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33 Best REI Anniversary Sale Deals (2024): Fitness Trackers, Tents, Sleeping Bags, Headphones, Electric Bikes
Mon, 27 May 2024 14:22:34 +0000
It’s the best time of the year to pick up all the tents, stoves, sleeping bags, and gear you’ll need for summer fun. Just remember these deals end tonight.
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Your Bike Tires Are Too Skinny. Riding on Fat, Supple Tires Is Just Better
Sat, 25 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000
I used to ride thin, high-pressure tires everywhere. But adhering to “the supple life” and cycling on wider, lower-pressure tires boosted my comfort and stability without slowing me down.
Match ID: 1 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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8 Best Mattresses for Side Sleepers (2024): Budget, Luxe, Tested by Experts
Fri, 24 May 2024 13:30:00 +0000
The stats say most people prefer to snooze on their sides. If that’s you, then you might want to check out these WIRED-tested beds.
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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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Ex-FTX executive gets over seven years for making illegal political donations
Tue, 28 May 2024 22:14:23 GMT

Ryan Salame is first of Sam Bankman-Fried’s lieutenants to get jail time for his role in 2022 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for their roles in the 2022 collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.

Salame, 30, was a high-ranking executive at FTX for most of the exchange’s existence and, up until its collapse, was the co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets. He pleaded guilty last year to illegally making unlawful US campaign contributions and to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.

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Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly
Thu, 23 May 2024 23:56:25 +0000
“Google as an illegal monopolist will have to pay some penalties,” US federal judge James Donato said Thursday, in a hearing discussing next steps after a jury found the company breached antitrust laws.
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The judge gave the jury a 20-minute break and said he’d like to “finish it...
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:57:27 +0000

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Donald Trump and his attorney Todd Blanche shared a laugh while they waited for the judge...
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:02:48 +0000

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Judge rejects request to restrict Trump’s speech on FBI, says motion was faulty
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:33:01 +0000

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Judge Merchan scolds Blanche for suggesting Trump could go to jail
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:56:36 +0000

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Scarlett Johansson Isn’t Alone. The Intercept Is Getting Ripped Off by OpenAI Too.
Tue, 21 May 2024 21:46:07 +0000

The Intercept’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft shows how digital outlets are uniquely vulnerable.

The post Scarlett Johansson Isn’t Alone. The Intercept Is Getting Ripped Off by OpenAI Too. appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
Sat, 25 May 2024 15:40:00 +0000

He tells the world he intends to be an authoritarian. So why won’t journalists repeat it?

The post The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

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South Africa elections: voting under way amid grim national mood
Wed, 29 May 2024 06:56:59 GMT

Ruling African National Congress party could lose majority for first time since apartheid ended 30 years ago

Explainer: what are the issues and will the ANC lose its majority?

South Africans are voting in what are expected to be the most competitive elections since the end of apartheid, which could result in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party losing its majority for the first time since Nelson Mandela led it to power 30 years ago.

The national mood is grim owing to some of the world’s highest rates of unemployment and inequality, power cuts, water shortages and violent crime. Younger generations do not feel the same gratitude and loyalty to the ANC as many of their parents and grandparents do, for leading the successful fight for multi-racial democracy.

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South Africa holds national election as support for ruling ANC ebbs
Wed, 29 May 2024 06:00:43 +0000
The African National Congress looks likely to win the most parliamentary seats but fall short of a majority for the first time in three decades.
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Gonzales narrowly defeats challenger in House primary runoff in Texas
Wed, 29 May 2024 05:19:04 +0000
In another high-profile Texas race, retired military commander Jay Furman (R) won the runoff to challenge indicted congressman Henry Cuellar (D) in November.
Match ID: 10 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Political killings rock South Africa as it heads into elections
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:38:17 +0000
The epidemic of assassinations in the country looks to affect the vote for Parliament and the African National Congress’s bid to keep its majority.
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U.S. lawmakers ignore China’s warning, meet with Taiwan’s new leader
Mon, 27 May 2024 15:53:17 +0000
The meeting by a bipartisan delegation from Washington occurred as China heightens demands for the United States to back away from support for the island democracy.
Match ID: 12 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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How to Pick Stocks Like You’re in Congress
Mon, 27 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The team at Autopilot, an app that lets you copy the trades of Nancy Pelosi’s husband (up forty-five per cent last year) or Dan Crenshaw (up forty-one), choose their newest offering.
Match ID: 13 Score: 10.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Is Constitutional, After All
Thu, 16 May 2024 23:34:55 +0000

And for some reason Justice Samuel Alito can’t stop talking about this witch trial judge.

The post The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Is Constitutional, After All appeared first on The Intercept.

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This AIPAC Donor Funnels Millions to an IDF Unit Accused of Violating Human Rights
Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The battalion has a dedicated U.S. nonprofit to support its operations — whose president is supporting AIPAC’s political agenda.

The post This AIPAC Donor Funnels Millions to an IDF Unit Accused of Violating Human Rights appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 15 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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After Torturing Him, U.S. Breaks Guarantees of Safety to Former Guantánamo Detainee
Tue, 21 May 2024 14:30:00 +0000

The U.S. held Saeed Bakhouch at Guantánamo Bay for 20 years without charge, then sent him to have his rights violated in Algeria.

The post After Torturing Him, U.S. Breaks Guarantees of Safety to Former Guantánamo Detainee appeared first on The Intercept.

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Conditioning Aid to Israel Would Boost Support for Biden in Key States, New Poll Finds
Tue, 21 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In the survey of Democrats and independents in five battleground states, 2 in 5 voters said a ceasefire and conditioning aid would make them more likely to vote for Biden.

The post Conditioning Aid to Israel Would Boost Support for Biden in Key States, New Poll Finds appeared first on The Intercept.

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Can a U.S. Ally Actually Be Held Accountable for War Crimes in the ICC?
Mon, 20 May 2024 20:20:13 +0000

ICC warrants against Israeli officials would mean they can’t travel — and their patrons in the U.S. would be pressured over continued arms sales.

The post Can a U.S. Ally Actually Be Held Accountable for War Crimes in the ICC? appeared first on The Intercept.

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says
Mon, 20 May 2024 12:57:45 +0000
Two judges in London have ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US on freedom of speech grounds.
Match ID: 19 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
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Republicans Can’t Decide: Do They Hate Prosecutors Because of Bail Reform or Abortion?
Thu, 16 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Since Dobbs, state-level Republicans have sought to strip power from DAs elected in Democratic cities who won’t prosecute abortion care.

The post Republicans Can’t Decide: Do They Hate Prosecutors Because of Bail Reform or Abortion? appeared first on The Intercept.

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The VA Is Quietly Fast-Tracking MDMA Therapy for Veterans
Mon, 20 May 2024 18:21:43 +0000

With FDA approval on the horizon, an internal document lays out measures to treat PTSD and stanch the suicide crisis.

The post The VA Is Quietly Fast-Tracking MDMA Therapy for Veterans appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 21 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
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The State Department Says Israel Isn’t Blocking Aid. Videos Show the Opposite.
Sat, 18 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

From targeting humanitarian vehicles to standing by as mobs attack trucks, Israel is blocking aid from reaching Gaza.

The post The State Department Says Israel Isn’t Blocking Aid. Videos Show the Opposite. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 22 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
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Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him.
Thu, 16 May 2024 21:08:07 +0000

With Bowman’s challenger handpicked by AIPAC, the Israel lobby is cementing its status as the biggest player in Democratic primary politics.

The post Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 23 Score: 1.43 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
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University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza
Thu, 16 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure.

The post University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin on Disrupting the U.S. War Machine
Wed, 15 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The 71-year-old veteran peace activist discusses the war on Gaza, the Biden administration, and shaking up Congress.

The post Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin on Disrupting the U.S. War Machine appeared first on The Intercept.

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Secrecy Concerns Mount Over Spy Powers Targeting US Data Centers
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:16:58 +0000
A coalition of digital rights groups is demanding the US declassify records that would clarify just how expansive a major surveillance program really is.
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Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:48:45 +0000
An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program's database that investigators have repeatedly misused.
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Alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in water near Bangladesh garment factories
Wed, 29 May 2024 08:00:06 GMT

Study confirms huge concentrations of potentially dangerous PFAS in rivers, lakes and taps in Dhaka

Rivers, lakes and tap water in areas of Bangladesh that host garment factories are swarming with dangerous levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, some with links to serious health issues, according to new research.

In the first study of its kind conducted in Bangladesh, a global fashion hub supplying international brands, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as forever chemicals, were found in 27 water samples collected close to textile factories in the capital, Dhaka.

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Wealthy white men are UK’s biggest transport polluters, study finds
Wed, 29 May 2024 05:00:04 GMT

IPPR research examines transport emissions by income, gender, location, ethnicity and age

Wealthy white men from rural areas are the UK’s biggest emitters of climate-heating gases from transport, according to a study.

Research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) looked at transport emissions by income, gender, location, ethnicity and age. The study broke down the transport emissions into international and domestic flights, private road transport and public transport.

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Make accreditation mandatory for low-carbon heating installers, says Which?
Wed, 29 May 2024 05:00:04 GMT

Widening government-run scheme would counter mistrust among householders, says consumer group

The next government should force all tradespeople who install home heat pumps, solar panels and insulation to sign up to a mandatory accreditation scheme to counter mistrust in the industry, a leading consumer group is demanding.

A report from Which? found that households face “significant anxiety” in choosing tradespeople to fit low-carbon heating systems, such as heat pumps, and insulation after “press stories about poor work and rogue traders”.

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Earth Science Information Partners Celebrate 25 Years of Collaboration
Tue, 28 May 2024 19:22:59 +0000
Allison Mills, Earth Science Information Partners, allisonmills@esipfed.orgSusan Shingledecker, Earth Science Information Partners, susanshingledecker@esipfed.org Introduction In 2023, the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community celebrated 25 years since the nonprofit’s founding. Serving as a home for Earth science data and computing professionals, ESIP has evolved alongside the tools and vast expansion of Earth science data available […]
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Arizona Students Go on an Exoplanet Watch
Tue, 28 May 2024 17:26:49 +0000
Exoplanets, planets outside of our own solar system, hold the keys to finding extraterrestrial life and understanding the origin of our own world. Now online students at Arizona State University (ASU) in a new course called Exoplanet Research Experience have become exoplanet scientists by taking part in NASA’s Exoplanet Watch project.  Fifteen students from ASU’s Astronomical and Planetary Sciences online degree […]
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NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:47:55 +0000
Mission engineers were confident NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the Sun on Jan. 2, 2024. Their models had predicted that, despite traveling 25 million miles closer to the heat of the Sun than it was originally designed to, OSIRIS-APEX and its components […]
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Dinosaurs needed to be cold enough that being warm-blooded mattered
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:27:35 +0000
Two groups of dinosaurs moved to cooler climes during a period of climate change.
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Sols 4195-4198: Feels Like Summer
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:02:51 +0000
Earth planning date: Friday, May 24, 2024 The first sol of this weekend includes an extremely long, 6-hour DAN activity to measure the amount of hydrogen near the surface, in parallel with a standard midday remote science block including: ChemCam LIBS on a smooth, dark rock named “Shadow Lake,” an RMI 7-frame mosaic of the […]
Match ID: 7 Score: 15.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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15 Years Ago: First Time all Partners Represented aboard the International Space Station
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:01:14 +0000
From May 29 to July 17, 2009, for the first time in its history, each of the five partner agencies participating in the International Space Station Program had a crew member living and working aboard the orbiting facility at the same time. The period also marked the beginning of six-person crew habitation, greatly increasing the […]
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Toyota bets on adaptable compact combustion engines in the age of EVs | It is developing new 1.5L and 2.0L engines with significantly reduced volume and height, helping in decarbonization efforts.
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Images of Climate Change That Cannot Be Missed
Tue, 28 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Just as we risk becoming inured to the crisis, an exhibition, “Coal + Ice,” serves as a stunning call to action.
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Be a better tourist! 28 ways to have a fantastic holiday – without infuriating the locals
Tue, 28 May 2024 09:00:48 GMT

From badly behaved travellers to horrendous carbon emissions, summer holidays aren’t always an unmitigated good. Here is how to travel responsibly and still have a great time

Tourism is almost back to pre-pandemic levels – which is good news and bad news. However much holiday destinations rely on them, no one wants badly behaved tourists blocking views, partying wildly in the streets or pricing local people out of their own cities. Overtourism, carbon emissions, nature depletion and plastic pollution are all huge concerns. But that doesn’t mean you have to cancel your holiday. Here are 28 ways to be a better tourist this summer.

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Concrete without CO2: can our biggest building material go green? – podcast
Tue, 28 May 2024 04:00:42 GMT

Concrete is strong and durable – which is why it’s the basis for so much of our infrastructure. It’s also terrible for the planet, due to one key ingredient: cement, which is responsible for almost 90% of concrete emissions. Researchers have now found a way to recover old cement while also reducing the environmental impact of recycling steel. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Julian Allwood, professor of engineering and the environment at the University Of Cambridge, to find out how the process works, and what it could mean for the emissions generated by the construction industry

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How Many Charging Stations Would We Need to Totally Replace Gas Stations?
Mon, 27 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
The United States could fully transition to electric vehicles in about 20 years. When that happens, we’re going to need a lot of chargers.
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Vermont Moves to Hold Fossil-Fuel Companies Liable for Climate-Change Damage
Mon, 27 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A new constituency is willing to stand up to Big Oil (and Gas and Coal): state government.
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World has ‘moral responsibility’ to help small island states survive climate crisis – UN agency chief
Mon, 27 May 2024 09:47:35 GMT

Vulnerable economies must be supported with finance and practical aid to find long term solutions, says Jorge Moreira da Silva of Unops

The world has a “moral responsibility” to support the fight for survival being faced by small island states, according to a leading UN agency chief.

Ahead of the fourth annual conference of small island developing states (Sids) being held in Antigua and Barbuda this week, Jorge Moreira da Silva, the executive director of the (Unops), called for recognition of the problems faced by what he called “some of the most vulnerable economies in the world” who contributed less than 1% to global carbon emissions.

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US Offshore Wind Farms Are Being Strangled With Red Tape
Sun, 26 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
This year has seen wind farm costs rise and many projects canceled as developers struggle with opaque regulations and determined opposition—but the industry is far from dead.
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The Sea Is Swallowing This Mexican Town
Sun, 26 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Las Barrancas, in the state of Veracruz, has struggled for 10 years against the rising Gulf of Mexico waters. Its best hope may lie in mangrove trees.
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Only the Hardiest Trees Can Survive Today’s Urban Inferno
Sat, 25 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000
In a rapidly warming world, cities need more tree cover to stay cool—but only certain species can handle soaring temperatures, and often they aren’t native species.
Match ID: 18 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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Mexico Is So Hot, Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees
Sat, 25 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Authorities and conservation groups are investigating the deaths of dozens of howler monkeys in Tabasco, where extreme heat and land-use change appear to be threatening the vulnerable species.
Match ID: 19 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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“Love Is Blind,” and Allegedly Toxic
Fri, 24 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Lawsuits and the labor movement come to reality TV, by way of the Netflix hit. Plus, Ilana Glazer’s buddy movie tackles the realities of pregnancy, motherhood, and friendship.
Match ID: 20 Score: 10.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/21/2024
Tue, 21 May 2024 16:00:05 +0000
Payloads: Environmental Health System (EHS) Exploration Potable Water Dispenser (xPWD): The crew collected a sample from the xPWD, then used the Total Organic Carbon Analyzer (TOCA) to analyze the sample.  More information on this experiment can be found here.  Solid Combustion Experiment Module (SCEM)/ Fundamental Research on International Standard of Fire Safety in Space (FLARE):  A new …
Match ID: 21 Score: 4.29 source: blogs.nasa.gov age: 7 days
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NASA Teammates Recall Favorite Memories Aboard Flying Laboratory
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will make its final flight May 15 to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where it will be used to train future aircraft technicians by providing real-world experience in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program. Before […]
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Meet NASA Women Behind World’s Largest Flying Laboratory
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:30:48 +0000
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft – the world’s largest flying science laboratory – began its science missions in 1987 and since then, has flown in service of the science community over places like Antarctica, Greenland, and Thailand. Aircraft like the DC-8 have enabled scientists to ask questions about life on Earth and explore them in a way […]
Match ID: 23 Score: 4.29 source: www.nasa.gov age: 15 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 […]
Match ID: 24 Score: 4.29 source: www.nasa.gov age: 29 days
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NASA, FAA Partner to Develop New Wildland Fire Technologies
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:47:24 +0000
NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have established a research transition team to guide the development of wildland fire technology.  Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and at a larger scale than in past decades, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Emergency responders will need a broader set of technologies to prevent, monitor, and […]
Match ID: 25 Score: 4.29 source: www.nasa.gov age: 39 days
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NASA, Industry to Start Designing More Sustainable Jet Engine Core
Sat, 18 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
NASA, alongside industry, will soon begin designing a new jet engine concept for the next generation of ultra-efficient airliners — officially graduating to the project’s next phase. As part of NASA’s goal to make the aviation industry more sustainable, the agency is developing a small core for a hybrid-electric turbofan jet engine that could reduce fuel […]
Match ID: 26 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 10 days
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Aviary: A New NASA Software Platform for Aircraft Modelling
Fri, 17 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
NASA has created a new digital modelling tool for aeronautical engineers to innovate new aircraft designs, building on decades of experience using highly advanced computer code for aviation. Using this tool, researchers can create simulations of conceptual aircraft featuring never-flown technology and receive detailed data about how it would work. Named “Aviary” for enclosures where […]
Match ID: 27 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 11 days
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NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight
Wed, 15 May 2024 18:14:56 +0000
NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward flight.  A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety […]
Match ID: 28 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 13 days
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NASA Licenses 3D-Printable Superalloy to Benefit US Economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:14:04 +0000
NASA’s investment in a breakthrough superalloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is on the threshold of paying commercial dividends. The agency is licensing its invention, dubbed “GRX-810,” to four American companies, a practice that benefits the United States economy as a return on investment of taxpayer dollars. GRX-810 […]
Match ID: 29 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 19 days
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ARMD Solicitations
Fri, 03 May 2024 19:00:00 +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 Leadership InitiativeKey date: May […]
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NASA’s Commitment to Safety Starts with its Culture
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0000
NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has never been tried. Living on the edge of innovation requires a high degree of risk. After organizational silence led to the loss of space shuttle Challenger and its crew in 1986, NASA vowed to change the […]
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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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How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:59:08 +0000
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
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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.
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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.
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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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Ukraine war briefing: Macron, Scholz agree Kyiv should use allies’ weapons against launchers in Russia
Wed, 29 May 2024 00:38:11 GMT

Nato secretary general says alliance members should allow deep strikes, which White House says it doesn’t ‘encourage or enable’. What we know on day 826

Ukraine should be allowed to use its allies’ weapons to “neutralise” Russian military bases used to fire missiles into Ukraine, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Tuesday. But he added: “We should not allow them to touch other targets in Russia, and obviously civilian capacities.”

Macron commented during a state visit to Germany, whose chancellor, Olaf Scholz, appeared to back Ukraine on the matter as well – saying he agreed with the French president as long as the Ukrainians respected the conditions of the weapons’ suppliers. The chancellor has however refused to supply Germany’s Taurus cruise missiles – sought by the Ukrainians and capable of powerful strikes on Russian positions inside Ukraine and deep into Russia.

The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told the Economist that alliance members should let Ukraine strike deep into Russia with western weapons. But the White House on Tuesday ruled out such a possibility for US-supplied weapons. “There’s no change to our policy at this point. We don’t encourage or enable the use of US-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia,” said John Kirby, national security council spokesperson.

Vladimir Putin warned of “serious consequences” if Russia is struck with western weapons – repeating a pattern of routine but vague and unfulfilled threats towards Ukraine’s allies. The Kremlin also gloated over persisting differences in the west – “we see that there is no consensus on this issue”, regime spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the Russian daily Izvestia.

The first deliveries of 155mm artillery shells under a Czech-led initiative should arrive in Ukraine within days, the Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, said on Tuesday while hosting Ukraine’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, and leaders of some EU allies in Prague. The initiative had so far raised €1.6bn, Fiala said.

EU officials have said an estimated €6.5bn for Ukraine remains stalled by the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán, considered Russia’s staunchest ally in the union. “That’s the sad thing that we have the cash, we have the capacity, but we are still pending decisions to implement” aid decisions for Ukraine, said the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell. Single member states have wide veto powers – though these powers can be suspended where a member is deemed to be working against the EU’s principles and interests.

Belgium on Tuesday made a €1bn aid pledge to Ukraine and a commitment to give Ukraine 30 F-16 fighter jets in the next four years.

Russian guided bombs killed two civilians in the eastern Ukrainian city of Toretsk on Tuesday and heavily damaged two multi-storey apartment buildings, said the Donetsk regional governor, Vadym Filashkin.

The White House has said the US and its partners are prepared to use more sanctions and export controls to prevent China-Russia trade that threatens their security, Patrick Wintour writes. Daleep Singh, a national security advisers, said they could also act further to increase Russia’s cost of using a shadow fleet to evade a G7 oil price cap.

Singh said Russia was utterly dependent on China, giving Beijing “enormous leverage” over Moscow, and China faced risks and costs as well, given its combined goods trade with the EU and US was seven times that of its trade with Russia. Singh said Russia-China trade had dropped since Joe Biden expanded the targeting of financial institutions, and authorities may go further.

Singh said the G7 leaders’ summit next month was the best chance to shore up Ukraine by planning to monetise around $300bn in frozen Russian assets, a move he said was risky but necessary. G7 leaders are scheduled to gather in Italy on 13-15 June.

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Biden administration eases some economic restrictions on Cuba
Tue, 28 May 2024 23:54:39 +0000
Private enterprises with no link to the communist government will be granted access to U.S. banks and additional internet services.
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Biden official says more sanctions are needed to counter Russia war economy
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:45:48 GMT

Daleep Singh said that sanctioning third parties that trade with Russia is needed, in addition to seizing assets for Ukraine

Russia’s shift towards a full-fledged war economy requires the west to extend its sanctions policy, including by sanctioning third-party entities that trade with Moscow, a senior White House official signalled on Tuesday.

Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser for international economics, said the United States would consider export controls to prevent China-Russia trade that threatens American security and take further action to increase the cost of Russia using a shadow fleet to evade the G7 countries’ oil price cap.

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15 Years Ago: First Time all Partners Represented aboard the International Space Station
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:01:14 +0000
From May 29 to July 17, 2009, for the first time in its history, each of the five partner agencies participating in the International Space Station Program had a crew member living and working aboard the orbiting facility at the same time. The period also marked the beginning of six-person crew habitation, greatly increasing the […]
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The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
Sat, 25 May 2024 15:40:00 +0000

He tells the world he intends to be an authoritarian. So why won’t journalists repeat it?

The post The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Blinken on whistlestop European tour to shore up Ukraine support
Wed, 29 May 2024 08:42:24 GMT

US’s top diplomat visits Moldova as Macron says Ukraine should be able to use allies’ weapons to ‘neutralise’ bases inside Russia

Russia’s human rights commissioner said on Wednesday that prisoner of war exchanges between Russia and Ukraine had been suspended for several months, the state TASS news agency said on Wednesday.

TASS cited Tatyana Moskalova as blaming what she called Kyiv’s “false demands.” There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.

Polish security services have arrested a man suspected of trying to get photos of military vehicles crossing the border into Ukraine, a spokesperson said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of spy cases. The 26-year-old Ukrainian man was suspected of encouraging a Polish citizen to share the photos and “take part in the activities of foreign intelligence against the Republic of Poland,” the spokesperson said.

Sweden’s energy and defence minister has announced 13.3bn krona (£1bn) in military support for Ukraine.

Newly-appointed Russian defence minister, Andrei Belousov, has sent telegrams to Moscow’s forces in Ukraine thanking them for their battlefield progress, official army news outlet Zvezda reported on Wednesday. Putin in May removed ally Sergei Shoigu as defence minister and replaced him with Belousov, an economist and former deputy prime minister, in a surprise move.

The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told the Economist that alliance members should let Ukraine strike deep into Russia with western weapons. But the White House on Tuesday ruled out such a possibility for US-supplied weapons. “There’s no change to our policy at this point. We don’t encourage or enable the use of US-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia,” said John Kirby, national security council spokesperson.

Vladimir Putin warned of “serious consequences” if Russia is struck with western weapons – repeating a pattern of routine but vague and unfulfilled threats towards Ukraine’s allies. The Kremlin also gloated over persisting differences in the west – “we see that there is no consensus on this issue”, regime spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the Russian daily Izvestia.

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US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs
Tue, 28 May 2024 23:28:48 +0000
911 S5 residential proxy service was comprised of 19 million IP addresses.
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Why Vladimir Putin’s Family Is Learning Mandarin
Sat, 25 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000
During the last few weeks, American political discourse has been consumed by what’s happening inside a New York City courtroom. But the world outside it hasn’t stopped.
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If Trump were convicted in his hush money trial, here’s what he could face next
Wed, 29 May 2024 07:00:27 +0000
A guilty verdict for Trump would mean a mix of court processing steps and extraordinary considerations such as whether to incarcerate him, legal experts say.
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Wednesday briefing: How Israeli intelligence spent nine years interfering with an international court
Wed, 29 May 2024 05:52:52 GMT

In today’s newsletter: a Guardian investigation details a ‘war’ on the international criminal court by the country – here’s what we know so far

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Good morning. “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”

That is a terrifying message for anyone to hear from the head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency. Even more astonishing is that this was a message to the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC).

Israel-Gaza war | The Biden administration has said recent Israeli operations in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah do not constitute a major ground operation that crosses any US red lines, and that it is closely monitoring a probe into Sunday’s deadly strike on a tent camp it called “tragic”. The comments came as Israeli tanks were seen in central Rafah.

General election 2024 | Angela Rayner has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Greater Manchester police, with the deputy Labour leader attacking the “desperate tactics” of Tory MPs that led to the investigation. Elsewhere, it has been reported that Diane Abbott has had the party whip restored – but will not be allowed to stand again for Labour at the next election.

Trump trial | Donald Trump’s secret plot to bury negative press ahead of the 2016 election deprived Americans of their right to choose a candidate at the ballot box, the prosecution said in closing arguments at the former president’s New York hush-money trial. Read the key takeaways as the jury begins its deliberations on Wednesday.

Georgia | Georgia’s parliament has voted to override a presidential veto on the controversial “foreign influence” law, a move that is poised to derail the EU aspirations of many Georgians in favour of closer ties with Moscow. The bill is now likely to become law in the coming days.

Ticket prices | Some of the most powerful ticket touts in the UK have discussed a secret plan to try to scupper a Labour crackdown on the industry via a lobbying campaign, footage filmed by the Guardian reveals. At a private event this month, one of the UK’s biggest ticket touts warned that “we are fucked” if Labour’s clampdown went ahead.

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Texas House speaker survives challenge from Trump-backed candidate
Wed, 29 May 2024 02:58:05 +0000
The speaker, Republican Dade Phelan, angered Trump and his in-state allies last year when he oversaw the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Ex-FBI officials Strzok, Page near DOJ settlement over anti-Trump text leak
Wed, 29 May 2024 01:12:32 +0000
Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and former bureau lawyer Lisa Page have reached a tentative deal to settle a lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration’s Justice Department violated the Privacy Act by leaking their anti-Trump texts.
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Prosecution concludes closing argument with plea to find Trump guilty in hush-money trial – as it happened
Wed, 29 May 2024 00:59:51 GMT

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Donald Trump is entering the courtroom. He’s wearing a red tie and a suit that appears to fall somewhere between black and slate gray.

Tiffany Trump is here as well as two of Trump’s sons.

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Trump lawyer tells jury Cohen is 'greatest liar of all time'
Wed, 29 May 2024 00:51:31 GMT
The former president's hush-money trial nears its end as the prosecution and defence make closing arguments.
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Closing arguments end in Trump hush money trial
Wed, 29 May 2024 00:14:16 +0000
Closing arguments began Tuesday in Donald Trump’s trial on allegations of business fraud related to hush money payments.
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As he exited the courtroom, Donald Trump forcefully flipped the lapels of his jacket and grimaced.
Wed, 29 May 2024 00:05:29 +0000

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Court has adjourned until 10 a.m. Wednesday. Justice Juan Merchan said that deliberations will go until...
Wed, 29 May 2024 00:02:58 +0000

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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass just ended his summation after almost five hours.
Tue, 28 May 2024 23:57:38 +0000

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As prosecutor Joshua Steinglass appeared to near the finish line, the slide show of documents he...
Tue, 28 May 2024 23:56:15 +0000

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Before closing arguments began, Justice Juan Merchan instructed the lawyers not to talk to the jury...
Tue, 28 May 2024 23:44:26 +0000

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Ten reasons to acquit: Trump trial key takeaways – closing arguments
Tue, 28 May 2024 23:21:29 GMT

Lawyer Todd Blanche’s argument for why jurors should find his client not guilty boiled down to a handful of principal lines

Donald Trump’s lawyer on Tuesday spent two hours focused on three key attacks against the Manhattan district attorney’s case that the former president falsified business records with an intent to commit a second crime – of covering up an illegal federal campaign finance violation.

Lawyer Todd Blanche presented at the end of his closing argument “10 reasons why” there was reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case and the jury should acquit Trump. It effectively came down to a handful of principal lines of argument:

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Justice Juan Merchan said court will recess at 8 p.m.
Tue, 28 May 2024 23:12:22 +0000

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We are on a final break of the day, and the jurors are out while Todd...
Tue, 28 May 2024 22:56:27 +0000

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Closing arguments in the Trump hush money case, so far:
Tue, 28 May 2024 22:44:50 +0000

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Prosecutors detail Donald Trump’s ‘corrupt bargain’ in closing arguments
Tue, 28 May 2024 22:41:36 GMT

Joshua Steinglass tells hush-money jurors that scheme to bury negative stories before 2016 election distorted democracy

Donald Trump’s secret plot to bury negative press ahead of the 2016 election deprived Americans of their right to choose a candidate at the ballot box, said the prosecution in its summation on Tuesday at the former president’s New York hush-money trial.

Joshua Steinglass’s closing statement reminded jurors of a summer 2015 meeting at Trump Tower where the real estate mogul sat with then consigliere Michael Cohen and tabloid honcho David Pecker.

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Trump was a micromanager and his books show it, prosecutor says
Tue, 28 May 2024 22:35:39 +0000

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Prosecutor: Former adviser Hope Hicks put ‘nail in Mr. Trump’s coffin’ in testimony
Tue, 28 May 2024 22:32:33 +0000

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Donald Trump is looking straight ahead — not in the direction of prosecutor Joshua Steinglass or...
Tue, 28 May 2024 22:24:16 +0000

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Donald Trump Says He'll Stop All Electric Car Sales
2024-05-28T22:16:23+00:00

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Joshua Steinglass just made a joke that touched on the length and in-depth nature of his...
Tue, 28 May 2024 22:08:06 +0000

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been taking notes as he watches summations. On a notebook...
Tue, 28 May 2024 21:57:08 +0000

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Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass has resumed his closing argument, which is expected to stretch into...
Tue, 28 May 2024 21:27:26 +0000

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Biden heading back to Pa. this week; Trump trial nears end
Tue, 28 May 2024 21:03:47 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Analysis: Trump’s (misleading) closing argument to the court of public opinion
Tue, 28 May 2024 21:03:47 +0000

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The judge gave the jury a 20-minute break and said he’d like to “finish it...
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:57:27 +0000

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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass argued in summations late Tuesday afternoon that it was “no coincidence” that the...
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:52:52 +0000

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Trump’s (misleading) closing argument to the court of public opinion
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:44:54 +0000
The trial is ending, but Trump remains unbowed.
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The jury is hearing about the “Access Hollywood” tape again. The prosecution is disputing the notion...
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:21:22 +0000

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Trump seeks to unseat Texas House speaker in incursion into state politics
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:11:21 +0000

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Donald Trump and his attorney Todd Blanche shared a laugh while they waited for the judge...
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:02:48 +0000

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Court just resumed after a quick break. Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass said that, after nearly...
Tue, 28 May 2024 20:01:49 +0000

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Donald Trump moved a yellow legal pad from the table to his lap and started writing...
Tue, 28 May 2024 19:39:11 +0000

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Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass has spent the past 20 minutes or so meticulously walking jurors...
Tue, 28 May 2024 19:32:40 +0000

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Some of the jurors are looking a little restless as prosecutor Joshua Steinglass gets into the...
Tue, 28 May 2024 19:15:59 +0000

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Prosecutor acts out key phone call between Cohen and Trump to undercut defense
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:56:50 +0000

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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass: “We didn’t choose Michael Cohen to be our witness. We didn’t pick him...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:44:20 +0000

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Speaking to reporters outside his father’s trial, Donald Trump Jr. sought to delegitimize a potential guilty...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:43:13 +0000

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Judge rejects request to restrict Trump’s speech on FBI, says motion was faulty
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:33:01 +0000

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Donald Trump leaned over and whispered to his lawyers Todd Blanche and Emile Bove while prosecutor...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:22:38 +0000

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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass’s summation is underway. At the start, Steinglass tried to swat away claims by...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:18:44 +0000

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Donald Trump is turned toward and watching Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass as he begins his...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:10:55 +0000

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The jury returned from lunch and were given what lawyers call a “curative instruction” by New...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:09:53 +0000

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If Trump is found guilty, who decides his punishment?
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:08:07 +0000

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At the Biden news conference, actor Robert De Niro described Trump as a “buffoon” and a...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:06:00 +0000

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Proceedings have resumed but the jury isn’t in the room yet. There are arguments about a...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:04:41 +0000

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A rollerblader looped the courthouse shouting taunts at Trump’s adult sons as they spoke outside during...
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:03:28 +0000

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Biden campaign edges in on Trump trial media frenzy with De Niro outside court
Tue, 28 May 2024 17:55:48 +0000

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Robert de Niro says Trump ‘doesn’t belong’ in New York
Tue, 28 May 2024 17:37:58 +0000

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Judge Merchan scolds Blanche for suggesting Trump could go to jail
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:56:36 +0000

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Defense lawyer Todd Blanche is done. “This is a very, very quick and easy not guilty...
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:49:20 +0000

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As he wraps up his closing argument, defense lawyer Todd Blanche has been moving away from...
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:48:09 +0000

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Todd Blanche says of Michael Cohen: “He’s literally like an MVP of liars. He lies constantly.”
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:32:45 +0000

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Cohen had ‘ax to grind’ with Trump after hush money deal, Trump lawyer says
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:32:01 +0000

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‘That is per-ju-ry!’ Trump lawyer declares about Michael Cohen
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:30:07 +0000

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‘Access Hollywood’ tape wasn’t a ‘doomsday event’ for Trump, defense lawyer says
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:27:51 +0000

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Prosecutors called Stormy Daniels to embarrass Trump, defense lawyer says
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:21:03 +0000

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Donald Trump is turned in his seat to face Todd Blanche and the jury. He is...
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:18:34 +0000

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Analysis: Trump pledges to turn ‘love it or leave it’ into policy
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:04:46 +0000

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Trump defense presents Stormy Daniels hush money as an extortion shakedown — by her
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:58:53 +0000

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The trial will go late today if the prosecutor has not finished his summation by 4:30...
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:52:21 +0000

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We’re about two hours into the defense’s closing argument as court takes its midmorning break. Donald...
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:42:20 +0000

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We are on a midmorning break. Donald Trump and his entourage have left the courtroom.
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:39:35 +0000

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Analysis: What each possible Trump verdict might mean for 2024
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:31:33 +0000

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What each possible Trump verdict might mean for 2024
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:28:41 +0000
Running through the possible verdicts, and how they could play politically.
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Trump pledges to turn ‘love it or leave it’ into policy
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:27:32 +0000
Speaking to donors, Trump promised to deport protesters opposing Israel’s war in Gaza. Dozens of citizens may have been deported during his presidency.
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Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed
Tue, 28 May 2024 12:00:30 GMT

Exclusive: Investigation reveals how intelligence agencies tried to derail war crimes prosecution, with Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts

• Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

When the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) announced he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, he issued a cryptic warning: “I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this court must cease immediately.”

Karim Khan did not provide specific details of attempts to interfere in the ICC’s work, but he noted a clause in the court’s foundational treaty that made any such interference a criminal offence. If the conduct continued, he added, “my office will not hesitate to act”.

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The three options open to the Trump jury at the end of five-week trial
Tue, 28 May 2024 07:51:48 GMT
A verdict could come this week - the former president's conviction or acquittal, or there could be a mistrial.
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Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry
Tue, 28 May 2024 06:30:21 GMT

Mossad director Yossi Cohen personally involved in secret plot to pressure Fatou Bensouda to drop Palestine investigation, sources say

• Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed

The former head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a war crimes investigation, the Guardian can reveal.

Yossi Cohen’s covert contacts with the ICC’s then prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, took place in the years leading up to her decision to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in occupied Palestinian territories.

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Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives
Sun, 26 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Is this what the “pro-life” movement wanted?

The post Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives appeared first on The Intercept.

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On the Zero-Day Market
2024-05-24T11:07:53Z

New paper: “Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market“:

Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and foreign adversaries alike and to do so more easily than when such work required tradecraft. The last ten years have also been marked by stark failures to control spyware and its precursors and components. This Article accounts for and critiques these failures, providing a socio-technical history since 2014, particularly focusing on the conversation about trade in zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits. Second, this Article applies lessons from these failures to guide regulatory efforts going forward. While recognizing that controlling this trade is difficult, I argue countries should focus on building and strengthening multilateral coalitions of the willing, rather than on strong-arming existing multilateral institutions into working on the problem. Individually, countries should focus on export controls and other sanctions that target specific bad actors, rather than focusing on restricting particular technologies. Last, I continue to call for transparency as a key part of oversight of domestic governments’ use of spyware and related components...

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As Trump trial hurtles towards verdict, are Americans paying attention?
Sun, 26 May 2024 05:01:21 GMT
It's been a historic event filled with salacious detail, but polls suggest a strange level of detachment.
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North Korea launches waste-filled balloons to taunt the South
Wed, 29 May 2024 07:31:41 +0000
The balloons carried trash and “filth,” according to South Korean authorities. They were a reaction to balloons previously sent by activists from the South.
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North Korea uses hundreds of white balloons to drop rubbish bags on South
Wed, 29 May 2024 06:02:46 GMT
The balloons, which were found across South Korea, carried toilet paper, batteries and suspected poo.
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Growing up under fire: Ukraine’s children adapt to survive Russia's invasion
Wed, 29 May 2024 05:03:05 GMT
Two years of war takes its toll on Ukraine's younger generations, both physically and emotionally.
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Greens ‘will not back von der Leyen’ for re-election if she does deal with far right
Wed, 29 May 2024 04:00:01 GMT

German Green MEP chair warns that EU plan to tackle climate crisis will be put at risk by agreement with hard right parties

Green members of the European parliament will not support Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as the commission president if she makes a deal with hard-right nationalists, the party’s joint lead candidate has said.

Terry Reintke, the German Green MEP chair, said her group would “absolutely” not support von der Leyen – the incumbent centre-right commission president who is seeking a second term – if she made a deal with the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s group in the European parliament, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

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North Korea accused of sending balloons carrying excrement into the South
Wed, 29 May 2024 03:23:03 GMT

South Korea has warned residents to be alert after the military released photos showing inflated balloons with plastic bags tethered to them

South Korea has warned residents living near the border with North Korea to be on alert, after accusing the regime of sending balloons containing what appeared to be rubbish and faeces into its neighbour’s territory.

Photographs released by the South Korean military on Wednesday showed inflated balloons with plastic bags tethered to them. Other images appeared to show trash strewn around collapsed balloons, with the word “excrement” written on a bag in one photograph.

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US returns stolen Italian art worth $65m in vow to put loot back ‘where it belongs’
Wed, 29 May 2024 01:27:30 GMT

Italy celebrates getting back 600 antiquities that were taken and sold years ago and recovered as a result of criminal investigations

Italy on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the US, including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at €60m ($65m), that were looted years ago, sold to US museums, galleries and collectors and recovered as a result of criminal investigations.

US ambassador Jack Markell, Matthew Bogdanos, the head of the antiquities trafficking unit of the New York district attorney’s office, and members of the US Homeland Security Investigations department were on hand for the presentation alongside the leadership of Italy’s culture ministry and carabinieri art squad.

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Why the Summer Could Be Disastrous for Ukraine
Tue, 28 May 2024 23:50:52 +0000
Amid a new advance by Russian forces, Zelensky faces enormous challenges in marshalling the equipment and the manpower necessary to keep them at bay.
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Georgia enacts Russian-style ‘foreign agent’ law in victory for Moscow
Tue, 28 May 2024 19:59:03 +0000
The Georgian Dream party overrode the president’s veto despite widespread protests over the law, which could threaten plans to join the European Union.
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Georgian parliament overrides veto by president on ‘foreign influence’ law
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:27:51 GMT

Salome Zourabichvili addresses protesters outside parliament by video link, urging them to mobilise against ‘Russian slavery’

Georgia’s parliament has voted to override a presidential veto on the controversial “foreign influence” law, a move that is poised to derail the EU aspirations of many Georgians in favour of closer ties with Moscow.

The divisive bill, which requires civil society organisations and media that receive more than 20% of their revenues from abroad to register as “organisations serving the interests of a foreign power”, was approved by the parliament earlier this month.

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Wembley to ramp up security operation for Champions League final
Tue, 28 May 2024 18:08:52 GMT

• Move follows chaotic scenes at recent showpiece events
• Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund meet on Saturday

Wembley will implement its biggest security operation for the ­Champions League final on Saturday in an effort to avoid any repeat of the chaos that has surrounded recent showpiece events at home and abroad.

More than 2,500 stewards will oversee crowds attending the match between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund, while a £5m investment in beefed-up infrastructure is intended to ensure the scenes that marred the Euro 2020 final at the national stadium remain consigned to the past.

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NATO chief and European allies urge U.S. to let Ukraine strike inside Russia
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:41:26 +0000
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and a growing chorus of Western leaders are urging Washington and its allies to drop restrictions on how Ukraine uses donated weapons.
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Barcelona reign and retain Champions League title – Women’s Football Weekly
Tue, 28 May 2024 15:27:34 GMT

Faye Carruthers and Suzanne Wrack are joined by Sophie Downey and Ceylon Andi Hickman to review Barcelona’s 2-0 over Lyon in Bilbao

In today’s episode, the panel discuss the impact of Jonatan Giráldez as the Barça manager bows out on a high, beating Lyon in a fantastic display in Spain at the weekend and Ceylon Andi Hickman talks about how it felt to clinch promotion with her Dulwich Hamlet side last week.

Despite the club season only just ending, the panel look ahead to the Lionesses’ European qualifiers against France and the Republic of Ireland ahead of next summer’s tournament. And finally, away from European football, it is the start of a new era as Emma Hayes takes charge of the USA for the first time against the Korea Republic. The panel try and foresee how she will get on.

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‘We have a mission’: the Odesa artists refusing to abandon their studios
Tue, 28 May 2024 11:43:06 GMT

Small group of creatives are choosing to stay working in Ukrainian city despite continuous threat from war

Behind a gate presided over by a taciturn doorman, on the shore of the Black Sea in Odesa, is a tumbledown ship repair yard. It is one of many industrial sites in Ukraine that fell into disuse after the fall of the Soviet Union, but in 2016 a community of young artists started cleaning up debris, renovating the old workshops and making studios.

Now, in 2024, when the city is regularly pounded by Russian missiles, its city streets empty of the tourists who once flocked to its historic centre, there are just a handful of artists willing to withstand the continuous threat to life.

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Jeremy Bowen: Ukraine faces its worst crisis since the war began
Tue, 28 May 2024 05:05:08 GMT
The composure Ukrainians show in the face of Russian attacks cannot conceal the dangers Kyiv faces in the summer ahead.
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North Korea spy satellite explodes in flight as latest launch fails
Mon, 27 May 2024 23:57:30 GMT

Cause of accident was ‘operational reliability of engine’, says Pyongyang, after two failed attempts last year

North Korea’s latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit ended in a mid-air explosion, Pyongyang said late Monday, hours after its announcement of a planned launch was criticised by Seoul and Tokyo.

Japanese broadcaster NHK ran footage of what appeared to be a flaming projectile in the night sky, which then exploded into a fireball. NHK said the footage was taken from northeast China at the same time as the attempted launch.

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The hornet has landed: Scientists combat new honeybee killer in US
Sun, 26 May 2024 10:55:00 +0000
Researchers are working to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
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Ukraine Faces a Crucial Moment in the War
Sun, 26 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Two years after Russia launched its invasion, the fighting is shifting in its favor.
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After Pegasus Was Blacklisted, Its CEO Swore Off Spyware. Now He’s the King of Israeli AI.
Thu, 23 May 2024 19:22:45 +0000

Shalev Hulio is remaking his image but is still involved in a web of cybersecurity ventures with his old colleagues from NSO Group.

The post After Pegasus Was Blacklisted, Its CEO Swore Off Spyware. Now He’s the King of Israeli AI. appeared first on The Intercept.

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This AIPAC Donor Funnels Millions to an IDF Unit Accused of Violating Human Rights
Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The battalion has a dedicated U.S. nonprofit to support its operations — whose president is supporting AIPAC’s political agenda.

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The Bronx Cheers—Mostly—for Trump
Fri, 24 May 2024 23:41:53 +0000
Biden’s a pedophile; Trump’s a fascist; the MAGA Hasidim have to get their act together—and other sentiments spewed at the former President’s rally in Crotona Park.
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In the Bronx, Donald Trump Goes to His Hateful, Happy Place
Fri, 24 May 2024 14:58:57 +0000
“Like it or not, this is a rally,” the former President said, seemingly a little embarrassed by the unremarkable size of the crowd.
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Australia politics live: Monique Ryan urges federal MPs not to use Gaza conflict as an ‘opportunity to gain votes’
Wed, 29 May 2024 08:54:40 GMT

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WA shooter’s daughter says police ‘ignored’ warnings

Social services minister Amanda Rishworth has been asked about the powerful statement Ariel Bombara released yesterday, claiming Western Australian police had “ignored” warnings from her and her mother that their lives were under threat.

By that point we felt completely helpless and I had to focus on getting mum to safety. I did everything I could to protect my mother, and when my father couldn’t find us he murdered her best friend and her best friend’s daughter.

Rents have surged in Australia’s capital cities, with only 5.9% of city overall rentals now costing less than $400 a week.

At the start of the pandemic, one in five house rentals in Sydney cost less than $400 a week – that figure is now one in 50.

In Melbourne, one in 25 house rentals now costs less than $400.

The national share of rentals available under $400 dropped by one third annually to just 10.4%.

ACT had the smallest share of properties listed to rent under $400 at 2.1%, followed by Sydney (3.8%) and Perth (5.6%).

Melbourne saw the largest annual decline in the share of houses listed for less than $400 a week, followed by Adelaide and Sydney.

In regional markets, only 16.3% per cent of houses were advertised for under $400 a week in April.

Regional WA (14.8%) had the smallest portion of homes listed to rent below $400 of the regions, followed by regional Queensland (15.8%) and regional NSW (21.5%).

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Make accreditation mandatory for low-carbon heating installers, says Which?
Wed, 29 May 2024 05:00:04 GMT

Widening government-run scheme would counter mistrust among householders, says consumer group

The next government should force all tradespeople who install home heat pumps, solar panels and insulation to sign up to a mandatory accreditation scheme to counter mistrust in the industry, a leading consumer group is demanding.

A report from Which? found that households face “significant anxiety” in choosing tradespeople to fit low-carbon heating systems, such as heat pumps, and insulation after “press stories about poor work and rogue traders”.

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Camden review – Dua Lipa’s TV show is less informative than a five-minute Google
Wed, 29 May 2024 04:00:01 GMT

Strap in for three hours of annoyingly vague celeb analyses of the London musical hotspot’s cultural significance – featuring no punks and almost no history. It’s downright cringeworthy

Close your eyes and think of Camden, the rowdy, gaudy north London neighbourhood known for its old-school boozers, perpetual congregation of punks and surplus of tourist-trap tat. Now, which musical artists can you hear amid the hubbub? Cheeky-chappy two-toners Madness, whose Dublin Castle residency made them synonymous with the area? Grotbag indie revivalists the Libertines, who staged notoriously raucous early gigs in their Camden basement flat? How about robotically slick, fiercely business-minded dance-pop doyenne Dua Lipa?

Presumably not the latter – but with her first foray into TV, Lipa is hoping to remedy that. Camden, a four-part documentary series about the area’s outsized musical influence, is co-produced by the pop star and enlists some big names (Noel Gallagher, Chuck D, Boy George) to reminisce about their Camden connections while folding Lipa’s own origin-story into the mix. It was while living there as a teenager that she began recording the YouTube covers that eventually got her noticed by the industry, a fact she relays with the slightly unsettling cheesy smile that accompanies all her contributions to this series. Admittedly, she wasn’t exactly enmeshed in the local scene, but she did draw inspiration from the “non-conforming energy” of the place, observing that “there is something in the air in Camden that gives you courage to give it a go”.

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New Jersey to get $125 million from Orsted after offshore wind projects halted
Wed, 29 May 2024 00:48:00 GMT
Orsted will pay New Jersey $125 million after the Danish energy company decided to cease development on the Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 projects, according to the state’s Board of Public Utilities.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun
Tue, 28 May 2024 16:47:55 +0000
Mission engineers were confident NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the Sun on Jan. 2, 2024. Their models had predicted that, despite traveling 25 million miles closer to the heat of the Sun than it was originally designed to, OSIRIS-APEX and its components […]
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Majority of US voters support climate litigation against big oil, poll shows
Tue, 28 May 2024 10:00:27 GMT

And almost half of respondents back the filing of criminal charges against oil companies that have contributed to the climate crisis

As US communities take big oil to court for allegedly deceiving the public about the climate crisis, polling shared with the Guardian shows that a majority of voters support the litigation, while almost half would back an even more aggressive legal strategy of filing criminal charges.

The poll, which comes as the world’s first-ever criminal climate lawsuit was brought in France last week, could shed light on how, if filed, similar US cases might be viewed by a jury.

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How Many Charging Stations Would We Need to Totally Replace Gas Stations?
Mon, 27 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
The United States could fully transition to electric vehicles in about 20 years. When that happens, we’re going to need a lot of chargers.
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US Offshore Wind Farms Are Being Strangled With Red Tape
Sun, 26 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
This year has seen wind farm costs rise and many projects canceled as developers struggle with opaque regulations and determined opposition—but the industry is far from dead.
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There Is Literally Nothing Trump Can Say That Will Stop Republicans from Voting for Him
Thu, 23 May 2024 23:07:36 +0000
On Nikki Haley’s announcement that she’s backing her party’s “unhinged” nominee.
Match ID: 110 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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Is the Biden Campaign Running on False Hope?
Thu, 23 May 2024 17:39:51 +0000
Most polls show Donald Trump leading in swing states, but the Democratic Party strategist Simon Rosenberg believes the President’s chances are better than the surveys suggest.
Match ID: 111 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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What is happening to gas and electricity bills?
Fri, 24 May 2024 09:51:56 GMT
A new energy price cap means the cost of electricity and gas will fall from 1 July.
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Israel Wants Endless War Without the Politics. Biden’s Going Along for the Doomed Ride.
Wed, 15 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

This isn’t “politics by other means,” it’s never-ending conflict.

The post Israel Wants Endless War Without the Politics. Biden’s Going Along for the Doomed Ride. appeared first on The Intercept.

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This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message
Wed, 22 May 2024 17:08:47 +0000

Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.

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Match ID: 114 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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Can a U.S. Ally Actually Be Held Accountable for War Crimes in the ICC?
Mon, 20 May 2024 20:20:13 +0000

ICC warrants against Israeli officials would mean they can’t travel — and their patrons in the U.S. would be pressured over continued arms sales.

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Match ID: 115 Score: 7.86 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
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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: 116 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 97 days
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Conditioning Aid to Israel Would Boost Support for Biden in Key States, New Poll Finds
Tue, 21 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In the survey of Democrats and independents in five battleground states, 2 in 5 voters said a ceasefire and conditioning aid would make them more likely to vote for Biden.

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US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon
Wed, 22 May 2024 04:22:18 GMT
The Russian satellite launched last week may be capable of attacking other satellites, the Pentagon says.
Match ID: 118 Score: 5.71 source: www.bbc.com age: 7 days
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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Is Constitutional, After All
Thu, 16 May 2024 23:34:55 +0000

And for some reason Justice Samuel Alito can’t stop talking about this witch trial judge.

The post The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Is Constitutional, After All appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 119 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
Match ID: 120 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 48 days
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Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him.
Thu, 16 May 2024 21:08:07 +0000

With Bowman’s challenger handpicked by AIPAC, the Israel lobby is cementing its status as the biggest player in Democratic primary politics.

The post Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 121 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
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Republicans Can’t Decide: Do They Hate Prosecutors Because of Bail Reform or Abortion?
Thu, 16 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Since Dobbs, state-level Republicans have sought to strip power from DAs elected in Democratic cities who won’t prosecute abortion care.

The post Republicans Can’t Decide: Do They Hate Prosecutors Because of Bail Reform or Abortion? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 122 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
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University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza
Thu, 16 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure.

The post University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 123 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 13 days
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
Match ID: 124 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 14 days
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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: 125 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 35 days
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Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EST
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
Match ID: 126 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 40 days
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
Match ID: 127 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
Match ID: 128 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 63 days
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
Match ID: 129 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 82 days
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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: 130 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 91 days
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
Match ID: 131 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 96 days
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US Official Warns a Cell Network Flaw Is Being Exploited for Spying
Sat, 18 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Plus: Three arrested in North Korean IT workers fraud ring, Tesla staffers shared videos from owners’ cars, and more.
Match ID: 132 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 10 days
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Microsoft Deploys Generative AI for US Spies
Sat, 11 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: China is suspected in a hack targeting the UK’s military, the US Marines are testing gun-toting robotic dogs, and Dell suffers a data breach impacting 49 million customers.
Match ID: 133 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 17 days
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A (Strange) Interview With the Russian-Military-Linked Hackers Targeting US Water Utilities
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Despite Cyber Army of Russia’s claims of swaying US “minds and hearts,” experts say the cyber sabotage group appears to be hyping its hacking for a domestic audience.
Match ID: 134 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 20 days
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
Match ID: 135 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 26 days
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
Match ID: 136 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 40 days
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
Match ID: 137 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 47 days
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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: 138 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
Match ID: 139 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 79 days
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
Match ID: 140 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
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Energy bills predicted to fall by 7% in July
Fri, 17 May 2024 11:47:34 GMT
If the forecast proves correct, it would mean a typical annual bill could be £500 lower than last summer.
Match ID: 141 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 11 days
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NASA Teammates Recall Favorite Memories Aboard Flying Laboratory
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will make its final flight May 15 to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where it will be used to train future aircraft technicians by providing real-world experience in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program. Before […]
Match ID: 142 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 14 days
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
Match ID: 143 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 103 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: 144 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 132 days
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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
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9 cookout sides ready in 20 minutes or less
Mon, 27 May 2024 15:48:59 +0000
Last-minute summer recipes ready in about 20 minutes to bring to a potluck or cookout during the season.
Match ID: 0 Score: 50.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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New Life review – stripped-back virus thriller goes hard on bubo-popping horror
Wed, 29 May 2024 08:00:06 GMT

John Rosman’s effective debut intertwines the lives of a woman escaping a black-site facility and a woman hired to contain the outbreak

Amid the dumper-truck of post-Covid lockdown-inspired films, very few take disease and pandemics themselves as their central focus (maybe after rewatching Contagion, we were all too eager to forget). So John Rosman’s stripped-back but effective debut is a sobering flashback to those incubative early days, its title punning its title punning on the microbe that asymptomatic protagonist Jessica (Hayley Erin) is carrying on her person, as well as her hopes for a fresh start, unharassed by government spooks, north of the Canadian border.

All we know at the start is that blood-splattered Jessica has just escaped imprisonment in some black-site facility. She bundles herself into a pickup heading north, which luckily belongs to kindly farmer Frank (Blaine Palmer), who sends her on her way with a new jacket and a rucksack full of tinned food. Rosman makes gradual sense of this chaotic getaway by drip-feeding us the recent past: how a cute collie pitched up at Jessica and her boyfriend’s campsite, then shortly afterwards the latter broke out into terrifying boils and welts.

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Match ID: 1 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Waitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls show
Wed, 29 May 2024 06:00:03 GMT

Shoppers at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi have all swung to Labour from Conservative since 2019

The election may not yet be in the bag for Labour, but research suggests it is in the shopping basket.

The party’s voters now make up the majority of customers at all leading supermarkets apart from Waitrose, according to the latest polling from retail research firm GlobalData.

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Match ID: 2 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Earth Science Information Partners Celebrate 25 Years of Collaboration
Tue, 28 May 2024 19:22:59 +0000
Allison Mills, Earth Science Information Partners, allisonmills@esipfed.orgSusan Shingledecker, Earth Science Information Partners, susanshingledecker@esipfed.org Introduction In 2023, the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community celebrated 25 years since the nonprofit’s founding. Serving as a home for Earth science data and computing professionals, ESIP has evolved alongside the tools and vast expansion of Earth science data available […]
Match ID: 3 Score: 30.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 88 Launch, Space Station Docking
Tue, 28 May 2024 17:23:22 +0000
NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) Thursday, May 30, on a Soyuz […]
Match ID: 4 Score: 30.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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These chicken tacos with charred corn salsa embrace the heat
Tue, 28 May 2024 14:00:34 +0000
Charring food intentionally introduces a hint of bitterness. Put it to use in chicken tacos with charred corn salsa.
Match ID: 5 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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How to barbecue with a simple grill | Kitchen aide
Tue, 28 May 2024 13:00:31 GMT

Sunshine and outdoor cooking are the perfect combination, but you don’t need a fancy grill to serve up a feast. Our experts reveal how to keep it simple

• Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.com

“If I could have only one barbecue, it would be a kettle,” says Genevieve Taylor, live fire cook and author of Scorched. “They don’t take up a lot of space, don’t cost a fortune and are easy to move .” Plus, you can do pretty much anything on a kettle that you can on a kamado. Sure, you’ll need to pay attention to fuel management, adding more as you go for low and slow cooking, and work out where to put food in relation to the fire, but otherwise the barbecue world is your oyster: “Big pots of stew, slow-roast pork, bakes, yorkshire puddings.”

The key is to not get too carried away. “There is no other meal where you’d be expected to eat wings, kebabs, steak and sausages all in one go,” Taylor says, so pick a central star and build salads or charred veg around it. And it’s with the vegetables that you can really have some fun, anyway. “I’ve yet to meet one that doesn’t benefit from a bit of barbecue action,” Taylor adds. Carrots are an excellent example: “Blanch them, marinate in cumin, chilli and garlic, then grill and layer into a lovely warm salad with nuts, ricotta and olive oil.”

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Match ID: 6 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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‘It breaks an employer’s control’: the tragic disappearance of the American lunch hour
Tue, 28 May 2024 12:00:31 GMT

Americans are spending less on weekday lunches, opting instead to save for weekends. Is a once-cherished meal in its death throes?

“The lunch rush is dead,” an NBC News headline announced this week. Blame it on working from home, tighter budgets, inflation or all of the above: transaction data pulled by the digital-payments app Square found that midday food spending was down 3.3% nationwide last year compared with 2019. The decrease was steeper in some cities, including Boston, Atlanta and Dallas.

While a full obit for the humble lunch break might be premature, a recent report from the University of Toronto backed up the hypothesis that Americans want to spend more on weekend luxuries than a lunch bill. The study found that foot traffic in major US cities remains low on workdays, but higher during the weekend.

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Match ID: 7 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Nigel Slater’s recipe for pappardelle with peppers and pine kernels
Tue, 28 May 2024 11:00:28 GMT

A rich, succulent, de luxe pasta dish

Bring a large, deep pan of water to the boil and salt it generously. Drop in 200g of pappardelle or spaghetti and cook for the time suggested on the packet – this will be roughly 8-9 minutes.

While the pasta boils, drain 150g of bottled, roasted peppers from their brine and put them in a blender jug. Add either 2 roasted garlic cloves or 2 tsp of roasted garlic paste, about 10 medium-sized basil leaves and 2 tbsp of chopped flat-leaf parsley.

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Match ID: 8 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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The woman feeding Liverpool from an ice-cream van – video
Tue, 28 May 2024 09:47:52 GMT

Michelle Roach bought a used ice-cream van in order to bring cheap, affordable food to Liverpool's struggling communities. She wanted a vehicle with freezers built in for frozen food, and also something cheerful that was able to break down stigmas around food poverty. Using a '10 items for £5' model, Michelle sources discount food from supermarket surplus and donations.

The Guardian's Christopher Cherry follows Michelle and the van on its rounds, with the service struggling to meet overwhelming demand as the cost of living crisis deepens, and the UK's general election fast approaches.

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Match ID: 9 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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A journey on weight-loss drug Ozempic
Tue, 28 May 2024 02:00:38 GMT

The company behind the weight-loss drug has made millions, but without health insurance it is unaffordable for many. George Chidi reports

George Chidi, a politics and democracy reporter for Guardian US, recently came to Europe on holiday. He had been looking forward to eating his way around Paris and London, and was especially looking forward to the cheese. But when he got here, something surprised him. He enjoyed the food but found he wasn’t overeating.

For the past few months, he explains to Hannah Moore, he has been taking the weight-loss drug Ozempic. Almost 2% of the population in the US is taking it and the company behind it is worth billions. But while it’s been a big year for semaglutide weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, the changes they are making to US society are only just beginning.

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Match ID: 10 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Johnson Celebrates AA and NHPI Heritage Month: Britney Tang
Tue, 28 May 2024 00:53:53 +0000
When you think about personal property, your home, clothes, and electronic devices probably come to mind. For NASA, personal property comprises government-owned government-held assets ranging from laptops to spacecraft and space station components. Managing the financial records for these assets is the responsibility of the Property Accounting Team, which includes Personal Property Accountant Britney Tang. […]
Match ID: 11 Score: 30.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 1 day
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WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!
Mon, 27 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Using DNA from tangerines and tobacco, food scientists have made a familiar fruit tastier—and more Instagrammable—than ever. We looked into pink pineapples so you don’t have to.
Match ID: 12 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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The hornet has landed: Scientists combat new honeybee killer in US
Sun, 26 May 2024 10:55:00 +0000
Researchers are working to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
Match ID: 13 Score: 30.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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Restaurant Review: Lola’s
Sun, 26 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
An alumna of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group offers a Southern-inflected menu that subtly sings.
Match ID: 14 Score: 30.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
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“Deny, denounce, delay”: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods
Sat, 25 May 2024 11:15:34 +0000
Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances.
Match ID: 15 Score: 25.71 source: arstechnica.com age: 3 days
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Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention
Fri, 24 May 2024 11:48:00 +0000

Khaled Al Serr, a young surgeon, vanished from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis two months ago. He hasn’t been heard from since.

The post Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 16 Score: 21.43 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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Carolina Gold Rice Grits Risotto With Mushrooms
Tue, 28 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Risotto made with rice grits, or "middlins," is less fussy than other versions, meaning you can pour in all the liquid at once rather than stirring constantly at the stove.
Match ID: 17 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Asparagus Salad With Pickled Spring Onions
Tue, 28 May 2024 08:00:00 +0000
This recipe brings together asparagus, spring onions and fresh herbs in a way that highlights the very best of peak-season ingredients.
Match ID: 18 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Chicken Tacos With Charred Corn Salsa
Tue, 28 May 2024 04:00:00 +0000
These chicken tacos are topped with a charred corn salsa that adds texture, acidity, herbaceousness and a touch of spice.
Match ID: 19 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Each week we’ll send you an exclusive newsletter from our star food writers. We’ll also send you the latest recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi, Nigel Slater, Meera Sodha and all our star cooks, stand-out food features and seasonal eating inspiration, plus restaurant reviews from Grace Dent and Jay Rayner.

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Match ID: 20 Score: 7.14 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1786 days
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Can a U.S. Ally Actually Be Held Accountable for War Crimes in the ICC?
Mon, 20 May 2024 20:20:13 +0000

ICC warrants against Israeli officials would mean they can’t travel — and their patrons in the U.S. would be pressured over continued arms sales.

The post Can a U.S. Ally Actually Be Held Accountable for War Crimes in the ICC? appeared first on The Intercept.

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The VA Is Quietly Fast-Tracking MDMA Therapy for Veterans
Mon, 20 May 2024 18:21:43 +0000

With FDA approval on the horizon, an internal document lays out measures to treat PTSD and stanch the suicide crisis.

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The State Department Says Israel Isn’t Blocking Aid. Videos Show the Opposite.
Sat, 18 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

From targeting humanitarian vehicles to standing by as mobs attack trucks, Israel is blocking aid from reaching Gaza.

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Why genocide is so hard to prove – video
Thu, 09 May 2024 11:19:24 GMT

South Africa's case against Israel over allegations of genocide before the international court of justice has raised a central question of international law: what is genocide and how do you prove it? It is one of three genocide cases being considered by the UN's world court, but since the genocide convention was approved in 1948, only three instances have been legally recognised as genocide. Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks back on these historical cases to find out why the crime is so much harder to prove than other atrocities, and what bearing this has on South Africa's case against Israel and future cases

• What is the genocide convention and how might it apply to the UK and Israel?

• ‘Famine is setting in’: UN court orders Israel to unblock Gaza food aid

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A tour of the International Space Station with Andreas Mogensen
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0200
Video: 00:07:30

On the last day of his Huginn mission, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen takes us on a tour of the place he called home for 6 months: the International Space Station. From the beautiful views of Cupola to the kitchen in Node 1 filled with food and friends and all the way to the science of Columbus, the Space Station is the work and living place for astronauts as they help push science forward. 

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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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