': how the diaspora is changing Britain
• Illegal gold is booming in South America
• England's Conor Gallagher admits he was not good enough for Scotland
• Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loans
• How to build a global currency
• Next, Britain's retail superstar
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Bootlicking: a guide to pre-election British politics
• The return of the Farage ratchet
• JA4+ - Suite Of Network Fingerprinting Standards
• Tell us: are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?
• Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
• Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
• If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You'll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
• Life and death in a Christmas tree
• Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
• KAL's cartoon
• Don't Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• The Hindu right's pro-cow policies are terrible for India's cows
• Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman
• Iran attacks Israel, risking a full-blown regional war
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
• Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia
• It's a bird, it's a plane…it's a Chinese flying car
• Subhunter - A Fast Subdomain Takeover Tool
• Lai Ching-te aims to strengthen Taiwan but maintain the status quo
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• Will Spain's prime minister suddenly quit?
• Portugal's hard right gets a big election boost
• Why the Republicans will convene in a forge of American socialism
• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• America is concerned about social media. China is, too
• Business
• Politics Weekly Westminster: Starmer and Sunak face audience in Grimsby - podcast
• Will Joe Biden benefit from falling murder rates across America?
• Business
• A price war breaks out among China's AI-model builders
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• H5N1 Bird Flu Isn't a Human Pandemic—Yet
• You can get your passport renewed online again. Here's how it works
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Jensen Huang says Moore's law is dead. Not quite yet
• Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
• The long goodbye
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Tesla shareholders voted to reapprove Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar pay package, signaling support for the EV maker's longtime leader and giving the board ammunition in its fight to preserve the court-rejected compensation plan.
• For a glimpse at Japan's future, look at its convenience stores
• Li Qiang and China look to make up with Australia
• Liquid gold: olive oil is soaring in price – here's what to use instead in 10 classic dishes
• Updates From Star Trek: Section 31, and More
• The fight over meat-free meat pits Europe's traditionalists against foodie innovators
• Lego's Next Transformers Set Brings Bumblebee to the Party
• We're about to learn a whole lot more about how the human body reacts to space
• The Case for MDMA's Approval Is Riddled With Problems
• 'Stop shoving phones in our face': Chipotle staff are sick of TikTokers trying to catch them 'skimping'
• A new wave of stadium-building is busting budgets in America
• Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need
• Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
• Will GE do better as three companies than as one?
• On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
• Antisemitism is on the rise in Britain
• A D-Day commemoration that was not just about beating Hitler
• Sadiq Khan's London offers a taste of Starmer's Britain
• The secret to career success may well be off to the side
• Politics
• Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
• Tesla and its fans waged an unprecedented battle over Elon Musk's $56B pay package
• Lula's gaffes are dulling Brazil's G20 shine
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• After Nayib Bukele's crushing, unconstitutional victory, what next?
• Headerpwn - A Fuzzer For Finding Anomalies And Analyzing How Servers Respond To Different HTTP Headers
• The revolt against Binyamin Netanyahu
• How fast is India's economy really growing?
• Politics
• The Decline of Streaking
• Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?
• Why a Gaza Cease-Fire Is So Elusive
• No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
• Australia joins the industrial arms race
• My favorite iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and watchOS 11 features that flew under the radar at WWDC 2024
• Bridgerton Faces the Limits of Romantic Fantasy
• Drs-Malware-Scan - Perform File-Based Malware Scan On Your On-Prem Servers With AWS
• A US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
• Blighty newsletter: Could the Labour Party fix lawmaking?
• Wayve achieves Britain's largest-ever fundraising round
• For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
• Jude Law reveals he turned down playing Superman: 'It just felt like a step too far'
• Britain's kings of sourdough
• This week's covers
• Relations between Japan and South Korea are blossoming
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A comical effort by China's intelligence agency
• Donald Trump's trade hawk is plotting behind bars
• Meet Argentina's richest man
• Many Prenatal Supplements Don't Provide Enough of Key Nutrients
• Why the stockmarket is disappearing
• Iran's attack has left Israel in a difficult position
• KAL's cartoon
• Why "Freakonomics" failed to transform economics
• Gulf countries are becoming major players in Africa
• What Halting Congestion Pricing in NYC Could Mean for Plans in Other Cities
• Blighty newsletter: Keir Starmer wants to fill the Boris Johnson-shaped void
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's electric-vehicle makers anticipated heftier EU tariffs and responded by entering joint ventures in the bloc, rerouting exports and in some cases giving up on the Continental market altogether.
• When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
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• How Baby Orangutans Become Master Treehouse Architects
• For China, Taiwan's elections are a looming crisis
• Meet the Photographer Behind the Social Media App for Everyone Sick of Meta's AI
• BYD Shares Rise After Milder-Than-Peers EU Tariffs
• 30 Years Ago Today, Deep Space Nine Made Star Trek's Deadliest Threat Clear
• How to handle populists: a CEO's survival guide
• Everything Apple iOS 18 Will Do, Android Already Does
• Oil's endgame will be in the Gulf
• America's missing doctors
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• America's realtor racket is alive and kicking
• The ECtHR's Swiss climate ruling: overreach or appropriate?
• Ukraine's desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
• Abortion-pill foes get a chilly reception at the Supreme Court
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
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• Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
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• Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
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• How China is making the burger its own
• New 'FLiRT' COVID Variants Could Be Driving an Uptick in Cases. Here's How to Avoid Them
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• Frans de Waal taught the world that animals had emotions
• Apple Won't Pay for ChatGPT. Will You?
• Isabel Crook devoted her long life to making a new China
• Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
• California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix
• The Biden campaign in Michigan has a tremendous ground-game advantage
• The best films of 2021
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• America's Asian allies are trying to Trump-proof their policies
• Gazans are rapidly losing access to the internet
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• Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?
• How Jim Simons revolutionised investing
• The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Russia's gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The FAA is investigating a new incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet in midair
• Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk's 'unfathomable' pay package
• Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
• Atos Shares Fall Further as Rescue Talks Continue
• America's fentanyl epidemic, explained in six charts
• SunRay Kelley wanted to build in rhythm with nature, his teacher
• Despite the supreme court ruling for the abortion pill, the battle is far from over
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to build a global business empire in the 21st century
• A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador splashes out as elections loom
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• Can the IMF solve the poor world's debt crisis?
• Germany's government is barely holding together
• Lawrence Wong will be only the fourth PM in Singapore's history
• LinkedIn's AI Career Coaches Will See You Now
• Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China's exports
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• A surprising Japanese presence in a traditional American craft
• How the "Magnificent Seven" misleads
• The Cass Review damns England's youth-gender services
• KAL's cartoon
• Meet the Swedish firm trying to shake up heat pumps
• Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
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• Amazon says it'll spend $230 million on generative AI startups
• Everything Apple Tried to Kill at WWDC 2024
• 2023 looks set to be a watershed year for the climate
• Stay Away From Poisonous Diamond Shruumz Edibles, CDC, FDA Warn
• Rishi Sunak's snap election is odd and illogical—much like him
• Proposed Visa and Mastercard Swipe-Fees Settlement Is Likely to Be Thrown Out
• Recent heatwaves are a harbinger of Africa's future
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Courting C.E.O.s, Trump Says He Intends to Cut Corporate Taxes Again
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• As seas rise, the relocation of Caribbean islanders has begun
• Narendra Modi ramps up the Muslim-baiting
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• Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material
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• Which will grow faster: India or Indonesia?
• The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Mexico's president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
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