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The Electric Vehicle Fight Turns to California
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:30:00 +0000
The future of EVs might hinge on a decades-old air pollution law. Whether the law is upheld will have ramifications far beyond the borders of the Golden State.
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Sols 4439-4440: A Lunar New Year on Mars
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:35:01 +0000
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 We’re planning sols 4439 and 4440 on the first day of the Lunar New Year here on Earth, and I’m the Geology/Mineralogy Science Theme Lead for today. The new year is a time for all kinds of abundance and good luck, and we are certainly lucky to be […]
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No targets for aviation or farming in UK climate plan
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:02:23 GMT
The UK has set an ambitious goal to radically reduce carbon emissions by 2035.
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‘Like dropping a bomb’: why is clean energy leader Uruguay ramping up the search for oil?
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:00:24 GMT

The South American country has begun exploration in its Atlantic waters, with experts warning it is endangering livelihoods, marine life and climate goals

When he hears the news, the only words that fisher Francisco Méndez can use are those of war. “What they are planning to do is like dropping a bomb – and when you drop the bomb, everything dies,” says the 41-year-old father of five.

For 22 years, Méndez has sailed into the Atlantic Ocean, fishing for brotula and striped weakfish alongside his father, brothers and uncles. He is also joined, occasionally, by dolphins and whales, curious about his white and orange vessel. But now Méndez fears his family’s way of life and livelihood are under threat.

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NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:09:34 +0000
NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than spring 2025. Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, will command the commercial mission, while ISRO […]
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Geyser Season on Mars
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:59:53 +0000
This Oct. 29, 2018, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures geysers of gas and dust that occur in springtime in the South Polar region of Mars. As the Sun rises higher in the sky, the thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over the winter begins to warm and […]
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Review: Mammut Crag IN Jacket
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:37:59 +0000
Thanks to a unique recycling process, the secret to this high-performance puffer is repurposed climbing kit.
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Muestra de la NASA del asteroide Bennu revela un ‘caldo’ con los ingredientes de la vida
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:33:10 +0000
Read this release in English here. Los estudios de las rocas y el polvo del asteroide Bennu que fueron traídos a la Tierra por la nave espacial de la misión Orígenes, Interpretación Espectral, Identificación de Recursos y Seguridad – Explorador de Regolito (OSIRIS-REx, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA han revelado moléculas que, en […]
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:19:55 +0000
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life, as well as a history of saltwater that could have served as the […]
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Sols 4437-4438: Coordinating our Dance Moves
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:26:21 +0000
Earth planning date: Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 I was Geology and Mineralogy (Geo) Science Team lead today, and my day started with a bang and a drum roll — delivered by a rare winter thunderstorm (rare here in England, at least). I did lose power for a few minutes, but thanks to laptop batteries and […]
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Climate change made LA fires worse, scientists say
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:11:56 GMT
Scientists say the fires that engulfed Los Angeles were made 35% more likely due to climate warming.
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NASA Tests Air Traffic Surveillance Technology Using Its Pilatus PC-12 Aircraft
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:58:48 +0000
As air taxis, drones, and other innovative aircraft enter U.S. airspace, systems that communicate an aircraft’s location will be critical to ensure air traffic safety. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires aircraft to communicate their locations to other aircraft and air traffic control in real time using an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system. NASA is […]
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NASA Kicks off Testing Campaign for Remotely Piloted Cargo Flights
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:21:00 +0000
NASA recently began a series of flight tests with partners to answer an important aviation question: What will it take to integrate remotely piloted or autonomous planes carrying large packages and cargo safely into the U.S. airspace? Researchers tested new technologies in Hollister, California, that are helping to investigate what tools and capabilities are needed […]
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2024: NASA Armstrong Prepares for Future Innovative Research Efforts
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:01:00 +0000
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is preparing today for tomorrow’s mission. Supersonic flight, next generation aircraft, advanced air mobility, climate changes, human exploration of space, and the next innovation are just some of the topics our researchers, engineers, and mission support teams focused on in 2024. NASA Armstrong began 2024 with the […]
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The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunity
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:41:08 +0000
An enormous prize is on offer. When might it be grasped?
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Biden Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine Stance Made Trump’s Job Easier
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:46:50 +0000

By denying funding to the Climate Justice Alliance over Palestine, Biden went after Trump’s political opponents for him.

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NASA Scientists, Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:25:23 +0000
President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among nearly 400 federally funded researchers receiving the honor.   Established in 1996 by the National Science and Technology Council, the PECASE Award is the highest honor given by […]
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ARMD Solicitations (USRC Proposal Updates)
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000
This ARMD solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable new and improved air transportation systems. A summary of available opportunities with key dates requiring action are listed first. More information about each opportunity is detailed lower on this page. University Student Research ChallengeQ&A: January […]
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NASA Small Business Funding Enables Aircraft Inspection by Drone
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:50:52 +0000
A small business called Near Earth Autonomy developed a time-saving solution using drones for pre-flight checks of commercial airliners through a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and a partnership with The Boeing Company. Before commercial airliners are deemed safe to fly before each trip, a pre-flight inspection must be completed. This process can […]
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A year of extreme weather that challenged billions
Sun, 29 Dec 2024 02:03:56 GMT
Climate change caused 41 additional days of dangerous heat and extreme weather, say scientists.
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Ken Freeman Receives Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Award for ATM-X Digital Information Platform (DIP)
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:47:32 +0000
Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Award to the NASA ATM-X Digital Information Platform (DIP) TeamIn November 2024, the Digital Information Platform (DIP) team received the prestigious Industry Award from the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) at the annual ATCA Connect Conference in Washington, DC. The award recognized the team’s efforts in supporting NASA’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership (SFNP), […]
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NASA Runs X-59 Engine with Maximum Afterburner for First Time
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:36:26 +0000
NASA completed the first maximum afterburner engine run test on its X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Dec. 12. The ground test, conducted at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, marks a significant milestone as the X-59 team progresses toward flight. An afterburner is a component of some jet engines that generates additional […]
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NASA, Notre Dame Connect Students to Inspire STEM Careers
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:09:24 +0000
High school students in Indiana are contributing to NASA’s groundbreaking research to develop quieter, more fuel-efficient aircraft engines. Their learning experience is a collaboration between aircraft noise researchers from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and educators from the University of Notre Dame’s Turbomachinery Laboratory. The collaboration aims to encourage students’ interest in science, technology, […]
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One in four properties at flood risk by 2050 - report
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:20:56 GMT
Climate change could increase flood threats without improvements to defences, the Environment Agency warns.
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Greener Is Getting Going
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000
We’ve reached a tipping point where we’ve got a cleaner alternative for most transport. Now we have to commit.
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Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:51:10 +0000
Temperature fluctuations are unpredictable. Humans are even more so
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A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month.

If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts. Ahrefs and SEMrush are two names that will likely appear on your shortlist.

In this guide, I'm going to help you learn more about these SEO tools and how to choose the one that's best for your purposes.

What is SEMrush?

SEMrush is a popular SEO tool with a wide range of features—it's the leading competitor research service for online marketers. SEMrush's SEO Keyword Magic tool offers over 20 billion Google-approved keywords, which are constantly updated and it's the largest keyword database.

The program was developed in 2007 as SeoQuake is a small Firefox extension

Features

• Most accurate keyword data: Accurate keyword search volume data is crucial for SEO and PPC campaigns by allowing you to identify what keywords are most likely to bring in big sales from ad clicks. SEMrush constantly updates its databases and provides the most accurate data.
• Largest Keyword database: SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool now features 20-billion keywords, providing marketers and SEO professionals the largest database of keywords.


• All SEMrush users receive daily ranking data, mobile volume information, and the option to buy additional keywords by default with no additional payment or add-ons needed
• Most accurate position tracking tool: This tool provides all subscribers with basic tracking capabilities, making it suitable for SEO professionals. Plus, the Position Tracking tool provides local-level data to everyone who uses the tool.
• SEO Data Management: SEMrush makes managing your online data easy by allowing you to create visually appealing custom PDF reports, including Branded and White Label reports, report scheduling, and integration with GA, GMB, and GSC.
• Toxic link monitoring and penalty recovery: With SEMrush, you can make a detailed analysis of toxic backlinks, toxic scores, toxic markers, and outreach to those sites.
• Content Optimization and Creation Tools: SEMrush offers content optimization and creation tools that let you create SEO-friendly content. Some features include the SEO Writing Assistant, On-Page SEO Check, er/SEO Content Template, Content Audit, Post Tracking, Brand Monitoring.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO platform that offers a set of tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. The company was founded in 2010, and it has become a popular choice among SEO tools. Ahrefs has a keyword index of over 10.3 billion keywords and offers accurate and extensive backlink data updated every 15-30 minutes and it is the world's most extensive backlink index database.

Features

• Backlink alerts data and new keywords: Get an alert when your site is linked to or discussed in blogs, forums, comments, or when new keywords are added to a blog posting about you.
• Intuitive interface: The intuitive design of the widget helps you see the overall health of your website and search engine ranking at a glance.
• Site Explorer: The Site Explorer will give you an in-depth look at your site's search traffic.
• Domain Comparison
• Reports with charts and graphs
• JavaScript rendering and a site audit can identify SEO issues.
• A question explorer that provides well-crafted topic suggestions

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

Now that you know a little more about each tool, let's take a look at how they compare. I'll analyze each tool to see how they differ in interfaces, keyword research resources, rank tracking, and competitor analysis.

User Interface

Ahrefs and SEMrush both offer comprehensive information and quick metrics regarding your website's SEO performance. However, Ahrefs takes a bit more of a hands-on approach to getting your account fully set up, whereas SEMrush's simpler dashboard can give you access to the data you need quickly.

In this section, we provide a brief overview of the elements found on each dashboard and highlight the ease with which you can complete tasks.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs dashboard is less cluttered than that of SEMrush, and its primary menu is at the very top of the page, with a search bar designed only for entering URLs.

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

• You can see analytics from the dashboard, including search engine rankings to domain ratings, referring domains, and backlink
• Jumping from one tool to another is easy. You can use the Keyword Explorer to find a keyword to target and then directly track your ranking with one click.
• The website offers a tooltip helper tool that allows you to hover your mouse over something that isn't clear and get an in-depth explanation.

SEMRUSH

When you log into the SEMrush Tool, you will find four main modules. These include information about your domains, organic keyword analysis, ad keyword, and site traffic.

You'll also find some other options like

• A search bar allows you to enter a domain, keyword, or anything else you wish to explore.
• A menu on the left side of the page provides quick links to relevant information, including marketing insights, projects, keyword analytics, and more.
• The customer support resources located directly within the dashboard can be used to communicate with the support team or to learn about other resources such as webinars and blogs.
• Detailed descriptions of every resource offered. This detail is beneficial for new marketers, who are just starting.

WHO WINS?

Both Ahrefs and SEMrush have user-friendly dashboards, but Ahrefs is less cluttered and easier to navigate. On the other hand, SEMrush offers dozens of extra tools, including access to customer support resources.

When deciding on which dashboard to use, consider what you value in the user interface, and test out both.

Rank Tracking

If you're looking to track your website's search engine ranking, rank tracking features can help. You can also use them to monitor your competitors.

Let's take a look at Ahrefs vs. SEMrush to see which tool does a better job.

Ahrefs

The Ahrefs Rank Tracker is simpler to use. Just type in the domain name and keywords you want to analyze, and it spits out a report showing you the search engine results page (SERP) ranking for each keyword you enter.

Rank Tracker looks at the ranking performance of keywords and compares them with the top rankings for those keywords. Ahrefs also offers:

You'll see metrics that help you understand your visibility, traffic, average position, and keyword difficulty.

It gives you an idea of whether a keyword would be profitable to target or not.

SEMRUSH

SEMRush offers a tool called Position Tracking. This tool is a project tool—you must set it up as a new project. Below are a few of the most popular features of the SEMrush Position Tracking tool:

All subscribers are given regular data updates and mobile search rankings upon subscribing

The platform provides opportunities to track several SERP features, including Local tracking.

Intuitive reports allow you to track statistics for the pages on your website, as well as the keywords used in those pages.

Identify pages that may be competing with each other using the Cannibalization report.

WHO WINS?

Ahrefs is a more user-friendly option. It takes seconds to enter a domain name and keywords. From there, you can quickly decide whether to proceed with that keyword or figure out how to rank better for other keywords.

SEMrush allows you to check your mobile rankings and ranking updates daily, which is something Ahrefs does not offer. SEMrush also offers social media rankings, a tool you won't find within the Ahrefs platform. Both are good which one do you like let me know in the comment.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is closely related to rank tracking, but it's used for deciding which keywords you plan on using for future content rather than those you use now.

When it comes to SEO, keyword research is the most important thing to consider when comparing the two platforms.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs Keyword Explorer provides you with thousands of keyword ideas and filters search results based on the chosen search engine.

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

• It can search multiple keywords in a single search and analyze them together. At SEMrush, you also have this feature in Keyword Overview.
• Ahrefs has a variety of keywords for different search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and other search engines.
• When you click on a keyword, you can see its search volume and keyword difficulty, but also other keywords related to it, which you didn't use.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool has over 20 billion keywords for Google. You can type in any keyword you want, and a list of suggested keywords will appear.

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

• Show performance metrics by keyword
• Search results are based on both broad and exact keyword matches.
• Show data like search volume, trends, keyword difficulty, and CPC.
• Show the first 100 Google search results for any keyword.
• Identify SERP Features and Questions related to each keyword
• SEMrush has released a new Keyword Gap Tool that uncovers potentially useful keyword opportunities for you, including both paid and organic keywords.

WHO WINS?

Both of these tools offer keyword research features and allow users to break down complicated tasks into something that can be understood by beginners and advanced users alike.

If you're interested in keyword suggestions, SEMrush appears to have more keyword suggestions than Ahrefs does. It also continues to add new features, like the Keyword Gap tool and SERP Questions recommendations.

Competitor Analysis

Both platforms offer competitor analysis tools, eliminating the need to come up with keywords off the top of your head. Each tool is useful for finding keywords that will be useful for your competition so you know they will be valuable to you.

AHREFS

Ahrefs' domain comparison tool lets you compare up to five websites (your website and four competitors) side-by-side.it also shows you how your site is ranked against others with metrics such as backlinks, domain ratings, and more.

Use the Competing Domains section to see a list of your most direct competitors, and explore how many keywords matches your competitors have.

To find more information about your competitor, you can look at the Site Explorer and Content Explorer tools and type in their URL instead of yours.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush provides a variety of insights into your competitors' marketing tactics. The platform enables you to research your competitors effectively. It also offers several resources for competitor analysis including:

Traffic Analytics helps you identify where your audience comes from, how they engage with your site, what devices visitors use to view your site, and how your audiences overlap with other websites.

SEMrush's Organic Research examines your website's major competitors and shows their organic search rankings, keywords they are ranking for, and even if they are ranking for any (SERP) features and more.

The Market Explorer search field allows you to type in a domain and lists websites or articles similar to what you entered. Market Explorer also allows users to perform in-depth data analytics on These companies and markets.

WHO WINS?

SEMrush wins here because it has more tools dedicated to competitor analysis than Ahrefs. However, Ahrefs offers a lot of functionality in this area, too. It takes a combination of both tools to gain an advantage over your competition.

Pricing

Ahrefs

• Lite Monthly: $99/month
• Standard Monthly: $179/month
• Annually Lite: $990/year
• Annually Standard: $1790/year

SEMRUSH

• Pro Plan: $119.95/month
• Guru Plan:$229.95/month
• Business Plan: $449.95/month

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

When it comes to keyword data research, you will become confused about which one to choose.

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

• Like friendly and clean interface
• Searching for simple keyword suggestions

• Want to get more keywords for different search engines like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and more

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

• Want more marketing and SEO features
• Need competitor analysis tool
• Need to keep your backlinks profile clean
• Looking for more keyword suggestions for Google

Both tools are great. Choose the one which meets your requirements and if you have any experience using either Ahrefs or SEMrush let me know in the comment section which works well for you.

 

 

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A Well-Connected NYU Parent Is Trying to Get Students Deported
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000

The founder of Mothers Against College Antisemitism says her 62,000-member Facebook group is influencing NYU policy.

The post A Well-Connected NYU Parent Is Trying to Get Students Deported appeared first on The Intercept.

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A Well-Connected NYU Parent Is Trying to Get Students Deported
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000

The founder of Mothers Against College Antisemitism says her 62,000-member Facebook group is influencing NYU policy.

The post A Well-Connected NYU Parent Is Trying to Get Students Deported appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Straight Story to You’re Cordially Invited: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:00:50 GMT

David Lynch’s classic about a man who rides his lawnmower across America. Plus: Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell’s slapstick comedy about weddings … and alligator wrestling is a nostalgic treat

In his lifetime, David Lynch directed very few films that could safely be shown on TV at Sunday teatime. In this regard, The Straight Story serves as a career outlier. However, despite lacking all his trademark dread and disquiet, it deserves to go down as one of his very best. Based on the true story of Alvin Straight, a man who, in 1994, took his 5mph lawnmower on a 240-mile road trip to visit his sick brother, it shimmers with awestruck wonder. Lead actor Richard Farnsworth was in the latter stages of terminal cancer during filming, and his stubborn determination to see the journey through is reflected throughout the whole movie. A perfect film with a perfect ending.
Sunday 2 February, 4.10pm, Film4

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‘We were inspired, recharged and nourished by nature’: readers’ favourite wellness trips
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:00:49 GMT

From mindful waking in the Yorkshire Dales to a Buddhist retreat in Japan, our tipsters have found inner peace and rejuvenation all over the world

With Eryri national park (Snowdonia) on the doorstep and guided wild swims available, north Wales’ Tawelu Retreats offers options to explore the outdoors or go full hibernation with the retreat’s yoga classes and meditations, plus a sauna and hot tub. The chef cooked up filling, comforting veggie food and gorgeous chai and hot chocolate. Even getting lost running up the Welsh fells and nearly missing my hot shells massage didn’t trouble my stress levels. It’s women only, four days from £650.
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How Warsaw became the unlikely vegan capital of Europe | Karol Adamiak
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:00:48 GMT

A city associated with sausage and herring is now a haven for plant-based foods – and Poland’s rightwing politicians aren’t happy

I want to tell you about a relatively typical neighbourhood in my city. There are two vegan sushi restaurants, three vegan ramen spots. There are a few vegan delis. All the convenience stores have a vegan section. There’s an abundance of vegan bakeries. There’s a place that does vegan peking duck – it’s good, I promise. Many of these vegan places proudly have a rainbow flag on display. I’m not talking about Los Angeles or New York. I’m not even talking about Copenhagen. My neighbourhood is called Śródmieście. The vegan paradise I’m talking about – it’s Warsaw.

If you don’t believe me, well, Warsaw has been ranked among the top vegan cities in the world by HappyCow (a vegan ranking website) for the past six years. In 2022, it was National Geographic’s number one vegan city in the world. Maybe your perception of Poland is all kielbasa (sausage) and conservative politics. Herring and hate. It’s more complicated than that. In the past two decades there has been a quiet vegan revolution in the country.

Karol Adamiak is a chef from Warsaw. Barclay Bram contributed research and writing to this article. They cook together as Bracia

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US regulators approve new non-opioid drug to treat acute pain
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:44:12 GMT

Oral drug from Vertex, branded as Journavx, represents alternative to addictive opioids that have fueled US crisis

The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug to treat acute pain, the health regulator said on Thursday, offering a first-of-its-kind alternative to addictive opioid painkillers that have fueled a national crisis.

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals oral drug, branded Journavx, works by blocking pain signals at their source, unlike opioids, which trigger the brain’s reward centers as they travel through the blood and then attach to neural receptors, leading to addiction and abuse.

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What's Next in the DC Jet Crash Investigation
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:27:59 +0000
President Donald Trump blamed DEI efforts at the FAA for the tragedy. But experts and investigators say open minds are critical to finding out what really happened.
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Washington, DC, Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:30:23 +0000
Air traffic controllers asked Flight 5342 to switch runways when coming in to land. Black box recordings from the jet and the military helicopter it collided with will help reveal whether this contributed to the accident.
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Fury over Reeves’ climate climbdown – Politics Weekly UK
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:00:27 GMT

In her big plan to get the economy growing again the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has prioritised growth over almost everything else. But at what cost? John Harris speaks to the Labour MP Clive Lewis about concerns that climate action is taking a back seat. Plus, the columnist Gaby Hinsliff talks us through whether the party’s quest for growth will work

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NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:09:34 +0000
NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than spring 2025. Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, will command the commercial mission, while ISRO […]
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6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:42:14 +0000
Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space exploration and benefits humanity.   Here are six studies scientists have conducted on the International Space Station that could have profound implications for future space travel and also […]
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Picture prefect: Japanese city deploys guards to control unruly tourists seeking perfect shot
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:28:29 GMT

Overseas tourists are blocking roads or walking onto railway tracks in Otaru to capture its views, stoking local resentment and complaints of overtourism

Authorities in Japan are stepping up measures to deter crowds of overseas visitors from taking risks in their quest for the perfect photo, in another attempt to address the negative impact of a record surge in inbound tourism.

Tourism officials in Otaru, a small city in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, deployed security guards this week to prevent people congregating on Funami-za, a steep street and the perfect spot for photos of the port and sea in the distance.

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They Flee Russia as Dissidents Seeking Asylum. The U.S. Locks Them Up.
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:08:00 +0000

Asylum-seekers are being detained because they come from Russia and Central Asia, immigrants and attorneys told The Intercept.

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People in England and Wales: how have you been affected by Storm Herminia?
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:41:35 GMT

We would like to hear from people on the stormy weather conditions and the impact it has had on their journey

Due to stormy weather and flooding, a major incident has been declared in Somerset with blocked roads, schools closed and rest centres set up for those who have been forced to leave their homes in Chard, Ilminister and Somerton.

More than 50 flood warnings and more than 150 flood alerts were in place for England on Monday, with three Met Office yellow warnings in England and Wales for heavy rain and strong winds.

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Netanyahu Has an ICC Arrest Warrant. Poland’s Promise to Ignore It Would Be a “Grave Mistake.”
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:23:04 +0000

Poland has promised Netanyahu safe passage to an Auschwitz memorial service. Former and current EU officials are speaking out.

The post Netanyahu Has an ICC Arrest Warrant. Poland’s Promise to Ignore It Would Be a “Grave Mistake.” appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA Tests Air Traffic Surveillance Technology Using Its Pilatus PC-12 Aircraft
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:58:48 +0000
As air taxis, drones, and other innovative aircraft enter U.S. airspace, systems that communicate an aircraft’s location will be critical to ensure air traffic safety. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires aircraft to communicate their locations to other aircraft and air traffic control in real time using an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system. NASA is […]
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NASA Small Business Funding Enables Aircraft Inspection by Drone
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:50:52 +0000
A small business called Near Earth Autonomy developed a time-saving solution using drones for pre-flight checks of commercial airliners through a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and a partnership with The Boeing Company. Before commercial airliners are deemed safe to fly before each trip, a pre-flight inspection must be completed. This process can […]
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Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict who’s safe—and who’s a threat.
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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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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.

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals stock is soaring. The FDA just approved its potentially game-changing pain treatment.
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:35:00 GMT
Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. surged ahead of Friday’s market open after the Food and Drug Administration approved the company’s non-opioid pain treatment.
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Delays to post-Brexit border checks may have let diseased chicken enter UK
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:27:00 GMT

Exclusive: Officials admitted in 2023 there were ‘no current border checks’, as salmonella and other illnesses surged

UK health bosses privately admitted that a lack of border inspections in the wake of Brexit had left British consumers exposed to diseased meat, an investigation has found.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has previously uncovered a host of failings in the government’s handling of outbreaks of drug-resistant salmonella, particularly that linked to supermarket chicken from Poland. Illnesses connected to the outbreaks – which also affected eggs – peaked at different points between 2020 and 2024, while border checks that were supposed to be in place post-Brexit were being repeatedly delayed.

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‘We were inspired, recharged and nourished by nature’: readers’ favourite wellness trips
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:00:49 GMT

From mindful waking in the Yorkshire Dales to a Buddhist retreat in Japan, our tipsters have found inner peace and rejuvenation all over the world

With Eryri national park (Snowdonia) on the doorstep and guided wild swims available, north Wales’ Tawelu Retreats offers options to explore the outdoors or go full hibernation with the retreat’s yoga classes and meditations, plus a sauna and hot tub. The chef cooked up filling, comforting veggie food and gorgeous chai and hot chocolate. Even getting lost running up the Welsh fells and nearly missing my hot shells massage didn’t trouble my stress levels. It’s women only, four days from £650.
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How Warsaw became the unlikely vegan capital of Europe | Karol Adamiak
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:00:48 GMT

A city associated with sausage and herring is now a haven for plant-based foods – and Poland’s rightwing politicians aren’t happy

I want to tell you about a relatively typical neighbourhood in my city. There are two vegan sushi restaurants, three vegan ramen spots. There are a few vegan delis. All the convenience stores have a vegan section. There’s an abundance of vegan bakeries. There’s a place that does vegan peking duck – it’s good, I promise. Many of these vegan places proudly have a rainbow flag on display. I’m not talking about Los Angeles or New York. I’m not even talking about Copenhagen. My neighbourhood is called Śródmieście. The vegan paradise I’m talking about – it’s Warsaw.

If you don’t believe me, well, Warsaw has been ranked among the top vegan cities in the world by HappyCow (a vegan ranking website) for the past six years. In 2022, it was National Geographic’s number one vegan city in the world. Maybe your perception of Poland is all kielbasa (sausage) and conservative politics. Herring and hate. It’s more complicated than that. In the past two decades there has been a quiet vegan revolution in the country.

Karol Adamiak is a chef from Warsaw. Barclay Bram contributed research and writing to this article. They cook together as Bracia

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US regulators approve new non-opioid drug to treat acute pain
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:44:12 GMT

Oral drug from Vertex, branded as Journavx, represents alternative to addictive opioids that have fueled US crisis

The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug to treat acute pain, the health regulator said on Thursday, offering a first-of-its-kind alternative to addictive opioid painkillers that have fueled a national crisis.

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals oral drug, branded Journavx, works by blocking pain signals at their source, unlike opioids, which trigger the brain’s reward centers as they travel through the blood and then attach to neural receptors, leading to addiction and abuse.

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Wildfires took everything but their food trucks. So they fed their community.
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:29:55 +0000
Amid the L.A. wildfires, when Lauren and Nelson Saravia heard first responders and others were hungry, they got their food trucks going to help.
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Hundreds protest in London as jailed climate activists’ appeals are heard
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:10:19 GMT

Road outside high court blocked in protest at ‘draconian’ sentences given to 16 Just Stop Oil ‘political prisoners’

Hundreds of protesters have blocked the road outside the high court in London, where the appeals of 16 jailed climate activists are being heard, in condemnation of “the corruption of democracy and the rule of law”.

As England’s most senior judge heard arguments in the appeal of the sentences of the Just Stop Oil activists, who are serving a combined 41 years in jail, their supporters sat on the road in silence holding placards proclaiming them “political prisoners”.

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Mushrooms, spinach and cheese take this oatmeal in a savory direction
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:00:41 +0000
Inspired by a main-course porridge dish at Oyster Oyster, this bowl of oats can be breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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10 Best Delivery Chocolate Boxes to Send and Receive (2025)
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:35:00 +0000
We tasted dozens of chocolates to find the best-tasting delivery boxes for your true love, self-love, or your lovely mother.
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Protein, weights and the best way to keep fit: your exercise questions answered – podcast
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:00:26 GMT

In the second episode of our listener questions special, Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay what he has uncovered about who the exercise guidelines were created for and whether they apply to all of us, which exercises are best for keeping us strong, whether we should be eating particular foods when we exercise, and how much protein we need to consume if we’re packing in the hours at the gym. With contributions from Jason Gill, professor of cardiometabolic health at the University of Glasgow; Benjamin Wall, professor of nutritional physiology at the University of Exeter; Clyde Williams, emeritus professor of sports science at Loughborough University; Victoria Taylor, head of clinical support at the British Heart Foundation and I-Min Lee, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School

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Listen to episode one of our listener questions special all about sugar, seed oils and avoiding sickness

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Miss Manners: Well-wishers ignore family’s food allergies
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Some members of the meal train to help the letter writer disregard the family’s food allergies.
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6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:42:14 +0000
Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space exploration and benefits humanity.   Here are six studies scientists have conducted on the International Space Station that could have profound implications for future space travel and also […]
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Cooking chat: How do I sear steak without setting off the smoke alarm?
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:00:21 +0000
Every Wednesday at noon Eastern, Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal answer your cooking questions.
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Israel Bans UNRWA as Trump Throttles Foreign Aid
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:50:51 +0000

UNRWA delivered the majority of food aid during the war and sheltered more than 1 million people. What happens when it’s banned?

The post Israel Bans UNRWA as Trump Throttles Foreign Aid appeared first on The Intercept.

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Dining chat: A reader complains about handsy servers
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:00:21 +0000
Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema entertains your dining questions, rants and raves.
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Make Italian wedding soup in 30 minutes with one clever shortcut
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:00:14 +0000
A clever shortcut makes this Italian wedding soup a weeknight-friendly meal.
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9 Best Juicers (2025): Centrifugal, Slow, Masticating
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:38:00 +0000
Stay hydrated with tried-and-tested juicers for refreshing daytime beverages and eye-brightening evening drinks.
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Ninja Crispi Review: An Ingenious Portable Air Fryer
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:04:00 +0000
This new Ninja Crispi portable air fryer may be the new best solution to potlucks, office lunch, and maybe tailgating.
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Savory Oatmeal With Mushrooms and Eggs
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Pantry staples come together in this pot of savory mushrooms, oats and eggs.
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The best hot sauces, tasted and rated by Thomasina Miers
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:00:17 GMT

Our Mexican food specialist gives us her take on hot sauces from UK supermarkets

• ‘An absolute belter’: Grace Dent tests the best extra-chocolatey biscuits

What a fun job, tasting hot sauces! I had a great time with my 13-year-old and her Ethiopian pal, who assured me of her skill in this department thanks to the traditionally spicy food her family eats at home.

We tasted the sauces on their own and with food. Both are essential: with the first drop, you’re looking for the flavour profile and overall taste; with the second mouthful on food – in our case a margherita pizza – you’re looking for how the heat and flavour of the sauce cut through. The moment the heat from the chillies comes into contact with food, especially carbohydrates and fats, the potency is reduced and the heat is sucked up. If you want a sauce to season food and enhance its flavours, then you need more heat than is obvious, and definitely more heat than when tasting the sauces on their own.

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Sign up for the Feast newsletter: our free Guardian food email
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 08:19:21 GMT

A weekly email from Yotam Ottolenghi, Meera Sodha, Felicity Cloake and Rachel Roddy, featuring the latest recipes and seasonal eating ideas

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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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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Sign up for the Fashion Statement newsletter: our free fashion email
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:06:20 GMT

Style, with substance: what’s really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved, direct to your inbox every Thursday

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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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Tulsi Gabbard Refused to Back Down on Edward Snowden. It Could Tank Her Nomination.
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:52:32 +0000

Facing more than a dozen questions about her views on the NSA leaker, Gabbard held her ground at her DNI confirmation hearing.

The post Tulsi Gabbard Refused to Back Down on Edward Snowden. It Could Tank Her Nomination. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Tulsi Gabbard Once Called for an Edward Snowden Pardon. Will She Flip-Flop Now?
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:34:43 +0000

Gabbard is a rare Washington politician who defended the NSA whistleblower. But she has also changed positions and even political parties.

The post Tulsi Gabbard Once Called for an Edward Snowden Pardon. Will She Flip-Flop Now? appeared first on The Intercept.

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At least five senior FBI leaders reportedly demoted or moved as Trump’s nominee is grilled by senators – as it happened
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:22:11 GMT

This liveblog is now closed.

Here’s some more reaction to Donald Trump’s executive order instructing the military to prepare to house 30,000 immigrants at the US naval base in Cuba.

“Guantánamo is a stain on our nation’s honor,” Jerry Nadler, a Democratic congressman from New York, said.

For years, I have advocated for its closure, condemning the abuses and glaring lack of accountability that persist there. This massive expansion into a mass detention camp is morally indefensible & raises significant civil liberties concerns.

We cannot allow this level of dehumanization to become normalized. We need to shut down Guantánamo once and for all.

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The ‘Contentification’ of Trump Policy
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000
Welcome to the White House’s own cinematic universe. Plus, the upcoming Democratic National Committee election and how candidates are pitching their digital plans.
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Trump Leans on WWII Japanese Incarceration Law to Deport Immigrants
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:02:36 +0000

The Alien Enemies Act provides sweeping powers to detain or deport foreign nationals. It’s ripe for abuse, experts say.

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Trump Appointees Can’t Own Crypto. That Rule Doesn’t Apply to Trump Himself.
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000

For many government employees, merely owning cryptocurrency is off-limits. Not for Trump, who created a “very grifty” meme coin.

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Senators grill Tulsi Gabbard on Snowden, Syria at hearing to be intelligence chief
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:48:51 +0000
Most Democrats and even some Republicans seemed uneasy with Tulsi Gabbard and her answers to their questions during her confirmation hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Sen. Jeff Merkley (Oregon), the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said Republicans on the...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:35:01 +0000

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Trump admin rescinds controversial funding freeze after two days of protest
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:01:03 +0000
Despite reversal, $42 billion broadband program could still be paused.
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Trump’s Nightmare Plan for Gaza
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Trump’s recent executive orders show unwavering support of Israel and the further dehumanization of Palestinians.

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Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:24 GMT

As Trump creates unprecedented chaos, Democrats have offered little more than platitudes – sparking comparisons to France’s collaborationist second world war regime

At the dawn of the second Trump presidency, defiance has given way to compliance.

While Donald Trump has rapidly and ruthlessly thrown the federal government into unprecedented chaos, the leaders of the Democratic party have offered up little more than limp banalities and platitudes. “Presidents come and presidents go. Through it all. God is still on the throne,” tweeted the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, at the end of Trump’s first week in office.

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Philp says Britons need better ‘work ethic’ and claims mini-budget might have worked if Truss had listened to him – politics live
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:48:26 GMT

Shadow home secretary says Britons need to ‘up their game’ if country is to compete with China, India and South Korea

There is a history of Conservative politcians telling the public to buck up and work harder. When mass unemployment struck in the 1980s, Norman Tebbit advised people to follow the example of his father, who responded to the 1930s depression by getting on his bike and looking for work. During the early years of the coalition, five ambitious backbenchers co-authored a book saying British workers were “among the worst idlers in the world”. All of the authors later became ministers, three achieved ‘great office of state’ level (Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel and Dominic Raab) and one became prime minister (Liz Truss).

Now another Tory has trode down this path. In an interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson for his Political Thinking podcast, Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said.

I do a bit. There are nine million working age adults who are not working. And as we compete globally with countries like, you know, South Korea, China, India, you know, we need a work ethic. We need everybody to be making a contribution. … we need to lift our game and to up our game.

Chris Philp was the architect of the Liz Truss budget which crashed the economy and sent family mortgages rocketing.

After the Conservatives’ economic failure left working people worse off, it takes some real brass neck for the Tory top team to tell the public that it’s really all their fault.

I was making the case that tax cuts…need to be accompanied by spending control or spending reductions … in order to show that the books are being balanced and to avoid the market reaction that we saw …

I made that case internally … but it wasn’t unfortunately listened to. I think had my suggestions been listened to a bit earlier, then there was a there’s a much higher chance that [the mini-budget] would have worked. And it’ll be always a matter of regret that those points weren’t taken on board.

Five years ago today, Boris Johnson and the Conservative party delivered on the results of the Brexit referendum and secured our departure from the European Union – delivering on the clear democratic will of the country.

Since then, our country – standing on its own two feet as a sovereign nation – has been able to achieve so much.

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How US states are leading the climate fight – despite Trump’s rollbacks
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:30:21 GMT

Officials are making clean-energy moves in California, New York and beyond, and Republican states will be integral too

As the Trump administration rolls back decades-old environmental protections and pulls Biden-era incentives for renewable energy, state-level advocates and officials are preparing to fill the void in climate action.

Some state leaders are preparing to legally challenge the president’s environmental rollbacks, while others are testifying against them in Congress. Meanwhile, advocates are pushing for states to meet their ambitious climate goals using methods and technologies that don’t require federal support.

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Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:45:57 +0000
Proposed US law slammed as "censorious" and an "Internet kill switch."
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Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:47:16 +0000

The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

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Senate Republicans’ responses mixed after Gabbard confirmation hearing
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:25:47 +0000

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Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, highlighted the apparent difference between Kash Patel and President...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:57:09 +0000

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Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee advanced Russell Vought’s nomination to head the Office of Management...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:43:48 +0000

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Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee announced on X that they will boycott Thursday’s vote on...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:19:08 +0000

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Introducing Kash Patel, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) predicted that Democrats on the committee would seek...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:31:42 +0000

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Lammy tells Rwanda it is putting $1bn in aid ‘under threat’ in DRC invasion
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:04:02 GMT

UK foreign secretary issues direct warning during phone call with Rwandan president after escalation of conflict

Rwanda has put $1bn of global aid under threat by taking part in the invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, has said.

He made the direct warning in a phone call to the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, on Sunday after also speaking to the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, about the crisis.

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Trans Women in Federal Custody Face the Terror of Being Transferred to Men’s Prisons
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:42:01 +0000

Following Trump’s executive order, a trans woman held at a federal prison was told she would be moved to a men’s prison.

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Republicans Say This Anti-Immigrant Bill Will Protect Victims of Abuse. It Will Do the Opposite.
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:39:55 +0000

Advocates say the bill will put domestic violence survivors who face false allegations from their abusers at greater risk of deportation.

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They Flee Russia as Dissidents Seeking Asylum. The U.S. Locks Them Up.
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:08:00 +0000

Asylum-seekers are being detained because they come from Russia and Central Asia, immigrants and attorneys told The Intercept.

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I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic | Clive Lewis
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:00:51 GMT

The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s recent “big growth agenda” speech wasn’t just the expression of a vision for the economy. It was also a warning shot to wavering Labour MPs. The message was blunt: get on board with the government’s economic strategy or step aside. Growth, we were told, is the non-negotiable mission.

This was not a sudden shift but a reaffirmation of her stance at Davos, where she made clear that “the answer can’t always be no”. That answer, now firmly codified, prioritises GDP growth above all else. Heathrow airport expansion is in; net zero, bats and newts are out. The promise? A revitalised economy, busy high streets and more bobbies on the beat – a Labour-friendly vision of progress designed to bolster morale and stuff leaflets with “good news” ahead of the next election.

Clive Lewis is the Labour MP for Norwich South

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Peter Dutton’s push to axe DEI public service positions ‘straight from the Donald Trump playbook’
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:28:16 GMT

Public sector union criticises opposition leader’s ‘lack of understanding of modern workplaces’

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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has foreshadowed the axing of diversity and inclusion positions in the public service as part of wider cuts to the commonwealth bureaucracy if he wins the federal election.

The main public sector union said the idea was straight out of the playbook of the US president, Donald Trump, who has declared war on so-called DEI measures (diversity, equity and inclusion) since returning to the White House.

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Much-repeated during Patel’s hearing: Who won the 2020 election?
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:18:52 +0000

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Patel won’t say Trump lost the 2020 election
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:18:23 +0000

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CISA Under Trump
2025-01-28T12:09:53Z

Jen Easterly is out as the Director of CISA. Read her final interview:

There’s a lot of unfinished business. We have made an impact through our ransomware vulnerability warning pilot and our pre-ransomware notification initiative, and I’m really proud of that, because we work on preventing somebody from having their worst day. But ransomware is still a problem. We have been laser-focused on PRC cyber actors. That will continue to be a huge problem. I’m really proud of where we are, but there’s much, much more work to be done. There are things that I think we can continue driving, that the next administration, I hope, will look at, because, frankly, cybersecurity is a national security issue...

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What’s the Point of Trump’s War on D.E.I.?
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
To distract from his larger plan to gut the federal government, the President has taken a relatively powerless program and turned it into an excuse for everything that goes wrong in the country.
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Trump has already remade our constitutional order | Moira Donegan
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:25 GMT

Trump’s vision of governance reminds me of nothing so much as the declaration attributed to Louis XIV: “L’Etat, c’est moi”: I am the state

The new Trump administration is busy. In a fury of executive orders, the restored president has frozen hiring at the federal government, cut off large amounts of science and research funding, ended or severely curtailed international programs in women’s health and HIV treatment, attempted to unilaterally amend the constitution to deny citizenship to hundreds of thousands, cut off aid to Ukraine, provoked a diplomatic spat with Colombia, and renamed the Gulf of Mexico in official documents as “the Gulf of America.”

Many of these moves are stunts and distractions, meant to appease Trump’s base of aggrieved culture warriors. Others are meant to further Trump’s personal power, and to make sure that no obstacles will be presented to his second term agenda of malice, retribution, and corrupt self-dealing.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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The Guardian view on the Washington DC plane crash: Trump’s warped priorities | Editorial
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:29:22 GMT

The president is more concerned with attacking the federal government than with putting safety first

Few stretches of airspace on the planet are as busy or as carefully monitored as the skies above Washington DC. Commercial and military aircraft are on the move there at all times. The greatest concentration is around Reagan National airport, the city’s principal domestic hub, which sits on the west bank of the Potomac River within sight of the Capitol dome.

No one yet knows how a Black Hawk military helicopter collided with an American Eagle flight from Wichita above the Potomac on Wednesday evening. But the destruction was total. No survivors have been found from among the 64 people on board the flight from Kansas or among the three-strong crew of the helicopter. By early Thursday, the rescue effort was already a recovery operation. Bodies were being lifted from the river’s icy waters through the day.

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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:12:08 +0000
The US Office of Personnel Management is telling federal workers to get in line—or get out.
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Do Trump's politics connect in these English towns? - video
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:20:37 GMT

As the second Trump presidency begins, John Harris and John Domokos go to a Staffordshire town whose economy went from coal to Amazon warehousing to find out if 21st century populism 

is cutting through. At a byelection down the road, meanwhile, there's a big question facing voters: Labour or Reform UK?

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FBI’s Warrantless Search Ruled Unconstitutional in a Blow to Government Spying
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:11:30 +0000

The FBI trawled NSA records without a warrant to investigate a man suspected of trying to join a terror group, prosecutors admit.

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Trump’s revenge targets feds, expands his power and disrupts government
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:09 +0000
The president’s actions taking aim at federal workers are a “punch to the gut,” says one employee.
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A Well-Connected NYU Parent Is Trying to Get Students Deported
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000

The founder of Mothers Against College Antisemitism says her 62,000-member Facebook group is influencing NYU policy.

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Rightwing Liberals strengthen as Leah Blyth takes Simon Birmingham’s Senate seat
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:14:01 GMT

South Australian slot goes to candidate backed by factional powerbroker Alex Antic as moderates lose more ground in Canberra

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The right wing of the Liberal party has gained another number in Canberra at the expense of the party’s waning moderate faction after an Alex Antic-backed candidate won the race to replace Simon Birmingham.

Leah Blyth, the president of the South Australian Liberal party, will fill Brimingham’s old Senate seat after winning a ballot of party members in Adelaide on Friday night.

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The Guardian view on the children’s bill: academy freedoms are beside the point | Editorial
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:28:56 GMT

The government deserves praise for delivering breakfast clubs, a home schooling register and admissions reform

The fuss kicked up by the Conservatives about the education bill over the past month has been about trying to land political blows – not making the lives of children in England safer or better. MPs’ horror at sexual exploitation gangs is sincere, but attempting to bolt a public inquiry on to Bridget Phillipson’s bill was an ill-judged attempt to sour the mood around an important piece of progressive legislation. That amendment was defeated. But ministers were rattled when Kemi Badenoch echoed complaints by academy leaders that the bill will cramp their style. Wording was altered so that they will not, after all, be obliged to pay teachers in accordance with nationally agreed pay scales.

Ministers should now draw a line and stand their ground. The shortage of teachers in key subjects is a problem that got worse under the Conservatives. It is questionable whether tighter pay rules would have caused the harm claimed, and Sir Keir Starmer was right to stress that there is nothing remarkable about requiring teachers in all schools to be qualified. Mrs Badenoch’s jibe – are Olympians not qualified to teach PE? – was a rhetorical flourish, not a serious point.

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Angela Merkel rebukes CDU leader for alliance with far-right on immigration
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:49:02 GMT

Ex-chancellor makes rare intervention to criticise her own party for passing asylum policy with support of AfD

The former German chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised Friedrich Merz, her eventual successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, for pushing through proposals on migration and asylum with the backing of the far-right AfD party.

In a rare intervention in public affairs since stepping down from politics in December 2021, Merkel said Merz, who is tipped to become Germany’s next chancellor, had in effect performed a U-turn.

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How Trump’s Federal-Aid Fiasco Is Testing the Separation of Powers
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“We are in an era of a real reckoning with the relationship of the President to the other branches of government,” the Harvard Law professor and New Yorker contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen says.
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Fury over Reeves’ climate climbdown – Politics Weekly UK
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:00:27 GMT

In her big plan to get the economy growing again the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has prioritised growth over almost everything else. But at what cost? John Harris speaks to the Labour MP Clive Lewis about concerns that climate action is taking a back seat. Plus, the columnist Gaby Hinsliff talks us through whether the party’s quest for growth will work

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Live updates: GOP senators weigh fates of Trump’s more controversial Cabinet picks
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:51:35 +0000
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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South Africa and Malaysia to launch campaign to protect justice
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:00:47 GMT

Formation of Hague Group comes amid challenges to ICJ and ICC rulings

South Africa and Malaysia will launch a campaign to protect and uphold the rulings of the international court of justice (ICJ) and the international criminal court (ICC) in the face of what they describe as defiance of ICJ orders and attempts by US Congress to hit the ICC through the use of sanctions.

The aim of the nine-nation Hague Group – which includes Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Senegal and Namibia - is to defend the institutions and rulings of the international legal order.

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Trump criticized for blaming diversity, Biden administration for crash
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:25:47 +0000
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:31:09 +0000
Brendan Carr described as "Trump's Censorship Czar" as he launches media probes.
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Congressional Black Caucus: Trump blaming DEI programs for crash is ‘truly disgusting’
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:27:33 +0000

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Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:44:29 GMT

Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trump’s national intelligence director nominee ahead of confirmation vote

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for national intelligence director, refused to call the whistleblower Edward Snowden a “traitor” but sought to rein in her unorthodox views on foreign dictators and opposition to electronic surveillance during a tense confirmation hearing that could sink her nomination to oversee the country’s sprawling intelligence community.

In a three-hour hearing before the Senate intelligence committee, Gabbard, a former congresswoman and member of the Hawaii army national guard, partially recanted her views that Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine, said she had “no love” for the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and denied meeting with Hezbollah representatives during a trip to Lebanon in 2017.

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Trump’s Orders Sow Chaos Inside the Nation’s Enforcer of Equal Opportunity
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Can the federal government eliminate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “gender ideology” without violating civil rights?
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Democrats Are Worried About John Ratcliffe’s Role in the 2020 Election. They Should Also Take a Look At His AI Gigs.
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:18:24 +0000

The CIA director nominee’s tour through the revolving door included work on AI — an industry now angling to pick up major government contracts.

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DNC chair candidates make final pitch to voting members
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:45:25 +0000

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Trump says he will impose trade tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Saturday – US politics live
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:36:30 GMT

Donald Trump says tariffs will start at 25% and ‘may or may not’ rise over time

Trump’s comments on tariffs also covered China, who he accused of helping to fuel the opioid crisis in the US via imports of fentanyl.

“With China I’m also thinking about something because they’re sending fentanyl into our country and because of that they’re causing us hundreds of thousands of deaths,” he said.

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How RFK Jr.’s assurances to senators contradict his past remarks
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:30:50 +0000

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A career official tried to undo Trump’s purge at USAID. He was then purged, too.
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:15:40 +0000

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Records undercut Tulsi Gabbard’s claim of ignorance on cleric’s views
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:55 +0000

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Pressure grows on Met over ‘heavy-handed’ policing of pro-Gaza protest
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:26 GMT

Trade unions write to home secretary to complain about officers’ behaviour and tactics in London on 18 January

The Met police is facing growing questions over its handling of a pro-Palestine protest in central London at which more than 70 people were arrested.

On Friday, trade union leaders became the latest group to write to the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, demanding an independent inquiry into “repressive and heavy-handed policing” at the 18 January demonstration.

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Hardwick, the Motley Vermont Town Trying to Tell Its Own Story
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
At the Civic Standard, in Hardwick, community building is a kind of performance art, where the usual tales of a fractured America are quickly upstaged.
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Policing minister accepts forces in England and Wales face ‘challenging’ cuts
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:32:50 GMT

Diana Johnson says Labour is ‘starting from a difficult position’, after Essex police say they could get rid of PCSOs

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Police forces in England and Wales are facing “difficult and challenging” circumstances, the policing minister has accepted, as some have been forced to cut their number of officers.

Diana Johnson said forces would need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, days after Essex police said they could get rid of all 99 police community support officer roles within the force, pending consultation, amid a £12.5m budget shortfall for 2025-26.

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Delays to post-Brexit border checks may have let diseased chicken enter UK
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:27:00 GMT

Exclusive: Officials admitted in 2023 there were ‘no current border checks’, as salmonella and other illnesses surged

UK health bosses privately admitted that a lack of border inspections in the wake of Brexit had left British consumers exposed to diseased meat, an investigation has found.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has previously uncovered a host of failings in the government’s handling of outbreaks of drug-resistant salmonella, particularly that linked to supermarket chicken from Poland. Illnesses connected to the outbreaks – which also affected eggs – peaked at different points between 2020 and 2024, while border checks that were supposed to be in place post-Brexit were being repeatedly delayed.

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Alarms were raised about ‘congested’ airspace before fatal Washington crash
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:00:51 GMT

Crash called ‘avoidable’, with lawmakers and residents previously sounding alarm about region’s crowded skies

After Wednesday’s fatal crash which took down a commercial jet and a military helicopter on a training flight at Washington DC’s Reagan National airport, public officials and aviation experts are resurfacing concerns about how uniquely congested the airspace is around the country’s capital.

As of Thursday night, authorities have said all 64 people on the American Airlines flight were presumed dead as well as three more on the army helicopter, making the incident the deadliest US air tragedy since 2001.

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How Warsaw became the unlikely vegan capital of Europe | Karol Adamiak
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:00:48 GMT

A city associated with sausage and herring is now a haven for plant-based foods – and Poland’s rightwing politicians aren’t happy

I want to tell you about a relatively typical neighbourhood in my city. There are two vegan sushi restaurants, three vegan ramen spots. There are a few vegan delis. All the convenience stores have a vegan section. There’s an abundance of vegan bakeries. There’s a place that does vegan peking duck – it’s good, I promise. Many of these vegan places proudly have a rainbow flag on display. I’m not talking about Los Angeles or New York. I’m not even talking about Copenhagen. My neighbourhood is called Śródmieście. The vegan paradise I’m talking about – it’s Warsaw.

If you don’t believe me, well, Warsaw has been ranked among the top vegan cities in the world by HappyCow (a vegan ranking website) for the past six years. In 2022, it was National Geographic’s number one vegan city in the world. Maybe your perception of Poland is all kielbasa (sausage) and conservative politics. Herring and hate. It’s more complicated than that. In the past two decades there has been a quiet vegan revolution in the country.

Karol Adamiak is a chef from Warsaw. Barclay Bram contributed research and writing to this article. They cook together as Bracia

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WA police officers found not to have performed duty ahead of Perth double murder – as it happened
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:34:42 GMT

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Cyclone threat looms in northern Australia as drenched region braces for yet more rain

North Queensland is on cyclone watch with three tropical lows given a chance of developing in the coming days, bringing heavy rain that has flooded roads and homes.

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How do we introduce assisted dying? Experts and politicians hope someone else has the answer | Gaby Hinsliff
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:00:49 GMT

Such a profound social change needs consensus and leadership. Those tasked with seeing this through are offering neither

There is something about the sound of Prof Sir Chris Whitty’s voice that inexorably takes me back. Whenever he speaks it’s hard not to think about R numbers and social distancing, masks and variants. His was the judgment we learned to trust in the days when the only certainty was that thousands were going to die; his the not-quite-inscrutable face we studied for clues that some politician had just said something stupid. For those reasons and more, I would very much like to know what the chief medical officer thinks about assisted dying for terminally ill people. But when he came before the committee scrutinising this most sensitive of issues on Wednesday, he wouldn’t say.

Whitty answered all questions posed about the proposed new law, including how accurately doctors can predict that someone has only six months left. (Not entirely, though he explained that they’re better at predicting that death will come in the foreseeable future – which seems more important here than whether it’s five, six or seven months exactly, though Whitty didn’t say the last part.) He wasn’t asked how well doctors can predict what that death might be like: how much pain or indignity it’s likely to involve, which might be equally hard to say but is what I’d want to know. (Some apply for assisted death without ever using the option, just to know it is there if needed.)

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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Trump baselessly blames diversity program for fatal air collision
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:57:52 +0000
Rescuers were still pulling bodies from the Potomac River as Trump cast blame on the FAA, the Army, diversity programs and his predecessors.
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Several senior FBI leaders told to leave agency or be fired, people familiar say
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 02:21:45 +0000
The ultimatum was unusual for the FBI and suggested that President Donald Trump is purging leadership at an agency he has harshly criticized.
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Gabbard faces bipartisan doubt in spy job hearing, Patel gets GOP embrace as FBI pick
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:46:43 +0000

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White House eyes fight to expand Trump’s power to control spending
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:36:31 +0000

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Senate confirms Trump’s pick to lead his ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:07:58 +0000

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Government Tech Workers Forced to Defend Projects to Random Elon Musk Bros
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:58:11 +0000
A recent high school graduate and former Neuralink intern has joined meetings to review lines of code and other work history of career public servants, sparking chaos at a major government agency.
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Fact Checker: Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:55:46 +0000

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Disability groups rebuke Trump’s remarks blaming crash on disabled people, DEI policies
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:34:11 +0000

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Trump orders review of Biden administration’s aviation safety hiring decisions, protocols
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Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:46:28 +0000
At a news conference, Trump read a list of conditions he called disqualifying, but his administration started such hiring in 2019.
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Trump recommits to 25% tariffs for Canada and Mexico starting Feb. 1
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:51:13 +0000

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Trump says he believes Supreme Court would support ending birthright citizenship
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Crowded airspace and D.C.'s deadly plane crash
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:32:09 +0000
“It was probably out in the middle of the river. I just saw a fireball, and then it was gone.” Today on “Post Reports,” unpacking a deadly collision in the nation’s capital.
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5 takeaways from the Gabbard, Patel and RFK Jr. hearings
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:17:48 +0000
All three strained to distance themselves from their past, but Gabbard in particular appears to be in danger.
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Kash Patel breaks with Trump on Jan. 6 clemency, defends record in Senate hearing
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:23:25 +0000
President Trump’s pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, faces Senators’ questions in his confirmation hearing.
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Was he grave, sombre, the consoler-in-chief? Are you kidding – this is Trump
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:21:36 GMT

Hours after the Washington plane crash, the president’s desire to politicise tragedy was breathtaking in its audacity

• Washington DC plane crash – latest updates

After the Challenger space shuttle disaster, Ronald Reagan ended an Oval Office address with the consoling thought that its crew had slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God. Successors such as Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden also shone in the crucial US presidential role of consoler-in-chief.

How would Donald Trump fare in his first test since returning to the White House? On Thursday he came to the press briefing room just 14 hours after the collision of a passenger plane and army helicopter near a Washington airport apparently left all 67 people dead.

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FBI headquarters in Alabama? Patel signals he’s open to it.
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:21:13 +0000

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RFK Jr. tries to convince skeptical senators that he won’t undermine vaccines
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:19:09 +0000

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The hearing is over.
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Patel to Sen. Klobuchar: ‘You’ve got two minutes’
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:02:27 +0000

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Trump’s Cabinet nomination process so far
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:52:47 +0000

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Trump falsely asserts Biden reversed his order on hiring
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:45:25 +0000

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Schiff grills Patel on Mar-a-Lago classified documents case
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:42:12 +0000

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FBI pick Kash Patel refuses to answer if he would target Trump opponents at hearing
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:42:48 GMT

Key Trump ally strives to extricate himself from statements he had made earlier, claiming ‘mischaracterization’

Kash Patel sought to allay concerns about his fitness to serve as the FBI director at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, but declined to engage with questioning that explicitly asked whether he would use his position to investigate some of Donald Trump’s top political opponents.

The hearing revolved around Patel’s provocative public remarks attacking the FBI and his ability to resist political pressure from the White House, a topic that has come to the fore with the justice department rocked by the ouster of prosecutors who worked on cases against Trump.

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Planned UK people-smuggling laws risk ‘criminalising’ asylum seekers, charities say
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:38:43 GMT

Bill could mean asylum seekers crossing the Channel who refuse rescue may face five years in prison

Keir Starmer’s planned people-smuggling laws risk “criminalising” hundreds of asylum seekers, refugee charities have said, after it emerged that people who refuse to be rescued by the French authorities could be jailed for five years.

Some parents who bring their children to the UK in small boats could also face prosecution, which could ultimately split their families, a human rights assessment of the border security, asylum and immigration bill has concluded.

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Patel, a longtime critic of the FBI, presents himself as its defender
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As Trump shakes up global politics, Mexico could be most affected
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Trump officials to probe Denver school for installing all-gender bathroom
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Patel says he opposes limiting part of key government surveillance tool
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RFK Jr. wraps Day 2 of testimony in bid for top health job
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:50:26 +0000

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Ben Jennings on Labour’s climate climbdown – cartoon
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:24:17 GMT
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EPA tells probationary staff they could be fired
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:21:53 +0000

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Patel refuses to discuss his grand jury testimony in Mar-a-Lago docs case
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Three Israelis and five Thais freed from Gaza as Trump envoy meets hostages’ relatives
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:14:03 GMT

Handover delayed by jostling crowd in Khan Younis, with Netanyahu suspending release of Palestinian prisoners

Three Israelis and five Thai citizens held in Gaza have been freed, as Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy met hostages’ relatives, reportedly telling them he was optimistic the ceasefire would hold to allow the return of all the living and the dead.

The handover on Thursday of seven hostages in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, was delayed by a chaotic crowd surging towards the group, despite an escort of heavily armed militants, jostling and blocking their passage to waiting Red Cross vehicles.

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Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing can be described as two parallel hearings happening in tandem. In one,...
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‘Despicable’: Buttigieg rails against Trump’s response to crash
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:00:53 +0000

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Rogers ‘strongly considering’ another run for Senate in Michigan
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After an almost three-hour grilling of Tulsi Gabbard, the open session in her confirmation hearing to...
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During his confirmation hearing, Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Maryland) read Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a statement that...
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The hearing has resumed, with Kash Patel being questioned by Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey).
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Gabbard professed ignorance of Syrian cleric’s threat. Documents show otherwise.
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Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked a vast trove of classified U.S. documents,...
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) urged Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his confirmation hearing to use his...
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) quickly denounced President Donald Trump’s remarks in a news conference about...
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Loners, misfits and the shadow of Southport | Letters
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:28:16 GMT

A reader with an autistic son responds to letters about Axel Rudakubana, while Peter Lowe suggests ways of restricting the sale and lethality of knives

I was relieved to read some letters (28 January) about issues which haven’t been headlines in the media, but which might have affected Axel Rudakubana. I also note that he had received a diagnosis of autism.

My son is autistic; he fits Keir Starmer’s “loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom” labelling to a T. He too has been marginalised, bullied and rarely leaves the house. He too lives his life through the internet. He too is vulnerable and influenced by what he reads there. When he was a teenager he too felt he wanted to kill someone. He was fortunate and received treatment.

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Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged under questioning by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) that she relied on the contested...
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The hearing is on a lunch recess until shortly after 12:30 p.m.
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Patel does not say whether he’d investigate Barr, Comey or Wray
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:18:03 +0000

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Trump claims without evidence DEI could be reason for crash
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M23 rebels push south from Goma as DRC leader calls for military recruits
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:14:15 GMT

Rebels ‘here in Goma to stay’ and Rwandan official says advance will continue amid fears of regional war

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group has pushed south from Goma, the border city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that it captured this week, and declared its intention to remain in the city, as fears grow of a major regional war.

“We are here in Goma to stay,” Corneille Nangaa, the head of the Congo River Alliance, a coalition of militias that includes M23, said at a press conference in Goma. “We are going to continue the march until Kinshasa,” he added, referring to Congo’s capital 1,000 miles away.

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Patel won’t pledge to protect agents who worked on Trump investigations
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:13:25 +0000

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A lingering question: What would Patel seek to do with FBI headquarters?
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Sen. Bennet gets heated while pressing Gabbard to say Snowden was a traitor
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:59:27 +0000

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The White House briefing room is filled with Trump administration officials, with an unusually large amount...
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Trump blames plane crash on former DOT secretary Pete Buttigieg
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Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee grilling Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence,...
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Speaking at his confirmation hearing for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators that gender...
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Kash Patel was asked multiple times whether he would resign as FBI director if the White...
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RFK Jr. facing difficult questions in his second confirmation hearing
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Patel pressed to answer for his past statements on podcasts, social media
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Tulsi Gabbard is revising previous positions in her quest to become President Donald Trump’s director of...
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Kash Patel disavowed any notion that a list of 60 current and former government officials he...
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Tulsi Gabbard said that the idea she might have met with Hezbollah figures, ostensibly during a...
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Tulsi Gabbard expressed support for inspectors general, days after President Donald Trump fired more than a...
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After questions about Jan. 6 clemency, Grassley points back to Biden
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) ridiculed the mock bingo card that Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) held...
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Senate confirmation hearings are continuing Thursday for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to...
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) got Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, to say...
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Patel breaks with Trump on some grants of clemency, opposes violence against law enforcement
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:10:27 +0000

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Addressing criticism of her 2017 trip to Syria to meet then-President Bashar al-Assad, director of national...
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‘America’s gulag’: Trump’s Guantánamo ploy tars migrants as terrorists
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:06:18 GMT

The president wants to detain thousands of people at a site that is notorious for its secrecy and history of abuse

It has been denounced as “America’s gulag”: a secretive, abuse-ridden Caribbean prison camp for terror suspects that Donald Rumsfeld once said contained “the worst of the worst”.

“All of us have scars in our souls, deformities, from living at Guantánamo,” a former Yemeni inmate recalled of his time at the notorious military detention facility in south-east Cuba.

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Patel says he didn’t know rioters sang in ‘J6 Prison Choir’ he backed
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Patel defends appearances with far-right media figures
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Intelligence czar nominee Tulsi Gabbard says she supports reauthorization of a key spy power known as...
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is asking Tulsi Gabbard whether...
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During his confirmation hearing for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly said he wants to...
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Durbin: Patel has neither ‘the temperament nor the judgment’ to lead FBI
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Tulsi Gabbard used her opening statement before the Senate Intelligence Committee to blast former leaders of...
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), the Intelligence Committee chairman, says the Office of the Director of National...
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Kash Patel leans into grievance, discussing FBI’s scrutiny of him
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Cassidy cites concerns about RFK Jr.’s past vaccine stances
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in his opening statement in Thursday’s confirmation hearing for health secretary, said...
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Tulsi Gabbard, in a questionnaire released Thursday morning before the hearing, stood by her skepticism of...
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An additional prehearing questionnaire, totaling more than 100 pages, was released Thursday morning as Tulsi Gabbard’s...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:30:01 +0000

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Kash Patel’s public persona is, in large part, defined by his bombastic rhetoric in defense of...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:28:26 +0000

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), a physician who is chairing the panel holding a confirmation hearing Thursday...
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:22:48 +0000

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Musk team’s push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:21:54 +0000

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Tracking who Trump is appointing to fill key administration roles
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:19:12 +0000
Follow President-elect Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
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Patel, Grassley both highlight FBI’s declining public approval
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:17:08 +0000

Match ID: 151 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Trump’s immigration crackdown also targets legal pathways to enter US
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:00:23 GMT

Thousands left hopeless as new administration has been relentlessly and systematically dismantling safety nets

Mass deportation – at least in theory – is apparently popular among the American people.

So over and over again, Trump and his allies have loudly touted their plans to detain and deport undocumented immigrants, initially focusing on those with criminal records. In doing so, they’ve redirected the US public’s attention toward their “shock and awe” tactics that led to thousands of arrests across the country in less than a week.

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Bleach Enthusiast, Antisemitic Conspiracist Among Stars of Anti-Vaxxer Event to Be Held at Trump Hotel
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:32:20 +0000
The “truth seekers” conference, held at a hotel owned and frequented by President Donald Trump, is being organized by Charlie Ward, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.
Match ID: 153 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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British-Egyptian dissident mulls giving up citizenship over failure to be released
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:31:43 GMT

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s family reveal letters showing his despair after initial hopes David Lammy could get him freed from Cairo jail

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian political dissident held in a Cairo jail for more than five years, has reached such a state of despair over the UK’s inability to secure his release that he has contemplated renouncing both his British and Egyptian citizenship, his letters reveal.

His family have given permission for some of his private letters to be published to show his situation and his concern for his 68-year-old mother, Laila Soueif, on hunger strike seeking his release.

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Match ID: 154 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000
Bringing forward the return of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams would leave just a single astronaut operating the US portion of the International Space Station.
Match ID: 155 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Rwanda-backed rebels seize control of Congo’s Goma after violent clashes
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:58:19 +0000
After a lightning offensive, M23 rebels now control Goma, a large city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Match ID: 156 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Elon Musk Tells Friends He’s Sleeping at the DOGE Offices in DC
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:51:26 +0000
In a move straight out of the Twitter and Tesla playbook, Elon Musk is apparently camping out just steps away from the White House.
Match ID: 157 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Behind the Chaotic Attempt to Freeze Federal Assistance
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:37:13 +0000
The potential for devastation is made plain by another order, concerning the crucial work of U.S.A.I.D.
Match ID: 158 Score: 30.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
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The Trial at the Tip of the Terrorgram Iceberg
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000
Atomwaffen Division cofounder and alleged Terrorgram Collective member Brandon Russell is facing a potential 20-year sentence for an alleged plot on a Baltimore electrical station. His case is only the beginning.
Match ID: 159 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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Fighting between DRC army and M23 rebels rages in eastern city of Goma
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:25:21 GMT

At least 100 people killed and 1,000 wounded in three days of heavy fighting in North Kivu

• Who are the M23 rebels and why is there fighting in DRC?

Dead bodies lay on the streets and explosions and gunfire echoed across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday, as fighting continued to rage between the army and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

Residents reported continuing gun and mortar fire in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and a regional humanitarian hub for displaced people, after M23 fighters entered the city on Sunday.

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Match ID: 160 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:01:31 +0000
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
Match ID: 161 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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How Donald Trump Seizes the Primal Power of Naming
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
For the President, a name can become an instrument by which to exert his will upon our shared reality.
Match ID: 162 Score: 25.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
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Tell us: have you been threatened with ‘eviction’ from a specialist care home?
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:46:05 GMT

We’d like to hear from people or anyone in their family who has been ‘evicted’ from a care home providing specialist care for vulnerable adults due to funding cuts

Residential homes providing specialist care to thousands of vulnerable adults with learning disabilities and severe autism have warned they are having to “evict” residents to avoid insolvency because of tax and wage rises and local authority funding cuts.

The annual Sector Pulse Check survey of more than 200 social care providers, both private and charitable, says many are on the brink as they struggle to remain viable in the face of cash-strapped councils’ refusal or inability to meet the rising cost of services.

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Match ID: 163 Score: 25.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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Israel Bans UNRWA as Trump Throttles Foreign Aid
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:50:51 +0000

UNRWA delivered the majority of food aid during the war and sheltered more than 1 million people. What happens when it’s banned?

The post Israel Bans UNRWA as Trump Throttles Foreign Aid appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 164 Score: 25.00 source: theintercept.com age: 1 day
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Two men abused by George Pell in 1970s granted compensation by the federal government
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:53:45 GMT

Accounts of the two men were accepted by decision-maker of national redress scheme with $45,000 and $95,000 awarded respectively

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Two men abused by George Pell in Ballarat in the 1970s, when Pell was a priest in the diocese, have been granted compensation by the federal government’s national redress scheme.

An investigation by journalist Louise Milligan, published in the Monthly and by the ABC, states one of the men was compensated for being anally raped by Pell in a school gymnasium. The other told the redress scheme he was groped on the genitals by Pell during a game in a swimming pool.

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Match ID: 165 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Is Unscientific Nonsense
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:22:38 +0000

The Trump administration is taking a brute-force approach to push trans people out of public life.

The post Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Is Unscientific Nonsense appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 166 Score: 19.29 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 2.14 legislature, 2.14 executive, 2.14 constitution

Endless work, little money, occasional UFOs: my father’s five decades driving Brazil’s roads – podcast
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:00:46 GMT

As a sociologist, my career couldn’t be further from that of my father, who spent his life on the road as a truck driver. It’s only in recent years, as illness has struck, that I’ve started to truly understand him. By José Henrique Bortoluci. Read by Felipe Pacheco

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Match ID: 167 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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How DeepSeek stunned the AI industry – podcast
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:00:43 GMT

Why is the US technology industry worried about Chinese company DeepSeek? Robert Booth reports

DeepSeek, the Chinese company behind the new AI chatbot R1, uses less computing power and fewer chips than its rivals, and claims the model is far cheaper.

“It’s sort of the biggest news in this space of AI chatbots since November 2022 when ChatGPT came out,” Robert Booth, the Guardian’s UK technology editor, tells Helen Pidd.

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The Champions League group stage concludes with 64-goal special: Football Weekly Extra - podcast
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:34:06 GMT

Robyn Cowen is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen and Mark Langdon to make sense of the 18-game final round of Champions League fixtures, along with looking ahead to the weekend’s Premier League action

Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.

On the podcast today: the final 18 matches produced 64 goals – join the panel as they detail the significance of every single one of them.

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‘The world order could start to evolve from the Arctic’: Trump, thin ice and the fight for Greenland’s Northwest Passage
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:00:33 GMT

While the US president seems hellbent on securing Greenland, local experts advise that achieving control of its potentially lucrative shipping route will be no mean feat

If shipping boss Niels Clemensen were to offer any advice to Donald Trump or anyone else trying to get a foothold in Greenland, it would be this: “Come up here and see what you are actually dealing with.”

Sitting on the top floor of his beamed office in Nuuk harbour, where snow is being flung around by strong winds in the mid-morning darkness outside and shards of ice pass by in the fast-flowing water, the chief executive of Greenland’s only shipping company, Royal Arctic Line, says: “What you normally see as easy [setting up operations] in the US or Europe is not the same up here.” As well as the cold, ice and extremely rough seas, the world’s biggest island does not have a big road network or trains, meaning everything has to be transported either by sea or air. “I’m not saying that it’s not possible. But it’s going to cost a lot of money.”

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Protein, weights and the best way to keep fit: your exercise questions answered – podcast
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:00:26 GMT

In the second episode of our listener questions special, Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay what he has uncovered about who the exercise guidelines were created for and whether they apply to all of us, which exercises are best for keeping us strong, whether we should be eating particular foods when we exercise, and how much protein we need to consume if we’re packing in the hours at the gym. With contributions from Jason Gill, professor of cardiometabolic health at the University of Glasgow; Benjamin Wall, professor of nutritional physiology at the University of Exeter; Clyde Williams, emeritus professor of sports science at Loughborough University; Victoria Taylor, head of clinical support at the British Heart Foundation and I-Min Lee, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School

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Listen to episode one of our listener questions special all about sugar, seed oils and avoiding sickness

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Match ID: 171 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Syria’s de facto leader declares himself president, abolishes constitution
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:04:20 +0000
Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday abolished the constitution of Syria and declared himself president.
Match ID: 172 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:22:41 +0000
A White House memo ordered a halt to federal assistance and a review to align spending with Donald Trump’s priorities. Many legal experts say the order is unconstitutional.
Match ID: 173 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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The Executive-Order Slush Pile
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Proposal: “Mar-a-Lago 2.” Formal Title: Decreasing the Burden of American Allies. Effect: Annexation of Okinawa.
Match ID: 174 Score: 15.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
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‘They fear for their lives’: Bishop confronts Trump on immigration and gay rights – video
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:42:34 GMT

President Donald Trump began his first full day in office attending a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral. The Episcopal bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, pleaded with Trump during the service, asking the newly elected president to protect immigrants and respect gay rights. ‘There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives,’ she said as Trump and his family watched on. After the inauguration, Trump launched a sweeping immigration crackdown and promised mass deportations

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Match ID: 175 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 days
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AI Will Write Complex Laws
2025-01-22T12:04:19Z

Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing law today. This has required no changes in legislative procedure or the rules of legislative bodies—all it takes is one legislator, or legislative assistant, to use generative AI in the process of drafting a bill.

In fact, the use of AI by legislators is only likely to become more prevalent. There are currently projects in the US House, US Senate, and legislatures around the world to trial the use of AI in various ways: searching databases, drafting text, summarizing meetings, performing policy research and analysis, and more. A Brazilian municipality ...

Match ID: 176 Score: 15.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.86 federal government, 2.14 legislature, 2.14 judiciary, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:21:46 +0000
Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range.
Match ID: 177 Score: 14.29 source: www.wired.com age: 20 days
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Rubio Orders State Department to Stop Issuing Accurate Passports to Trans People
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:39:49 +0000

Trans, intersex, and nonbinary people applying for passports will no longer be able to select an “X” marker for gender.

The post Rubio Orders State Department to Stop Issuing Accurate Passports to Trans People appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 178 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:15:00 +0000
Some worry the Chinese startup’s impressive tech indicates the US is losing its lead in AI, but it may really be a sign that a new approach to building models is gaining traction.
Match ID: 179 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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The Pregnant Immigrants Fighting Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:30:13 +0000

Trump hopes to gut birthright citizenship via executive order. In lawsuits filed across the country, immigrants seek to stop him.

The post The Pregnant Immigrants Fighting Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 180 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 2.14 executive, 2.14 constitution

Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024)
2025-01-23T14:58:39Z

Last month, Henry Farrell and I convened the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024) at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center in Washington DC. This is a small, invitational workshop on the future of democracy. As with the previous two workshops, the goal was to bring together a diverse set of political scientists, law professors, philosophers, AI researchers and other industry practitioners, political activists, and creative types (including science fiction writers) to discuss how democracy might be reimagined in the current century...

Match ID: 181 Score: 11.43 source: www.schneier.com age: 7 days
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AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Targeted, AI-generated political misinformation is already out there—and humans are falling for it.
Match ID: 182 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 375 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

The Broligarchy: The Who’s Who of the Silicon Gilded Age
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Tech CEOs cozying up to Trump want to reshape reality to their politics.

The post The Broligarchy: The Who’s Who of the Silicon Gilded Age appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 183 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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Netanyahu Has an ICC Arrest Warrant. Poland’s Promise to Ignore It Would Be a “Grave Mistake.”
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:23:04 +0000

Poland has promised Netanyahu safe passage to an Auschwitz memorial service. Former and current EU officials are speaking out.

The post Netanyahu Has an ICC Arrest Warrant. Poland’s Promise to Ignore It Would Be a “Grave Mistake.” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 184 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
2024-10-28T00:00:00Z
Demographics are not destiny in politics. Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse Shapiro explain how their latest research is playing out in the final stretch of the US presidential race.
Match ID: 185 Score: 8.57 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 95 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat

Biden Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine Stance Made Trump’s Job Easier
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:46:50 +0000

By denying funding to the Climate Justice Alliance over Palestine, Biden went after Trump’s political opponents for him.

The post Biden Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine Stance Made Trump’s Job Easier appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 186 Score: 6.43 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.14 executive

Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:49:46 +0000
Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark-web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.
Match ID: 187 Score: 6.43 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.14 libertarian

A New Jam-Packed Biden Executive Order Tackles Cybersecurity, AI, and More
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000
US president Joe Biden just issued a 40-page executive order that aims to bolster federal cybersecurity protections, directs government use of AI—and takes a swipe at Microsoft’s dominance.
Match ID: 188 Score: 6.43 source: www.wired.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.14 executive

US Privacy Snags a Win as Judge Limits Warrantless FBI Searches
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: A hacker finds an issue with Cloudflare’s systems that could reveal app users’ rough locations, and the Trump administration puts a wrench in a key cybersecurity investigation.
Match ID: 189 Score: 6.43 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
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Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:40:55 +0000
Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections
Match ID: 190 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 78 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:55:47 +0000
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks
Match ID: 191 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 190 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

The FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel Isn’t Leaving Without a Fight
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:48:19 +0000
As the US faces “the worst telecommunications hack in our nation’s history,” by China’s Salt Typhoon hackers, the outgoing FCC chair is determined to bolster network security if it’s the last thing she does.
Match ID: 192 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Biden's Cyber Ambassador Urges Trump Not to Cede Ground to Russia and China in Global Tech Fight
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Nathaniel Fick, the ambassador for cyberspace and digital policy, has led US tech diplomacy amid a rising tide of pressure from authoritarian regimes. Will the Trump administration undo that work?
Match ID: 193 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 15 days
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Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:05:20 +0000
Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder
Match ID: 194 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 64 days
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Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:12 +0000
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?
Match ID: 195 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 204 days
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How American politics has infected investing
Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:41:46 +0000
Beware: taking a stand can be expensive
Match ID: 196 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 284 days
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A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, offer independently-minded internet users a safe haven—but it’s also a boon to those with a darker purpose.
Match ID: 197 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 373 days
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Regulators Are Finally Catching Up With Big Tech
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The lawless, Wild West era of AI and technology is almost at an end, as data protection authorities use new and existing legislation to get tough.
Match ID: 198 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 385 days
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LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000

 

In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.

As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.

Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.

Introduction

This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.

Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.

LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.

The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.

LimeWire AI Studio

As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.

AI Image Generation Tools

The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.

Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.

What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.

The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.

Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.

Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.

Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.

After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.

If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.

Earn Revenue From Your Content

Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.

When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.

This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.

LMWR Tokens

The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.

Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.

You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.

Pricing Plans

You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.

• Basic plan: 

For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share

• Advanced plan: 

For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share

• Pro plan: 

For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

• Pro Plus plan: 

For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.

The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.

For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration

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Biden: Trump’s tax and tariffs plans are a ‘major mistake’
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:20:21 EST
Five weeks after the election, the president took his sharpest swing at Trump’s policy plans.
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Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
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America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:11:58 +0000
Voters are starting to notice the good news just in time for the election
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When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:08:53 +0000
Following a nasty surprise, some now think they may come only after the presidential election
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Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000

Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free.  Let's start the review.

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here  Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or  $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

• 250,000+ free templates
• 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
• Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
• Invite members to your team
• Collaborate and comment in real-time
• 5GB of cloud storage
• Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features 

• Everything Free, has plus:
• 100+ million premium and  stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
• 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
• Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
•  Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
• Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
• Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
• Save designs as templates for your team to use
• 100GB of cloud storage
• Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

• Everything Pro has plus:
• Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
• Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
• Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
• Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
• Unlimited Storage
• Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up  you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.

 Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.

Templates

Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.

 Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.

 When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in  library or any image you upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on  text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows). 

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab. 

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.

Styles

The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts. 

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

• A user-friendly interface
• Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
• Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
• Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
• Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
• Creating visual content on the go
• You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

• Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
• Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
• Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
• Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
• If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
• Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
• Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.

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Fri, 02 Sep 2016 09:27:20 GMT

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Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order
2025-01-20T12:06:19Z

President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide.

Some details:

The core of the executive order is an array of mandates for protecting government networks based on lessons learned from recent major incidents­—namely, the security failures of federal contractors.

The order requires software vendors to submit proof that they follow secure development practices, building on a mandate that debuted in 2022 in response to ...

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What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
2024-11-08T00:00:00Z
What can corporate leaders learn from executives who served their country during wartime conflicts? Drawing on a series of case studies, Robert Simons shares important lessons from the experiences of Walt Disney, Dwight Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara.
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NASA Kicks off Testing Campaign for Remotely Piloted Cargo Flights
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:21:00 +0000
NASA recently began a series of flight tests with partners to answer an important aviation question: What will it take to integrate remotely piloted or autonomous planes carrying large packages and cargo safely into the U.S. airspace? Researchers tested new technologies in Hollister, California, that are helping to investigate what tools and capabilities are needed […]
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‘We were inspired, recharged and nourished by nature’: readers’ favourite wellness trips
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:00:49 GMT

From mindful waking in the Yorkshire Dales to a Buddhist retreat in Japan, our tipsters have found inner peace and rejuvenation all over the world

With Eryri national park (Snowdonia) on the doorstep and guided wild swims available, north Wales’ Tawelu Retreats offers options to explore the outdoors or go full hibernation with the retreat’s yoga classes and meditations, plus a sauna and hot tub. The chef cooked up filling, comforting veggie food and gorgeous chai and hot chocolate. Even getting lost running up the Welsh fells and nearly missing my hot shells massage didn’t trouble my stress levels. It’s women only, four days from £650.
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David Beckham is modelling in his pants again. Will he not think of his fellow middle-aged men?
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:30:36 GMT

His bronzed torso is ridiculously ripped – and will, once again, cause a shift in the acceptable minimum standards for the male physique

So much for the dad bod. David Beckham, who turns 50 this year, has released pictures of himself modelling his new bodywear collection for Hugo Boss. Bodywear, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, appears to mean underwear. In the corresponding ad clip, Beckham returns home for the day in his vintage Aston Martin, Bond-style, but he can’t wait to rip off his sharp suit and slouch around in a leather armchair in nothing but his tighty-whities. He has set the bar very high for middle-aged dads who like to relax by sitting around drinking in their pants, Homer Simpson-style. If you feel at all self-conscious about your soft, squishy, beer-induced centre, Beckham’s new line of smalls will not help.

In recent years, the dad bod seemed to be on the verge of widespread public acceptance, even cautious celebration, and a lot of us were congratulating ourselves on our timing: it was not uncommon for men of a certain age to emerge from the first pandemic lockdown looking like a heap of overproved sourdough. We felt ourselves, however unintentionally, to be in the dad bod vanguard – more oven-ready than beach-ready; soft, saggy and proud.

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FBI pick Kash Patel refuses to answer if he would target Trump opponents at hearing
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:42:48 GMT

Key Trump ally strives to extricate himself from statements he had made earlier, claiming ‘mischaracterization’

Kash Patel sought to allay concerns about his fitness to serve as the FBI director at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, but declined to engage with questioning that explicitly asked whether he would use his position to investigate some of Donald Trump’s top political opponents.

The hearing revolved around Patel’s provocative public remarks attacking the FBI and his ability to resist political pressure from the White House, a topic that has come to the fore with the justice department rocked by the ouster of prosecutors who worked on cases against Trump.

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Protein, weights and the best way to keep fit: your exercise questions answered – podcast
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:00:26 GMT

In the second episode of our listener questions special, Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay what he has uncovered about who the exercise guidelines were created for and whether they apply to all of us, which exercises are best for keeping us strong, whether we should be eating particular foods when we exercise, and how much protein we need to consume if we’re packing in the hours at the gym. With contributions from Jason Gill, professor of cardiometabolic health at the University of Glasgow; Benjamin Wall, professor of nutritional physiology at the University of Exeter; Clyde Williams, emeritus professor of sports science at Loughborough University; Victoria Taylor, head of clinical support at the British Heart Foundation and I-Min Lee, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School

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Listen to episode one of our listener questions special all about sugar, seed oils and avoiding sickness

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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:05:24 +0000
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Is Unscientific Nonsense
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:22:38 +0000

The Trump administration is taking a brute-force approach to push trans people out of public life.

The post Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Is Unscientific Nonsense appeared first on The Intercept.

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The 65 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now (February 2025)
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Elton John: Never Too Late are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Disney+ this month.
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The 52 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (February 2025)
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Goosebumps: The Vanishing, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Disney+ this month.
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The Straight Story to You’re Cordially Invited: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:00:50 GMT

David Lynch’s classic about a man who rides his lawnmower across America. Plus: Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell’s slapstick comedy about weddings … and alligator wrestling is a nostalgic treat

In his lifetime, David Lynch directed very few films that could safely be shown on TV at Sunday teatime. In this regard, The Straight Story serves as a career outlier. However, despite lacking all his trademark dread and disquiet, it deserves to go down as one of his very best. Based on the true story of Alvin Straight, a man who, in 1994, took his 5mph lawnmower on a 240-mile road trip to visit his sick brother, it shimmers with awestruck wonder. Lead actor Richard Farnsworth was in the latter stages of terminal cancer during filming, and his stubborn determination to see the journey through is reflected throughout the whole movie. A perfect film with a perfect ending.
Sunday 2 February, 4.10pm, Film4

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Sols 4439-4440: A Lunar New Year on Mars
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:35:01 +0000
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 We’re planning sols 4439 and 4440 on the first day of the Lunar New Year here on Earth, and I’m the Geology/Mineralogy Science Theme Lead for today. The new year is a time for all kinds of abundance and good luck, and we are certainly lucky to be […]
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From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:51:58 GMT

The music star was also an electrifying screen presence, from The Girl on a Motorcycle to Marie Antoinette

• Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78
• Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

On the screen and also in life, Marianne Faithfull experienced something similar to her contemporary Anita Pallenberg – the condescension of being treated like an icon or a muse. Maybe her very real success in music ruled her out of a serious acting career in the eyes of some, but Faithfull for a while occupied the epicentre of the late-60s pop culture zeitgeist, for an intense flashbulb moment she found herself in the overlapping worlds of music, movies and the explodingly important world of celebrity itself.

The famous photograph of her in 1967 on a couch between Alain Delon and Mick Jagger absolutely captures her magnetism: Delon is entranced by her, Jagger (her boyfriend) is jealous, looking grumpily down: she and Delon were starring together in The Girl on a Motorcycle by the British cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff in which she was the super-sexy rock chick in a leather body suit whose zipper Delon would lasciviously pull down with his teeth.

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Light fantastic: the road trip that inspired Paris, Texas – in pictures
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 07:00:30 GMT

In 1983, Wim Wenders set out across the American west, capturing the sunsets and desolate landscapes that helped shape his iconic movie

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“This Woman” and Her Tangled World
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:53:35 +0000
The Chinese artist and filmmaker Alan Zhang, in her first feature, dramatizes a married woman’s struggle for freedom amid financial and emotional obstacles.
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Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:45:57 +0000
Proposed US law slammed as "censorious" and an "Internet kill switch."
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This mantis shrimp-inspired robotic arm can crack an egg
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000
Device can grab like a hand, crawl across the floor, or jump high, just by pulling on a simple muscle.
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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some users spend thousands or millions of dollars on a single NFT-based image of a monkey or other token, but you can simply take a screenshot for free. So here we share some freuently asked question about NFTs.

1) What is an NFT?

NFT stands for non-fungible  token, which is a cryptographic token on a blockchain with unique identification codes that distinguish it from other tokens. NFTs are unique and not interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. NFTs can be a unique artwork, GIF, Images, videos, Audio album. in-game items, collectibles etc.

2) What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that allows for the secure storage of data. By recording any kind of information—such as bank account transactions, the ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or Decentralized Finance (DeFi) smart contracts—in one place, and distributing it to many different computers, blockchains ensure that data can’t be manipulated without everyone in the system being aware.

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

The value of an NFT comes from its ability to be traded freely and securely on the blockchain, which is not possible with other current digital ownership solutionsThe NFT points to its location on the blockchain, but doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property. For example, if you replace one bitcoin with another, you will still have the same thing. If you buy a non-fungible item, such as a movie ticket, it is impossible to replace it with any other movie ticket because each ticket is unique to a specific time and place.

4) How do NFTs work?

One of the unique characteristics of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is that they can be tokenised to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought, sold and traded on the blockchain. 

As with crypto-currency, records of who owns what are stored on a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers around the world. These records can’t be forged because the whole system operates on an open-source network. 

NFTs also contain smart contracts—small computer programs that run on the blockchain—that give the artist, for example, a cut of any future sale of the token.

5) What’s the connection between NFTs and cryptocurrency?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren't cryptocurrencies, but they do use blockchain technology. Many NFTs are based on Ethereum, where the blockchain serves as a ledger for all the transactions related to said NFT and the properties it represents.5) How to make an NFT?

Anyone can create an NFT. All you need is a digital wallet, some ethereum tokens and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you’ll be able to upload and sell your creations

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

When you purchase a stock in NFT, that purchase is recorded on the blockchain—the bitcoin ledger of transactions—and that entry acts as your proof of ownership.

7) How is an NFT valued? What are the most expensive NFTs?

The value of an NFT varies a lot based on the digital asset up for grabs. People use NFTs to trade and sell digital art, so when creating an NFT, you should consider the popularity of your digital artwork along with historical statistics.

In the year 2021, a digital artist called Pak created an artwork called The Merge. It was sold on the Nifty Gateway NFT market for $91.8 million.

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

Non-fungible tokens can be used in investment opportunities. One can purchase an NFT and resell it at a profit. Certain NFT marketplaces let sellers of NFTs keep a percentage of the profits from sales of the assets they create.

9) Will NFTs be the future of art and collectibles?

Many people want to buy NFTs because it lets them support the arts and own something cool from their favorite musicians, brands, and celebrities. NFTs also give artists an opportunity to program in continual royalties if someone buys their work. Galleries see this as a way to reach new buyers interested in art.

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

There are many places to buy digital assets, like opensea and their policies vary. On top shot, for instance, you sign up for a waitlist that can be thousands of people long. When a digital asset goes on sale, you are occasionally chosen to purchase it.

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

To mint an NFT token, you must pay some amount of gas fee to process the transaction on the Etherum blockchain, but you can mint your NFT on a different blockchain called Polygon to avoid paying gas fees. This option is available on OpenSea and this simply denotes that your NFT will only be able to trade using Polygon's blockchain and not Etherum's blockchain. Mintable allows you to mint NFTs for free without paying any gas fees.

12) Do i own an NFT if i screenshot it?

The answer is no. Non-Fungible Tokens are minted on the blockchain using cryptocurrencies such as Etherum, Solana, Polygon, and so on. Once a Non-Fungible Token is minted, the transaction is recorded on the blockchain and the contract or license is awarded to whoever has that Non-Fungible Token in their wallet.

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

 Non-fungible tokens have gained the hearts of people around the world, and they have given digital creators the recognition they deserve. One of the remarkable things about non-fungible tokens is that you can take a screenshot of one, but you don’t own it. This is because when a non-fungible token is created, then the transaction is stored on the blockchain, and the license or contract to hold such a token is awarded to the person owning the token in their digital wallet.

You can sell your work and creations by attaching a license to it on the blockchain, where its ownership can be transferred. This lets you get exposure without losing full ownership of your work. Some of the most successful projects include Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yatch Club NFTs, SandBox, World of Women and so on. These NFT projects have gained popularity globally and are owned by celebrities and other successful entrepreneurs. Owning one of these NFTs gives you an automatic ticket to exclusive business meetings and life-changing connections.

Final Saying

That’s a wrap. Hope you guys found this article enlightening. I just answer some question with my limited knowledge about NFTs. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. Also I have a question for you, Is bitcoin an NFTs? let me know in The comment section below

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