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Indonesia volcano eruption spreads ash to Malaysia and shuts airports
Wed, 01 May 2024 05:51:41 GMT

Ships evacuating 12,000 islanders over fears that side of Mount Ruang might slide into sea and cause tsunami

Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano have forced more than half a dozen airports to close with ash spreading as far as Malaysia, according to officials, while authorities rushed to evacuate thousands due to tsunami fears.

Mount Ruang erupted three times on Tuesday, spewing lava and ash more than 5km (three miles) into the sky and forcing authorities to issue evacuation orders for 12,000 people.

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Match ID: 0 Score: 50.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 indonesia, 20.00 malaysia

Chinese EVs are good for the world. Biden says they’re bad for America.
Thu, 02 May 2024 04:00:08 +0000
President Biden finds himself in a predicament: electrify America’s roads faster with cheap Chinese EVs, or safeguard the nation’s auto industry?
Match ID: 1 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Bob Carr accuses Winston Peters of defamation after NZ deputy PM calls him a ‘Chinese puppet’
Thu, 02 May 2024 03:28:55 GMT

Former NSW premier’s threat to sue comes amid debate about whether New Zealand should join pillar two of Aukus pact

Australia’s former foreign minister and New South Wales premier, Bob Carr, says he intends to sue New Zealand’s deputy prime minister, Winston Peters, for allegations made about Carr’s closeness to China as debate about Aukus ramps up.

Peters called Carr “nothing more than a Chinese puppet” on the national broadcaster RNZ on Thursday morning.

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Match ID: 2 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Solomon Islands chooses China-friendly ex-diplomat Jeremiah Manele as new prime minister
Thu, 02 May 2024 02:49:20 GMT

Move seen as continuation of Pacific country’s policy of growing closer to Beijing

Solomon Islands lawmakers have elected as their new prime minister Jeremiah Manele, a former foreign minister who has pledged to continue the Pacific country’s policy of embracing China.

Manele said outside parliament on Thursday “the people have spoken” and called for calm.

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Match ID: 3 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Why the Solomon Islands election matters to China and the U.S.
Thu, 02 May 2024 01:53:03 +0000
Jeremiah Manele, who was foreign minister when the Solomon Islands forged a controversial security deal with China, is the Pacific nation’s next prime minister.
Match ID: 4 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

The Marshall Star for May 1, 2024
Wed, 01 May 2024 22:23:55 +0000
Marshall Prepares for Strategic Facilities Updates  NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital hub for the aerospace community in the next […]
Match ID: 5 Score: 40.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan

Half of U.S. Adults Support TikTok Ban, and 46% Think China Uses App to Spy on Americans: Poll
2024-05-01T22:16:00+00:00

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Match ID: 6 Score: 40.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Report: China’s propaganda units harvest data from overseas tech firms
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:07:18 +0000
Beijing’s propaganda engine is pulling data from Chinese tech firms, including popular shopping and gaming apps with hundreds of millions of U.S. users, researchers say.
Match ID: 7 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

The Guardian view on the cost of a cashless society: the most vulnerable will pay | Editorial
Wed, 01 May 2024 17:25:35 GMT

The pandemic accelerated the shift away from notes and coins. But China and others are realising that transition has a price

One of the idiosyncrasies of China’s huge appetite for luxury goods has been the high sales of man bags – a niche item in the west. Their popularity initially reflected not just the fondness of the newly rich for conspicuous consumption, but also the practical need to carry large wodges of banknotes in a country that hadn’t truly embraced credit cards. Early last decade, it was unremarkable to pay a quarter’s rent or buy a car in cash.

Yet even vegetable sellers in small markets, or people begging on the streets, now use QR codes. By 2020, 98% of people in a survey said they most commonly paid using smartphone apps. The advantage, for the consumer, is convenience. For the authorities it offers not only efficiency but oversight, in a country which is battling corruption and which closely surveils its citizens. Beijing has also been promoting a “digital yuan” developed by its central bank.

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Match ID: 8 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:55 GMT

Freedom to Write index says there are 107 people in prison for published content in China, with many accused of ‘picking quarrels’

The number of writers jailed in China has surpassed 100, with nearly half imprisoned for online expression.

The grim milestone is revealed in the 2023 Freedom to Write index, a report compiled by Pen America, published on Wednesday.

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Match ID: 9 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.

The post Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 10 Score: 40.00 source: theintercept.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Is Bougainville the next battleground between China and the U.S.?
Wed, 01 May 2024 09:00:50 +0000
The Pacific region is hoping a huge, abandoned copper-and-gold mine will be its ticket for independence from Papua New Guinea. But which superpower will back it?
Match ID: 11 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes
Wed, 01 May 2024 05:15:13 GMT

New figures show nearly 14% of all houses in Japan are empty – but this real estate glut is attracting growing interest from foreigners

As the declining population continues to impact Japan’s society and economy, the number of vacant houses has topped nine million – enough to accommodate the entire population of Australia at three people per dwelling.

Government figures released on Tuesday show the number of empty houses, known as akiya, as of October 2023 was up by more than half a million since the previous survey in 2018.

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Match ID: 12 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 japan

China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:13:46 +0000
China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.
Match ID: 13 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china

First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:40:18 GMT

Zhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreak

The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, staged a sit-in protest after claiming he was locked out of his laboratory over the weekend.

Zhang Yongzhen, a virologist, said in an online post on Monday that he and his team had been given a sudden eviction notice from their lab, and guards had barred him from entering it over the weekend. The post, published on Weibo, was later deleted, Associated Press (AP) reported.

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Match ID: 14 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Japan to trial AI bear warning system after record number of attacks
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 03:38:40 GMT

Six people have been killed and more than 200 injured in attacks by bears over the past year

Japan is to trial an AI bear-warning system after a record number of attacks on humans over the past year as the animals struggle to find their staple foods.

A pilot system in Toyama prefecture, central Japan, will monitor live feeds from government, municipal and private security cameras to identify bears on the move in areas close to people, and send instant warnings to relevant local authorities, police and hunters. AI will also be used to monitor bears movement patterns and try to predict their future whereabouts.

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Match ID: 15 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan

Tensions grow as China ramps up mining for green tech
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:17:17 GMT
China has taken big stakes in mines across the world extracting minerals vital to the green economy.
Match ID: 16 Score: 40.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Elon Musk Can’t Solve Tesla’s China Crisis With His Desperate Asia Visit
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:50:29 +0000
Tesla’s deal with Baidu isn’t new, the mapping data Tesla will collect likely can’t leave China, and Full Self-Driving can’t compete with the more advanced Chinese alternatives.
Match ID: 17 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china

Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
Match ID: 18 Score: 40.00 source: www.economist.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan

35 Years Ago: STS-30 Launches Magellan to Venus
Thu, 02 May 2024 12:41:44 +0000
On May 4, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its third flight, STS-30, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander David M. Walker, Pilot Ronald J. Grabe, and Mission Specialists Mark C. Lee, Norman E. Thagard, and Mary L. Cleave flew a four-day mission that deployed the Magellan […]
Match ID: 19 Score: 35.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
Match ID: 20 Score: 35.00 source: www.economist.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india

Pro-Israel groups target Republican House candidate they deem antisemitic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:05 GMT

Former Indiana congressman John Hostettler wants his old seat back, but past remarks have prompted attacks from pro-Israel groups

Pro-Israel groups are wading into a Republican congressional primary, marking a departure from their recent focus on attacking progressive candidates and offering the latest test of the pro-Israel lobby’s strength as the war in Gaza weighs heavily on voters’ minds.

The former Indiana congressman John Hostettler, who served in the House from 1995 to 2007 and will compete in a crowded primary on Tuesday, is looking to return to the chamber to represent the state’s eighth district. Hostettler’s allies praise him as an “America first conservative” who will help terminate financial aid to Ukraine, so his primary will also test Republicans’ embrace of isolationism, which has gained popularity in the party amid the rise of Donald Trump. But Jewish groups have criticized some of his past comments about the start of the Iraq war as antisemitic.

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Match ID: 21 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india

Chagos Islanders fear loss of identity as birth certificates altered to remove disputed homeland
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:06 GMT

Birthplace and parents’ names are being removed from passports and birth certificates as Mauritius stakes claim to the island

Exiled islanders from the disputed British-owned Chagos Islands are finding their heritage has been removed from new identity documents in an apparent move by Mauritius to stake its claim to the territory.

British ownership of the Chagos Islands has long been challenged by Mauritius, where most islanders were shipped in the 1960s after being evicted from their Indian Ocean homeland to make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.

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Match ID: 22 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india

Alarming superbug from deadly eyedrop outbreak has spread to dogs
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:07:19 +0000
It's unclear how the dogs became infected with the same strain in the eyedrops.
Match ID: 23 Score: 35.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india

Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico
2024-05-01T17:33:29+00:00

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Match ID: 24 Score: 35.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india

WhatsApp in India
2024-04-30T11:00:28Z

Meta has threatened to pull WhatsApp out of India if the courts try to force it to break its end-to-end encryption.

Match ID: 25 Score: 35.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india

Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:03:19 GMT

Warnings of dangerous temperatures across parts of Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and India as hottest months of the year are made worse by El Niño

Millions of people across South and Southeast Asia are facing sweltering temperatures, with unusually hot weather forcing schools to close and threatening public health.

Thousands of schools across the Philippines, including in the capital region Metro Manila, have suspended in-person classes. Half of the country’s 82 provinces are experiencing drought, and nearly 31 others are facing dry spells or dry conditions, according to the UN, which has called for greater support to help the country prepare for similar weather events in the future. The country’s upcoming harvest will probably be below average, the UN said.

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Match ID: 26 Score: 34.29 source: www.theguardian.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 15.00 india, 8.57 thailand, 6.43 philippines, 4.29 bangladesh

Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:54:57 +0000

Like countless other hostilities, the stealthy Israeli missile and drone strike on Iran doesn’t risk war. It is war.

The post Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 27 Score: 32.86 source: theintercept.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan, 5.71 china, 5.00 south china sea, 5.00 india, 4.29 south korea, 2.86 taiwan, 2.14 sri lanka, 2.14 philippines

Yunchan Lim: Chopin: Études Op 10 & Op 25 album review – prodigiously gifted young pianist confirms he’s something special
Thu, 02 May 2024 13:45:45 GMT

(Decca)
The South Korean musician’s first recording for Decca features thrilling and original performances

Very soon in 2022 after becoming the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn piano competition in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 18, word got around that the South Korean Yunchan Lim was something special. His London debut at the Wigmore Hall the following year, in a programme that avoided the high romantic repertoire that had so impressed the Cliburn judges, confirmed that this was a prodigiously gifted, immensely exciting pianist, and one who still had room to mature and grow further as an artist.

Lim’s first disc for Decca more than reinforces those first impressions. These are thrilling performances of Chopin’s studies, the technique dazzlingly immaculate and the musical impulses propelling it often startlingly original. There are still moments when youthful impetuosity leads him to misjudge things or rush them just a bit too much, but those are few and far between, and it’s much better to enjoy the brilliance of Lim’s playing, whether in the breathtaking evenness of the A minor study Op 10 no 2, the sheer delicacy of Op 25 no 6 in G sharp minor, or in the fresh details he consistently reveals, especially in the left hand.

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Match ID: 28 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 30.00 south korea

School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Google holds off on killing cookies, Samourai Wallet founders get arrested, and GM stops driver surveillance program.
Match ID: 29 Score: 22.86 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 22.86 china

Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.
Match ID: 30 Score: 22.86 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 22.86 china

India election: Modi and rivals trade accusations as voter turnout slumps in second phase
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:30:27 GMT

Parties clash over communal issues in increasingly charged campaign amid concerns unseasonably hot weather affecting voter numbers

India has held the second phase of the world’s biggest election, with prime minister Narendra Modi and his rivals hurling accusations of religious discrimination and threats to democracy amid flagging voter turnout.

Almost 1 billion people are eligible to vote in the seven-phase general election that began on 19 April and concludes on 1 June, with votes set to be counted on 4 June.

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Match ID: 31 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 20.00 india

Japan comes face to face with its own space junk
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:24:57 GMT
A Tokyo company's satellite encounters a big lump of space debris high above the Earth.
Match ID: 32 Score: 17.14 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 6 days
qualifiers: 17.14 japan

The Fall Guy review – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance
Thu, 02 May 2024 12:00:06 GMT

Gosling does the dirty work in this entertaining action film, which has moments of tenderness with Blunt among the crashes, leaps and fireballs

You might need to get your indulgent smile firmly in place for this colossal action comedy – not unlike the adorable smirks on the faces of its male and female leads, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, who play the daredevil movie stuntman and the stern director with whom he is in love. It’s a goofy summer crowd-pleaser (and you can never have too many of those) that is very far from the edgier and more satirical mien of Richard Rush’s 1980 movie The Stunt Man, in which a Vietnam draft evader hides out on a movie location, doing dangerous stunts in return for anonymity. Actually, this one is loosely inspired by a 1980s TV show, also called The Fall Guy, about a stuntman with a parallel career as a bounty hunter – starring Lee Majors, a legend who puts in a tongue-in-cheek cameo here along with his co-star, Heather Thomas.

Gosling plays seasoned stunt maestro Colt Seavers, utterly unafraid of any physical challenges, self-effacingly doubling for insufferably conceited star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who outrageously claims to do all his own stunts. Colt is having a passionate affair with beautiful, talented camera operator Jody Moreno (Blunt), but when he is involved in a catastrophic and career-ending failed stunt, he is overwhelmed with macho shame, thinking the accident was his fault because his infatuation with Jody made him take his eye off the ball.

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Match ID: 33 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 vietnam

I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:14:34 +0000

When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.

The post I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 34 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 vietnam

“Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:10:40 +0000

Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years.

The post “Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 35 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 15.00 india

'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000
Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.
Match ID: 36 Score: 11.43 source: www.wired.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 11.43 china

Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn
Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:01:08 GMT

For the first time, government military spending increased in all five geographical regions, Sipri thinktank finds

Global military expenditure has reached a record high of $2440bn (£1970bn) after the largest annual rise in government spending on arms in over a decade, according to a report.

The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history.

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Match ID: 37 Score: 10.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china, 5.00 india

As Biden Cheers TikTok Ban, White House Embraces TikTok Influencers
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:25:12 +0000

The White House brushes off accusations of hypocrisy, courting TikTok while seeking to ban it.

The post As Biden Cheers TikTok Ban, White House Embraces TikTok Influencers appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 38 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
Match ID: 39 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

AI-Controlled Fighter Jets Are Dogfighting With Human Pilots Now
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Plus: New York’s legislature suffers a cyberattack, police disrupt a global phishing operation, and Apple removes encrypted messaging apps in China.
Match ID: 40 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
Match ID: 41 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 14 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
Match ID: 42 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
Match ID: 43 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s state is eating the private property market
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:50:47 +0000
Pity those soon to buy a home
Match ID: 44 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
Match ID: 45 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 32 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
Match ID: 46 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 36 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:12:06 +0000
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
Match ID: 47 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 44 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
Match ID: 48 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 44 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
Match ID: 49 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 49 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:37:33 +0000
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
Match ID: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 49 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
Match ID: 51 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 64 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:21:14 +0000
Will more now favour domestic stocks?
Match ID: 52 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
Match ID: 53 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:35:54 +0000
The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping
Match ID: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 84 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:10:43 +0000
The government is not used to being bullied
Match ID: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 91 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
Match ID: 56 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 94 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

The false promise of friendshoring
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:14:50 +0000
America, China and Europe appear to be trading less with their geopolitical rivals
Match ID: 57 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 98 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

As China’s markets suffer, what alternatives do investors have?
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:13:53 +0000
Optimism about the world’s second-largest stockmarket is a distant memory
Match ID: 58 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 100 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don't Kill Imran Khan in Prison
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:04:01 +0000

Supporters worry Khan’s life is in danger and with good reason: The military has a long history of killing deposed leaders.

The post Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don’t Kill Imran Khan in Prison appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 59 Score: 5.00 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:33:49 GMT

Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’

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The south-Asia correspondent for Australia’s national broadcaster, Avani Dias, has been forced out of India after her reporting fell foul of the Indian government, in a sign of the increasing pressure on journalists in the country under Narendra Modi.

Dias, who has been based in Delhi for the ABC since January 2022, said she felt the government had made it “too difficult” for her to continue to do her job, claiming it blocked her from accessing events, issued takedown notices to YouTube for her news stories, and then refused her a standard visa renewal.

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Match ID: 60 Score: 5.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Narendra Modi accused of stirring tensions as voting in India continues
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:35:16 GMT

Opposition says prime minister targeting Muslim minority with ‘hate speech’ and violating election rules

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been accused of hate speech during a campaign rally where he called Muslims “infiltrators” who had “many children” and claimed they would take people’s hard-earned money.

The opposition accused Modi of “blatantly targeting” India’s 200 million Muslim minority with comments made while addressing voters at a speech in Rajasthan on Sunday.

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Match ID: 61 Score: 5.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:46 +0000
Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt
Match ID: 62 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

How to build a global currency
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:55:08 +0000
India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required
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How India could become an Asian tiger
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:11:52 +0000
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
Match ID: 64 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 36 days
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The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:10:49 +0000
Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before
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Federal judges strike down La. congressional map with second Black-majority district
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:45:04 +0000

Match ID: 0 Score: 50.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

For years, the political establishment opportunistically railed against sex trafficking. Then came Pizzagate.

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Live updates: Judge ends gag order hearing in Trump’s hush money trial; testimony resumes
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:49:09 +0000
The judge heard more allegations that Donald Trump violated a gag order in his New York trial on charges of business fraud related to hush money payments.
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Trump in court as hearing on further alleged gag order violations is under way – live
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:43:56 GMT

Judge Juan Merchan holds hearing on further claims Trump violated gag order; Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Keith Davidson is expected back on stand on Thursday

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Trump in court as Stormy Daniels’ lawyer continues testimony in hush-money trial – live
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:43:56 GMT

Keith Davidson back on stand on Thursday; judge Juan Merchan skeptical of Trump lawyer’s claim gag order violates client’s right to free speech

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Judge loses patience with defense over Trump making jury comment
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:26:24 +0000

Match ID: 5 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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The judge is back on the bench, the jury is seated and witness Keith Davidson, who...
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:21:41 +0000

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Judge: Trump can talk about Biden, but not Stormy Daniels
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:12:50 +0000

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Judge says gag order is ‘about what all of the other witnesses’ see
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:10:24 +0000

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Yunchan Lim: Chopin: Études Op 10 & Op 25 album review – prodigiously gifted young pianist confirms he’s something special
Thu, 02 May 2024 13:45:45 GMT

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The South Korean musician’s first recording for Decca features thrilling and original performances

Very soon in 2022 after becoming the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn piano competition in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 18, word got around that the South Korean Yunchan Lim was something special. His London debut at the Wigmore Hall the following year, in a programme that avoided the high romantic repertoire that had so impressed the Cliburn judges, confirmed that this was a prodigiously gifted, immensely exciting pianist, and one who still had room to mature and grow further as an artist.

Lim’s first disc for Decca more than reinforces those first impressions. These are thrilling performances of Chopin’s studies, the technique dazzlingly immaculate and the musical impulses propelling it often startlingly original. There are still moments when youthful impetuosity leads him to misjudge things or rush them just a bit too much, but those are few and far between, and it’s much better to enjoy the brilliance of Lim’s playing, whether in the breathtaking evenness of the A minor study Op 10 no 2, the sheer delicacy of Op 25 no 6 in G sharp minor, or in the fresh details he consistently reveals, especially in the left hand.

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Is it normal that the judge is allowing Trump to attend his son’s graduation?
Thu, 02 May 2024 13:08:15 +0000

Match ID: 10 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 judge

Judge unimpressed by Trump gag order violation defence
Thu, 02 May 2024 12:37:04 GMT
Prosecutors argued the ex-president has again broken an order to not attack people involved in the trial.
Match ID: 11 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days
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Facing changes, changing faces: LensCulture portrait awards 2024 – in pictures
Thu, 02 May 2024 06:00:51 GMT

Photographers talk us through the images – from confused parents to topless lovers – that wowed the judges for this year’s prize

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy broke federal labor law with anti-union remarks; A National Labor Relations Board judge found Jassy broke labor law by suggesting employees would be “less empowered” if they voted in a union.
2024-05-02T00:17:49+00:00

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Harvey Weinstein’s retrial in N.Y. rape case expected after Labor Day
Wed, 01 May 2024 21:34:14 +0000
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein’s rape case is expected to be retried sometime after the Labor Day holiday, a judge said Wednesday.
Match ID: 14 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad
Wed, 01 May 2024 16:50:12 +0000
Take the "Moral Turing Test" yourself to see whether you'd trust "artificial" moral advice.
Match ID: 15 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:10:15 +0000
A US judge has sentenced crypto kingpin Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, to four months in prison for breaking anti-money-laundering rules.
Match ID: 16 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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“Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:10:40 +0000

Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years.

The post “Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 17 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 6.43 judge, 4.29 congress

Pro-Israel groups target Republican House candidate they deem antisemitic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:05 GMT

Former Indiana congressman John Hostettler wants his old seat back, but past remarks have prompted attacks from pro-Israel groups

Pro-Israel groups are wading into a Republican congressional primary, marking a departure from their recent focus on attacking progressive candidates and offering the latest test of the pro-Israel lobby’s strength as the war in Gaza weighs heavily on voters’ minds.

The former Indiana congressman John Hostettler, who served in the House from 1995 to 2007 and will compete in a crowded primary on Tuesday, is looking to return to the chamber to represent the state’s eighth district. Hostettler’s allies praise him as an “America first conservative” who will help terminate financial aid to Ukraine, so his primary will also test Republicans’ embrace of isolationism, which has gained popularity in the party amid the rise of Donald Trump. But Jewish groups have criticized some of his past comments about the start of the Iraq war as antisemitic.

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America!: A Chaos Demon from the Underworld Shares His Tips on Streamlining Congress
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
I’m truly inspired by the surreal dysfunction of your Congress—but isn’t it a little over the top?
Match ID: 19 Score: 10.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
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Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Trying to Oust House Speaker Mike Johnson?
Thu, 02 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000
Even her opponents within the Republican Party stand to profit from the Georgia congresswoman’s latest outburst.
Match ID: 20 Score: 10.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
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The Marshall Star for May 1, 2024
Wed, 01 May 2024 22:23:55 +0000
Marshall Prepares for Strategic Facilities Updates  NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital hub for the aerospace community in the next […]
Match ID: 21 Score: 10.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:45:11 +0000
ACP gave out last $30 discounts in April; only partial discounts available in May.
Match ID: 22 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:29:48 GMT

US Senate hearing reviewed report showing sector’s shift from climate denial to ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’

The fossil fuel industry spent decades sowing doubt about the dangers of burning oil and gas, experts and Democratic lawmakers testified on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

The Senate budget committee held a hearing to review a report published on Tuesday with the House oversight and accountability committee that they said demonstrates the sector’s shift from explicit climate denial to a more sophisticated strategy of “deception, disinformation and doublespeak”.

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Match ID: 23 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
Wed, 01 May 2024 18:34:48 +0000
A recent test of the emergency alert system found only 1 percent got it via AM.
Match ID: 24 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Nigeria has gotten billions in U.S. security assistance, even as its counterterrorism campaign has a massive civilian death toll.

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Match ID: 25 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban.

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Match ID: 26 Score: 6.43 source: theintercept.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 2.86 new law, 2.14 judge, 1.43 congress

How Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises Money by Attacking Other Republicans
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The congresswoman is demanding Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster. Is it principle—or a fund-raising ploy?
Match ID: 27 Score: 5.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:18:48 +0000

A measure passed by the House seeks to block Americans from traveling to Iran on U.S. passports.

The post House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 28 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:19:56 GMT

Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza’

The UK has been accused by Amnesty International of “deliberately destabilising” human rights on the global stage for its own political ends.

In its annual global report, released today, the organisation said Britain was weakening human rights protections nationally and globally, amid a near-breakdown of international law.

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Match ID: 29 Score: 2.14 source: www.theguardian.com age: 8 days
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A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Says She Should Be Freed.
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:05:10 +0000

If the courts agree to vacate the conviction, Lucio will have spent 16 years on death row for a crime that never happened.

The post A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Says She Should Be Freed. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 30 Score: 2.14 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
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University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:12:46 +0000
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.   Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research […]
Match ID: 31 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 36 days
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
Match ID: 32 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 94 days
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As Biden Cheers TikTok Ban, White House Embraces TikTok Influencers
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:25:12 +0000

The White House brushes off accusations of hypocrisy, courting TikTok while seeking to ban it.

The post As Biden Cheers TikTok Ban, White House Embraces TikTok Influencers appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 33 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
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Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don't Kill Imran Khan in Prison
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:04:01 +0000

Supporters worry Khan’s life is in danger and with good reason: The military has a long history of killing deposed leaders.

The post Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don’t Kill Imran Khan in Prison appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 34 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:59:38 +0000
Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US.
Match ID: 35 Score: 1.43 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
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Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for Mass Arrests and Suspensions
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:13:21 +0000

The blanket suspension of student protesters casts “serious doubt on the University’s respect for the rule-of-law values that we teach,” 54 law professors wrote.

The post Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for Mass Arrests and Suspensions appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 36 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
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Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 15:09:48 +0000

The smears spurred Austrian police to raid Islamophobia scholar Farid Hafez’s family home. Then the terrorism charges fell apart.

The post Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 37 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

Since October, Sen. John Fetterman Has Been Building a Roster of Republican Donors
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:32:30 +0000

“Yes I’m a Republican and I exclusively supported John through the Jewish community for his principled actions supporting Israel.”

The post Since October, Sen. John Fetterman Has Been Building a Roster of Republican Donors appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 38 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
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Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers Into Informants
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:11:29 +0000
One of Silicon Valley’s most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration–backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.
Match ID: 39 Score: 1.43 source: www.wired.com age: 14 days
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‘Who wants to stare at a computer?’ Pop duo the Lemon Twigs on the joys of analogue life
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:11:32 GMT

As teenagers, the New York brothers swiftly rose to become retro pop darlings – until they weren’t. Now older, wiser and taking inspiration from the travails of their family, they’re making their best music yet

The Lemon Twigs are deep in one of the great songwriting grooves of the 21st century. Or is it the previous century? Their new album, A Dream is All We Know, is a fabulous pop confection that magically transports the listener to the idyll of Abbey Road studios in 1966, if the Beatles were actually two brothers in their mid-20s from Long Island, New York. However, Brian and Michael D’Addario are reluctant to write off their music as nostalgic escapism.

“Yes, we record on analogue tape, and we don’t think being on phones all day is a good way to live our lives,” sighs Michael at their Brooklyn studio. “But it’s not like we’re rejecting ‘contemporary life’. And I don’t know what we’re really excluding from our lives by not using social media or recording on Pro Tools, anyway. Who wants to stare at a computer when they’re doing something that’s supposed to be fun?”

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Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors
Thu, 02 May 2024 05:00:49 GMT

Use of enclosed combustors leaves regulators heavily reliant on oil and gas companies’ own flaring data

Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed.

Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany and Norway appear to have installed technology that could stop researchers from identifying methane, carbon dioxide emissions and pollutants at industrial facilities involved in the disposal of unprofitable natural gas, known in the industry as flaring.

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Match ID: 0 Score: 55.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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NASA Uses Small Engine to Enhance Sustainable Jet Research
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable.  The engine’s smaller size and modestly equipped test stand means researchers and engineers can try out newly designed engine components less expensively […]
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Jewish students condemn ‘toxic’ anti-Israel protests on UK campuses
Thu, 02 May 2024 14:06:38 GMT

Union of Jewish Students deplores ‘torrent of antisemitic hatred’ in British universities since start of Israel-Gaza war

The prime minister has backed a police crackdown on any outbreak of disorder on university campuses, as Jewish students warned that pro-Palestinian encampments are creating a “hostile and toxic atmosphere”.

In recent days, new encampments have been set up at the universities of Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol and Newcastle, among others, after violent scenes on US campuses resulted in mass arrests of students and staff.

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The 2024 Acura ZDX Type-S: This electric SUV feels polished but heavy
Thu, 02 May 2024 13:00:26 +0000
It's a badge-engineered Ultium EV, but Acura is responsible for all the software.
Match ID: 3 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

Get Ready for Monster Hurricanes This Summer
Thu, 02 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Scientists are forecasting 11 North Atlantic hurricanes this year, five of them being major. Here’s what’s turning the storms into increasingly dangerous behemoths.
Match ID: 4 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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35 Years Ago: STS-30 Launches Magellan to Venus
Thu, 02 May 2024 12:41:44 +0000
On May 4, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its third flight, STS-30, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander David M. Walker, Pilot Ronald J. Grabe, and Mission Specialists Mark C. Lee, Norman E. Thagard, and Mary L. Cleave flew a four-day mission that deployed the Magellan […]
Match ID: 5 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover’ in a New Light
Thu, 02 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the Cloverleaf suggest it was created by clashing groups of galaxies. Studying these structures, collectively called ORCs (odd radio circles), in a different kind of light offered scientists a chance to probe everything from supersonic shock […]
Match ID: 6 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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The Marshall Star for May 1, 2024
Wed, 01 May 2024 22:23:55 +0000
Marshall Prepares for Strategic Facilities Updates  NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is getting ready for the next big step in the evolution of its main campus. Through a series of multi-year infrastructure projects, Marshall is optimizing its footprint to assure its place as a vibrant and vital hub for the aerospace community in the next […]
Match ID: 7 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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NASA Selects BAE Systems to Develop Air Quality Instrument for NOAA
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:36:20 +0000
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected BAE Systems (formerly known as Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, Colorado, to develop an instrument to monitor air quality and provide information about the impact of air pollutants on Earth for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee […]
Match ID: 8 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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ScienceCraft for Outer Planet Exploration (SCOPE)
Wed, 01 May 2024 18:40:47 +0000
Mahmooda SultanaNASA Goddard Space Flight Center Missions to the outer solar system are an important part of NASA’s goals because these scarcely visited worlds, particularly the ice giants Neptune and Uranus, hold secrets about the formation and evolution of our solar system and countless others. However, due to the high cost, long travel time and […]
Match ID: 9 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Flexible Levitation on a Track (FLOAT)
Wed, 01 May 2024 18:40:23 +0000
Ethan SchalerNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory We want to build the first lunar railway system, which will provide reliable, autonomous, and efficient payload transport on the Moon. A durable, long-life robotic transport system will be critical to the daily operations of a sustainable lunar base in the 2030’s, as envisioned in NASA’s Moon to Mars plan […]
Match ID: 10 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW)
Wed, 01 May 2024 18:39:29 +0000
Mary KnappMIT Humankind has never before seen the low frequency radio sky. It is hidden from ground-based telescopes by the Earth’s ionosphere and challenging to access from space with traditional missions because the long wavelengths involved (meter- to kilometer-scale) require infeasibly massive telescopes to see clearly. Electromagnetic radiation at these low frequencies carries crucial information […]
Match ID: 11 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Radioisotope Thermoradiative Cell Power Generator
Wed, 01 May 2024 18:39:59 +0000
Stephen PollyRochester Institute of Technology In this project we will continue our Phase I efforts to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a revolutionary power source for missions to the outer planets utilizing a new paradigm in thermal power conversion, the thermoradiative cell (TRC). Operating like a solar cell in reverse, the TRC converts heat […]
Match ID: 12 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Pulsed Plasma Rocket (PPR): Shielded, Fast Transits for Humans to Mars
Wed, 01 May 2024 18:38:51 +0000
Brianna ClementsHowe Industries The future of a space-faring civilization will depend on the ability to move both cargo and humans efficiently and rapidly. Due to the extremely large distances that are involved in space travel, the spacecraft must reach high velocities for reasonable mission transit times. Thus, a propulsion system that produces a high thrust […]
Match ID: 13 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Should you kill hammerhead flatworms?
Wed, 01 May 2024 16:08:25 +0000
The toxic and invasive pests, which originate from Southeast Asia, have long been spotted across the United States and around the world.
Match ID: 14 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 toxic

The White House Has a New Master Plan to Stop Worst-Case Scenarios
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000
President Joe Biden has updated the directives to protect US critical infrastructure against major threats, from cyberattacks to terrorism to climate change.
Match ID: 15 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change

The Uncomfortable Truth About the UK’s Climate Policies
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:09:30 +0000
Britain’s former climate adviser says the country’s future plans are weak, climate protests are no longer helpful, and working closely with Big Oil is a jarring necessity.
Match ID: 16 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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Cynan Jones on Nature and Nonlinear Love
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The author discusses his story “Pulse.”
Match ID: 17 Score: 12.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
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The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization
2024-04-25T11:02:48Z

The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection.

But all of this is coming to an end. The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences.

To understand why, you must understand publishing. Its core task is to connect writers to an audience. Publishers work as gatekeepers, filtering candidates and then amplifying the chosen ones. Hoping to be selected, writers shape their work in various ways. This article might be written very differently in an academic publication, for example, and publishing it here entailed pitching an editor, revising multiple drafts for style and focus, and so on...

Match ID: 18 Score: 4.29 source: www.schneier.com age: 7 days
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University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:12:46 +0000
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.   Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research […]
Match ID: 19 Score: 4.29 source: www.nasa.gov age: 36 days
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Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like
Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:54:57 +0000

Like countless other hostilities, the stealthy Israeli missile and drone strike on Iran doesn’t risk war. It is war.

The post Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 20 Score: 2.14 source: theintercept.com age: 11 days
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NASA Photographer Honored for Thrilling Inverted In-Flight Image
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:37:45 +0000
Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the back of a NASA aircraft is exhilarating, especially for photographers capturing NASA’s story. Jim Ross, photo lead at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was awarded first place for an image he took while flying upside down in a […]
Match ID: 21 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 14 days
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:54:28 +0000
The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]
Match ID: 22 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 15 days
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From saving money to being more environmentally friendly: five reasons to buy a refurbished smartphone
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:58:32 GMT

Buying refurbished tech might feel risky if you’ve never done it before – but we’re here to tell you, it’s the future. Here’s what you need to know ...

Whether it’s eating less meat, swapping your car for a bike or saying no to single-use plastic, many of us are making lifestyle switches to live more ethically. However, fewer of us are aware of the huge environmental impact of something we use every day – our smartphone – and what we can all do to reduce it. Keen to know more? Here are five reasons why your next smartphone should be refurbished …

Keep your carbon footprint in check
The metal extraction, shipping and production that take place before a smartphone ends up in your hands create carbon emissions – and carbon emissions are the number one cause of the climate crisis. Metal mining and the manufacturing of smartphones, which predominantly take place in the global south, are also very polluting and therefore damaging to delicate ecosystems. Extending the lifespan of a smartphone can help to reduce this impact – the longer a smartphone is in use, the less damage is done to the planet. Obviously it’s not always possible to avoid needing a new phone, so this is why buying a refurbished one – and selling or recycling your old phones – is a more sustainable choice.

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NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:24:53 +0000
After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1. The DC-8 and crew were welcomed back with a celebratory water salute by the U.S Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department after completing […]
Match ID: 24 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 22 days
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First ever climate change victory in Europe court
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:24:42 GMT
"We are not made to sit in a rocking chair and knit," said one of the older Swiss women who won.
Match ID: 25 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 22 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
2024-04-09T00:00:00Z
Grants designed to improve housing can make homes more energy efficient and save money for low-income families, providing a powerful way to confront climate change, says research by Omar Asensio. What do the findings mean for companies trying to scale innovation?
Match ID: 26 Score: 2.14 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 23 days
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NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using Uncrewed Vehicles
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:18:40 +0000
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weather balloons by the National Weather […]
Match ID: 27 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 26 days
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ARMD Solicitations
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +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. AAVP FellowshipKey date: April 30, […]
Match ID: 28 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 27 days
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NASA Noise Prediction Tool Supports Users in Air Taxi Industry
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:57:10 +0000
Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission to see early in the aircraft development process how design elements like propellers or wings would perform. This saves the industry time and […]
Match ID: 29 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 27 days
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NASA, Health and Human Services Highlight Cancer Moonshot Progress
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:29:03 +0000
During an event at NASA Headquarters in Washington Thursday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra united to note progress their respective agencies are making in space and on Earth toward President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative. “We go to space not […]
Match ID: 30 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 41 days
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How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:59:08 +0000
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
Match ID: 31 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 49 days
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Hottest February marks ninth new monthly record
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:06:49 GMT
It's the ninth month of global temperature records in a row, driven by climate change and El Niño.
Match ID: 32 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 56 days
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Why firms are racing to produce green ammonia
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:04:21 GMT
Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.
Match ID: 33 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 65 days
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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.
Match ID: 34 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 101 days
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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.
Match ID: 35 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 106 days
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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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