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Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation
Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:03:13 +0000

Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.

The post Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 0 Score: 124.29 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 34.29 japan, 34.29 china, 30.00 india, 25.71 south korea

Apple silent as Trump promises “impossible” US-made iPhones
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:32:16 +0000
How does Apple solve a problem like Trump’s trade war?
Match ID: 1 Score: 90.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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OnePlus releases Watch 3 with inflated $500 price tag, won’t say why
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:08:49 +0000
The new OnePlus smartwatch has debuted at $500 instead of the promised $330.
Match ID: 2 Score: 90.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 50.00 china trade, 40.00 china

Apple said to be flying iPhones from India to US to avoid Trump tariffs
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:04:42 GMT

Tech firm has reportedly flown 600 tonnes of handsets from Indian factories as Chinese goods face huge tariffs

Apple is reportedly chartering cargo flights to ferry iPhones from its Indian manufacturing plants to the US in an attempt to beat Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The tech company has flown 600 tonnes of iPhones, or as many as 1.5m handsets, to the US from India since March after ramping up production at its plants in the country, according to Reuters.

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Match ID: 3 Score: 75.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china, 35.00 india

What Could Progressive Tariffs Actually Look Like?
Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The U.S. moved toward tariffs that protected U.S. workers, industry, and the environment, says one expert. Trump is undoing it all.

The post What Could Progressive Tariffs Actually Look Like? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 4 Score: 68.57 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 34.29 japan, 34.29 china

U.S., China barrel toward the bottom in escalating trade war
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:00:50 +0000
The world’s two largest powers are closer to a full economic break than ever, as President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping refuse to back down in a high-stakes game of chicken.
Match ID: 5 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china, 20.00 taiwan

‘Don’t panic, but don’t relax’: Taiwan’s plan ‘to use 7-Eleven chains’ as wartime hubs
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:05:29 GMT

From energy security to boosting internet connections, Taiwan is working on ways to protect its population if China attacks

If war comes to Taiwan, the local citizens might be sent to their nearest 7-Eleven.

No one knows for sure what a Chinese attack on Taiwan will look like, but there are some assumptions made by government planners. They expect Taiwan’s military and maybe police will be sent to frontlines, leaving civilian first responders in charge of care and control.

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Meet the Activists Motivated by Hatred of Elon Musk
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Protesters across the country have been rallying every weekend to try and drive Elon Musk's car business into the ground.

The post Meet the Activists Motivated by Hatred of Elon Musk appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 7 Score: 55.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan, 15.00 vietnam

With tariff gambit, Trump pushes Vietnam to choose between U.S. and China
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:35:24 +0000
While Trump has paused his whopping 46 percent tariff on Vietnam, economists say the export-reliant country still faces painful decisions.
Match ID: 8 Score: 55.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china, 15.00 vietnam

At Least 50 Arizona State Students Have Now Had Visas Revoked, Lawyer Says
Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:49:38 +0000

Just weeks away from graduation, some international students at Arizona State University have been blocked from completing degrees.

The post At Least 50 Arizona State Students Have Now Had Visas Revoked, Lawyer Says appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 9 Score: 53.57 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 28.57 china, 25.00 india

China Secretly (and Weirdly) Admits It Hacked US Infrastructure
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The Department of Homeland Security begins surveilling immigrants' social media, President Donald Trump targets former CISA director who refuted his claims of 2020 election fraud, and more.
Match ID: 10 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Hundreds of flights cancelled in China as strong winds hit capital
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:12:50 GMT
State media outlets earlier warned that people weighing less than 50kg may be "easily blown away".
Match ID: 11 Score: 40.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Trump Gets a “Spanking” from the Bond Market
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
“His tolerance for chaos is perhaps going to end up running up against China’s tolerance for pain,” the staff writer Evan Osnos says.
Match ID: 12 Score: 40.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
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Novelist Katie Kitamura: ‘As Trump tries to take away everything I love, it’s never been clearer that writing matters’
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 08:00:40 GMT

The Japanese-American author of unsettling new novel Audition talks about why fiction isn’t frivolous, family life with fellow writer Hari Kunzru, and how US authors are facing a critical moment

Some years ago, Katie Kitamura came upon a headline that read something like: “A stranger told me I was his mother.” The headline gripped her, but she never clicked through to the article. She imagined the story would offer some explanation – perhaps the author had given up a child for adoption, for instance. “I was much more interested in not having a concrete answer but just exploring the situation itself,” she tells me. “I’m intrigued by the idea that you could be very settled in your life … and something could happen that could overturn everything that you understand about yourself and your place in the world.”

The headline provided the inspiration for Kitamura’s fifth novel, Audition, a beguiling and unsettling book that opens with a meeting between an unnamed actor and a handsome college student, Xavier, who claims he is her son. As the story unfolds, the truth of their entanglement becomes ever harder to discern – is he a liar or a fantasist, or is she mad?

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Match ID: 13 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Iran and US to meet for nuclear talks but little obvious prospect of success
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:00:39 GMT

Tehran’s nuclear program at stake in Oman after Trump’s surprise announcement – can a breakthrough be reached?

Historical metaphor refers to them as “Nixon in China” moments: diplomatic encounters where leaders representing political systems implacably opposed to each other overcome their mistrust to achieve unexpected breakthroughs.

Yet few meetings can have held less obvious prospect of the success achieved by President Richard Nixon’s historic 1972 visit to Beijing than that scheduled to take place in Oman on Saturday between representatives of the United States and Iran.

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Dealmaking genius or boy who cried wolf? Trump’s trade retreat sows doubts
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 06:00:40 GMT

Nothing is certain under this president – as seen in the inconsistent implementation of tariffs. And it has a longer-term economic cost

Minutes after Donald Trump unveiled a climbdown on tariffs, softening an extraordinary US attack on trade from much of the world, his press secretary scolded reporters at the White House.

“Many of you in the media clearly missed The Art of the Deal,” said Karoline Leavitt, referring to the 1987 bestseller which laid the foundations of the president’s reputation as a consummate dealmaker.

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Chaos in China as cold vortex from Mongolia brings strongest April winds in decades
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:19:58 GMT

Flights cancelled, train services suspended and tourist attractions closed as weather service says wind speeds could surpass records set in 1951

Strong winds caused havoc in Beijing and parts of northern China on Saturday, forcing hundreds of flights to be cancelled, attractions to close and rail lines to be suspended, state media said.

The powerful winds stemmed mainly from a cold vortex system formed over Mongolia that was moving east and south, sweeping across northern China from Friday and through the weekend, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said.

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The ‘new world order’ of the past 35 years is being demolished before our eyes. This is how we must proceed | Gordon Brown
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:00:38 GMT

We have seen the conflict and tragedy that can follow when an old era collapses. Countries that believe in multilateralism must come together now

• This is the second in a two-part series on the global response to Donald Trump’s tariffs
• Read part one: Trump is pushing the world towards recession. By learning the lessons of 2008, we can still prevent it

After a week that started with the worst financial volatility in recent history and ended with the most serious escalation so far of the China-US conflict, it is time to distinguish the tectonic shifts from the tremors. If nothing changes, the 2020s risks being remembered as this century’s devil’s decade – the term historians once used for the 1930s. It will be defined not just by seven million people who have died of Covid-19 and rising global poverty and inequality – but also by a dismembered Ukraine, a burnt-out Gaza and little-reported atrocities in Africa and Asia, each testimony to the violent displacement of a rules-based global order by a power-based one.

Indeed, before our eyes, every single pillar of the old order is under assault – not just free trade but the rule of law and the primacy we have long attached to human rights and democracy, the self-determination of peoples, and multilateral cooperation between nations, including the humanitarian and environmental responsibilities we once accepted as citizens of the world.

Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010

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Match ID: 17 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Did Trump’s tariffs kill economic populism?
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:00:36 GMT

Lasting damage has been done not only to Trump’s political credibility but to globalisation as a system

At the beginning of this helter-skelter week, Downing Street was declaring globalisation not only dead but a failure. Now, only five trading days later, the autopsy is still under way but the victim may instead be economic populism, strangled by Wall Street, the citadel of globalisation. Donald Trump’s so-called liberation day may in fact have been the anti-globalist’s entombment day.

In an effort to deny even a tactical retreat, Trump’s aides insist the White House goal all along was not to weaken globalism, or even to protect the US economy with tariffs, but instead to get into a negotiation to lower tariffs around the world and to punish China. As cover stories go, it is hardly credible, partly because the tariffs were repeatedly lauded by Trump as a macroeconomic revenue-raising measure, or a means to bolster US manufacturing.

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US stock markets rally as White House says there is ‘great optimism’ in the economy – as it happened
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:14:44 GMT

This blog is now closed. You can read our latest full report and explainer here:

• Trump insists tariff war is ‘doing really well’ as recession fears mount
• What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?

The US dollar slumped on Friday as waning confidence in the US economy prompted investors to ditch US assets to the benefit of safe havens like the Swiss franc, yen and euro, as well as gold.

The yellow metal recorded a new all-time peak in early Asia trade, and the franc notched a fresh decade high, Reuters reports.

There has been a pronounced ‘sell US’ vibe flowing through broad markets and into the classic safe-haven assets, with the USD losing the safe-haven bid.

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Match ID: 19 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Trump insists tariff war is ‘doing really well’ as recession fears mount
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:14:42 GMT

S&P 500 and Dow Jones rise sharply after extraordinarily volatile week as experts warn of continued turbulence

Donald Trump insisted his trade war with much of the world was “doing really well” despite mounting fears of recession and as Beijing hit back and again hiked tariffs on US exports to China.

As the US president said his aggressive tariffs strategy was “moving along quickly”, a closely watched economic survey revealed that US consumer expectations for price growth had soared to a four-decade high.

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Match ID: 20 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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U.S. markets open flat as China signals it has enacted its final tariff hike
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:24:37 +0000

Match ID: 21 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Russian media report Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Putin for Ukraine talks – as it happened
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:17:11 GMT

This blog is now closed, you can read the latest in our Ukraine coverage here

Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov has offered an update on talks and commitments made in Brussels, as he posted about Germany’s declaration it would offer €11bn in further military help to Ukraine up to 2029.

He said:

The deliveries from in 2025 will help us defend our skies (IRIS-T systems with missiles, PATRIOT missiles) and strengthen our positions on the battlefield (Marders, Leopards, artillery systems). Thank you, Germany, for standing by our side. Together, we will ensure a just and lasting peace in Europe.

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Match ID: 22 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Investors realise Trump’s pause was not the salvation it appeared
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:03:24 +0000
As China strikes back, reality sets in
Match ID: 23 Score: 40.00 source: www.economist.com age: 0 days
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Feeling’s mutual: Japan ambassador’s love of UK makes him social media star
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:57:19 GMT

Pint at the pub, vinegar on fish and chips, and Welsh national anthem are all part of a day’s diplomacy for Hiroshi Suzuki

Hiroshi Suzuki’s connection with the UK started in the 1990s when he started to visit friends of his wife in south-west England.

Back then, he may have had no idea that by 2025 he would be serving as the Japanese ambassador to the UK and his love for the country would have turned him into a social media sensation.

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Match ID: 24 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan

Tesla stops taking orders in China for two models imported from US
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:56:39 GMT

Carmaker removes ‘order now’ buttons for Model S saloon and Model X SUV on its Chinese website amid tariffs war

• Business live – latest updates

Tesla has stopped taking orders in China for two models it previously imported from the US, as companies scramble to adapt to prohibitive tariffs imposed in Donald Trump’s trade war.

The manufacturer, run by Trump’s close ally Elon Musk, removed “order now” buttons on its Chinese website for its Model S saloon and Model X sports utility vehicle.

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Match ID: 25 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Share how changing US tariffs may affect your business
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:03:21 GMT

We’d like to hear from small business owners in the UK and elsewhere about any impact of changing tariffs

China has raised tariffs on US imports to 125% in an escalation of the trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.

US tariffs on Chinese goods now total 145%, while most other countries, including the UK, have maintained a 10% tariff on goods following Donald Trump’s announcements on Wednesday pausing “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days.

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Match ID: 26 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Rocket Report: “No man’s land” in rocket wars; Isaacman lukewarm on SLS
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:00:29 +0000
China's approach to space junk is worrisome as it begins launching its own megaconstellations.
Match ID: 27 Score: 40.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
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China raises tariffs on U.S. goods to 125 percent as trade war deepens
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:30:13 +0000

Match ID: 28 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Trump’s tariff blitz could hardly have come at a worse time for China
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:16:26 +0000
Beijing is remaining defiant in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade measures, but it will have to take some sort of action to shore up its weak economy.
Match ID: 29 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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White House starts trade negotiations, but tensions are high with China
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:00:19 +0000

Match ID: 30 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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China raises US tariffs to 125% as Xi invites EU to team up against Trump ‘bullying’
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:33:08 GMT

Chinese leader canvasses Spain and other trading partners on how to tackle economic fallout as market turmoil continues

• Business live – latest updates
• Why did ‘strongman’ Trump back down on tariffs? – podcast

China has raised its tariffs on US products to 125% in the latest salvo of the trade dispute with Washington, just hours after Xi Jinping said there were “no winners in a tariff war”.

Xi made the comments during a meeting with the Spanish prime minister in which he invited the EU to work with China to resist “bullying”, part of an apparent campaign to shore up other trading partners.

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Match ID: 31 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Japan’s carmakers reckon with tariffs that may cost $25 billion a year
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:00:27 +0000
The anxiety is palpable in Toyota City, the “Detroit of Japan,” as it braces for the impact of the Trump administration’s 25 percent tariff on foreign-made cars.
Match ID: 32 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Life in Shanghai, China’s commercial capital, goes on but anti-US sentiment is hardening
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:43:57 GMT

Chinese companies are relieved Trump’s wider tariffs have been paused but on social media, posts are full of defiance

On Thursday morning in Shanghai, as shoppers filled the luxury malls and delivery drivers whizzed around the winding streets at breakneck speed, financiers breathed a cautious sigh of relief. Overnight, US President Donald Trump had reversed course, announcing a 90-day pause on his so-called “reciprocal tariffs” of up to 50% for dozens of countries. Although China got no such reprieve – instead, the levy on Chinese goods was increased to 145% – the temporary return of normal trade channels showed Chinese businesspeople that all was not lost.

Trump’s announcement of punitive tariffs on countries across south-east Asia had risked closing off the routes that Chinese companies have been using since his first term in office to circumvent his levies.

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Match ID: 33 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Why did ‘strongman’ Trump back down on tariffs? – podcast
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:00:06 GMT

After doubling down on his promise not to pause his latest tariffs, Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause for most countries except China. Why did he change his mind?

Jonathan Freedland speaks to James Bennet of the Economist about who might have forced the president’s hand, and what could happen next

Archive: Fox News, CBS Minnesota, BBC News, WCNC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News

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Match ID: 34 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Researchers concerned to find AI models misrepresenting their “reasoning” processes
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:37:13 +0000
New Anthropic research shows AI models often fail to disclose reasoning shortcuts.
Match ID: 35 Score: 40.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Trump’s Trade War Is Strengthening China’s Soft Power
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:32:36 +0000
President Trump’s tariffs are boosting China’s global image even as they threaten to decimate its economy.
Match ID: 36 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Here’s how governments have responded to Trump’s tariffs
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:19:44 +0000
Trump announced, then paused, world-spanning tariffs, amid an escalating trade war with China.
Match ID: 37 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Will iPhones cost more because of Trump's tariffs on China?
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:37:19 GMT
Some analysts say that if costs incurred by tariffs pass to consumers, US iPhone prices could rise by hundreds of dollars.
Match ID: 38 Score: 40.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Trump’s Trade War With China Is Now Hurting Hollywood—and US Soft Power
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:19:08 +0000
On Thursday, Chinese officials retaliated against President Donald Trump’s tariffs by imposing new restrictions on US movies. That’s a big blow to America’s cultural cachet in the nation.
Match ID: 39 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china

At a new Japanese market, shop all you want — but don’t miss the cafe
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:52 +0000
Marufuji Japanese Market in Vienna sells wares from the home country and a menu of donburi, curry, cream puffs and beef bowls.
Match ID: 40 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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E.U. pauses retaliatory tariffs as global markets rebound
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:35:28 +0000
The European Union said it would pause countermeasures against the U.S. while negotiations take place, as Asian and European markets rallied.
Match ID: 41 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Can China fight America alone?
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:16:55 +0000
The world’s two biggest economies begin an almighty trade clash
Match ID: 42 Score: 40.00 source: www.economist.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

China has a weapon that could hurt America: rare-earth exports
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:11:39 +0000
It has only just begun to use it
Match ID: 43 Score: 40.00 source: www.economist.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Get Ready to See Tariff Surcharges on Your Receipts
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Companies struck by Donald Trump’s trade levies will likely pass the hit along to consumers—and some will want to clearly point the finger at who is to blame.
Match ID: 44 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

BYD Launches Denza in Europe—Another Mighty Impressive EV Brand the US Won’t Get
Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:06:01 +0000
BYD’s premium sub-brand is all set to take on Audi, BMW, and Mercedes with its crab-walking, blowout-beating Z9GT leading the charge.
Match ID: 45 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Vegan “Egg” Salad
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:13:00 +0000
This vegan take on an egg salad uses crumbled tofu, mashed chickpeas, chopped rice noodles and Indian kala namak (black salt) to create an interplay of textures and flavors reminiscent of the original.
Match ID: 46 Score: 35.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india

Weather tracker: early heatwave sweeps northern India
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:18:39 GMT

Temperatures exceeding 40C trigger deadly thunderstorms, as Mali agency issues hot weather warning

Northern India has been experiencing early extreme heat this week as temperatures topped 40C (104F), including in the capital, New Delhi.

Hot weather across the north-west of the country peaked on Tuesday as Barmer, a city in the state of Rajasthan, reached 46.4C – more than 6C above the average maximum in April.

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Match ID: 47 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Ask Sahaj: My parents traveled from India to tell me to leave my girlfriend
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:17:02 +0000
He’s ready to propose to his girlfriend, but his parents have never approved of the relationship.
Match ID: 48 Score: 35.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 35.00 india

Why China thinks it might win a trade war with Trump
Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:43:49 +0000
The country’s officials vow to “fight to the end”
Match ID: 49 Score: 34.29 source: www.economist.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 34.29 china

Arguing Against CALEA
2025-04-08T11:08:13Z

At a Congressional hearing earlier this week, Matt Blaze made the point that CALEA, the 1994 law that forces telecoms to make phone calls wiretappable, is outdated in today’s threat environment and should be rethought:

In other words, while the legally-mandated CALEA capability requirements have changed little over the last three decades, the infrastructure that must implement and protect it has changed radically. This has greatly expanded the “attack surface” that must be defended to prevent unauthorized wiretaps, especially at scale. The job of the illegal eavesdropper has gotten significantly easier, with many more options and opportunities for them to exploit. Compromising our telecommunications infrastructure is now little different from performing any other kind of computer intrusion or data breach, a well-known and endemic cybersecurity problem. To put it bluntly, something like Salt Typhoon was inevitable, and will likely happen again unless significant changes are made...

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Nick Turse Joins The Intercept as Inaugural National Security Reporting Fellow
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000

The veteran investigative journalist will cover U.S. military operations, national security issues, and foreign affairs through this yearlong fellowship.

The post Nick Turse Joins The Intercept as Inaugural National Security Reporting Fellow appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 51 Score: 20.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 cambodia

It's only early April and north India is bracing for extreme heat
Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:05:09 GMT
India's weather department has issued a yellow alert for parts for northern India until Wednesday.
Match ID: 52 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 5 days
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World reacts to Trump's sweeping 'liberation day' tariffs – video
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:18:34 GMT

Leaders around the world have reacted with a mix of a mix of confusion and concern after Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on some of its largest trading partners, upending decades of US trade policy and starting a possible global trade war. The tariffs range from 10% to 49% on all goods imported from abroad

• Trump tariffs see stocks dive and investors scramble to bonds, gold and yen

• ‘Nowhere on earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica

• War-torn and struggling countries among those facing steepest Trump reciprocal tariffs

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Match ID: 53 Score: 15.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan, 5.71 china, 4.29 south korea

Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
2024-10-24T00:00:00Z
Chinese companies have been evading US tariffs by shipping goods through Vietnam, but not to the degree that the headlines would suggest. Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen dig into trade microdata to illustrate Vietnam's strategic importance and why American policymakers should take note.
Match ID: 54 Score: 15.00 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 170 days
qualifiers: 7.14 china trade, 5.71 china, 2.14 vietnam

China hits back hard against Trump’s tariffs
Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:55:54 +0000
Stockmarkets plunge further in response
Match ID: 55 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 11.43 china

Trump says tariff policies ‘WILL NEVER CHANGE’ amid plunging stocks, Chinese response
Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:38:22 EST
The president’s sweeping tariff plan has thrown markets into chaos and risks sparking a global trade war.
Match ID: 56 Score: 11.43 source: www.politico.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 11.43 china

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say
Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:31:26 +0000
A lawyer for Xiaofeng Wang and his wife says they are “safe” after FBI searches of their homes and Wang’s sudden dismissal from Indiana University, where he taught for over 20 years.
Match ID: 57 Score: 10.71 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china, 5.00 india

How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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How China uses ‘salami-slicing’ tactics to exert pressure on Taiwan – video
Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:14:05 GMT

China has dramatically increased military activities around Taiwan, with more than 3,000 incursions into Taiwan's airspace in 2024 alone. Amy Hawkins examines how Beijing is deploying 'salami-slicing' tactics, a strategy of gradual pressure that stays below the threshold of war while steadily wearing down Taiwan's defences. From daily air incursions to strategic military exercises, we explore the four phases of China's approach and what it means for Taiwan's future

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Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:07:30 +0000
Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return
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ESA and JAXA strengthen ties on Moon and Mars exploration
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0100

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Director of Human and Robotic Exploration, Daniel Neuenschwander, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Vice President for Exploration and Human Spaceflight, Mayumi Matsuura, have signed a new statement of intent focused on Moon and Mars activities. This statement marks their intention towards a step forward in space exploration cooperation between ESA and JAXA, and lays the groundwork for expanded collaboration between the two agencies in advancing science, technology and international partnerships.

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Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000
Chinese ecommerce giants like Temu and AliExpress sell drone accessories like those used by soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:25:03 +0000
An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job
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Beijing’s deflation dilemma: Falling prices signal bigger troubles ahead for China’s economy
Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:30:00 EST
Such challenges are the backdrop to the annual session of China’s parliament.
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Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme ever
Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:16:05 +0000
America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China
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China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:06 +0000
They did not want to bail out indebted firms. Now they are on the verge of doing so
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Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:46:53 +0000
China’s trade retaliation carries a warning of worse to come
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Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before
Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:05:43 +0000
Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer
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Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:04:26 +0000
Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful
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China’s financial system is under brutal pressure
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:45:53 +0000
When will something break?
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China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convinced
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:37:51 +0000
For one thing, 2024 saw the second-weakest rise in nominal GDP since the 1970s
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China’s markets take a fresh beating
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:30:24 +0000
Authorities have responded by bossing around investors
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China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers
Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:22:45 +0000
Policymakers at home and abroad are anxious about offshoring
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What a censored speech says about China’s economy
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:09:08 +0000
If growth is on target, why is inflation so low?
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The hidden cost of Chinese loans
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:12:33 +0000
Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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Is China really a nation of slackers?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:54:55 +0000
A new survey raises the question
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
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Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:03:24 +0000
The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:05:00 GMT

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China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:25:56 +0000
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
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At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:31 +0000
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
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China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:19:59 +0000
But it will need more help from the government
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How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
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China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:53:31 +0000
Can anything perk up its economy?
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Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:36 +0000
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
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What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0000
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:24:53 +0000
Volatility in global markets continues
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Why Japanese markets have plummeted
Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:56 +0000
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
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Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:41:12 +0000
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:53 +0000
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/18/2024
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:00:38 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew with a few payload activities and completed Onboard Training for Backup Flight Control Proficiency. Payloads: Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): The ELF cartridge holder containing the latest melted sample was removed and replaced with a new sample holder and sample. The completed …
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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
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China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:49:47 +0000
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
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US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:10:30 GMT

Police say man landed on island in attempt to meet the Sentinelese people – a tribe untouched by the industrial world

Indian police said on Thursday they had arrested a US tourist who sneaked on to a highly restricted island carrying a coconut and a can of Diet Coke to a tribe untouched by the industrial world.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel – part of India’s Andaman Islands – in an attempt to meet the Sentinelese people, who are believed to number only about 150.

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Tata redundancy scheme targeted older, non-Indian nationals in UK, tribunal hears
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:16:19 GMT

Three claimants allege Mumbai-based consultancy firm discriminated against them during restructuring

A UK division of the Indian conglomerate Tata “deliberately orchestrated” a redundancy programme in a way that unfairly targeted older, non-Indian nationals, an employment tribunal has heard.

Three claimants allege the Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which is valued at almost £110bn on the BSE stock exchange in Mumbai, discriminated against them on grounds of age and nationality during a restructuring that began in mid-2023.

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NASA Makes Progress on Advanced Drone Safety Management System
Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:49:14 +0000
From agriculture and law enforcement to entertainment and disaster response, industries are increasingly turning to drones for help, but the growing volume of these aircraft will require trusted safety management systems to maintain safe operations. NASA is testing a new software system to create an improved warning system – one that can predict hazards to drones before […]
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Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:42:00 +0000
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
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India has undermined a popular myth about development
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:55:44 +0000
Extreme poverty in the country has dropped to negligible levels
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Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:20:10 +0000
Tax cuts may lift short-term output, but deeper reform is required
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Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:47:46 +0000
India’s most consequential finance minister, who later became PM, has died aged 92
Match ID: 104 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 104 days
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India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:12:08 +0000
Small investors, rejoice—and beware
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Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:55:05 +0000
An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results
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India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:58:55 +0000
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
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The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:16:45 +0000
Bangladesh and Niger are very different places
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What’s new in Portugal? 10 reasons to visit in 2025
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:00:44 GMT

From modern art in Lisbon and yoga on the Algarve to food festivals, coastal hikes, surfing and cycling, it’s all going on in one of Europe’s favourite destinations

The hilltop town about 40 minutes’ drive from Lisbon is celebrating 30 years of Unesco world heritage status. Sintra was the first European site listed as a cultural landscape, thanks to its fairytale architecture set among lush parks and gardens. There are 30 events taking place throughout the year, especially aimed at young people, culminating in the Sintra PH30 festival in December. Initiatives include outdoor activities such as geocaching, orienteering, mountain biking, hiking and running; escape rooms, murder mysteries and ghost experiences in and around the town’s historic buildings; behind-the-scenes visits to restoration sites and conservation projects; and live music and talks.
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‘As an environmental scientist, I’m horrified’: Should supersonic passenger travel be making a comeback?
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:43 GMT

Twenty years after Concorde was grounded, a new wave of ‘quiet’ supersonic aircraft are in development – but not everyone welcomes the return of this costly, carbon-intensive technology

When I call Blake Scholl from New York, he says it’s a shame we couldn’t have met at his office in Colorado. If only there were a supersonic jet that could cruise at 1.7 times the speed of sound, and get me there two hours quicker than the typical JFK-to-Denver route.

There soon might be. Scholl is the CEO of Boom Supersonic, a company betting that ordinary civilians want to shoot across the sky at 1,100 miles (1,700 kilometres) per hour. After the pandemic brought a slump to the skies, air travel has returned to its former levels, and in-person business events are back on track. As a faster option for these travellers, Boom is developing its breakneck jets to be operational by 2029 – nearly a quarter century after Concorde landed its last plane.

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Chaos in China as cold vortex from Mongolia brings strongest April winds in decades
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:19:58 GMT

Flights cancelled, train services suspended and tourist attractions closed as weather service says wind speeds could surpass records set in 1951

Strong winds caused havoc in Beijing and parts of northern China on Saturday, forcing hundreds of flights to be cancelled, attractions to close and rail lines to be suspended, state media said.

The powerful winds stemmed mainly from a cold vortex system formed over Mongolia that was moving east and south, sweeping across northern China from Friday and through the weekend, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said.

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Holy water brimming with cholera compels illness cluster in Europe
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:59:21 +0000
Testing found that the holy water was "heavily contaminated."
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Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:57:16 GMT

Facial recognition and a ‘journey pass’ stored on passengers’ phones are part of UN-backed plans to digitise air transport

The days of fumbling around for your boarding pass or frantically checking in for a flight on the way to the airport could soon be over under imminent plans to overhaul the way we travel.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the UN body responsible for crafting airline policy, plans to dramatically shake up existing rules for airports and airlines through the introduction of a “digital travel credential”.

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Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:00:17 GMT

Man who says he had previously left and re-entered the country multiple times alleges border officials called him ‘retarded’ and boasted ‘Trump is back in town’

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When Jonathan returned from the US to Australia for a quick trip to scatter his sister’s ashes, he packed only two changes of clothes, leaving enough space in his small bag to carry the empty ashes urn to his home in the US. The trip was so brief he didn’t even pack a laptop charger.

The Australian says he was detained and deported when returning from the memorial in March, despite holding a working visa still valid for more than a year. He has been living on the US east coast for the better part of a decade – where his American partner, apartment, work studio and clients remain.

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At U.S. border, fewer crossings and the odd phone search — but little fear
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:00:20 +0000
Foreign travel to the United States is down — but for many of those still coming, they remain confident that they’ll be welcomed in the U.S.
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Reimagining Democracy
2025-04-11T00:35:00Z

Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do not have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking. How would we govern ourselves? It is unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. Modern representative democracy was the best form of government that eighteenth-century technology could invent. The twenty-first century is very different: scientifically, technically, and philosophically. For example, eighteenth-century democracy was designed under the assumption that travel and communications were both hard...

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Elderly British couple ‘interrogated 29 times by Taliban’ since imprisonment
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:55:51 GMT

Daughter of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, 79 and 75, says they have ‘no idea’ why they have been in jail for two months

An elderly British couple taken captive by the Taliban have been interrogated 29 times since they were imprisoned more than two months ago, and still have “absolutely no idea” why they have been incarcerated, their daughter has said.

No charges have been brought against Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75, who ran school training programmes and were arrested alongside an American friend, Faye Hall, as they travelled to their home in Bamyan province, in central Afghanistan, in February.

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Ask Sahaj: My parents traveled from India to tell me to leave my girlfriend
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:17:02 +0000
He’s ready to propose to his girlfriend, but his parents have never approved of the relationship.
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Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation
Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:03:13 +0000

Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.

The post Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation appeared first on The Intercept.

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At Least 50 Arizona State Students Have Now Had Visas Revoked, Lawyer Says
Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:49:38 +0000

Just weeks away from graduation, some international students at Arizona State University have been blocked from completing degrees.

The post At Least 50 Arizona State Students Have Now Had Visas Revoked, Lawyer Says appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA Supports Wildland Fire Technology Demonstration
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:52:42 +0000
Advancements in NASA’s airborne technology have made it possible to gather localized wind data and assess its impacts on smoke and fire behavior. This information could improve wildland fire decision making and enable operational agencies to better allocate firefighters and resources. A small team from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is demonstrating […]
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NASA Boosts Efficiency with Custom X-66 Flooring
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA designed temporary floorboards for the MD-90 aircraft to use while it is transformed into the X-66 experimental demonstrator aircraft. These floorboards will protect the original flooring and streamline the modification process. Supporting the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, a small team in the Experimental Fabrication Shop at NASA’s Armstrong […]
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NASA’s X-59 Completes ‘Cruise Control’ Engine Speed Hold Test
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:49:55 +0000
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The team behind NASA’s X-59 completed another critical ground test in March, ensuring the quiet supersonic aircraft will be able to maintain a specific speed during operation. The test, known as engine speed hold, is the latest marker of progress as the X-59 nears first flight this year. “Engine […]
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How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:10:05 +0000
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.
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BBC travels out to 'blistered and burnt' oil tanker in North Sea
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:32:53 GMT
While at least two million litres of jet fuel are in the water, there is some positive news.
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Future of space travel: Could robots really replace human astronauts?
Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:46:51 GMT
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors.

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‘Tainted victory’: Newcastle’s Saudi influence still divisive after success
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:00:40 GMT

Concerns about club’s ownership remain strong despite euphoria of ending 70-year wait for a domestic trophy

The defining image of the season that will never be forgotten at Newcastle may be Dan Burn powering that header into the Liverpool goal, or Eddie Howe drenched in detritus of lager discards as the team celebrated the club’s first domestic trophy since 1955. Equally, it could be the 300,000 fans who greeted the squad on the Town Moor, an extraordinary display of civic passion.

Yet none of these are likely to have made an impression on the fitness instructor Manahel al-Otaibi in Malaz prison, Riyadh, serving 11 years, some of it in solitary confinement, for opposing male guardianship and posting photos of herself on social media without wearing traditional abaya dress. For her friends, the abiding memory of the season will be Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and chairman of the club, gleefully holding the Carabao Cup aloft at Wembley.

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Young people in the UK: tell us about your gym habits
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:57:38 GMT

We’d like to hear from young people in the UK about why they go to the gym

Record numbers of Britons are going to the gym, according to a report by UKActive. 11.5 million people aged 16 and over now belong to a gym in the UK – a rise of 1.6 million from 2022.

This growth is particularly evident among generation Z – people born between 1997 and 2012.

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The best power banks and battery packs for reliable charging on the go, tested
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:00:27 GMT

Forever running out of juice? Top up your battery-powered devices with our expert picks, from tiny smartphone chargers to portable power banks and even a power hat

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It’s disempowering when your smartphone, laptop or other important gadget runs out of battery. With the flash of a graphic or a plaintive bleep, we lose a way to entertain ourselves, get things done, stay in touch or even get home safely. There’s a time and a place for a digital detox – but what is the time, and where am I?

Carrying a power bank is your ticket out of electronic oblivion. These pocket-sized cuboids plug into compatible devices and charge them, often via assorted connections, including USB-C and USB-A. Most power banks are made for charging smartphones and smaller gadgets, such as fitness trackers and earbuds, but some models can also charge power-hungrier laptops and large portable speakers.

Best power bank overall:
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Trump administration to pull Maine K-12 funding over trans athletes dispute
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:18:13 +0000
The move is a major retaliatory step indicating the lengths the administration is willing to go to force state governments to adhere to its executive actions.
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Trump administration to pull Maine K-12 funding over trans athletes spat
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What’s new in Portugal? 10 reasons to visit in 2025
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:00:44 GMT

From modern art in Lisbon and yoga on the Algarve to food festivals, coastal hikes, surfing and cycling, it’s all going on in one of Europe’s favourite destinations

The hilltop town about 40 minutes’ drive from Lisbon is celebrating 30 years of Unesco world heritage status. Sintra was the first European site listed as a cultural landscape, thanks to its fairytale architecture set among lush parks and gardens. There are 30 events taking place throughout the year, especially aimed at young people, culminating in the Sintra PH30 festival in December. Initiatives include outdoor activities such as geocaching, orienteering, mountain biking, hiking and running; escape rooms, murder mysteries and ghost experiences in and around the town’s historic buildings; behind-the-scenes visits to restoration sites and conservation projects; and live music and talks.
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Max Rocha’s Easter recipe for herb-crusted lamb rack with potatoes, radicchio and green sauce
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:00:44 GMT

Spring on a plate – Easter Sunday lunch is served

Nothing feels more like spring to me than roast lamb, and we know that season is coming the moment we start putting it on our restaurant menu. We buy the whole animal and use every part of it, but my favourite cut is definitely the chops. When I was growing up, my mum would always roast lamb on Easter Sunday and serve it with potatoes and a tangy green sauce, so we usually do something similar at Cafe Cecilia.

Max Rocha is chef-owner of Cafe Cecilia, London E8

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Meet the Activists Motivated by Hatred of Elon Musk
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Protesters across the country have been rallying every weekend to try and drive Elon Musk's car business into the ground.

The post Meet the Activists Motivated by Hatred of Elon Musk appeared first on The Intercept.

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‘Very pale and oddly wrinkly’: the best (and worst) supermarket hot cross buns for Easter, tested | The food filter
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:00:41 GMT

Supermarkets love calling these seasonal treats ‘luxury’, but are they? Time for an Easter bake-off …

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I’m a big fan of seasonal bakes – there’s something special about a treat reserved for a short window of time. Their rare appearance makes them something to look forward to, and to relish. Supermarkets like to push the limits of these seasons, though, and these days hot cross buns are available for a surprisingly long time – often appearing on shelves as early as January.

I know that, for many people, serving hot cross buns toasted is the only way to go, but for this test, I tried them straight from the packet, plain and with a little butter, so the toasted flavour didn’t hide any of the differences between the buns. To be honest, a lot of them tasted pretty similar and the spicing was almost universally far too subtle for my tastes. The differences mainly came in the quality of the dried fruit, the level of citrus and how dry some of the buns were. Even so, and while nothing beats a hot cross bun bought from a traditional bakery or one made at home, there were a couple of supermarket versions that are worth buying.

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My stay at a Swedish eco-retreat was blissful. What's emerged about it since points to a much darker truth | Laura Hall
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 06:00:38 GMT

Stedsans seemed to embody Scandinavia’s love of nature – until its owners moved to Guatemala, apparently leaving behind 158 barrels of human waste

For me, visiting the now infamous Stedsans eco-retreat in Halland, southern Sweden was the apotheosis of the Scandinavian dream: apple-cheeked children running barefoot on the forest floor, a lake for swimming, a sauna to warm up in, simple cabins for sleeping and dinner served in the evening on a long table surrounded by trees. When I booked to stay back in 2022 to celebrate my wedding anniversary, it felt like I was going to be walking straight into my Instagram feed, flower-strewn dishes and all.

Only now, it seems like that was as fantastical as it first appeared. This week, a joint investigation by the daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter in Sweden and Politiken in Denmark found the owners of the eco-conscious retreat, chef Flemming Hansen and food writer Mette Helbæk, were now living in Guatemala after apparently going on the run from tax authorities, leaving behind multiple animals and 158 barrels of human waste. The investigation also claimed that waste water was left to run into the forest, with local authorities describing their purported actions as “environmental crime”.

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‘Fika has become more expensive’: rising coffee prices affect a Swedish tradition
Sat, 12 Apr 2025 04:00:35 GMT

Swedes are stockpiling supplies of the drink amid cost hikes, with some saying the coffee culture is changing

Nursing an iced chai latte in a Stockholm department store, Emma Tomth says she has cut down her cafe coffee consumption considerably. The 28-year-old social media manager used to buy a latte most days, but with prices having gone up by about 15-20 kronor (about £1-£1.50), she has cut down to two or three times a week.

But it is not just about coffee. The economy also extends to fika – the historically hardwired Swedish tradition of meeting for a catch-up over a coffee and a biscuit or cake. “Many I know are abstaining from meeting for fika to save money. So we do something else instead,” Tomth says. Low-cost alternatives include meeting at home or going on walks, but it is not quite the same as fika, which plays a key social role in an otherwise often introverted society.

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Revealed: nearly 2m hectares of koala habitat bulldozed since 2011 – despite political promises to protect species
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:00:26 GMT

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

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Nearly 2m hectares of forests suitable for endangered koalas have been destroyed since the iconic species was declared a threatened species in 2011, according to analysis for Guardian Australia.

The scale of habitat destruction in Queensland and New South Wales – states in which the koala is formally recognised as being at risk of extinction – has continued despite political promises it would be protected.

Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email

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You asked: Does the size of a garlic clove really matter in a recipe?
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000
Garlic cloves can vary greatly by size. Here’s how to factor that into your cooking.
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Buy now or wait? What to know as tariffs loom on food, tech, apparel.
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:57:38 +0000

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Harry’s, Camber Sands, East Sussex: ‘A startlingly good dinner’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:00:16 GMT

Precise, timeworn food without making a huge song and dance about it

A trip to the coast felt in order when the temperature recently suggested that we, the residents of the United Kingdom, have survived another winter. Behold: sunshine, green shoots, cherry blossom, fresh hope and all that good stuff. And, soon, a glut of bank holidays during which we can unveil our factor 50-smeared knees at the seaside and quickly declare that it’s far too hot.

But not all British seaside experiences are built the same. Nibbling a Waldorf salad while sipping a glass of Oxney organic English sparkling at the charming Harry’s at the Gallivant hotel on the East Sussex coast is not remotely similar to scoffing a battered sausage on Blackpool front. Both have their merits, but Harry’s is a far more refined affair, it being a recently restyled and renamed restaurant inside a blissful, bougie boutique hotel. This is a hotel, incidentally, that will create a sort of Famous Five Do Santa Monica seaside experience for you, albeit at a price. Cocktails on the sand dunes? They’ll mix and pack them in flasks, and find you suitable garments to wear, too. A spot of flow yoga before your breakfast ginger shot? Not a problem, madam. Then, later on, dinner at Harry’s by Matthew Harris, once of Bibendum (and, incidentally, brother of Henry of Bouchon Racine fame), for a menu that focuses on the heartier, homelier side of classic French cookery. Terrine de campagne with pistachios, oysters with sauce mignonette, braised rabbit in riesling and St Émilion au chocolat for pudding, that kind of thing.

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Why we assume ‘natural’ food is better, even when it’s not
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0000
Like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., we can’t resist the idea that natural means good, even when the evidence doesn’t agree.
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At a new Japanese market, shop all you want — but don’t miss the cafe
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:52 +0000
Marufuji Japanese Market in Vienna sells wares from the home country and a menu of donburi, curry, cream puffs and beef bowls.
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Feed your inner child with this one-pot sausage and fennel pasta
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:00:02 +0000
Italian sausage, cherry peppers and a rich sauce offer a playful nod to a childhood-favorite dish.
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UK to co-host global conference with aim of resolving Sudan’s civil war
Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:12:42 GMT

Foreign ministers will gather in London and seek to exert diplomatic pressure demanding a ceasefire

The British government is bringing together foreign ministers from nearly 20 countries and organisations in an attempt to establish a group that can drive the warring factions in Sudan closer towards peace.

The conference at Lancaster House in London on 15 April comes on the second anniversary of the start of a civil war that has led to the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, but has been persistently left at the bottom of the global list of diplomatic priorities. Half of Sudan’s population are judged to be desperately short of food, with 11 million people internally displaced.

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Vegan “Egg” Salad
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:13:00 +0000
This vegan take on an egg salad uses crumbled tofu, mashed chickpeas, chopped rice noodles and Indian kala namak (black salt) to create an interplay of textures and flavors reminiscent of the original.
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Edamame Spaghetti With Peas and Pistachios
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000
Edamame spaghetti joins a vibrant, minty and slightly spicy pea sauce, feta and pistachios for a high-fiber, high-protein dish.
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Each week we’ll send you an exclusive newsletter from our star food writers. We’ll also send you the latest recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi, Nigel Slater, Meera Sodha and all our star cooks, stand-out food features and seasonal eating inspiration, plus restaurant reviews from Grace Dent and Jay Rayner.

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How philanthropists are destroying African farms – video
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:47:03 GMT

What happens when western billionaires try to ‘fix’ hunger in developing countries? Neelam Tailor investigates how philanthropic efforts by the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the organisation they set up to revolutionise African farming, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), may have made matters worse for the small-scale farmers who produce 70% of the continent's food.

From seed laws that criminalise traditional practices to corporate partnerships with agribusiness giants such as Monsanto and Syngenta, we explore how a well-funded green revolution has led to rising debt, loss of biodiversity and deepening food insecurity across the continent

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Finalists Selected in NASA Aeronautics Agriculture-Themed Competition
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:59:12 +0000
Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry.  Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year’s competition asked teams of university students to research new or improved […]
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Lab-grown food could be sold in UK within two years
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:38:42 GMT
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is looking at how it can speed up the approval process for lab-grown foods.
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How plastics are invading our brain cells – video
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:14:00 GMT

Plastics are everywhere, but their smallest fragments – nanoplastics – are making their way into the deepest parts of our bodies, including our brains and breast milk.

Scientists have now captured the first visual evidence of these particles inside human cells, raising urgent questions about their impact on our health. From the food we eat to the air we breathe, how are nanoplastics infiltrating our systems?

Neelam Tailor looks into the invisible invasion happening inside us all

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/18/2024
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:00:38 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew with a few payload activities and completed Onboard Training for Backup Flight Control Proficiency. Payloads: Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): The ELF cartridge holder containing the latest melted sample was removed and replaced with a new sample holder and sample. The completed …
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/17/2024
Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:00:39 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing the ongoing Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) activities. Payloads: Plant Ultraviolet-B (Plant UV-B): A laptop was connected and setup in preparation for future Plant UV-B operations. More information on this experiment can be found here. Plant Water Management 6 …
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/16/2024
Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:00:17 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing a Waste Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Filter Removal & Replacement (R&R), and completing various hydroponic flow tests with Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) hardware. Payloads: Lumina: The crew power-cycled the Lumina hardware, and transferred the science data to a Station …
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/15/2024
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:00:09 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by performing a USOS food audit and continuing to complete different payload activities. Payloads: Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR): Fuel Oxidizer Management Assembly (FOMA) Calibration was performed. The upper rack doors were opened, the bottle valves were closed, the pressure in the …
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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000

If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don't have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old.

Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having to give your personal information. A world in which you don’t need to rely on banks or governments anymore. Sounds amazing, right? That’s exactly what blockchain technology allows us to do.

It’s like your computer’s hard drive. blockchain is a technology that lets you store data in digital blocks, which are connected together like links in a chain. 

Blockchain technology was originally invented in 1991 by two mathematicians, Stuart Haber and W. Scot Stornetta. They first proposed the system to ensure that timestamps could not be tampered with.

A few years later, in 1998, software developer Nick Szabo proposed using a similar kind of technology to secure a digital payments system he called “Bit Gold.” However, this innovation was not adopted until Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to have invented the first Blockchain and Bitcoin.

So, What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed database shared between the nodes of a computer network. It saves information in digital format. Many people first heard of blockchain technology when they started to look up information about bitcoin.

Blockchain is used in cryptocurrency systems to ensure secure, decentralized records of transactions.

Blockchain allowed people to guarantee the fidelity and security of a record of data without the need for a third party to ensure accuracy.

To understand how a blockchain works, Consider these basic steps:

• Blockchain collects information in “blocks”.
• A block has a storage capacity, and once it's used up, it can be closed and linked to a previously served block.
• Blocks form chains, which are called “Blockchains.”
• More information will be added to the block with the most content until its capacity is full. The process repeats itself.
• Each block in the chain has an exact timestamp and can't be changed.

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

Blockchain records digital information and distributes it across the network without changing it. The information is distributed among many users and stored in an immutable, permanent ledger that can't be changed or destroyed. That's why blockchain is also called "Distributed Ledger Technology" or DLT.

Here’s how it works:

• Someone or a computer will transacts
• The transaction is transmitted throughout the network.
• A network of computers can confirm the transaction.
• When it is confirmed a transaction is added to a block
• The blocks are linked together to create a history.

And that’s the beauty of it! The process may seem complicated, but it’s done in minutes with modern technology. And because technology is advancing rapidly, I expect things to move even more quickly than ever.

• A new transaction is added to the system. It is then relayed to a network of computers located around the world. The computers then solve equations to ensure the authenticity of the transaction.
• Once a transaction is confirmed, it is placed in a block after the confirmation. All of the blocks are chained together to create a permanent history of every transaction.

How are Blockchains used?

Even though blockchain is integral to cryptocurrency, it has other applications. For example, blockchain can be used for storing reliable data about transactions. Many people confuse blockchain with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Blockchain already being adopted by some big-name companies, such as Walmart, AIG, Siemens, Pfizer, and Unilever. For example, IBM's Food Trust uses blockchain to track food's journey before reaching its final destination.

Although some of you may consider this practice excessive, food suppliers and manufacturers adhere to the policy of tracing their products because bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella have been found in packaged foods. In addition, there have been isolated cases where dangerous allergens such as peanuts have accidentally been introduced into certain products.

Tracing and identifying the sources of an outbreak is a challenging task that can take months or years. Thanks to the Blockchain, however, companies now know exactly where their food has been—so they can trace its location and prevent future outbreaks.

Blockchain technology allows systems to react much faster in the event of a hazard. It also has many other uses in the modern world.

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

Blockchain technology is safe, even if it’s public. People can access the technology using an internet connection.

Have you ever been in a situation where you had all your data stored at one place and that one secure place got compromised? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent your data from leaking out even when the security of your storage systems is compromised?

Blockchain technology provides a way of avoiding this situation by using multiple computers at different locations to store information about transactions. If one computer experiences problems with a transaction, it will not affect the other nodes.

Instead, other nodes will use the correct information to cross-reference your incorrect node. This is called “Decentralization,” meaning all the information is stored in multiple places.

Blockchain guarantees your data's authenticity—not just its accuracy, but also its irreversibility. It can also be used to store data that are difficult to register, like legal contracts, state identifications, or a company's product inventory.

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

• Accuracy is increased because there is no human involvement in the verification process.
• One of the great things about decentralization is that it makes information harder to tamper with.
• Safe, private, and easy transactions
• Provides a banking alternative and safe storage of personal information

Cons

• Data storage has limits.
• The regulations are always changing, as they differ from place to place.
• It has a risk of being used for illicit activities 

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

I’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about blockchain in this section.

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain is not a cryptocurrency but a technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It's a digital ledger that records every transaction seamlessly.

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

Yes, blockchain can be theoretically hacked, but it is a complicated task to be achieved. A network of users constantly reviews it, which makes hacking the blockchain difficult.

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

Coinbase Global is currently the biggest blockchain company in the world. The company runs a commendable infrastructure, services, and technology for the digital currency economy.

Who owns Blockchain?

Blockchain is a decentralized technology. It’s a chain of distributed ledgers connected with nodes. Each node can be any electronic device. Thus, one owns blockhain.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is powered by Blockchain technology while Blockchain is a distributed ledger of cryptocurrency 

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

Generally a database is a collection of data which can be stored and organized using a database management system. The people who have access to the database can view or edit the information stored there. The client-server network architecture is used to implement databases. whereas a blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, stored in a distributed system. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, timestamp and transaction information. Modification of data is not allowed due to the design of the blockchain. The technology allows decentralized control and eliminates risks of data modification by other parties.

Final Saying

Blockchain has a wide spectrum of applications and, over the next 5-10 years, we will likely see it being integrated into all sorts of industries. From finance to healthcare, blockchain could revolutionize the way we store and share data. Although there is some hesitation to adopt blockchain systems right now, that won't be the case in 2022-2023 (and even less so in 2026). Once people become more comfortable with the technology and understand how it can work for them, owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs alike will be quick to leverage blockchain technology for their own gain. Hope you like this article if you have any question let me know in the comments section

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