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• 15 Best Laptops (2023): MacBooks, Windows, Chromebooks
• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
• China to Stage Military Exercises Around Taiwan
• Can Jordan fall in love with Saudi Arabia?
• The Putin Show
• The Iraqi militias are copying their overmighty cousins in Iran
• Britain's doctors are on strike, again
• England may soon become the world's best cricket team
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• Ethiopia risks sliding into another civil war
• Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
• Insects could help turn beer waste into beef
• America faces a debt nightmare
• What America's bike-share schemes tell you about venture capital
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• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• As Lula takes over, Brazil's economic prospects are looking up
• Can AT&T and Verizon escape managed decline?
• Starry new productions show "Macbeth" is the tragedy for our times
• China's local-debt crisis is about to get nasty
• High-End iPhone 15s Could Charge at a Rapid 35 Watts
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• The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
• Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing
• Greece votes, again, following the sinking of a migrant boat
• Pentagon urges US space companies to stay vigilant against foreign intelligence
• The world divided
• A Night With the Best Baseball Team in New York
• Apple to Start Paying Out $500M in iPhone Slowdown Lawsuit - CNET
• Is the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why South Korean tattooists are being marked as criminals
• East Asia's new family portrait
• War in Ukraine has triggered a boom in Europe's defence industry
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Chinese nationalists are annoyed about colonial-era place names
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• How to recruit with softer skills in mind
• Cruise robotaxi involved in a crash with fire truck, one passenger injured
• Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business
• Deflation and default haunt China's economy
• Obituary: Clive Sinclair foresaw the future too soon
• Murder rates are falling in a majority of American cities
• The Newest Threat to Your Attention Span? TikTok 'Dual' Videos
• Frontline Formosa
• Kyriakos Mitsotakis returns to the Greek prime minister's office
• Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
• Chikungunya virus surges in South America. But a new discovery could help outfox it
• Why investors are gambling on placid stockmarkets
• The winners and losers from the $69bn Microsoft-Activision mega-deal
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Military and financial support to Ukraine hits a record high
• Temperatures of 50°C will become much more common around the Mediterranean
• A winner has emerged in the old rivalry between Singapore and Hong Kong
• Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, Has a Hopeful Plan for Keeping Future AI Friendly
• Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
• The market for dinosaur fossils is booming
• The Monstrous Crochet Creations of ChatGPT
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• Britain has blown its reputation as a world leader in aid
• Ohio's referendum is another win for abortion-rights campaigners
• Michael Lipton: The big man of land reform
• Was your degree really worth it?
• Britain's economy may grow by more than expected, but inflation is stickier
• Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
• LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
• PrivKit - Simple Beacon Object File That Detects Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Caused By Misconfigurations On Windows OS
• A neighbour said: 'We didn't want to scare you' – how I became obsessed with the dark past of my Hollywood home
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
• Match Group and Background-Checking Nonprofit End Safety Partnership
• Canada has a shortage of lifeguards
• Ukraine gets its F-16s
• Cheap vaccines could prevent millions of deaths from cervical cancer
• Brazil's new president may soon face another threat: his predecessor
• Uruguay is losing its reputation as Latin America's success story
• Iran's proxies in the Middle East remain a powerful force
• SoftBank Buys Vision Fund's Stake in Arm at $64 Billion Valuation
• Sorry, you won't be able to block Elon Musk (or anyone else) on X
• The push to bring insulin prices down in America
• A Very Silly Movie About Some Very Good Dogs
• Hip Hop 2073: A Vision of the Future, 50 Years From Now
• By Seizing @Music, Elon Musk Shows He Doesn't Know What Made Twitter Good
• Voters give Britain's ruling Conservatives a historic mauling
• Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence
• AI is making Washington smarter
• KAL's cartoon
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
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• After a decade of SNP dominance, Scotland's politics is suddenly in flux
• Iran puts its nuclear programme beyond the reach of American bombs
• The global rice crisis
• Urbanista Malibu Solar Speaker: Battery Life, Specs, Price, Release Date
• The world's religions face a post-pandemic reckoning
• The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
• Under Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua has become a one-party state
• Brexit was wrong, say 57% of British voters
• China's guarding of genetic data is a drag on scientific research
• How China became a car-exporting juggernaut
• African governments say credit-rating agencies are biased against them
• Sources and acknowledgments
• What is The Economist's word of the year for 2021?
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• How to make low-carbon concrete from old cement
• Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway
• Who will be Taiwan's next president?
• A New Walking Dead Video Game Lets Players Rewrite the Show's Story
• Why China is so keen to salvage shipwrecks in the South China Sea
• Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
• David Harbour Talks Stranger Things End and Creature Commandos Future
• China is losing Taiwanese hearts and minds
• Just how good can China get at generative AI?
• The dollar is now better value, says the Big Mac index
• China brokers an Iran-Saudi rapprochement
• How the Democrats lost Florida
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• France's foreign-policy revolution
• I've never seen so many crap startups
• What TIM's mega-spin-off reveals about Europe's telecoms industry
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• Millions of dead fish are washing up in Australia
• Tension in Senegal is set to persist
• Anne Saxelby was a champion of artisan farmers and their wares
• Democracy and the price of a vote
• This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them?
• Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than covid-19 last winter
• A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
• Dubai and Riyadh are both riding property booms
• Against expectations, oil and gas remain cheap
• Ron DeSantis Is Just a Little Guy, Wants to 'Move On' from Disney Lawsuit
• The last, unfulfilled dream of Jamie Dimon, king of Wall Street
• Narendra Modi is rewriting Indian history
• How to Help and Donate to Wildfire Victims in Hawaii
• 'We were once paid $50 to quit': new wave heroes Devo on boos, Bowie and retiring after 50 years
• Mario Terán was the man sent to kill Che Guevara
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Artists hope to turn selfies into comets
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
• Who will be Iran's next leader?
• America and Iran try to step back from the brink over nukes
• Was COP26 in Glasgow a success?
• Beneath France's revolts, hidden success
• India, an aspiring digital superpower, keeps shutting down the internet
• Rioting in France presents a fresh political test for Emmanuel Macron
• Should we name heatwaves as we do other extreme weather events?
• Why Sequoia Capital is sawing off its Chinese branch
• Teens Hacked Boston Subway's CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time Nobody Got Sued
• Why We Drink What We Drink
• How housing became the new divide in British politics
• Sudan is sliding towards civil war
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• Italy's new government needs to make deep economic reforms
• Grimes on Living Forever, Dying on Mars, and Giving Elon Musk Ideas for His Best (Worst) Tweets
• China Torpedoes Intel's Bid for Israeli Chip Maker
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• Asia is rowing about Fukushima nuclear wastewater
• To understand Xi Jinping, it helps to be steeped in the classics
• An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is 'Trivially' Easy to Bypass
• Extreme Heat Can Ruin Your Road Trip. Here's How to Prepare
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It's Not Dead Yet
• Mexico's gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
• An "electoral reform" in Mexico will make elections less safe
• The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom
• American stocks are at their most expensive in decades
• NATO did not give Volodymyr Zelensky everything he wanted
• Treasury Yield Hits 15-Year High
• Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• Richard Simpson strove to balance buyers against manufacturers
• America's courts weigh in on how firms resolve liability claims
• A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
• Lighthouse lights are losing their sweep
• F.W. de Klerk had to abandon what his ancestors had believed in
• How China's police are ensnaring thousands of suspects abroad
• Xsubfind3R - A CLI Utility To Find Domain'S Known Subdomains From Curated Passive Online Sources
• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
• British voters want more immigrants but less immigration
• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
• Who are the militias raiding Russia's Belgorod region?
• Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
• Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI)
• The Hollywood strikes reveal Los Angeles's deepest anxieties
• Swimming's ruling on transgender women continues a trend
• Cuba's Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• The best books of 2021
• President Erdogan wants to make nice with the West, on his terms
• Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
• Soaring temperatures and food prices threaten violent unrest
• Brighton thrash sorry Wolves with second-half blitz led by Solly March
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
• AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can't Even Imagine
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• Western firms are becoming interested in a Soviet medicine
• Sean Baker's films bring sex work into the light
• The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea
• Can British seaweed farms bloom?
• Threads Gets a Couple More Twitter-Like Features
• It turns out that Democrats bus migrants, too
• Whoever runs Britain will struggle to get tough on China
• Republicans intensify their assault on city governments
• America's new embassy in Beirut is vast
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president, wants to smother the gig economy
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Politics
• What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Rule by law, with Chinese characteristics
• Indiana Jones and the fedora boom
• This Week in Books: A Novel That Sees Through Self-Delusion
• Are cities in Asia becoming better places to live?
• In North Carolina a jilted husband can sue his wife's lover
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• European politics has gone from complicated to impenetrable
• This Tomato Sauce Is Delicious. It's Also Worth Billions of Dollars.
• How a Firefly Course Is Saving Japan's Favorite Glowing Insect
• Ireland v England: Rugby World Cup warm-up international – live
• Copper is unexpectedly getting cheaper
• Visualising India's record-breaking rainfall
• Columbia University ditches the college-ranking system
• "Scaling People" is a textbook piece of management writing
• Zepotha is huge on TikTok, but it's no Goncharov
• How high should Britain's interest rates go?
• Barbie vs. The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is a Perfect 2023 Hollywood Microcosm
• South Korea has America in its face and China breathing down its neck
• China's new GDP figures may restore faith in its economy
• Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms
• Cities Aren't Supposed to Burn Like This Anymore—Especially Lahaina
• Grandes marques: a house in Champagne country that's full of sparkle
• Turkish property prices are soaring
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• Conservatives dominate Chile's constitutional assembly this time around
• Britain's green belt is choking the economy
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's other great migration
• How grassroots schemes are helping England's non-white cricketers
• Why are the Republican candidates meeting in Milwaukee? No, it's not for the beer
• From wild swimming to grouse shooting, Britain is in hock to hobbyists
• Viral Makeup Company's Valuation Looks Oddly High
• Could the 14th Amendment fix America's debt-ceiling debacle?
• Scottish roundup: Danilo saves Rangers' blushes in win over Morton
• After 12 years of blood, Assad's Syria rejoins the Arab League
• On defence, America and India edge closer together
• A renewed push on Bakhmut fuels rumours of a Ukrainian counter-offensive
• Why Cape Town beats Johannesburg
• Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
• Parts of Colombia are now awash with cocaine
• Satellite data show Ukraine's forces are testing Russia's defences
• KAL's cartoon
• Narendra Modi is the world's most popular leader
• Business
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
• In the Dreams Favela, Wi-Fi and Ecommerce Promise a Better Future
• Why Didn't Hawaii Evacuate Sooner During the Fires?
• 'Our own little congregation': the people of London's soon-to-close Smithfield market
• Women take over France's powerful trade unions
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• The potential and the plight of the middle manager
• One Canadian province has decriminalised drugs
• The Maui Fires Are Messing With Hawaii's Prized Coral Reefs
• Tory fury as ministers axe key levelling up pledge on Northern civil service jobs
• American states are bailing out public transport
• KAL's cartoon
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Get Ready for a Weaker Yuan
• Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy
• Warning of 'catastrophic flooding' as Hurricane Hilary nears Mexico and California
• Best of 2023… so far: The trials of an Indian witness: how a Muslim man was caught in a legal nightmare – podcast
• Vladimir Putin has rallied the West
• Sir Keir Starmer's magic lamp
• KAL's cartoon
• Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
• Crazy policies and climate change are hurting Latin American agriculture
• Hip-hop's 50th anniversary shines a light on its New York City birth
• Could Ukraine's allies be sending it more weapons?
• Much of the Earth remains unexplored
• Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Pill, pending Appeal
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• IMDShift - Automates Migration Process Of Workloads To IMDSv2 To Avoid SSRF Attacks
• South Korea's government and business are over-close
• Mexico's government has attacked the country's electoral watchdog
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• Are heatwaves evidence that climate change is speeding up?
• Five years on, is Britain's strategy to combat loneliness working?
• Mosquitoes, wasps and parasitic worms could help make injections less painful
• China's new Great Wall
• Truss Tour: 2023
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• AiCEF - An AI-assisted cyber exercise content generation framework using named entity recognition
• Renovation required
• Can Xi Jinping control AI without crushing it?
• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
• The Allman Brothers Band's 'Brothers and Sisters' Turns 50
• Who are Russia's supporters?
• Zimbabwe wants to come in from the cold
• Britain's Public Order Act goes too far
• Japan's porn industry comes out of the shadows
• Meme stocks are back from the dead
• The Misguided Debate Over 'Rich Men North of Richmond'
• In His Latest Threat to Public Safety, Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Remove Option to Block Users
• First Republic fails, and is snapped up by JPMorgan Chase
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• Adding up the fiscal drag from ageing, energy and defence
• A retiring consultant's advice on consultants
• How to bring scents to the metaverse
• More evidence that animals reduce childhood allergies
• As net retention plummets, AI could be the savior software companies need
• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
• South Korean literature is inspiring Japanese women
• The energy transition will be expensive
• The First Reactions to Star Wars: Ahsoka Are Here
• The Biden administration embraces place-based industrial policy
• Charles McGee faced adversity at home as much as abroad
• Dell Inspiron 14 2-in-1 Review: Student-Friendly Budget Hybrid
• How X Is Suing Its Way Out of Accountability
• Niger coup: why do so many want France out and Russia in? – video explainer
• How far will Wall Street job losses go?
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• Should women's football have different rules from men's?
• Laptop Buying Guide (2023): How to Choose the Right PC (Step-by-Step Guide)
• Abe Shinzo believed that Japan should assert itself in the world
• Twitch Will Finally Let You Ban Users From Your Streams
• How much trouble is China's economy in?
• Saotome Katsumoto insisted that Japan should not forget
• Data on air bases suggest a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may not be imminent
• Turkey's bizarre economic experiment enters a new phase
• Britons turn into Borat when it comes to health, housing and avocados
• KAL's cartoon
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• 'I'm heartbroken': residents and tourists mourn the destruction of Lahaina
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• Why employee loyalty can be overrated
• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• What's an Influencer? The Complete WIRED Guide
• The future of fish farming is on land
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• 'Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak' will be free on the Epic Games Store this month
• China's cancel culture is nationalist, not woke
• Anoint my caverns with oil
• India's foreign minister on ties with America, China and Russia
• Maui's Fire Risk Was Glowing Red
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• The state of democracy in Africa and the Middle East
• Is Narendra Modi turning Bollywood against Muslims?
• The Score: U.S. Steel, Hawaiian Electric, Target and More Stocks That Defined the Week
• The 45 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now
• Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
• How to make Britain's AI dreams reality
• In its tech war with America, China brings out the big guns
• Influencers Balk at Amazon's Absurd Offer to Pay $25 Per Sponsored Video
• Why Britain is updating its laws on surrogacy and gamete donation
• How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?
• Business
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them?
• Lula's foreign-policy ambitions will be tempered by circumstances
• Jacqueline Gold freed women to shamelessly enjoy themselves
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
• The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown
• Cambodia is about to host arguably the world's biggest sporting event
• KAL's cartoon
• A big advance in mapping the structure of the brain
• Why Nigeria's hospitals are losing their staff
• Tesla's surprising new route to EV domination
• Xi Jinping's revealing response to floods and heatwaves
• Disney+'s Percy Jackson Show Gets a Release Date and Teaser
• Fusion power is coming back into fashion
• Jonathan Coe: 'People say, where's the anger? It's still there'
• Doctor Walmart will see you now
• Mexico could elect its first female president next year
• In Xi Jinping's China, central planners rule
• Dismay and violence after a police killing in France
• Why Ukraine needs American cluster bombs
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukraine's Danube ports have become a lifeline
• Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space
• London's latest effort to clear bad air is contested but necessary
• What if China and India became friends?
• Your employer is (probably) unprepared for artificial intelligence
• The burning of the banlieues
• China's huge Asian investments fail to buy it soft power
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is making mixed progress
• Tiny hitchhikers on viruses could promote resistance to antibiotics
• Javier Milei, an Argentine libertarian, is rising in the polls
• Ben Wallace says he is out of the race for NATO's top job
• Why China wants to be a risk
• An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• Can computing clean up its act?
• Scientists lament Southern Ocean 'data desert', just as climate crisis brings frightening changes
• How to Survive a Devastating Earthquake—and Firestorm
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• The Grand Canyon Is Getting Even Hotter and More Dangerous
• pyFUD - Multi Clients FUD Reverse Shell
• How to prevent sycophancy in China's civil service
• How Mexico has become the "enemy" of America's Republicans
• The rise and rise of e-sports
• When the Student Loan Pause Ends, Almost Half of Borrowers Expect to Miss Payments - CNET
• China, U.S. Test Intelligent-Drone Swarms in Race for Military AI Dominance
• Only politics, not the law, can stop Donald Trump
• The Race to Save Yellowknife From Raging Wildfires
• Meet America's disguised property investors
• Michel Roux Jr to close Le Gavroche restaurant for 'better work-life balance'
• America is less dominant in defence spending than you might think
• It doesn't take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry
• Are video games really addictive?
• Do Britons even like the royal family?
• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
• The Palestinian Authority is being eclipsed by radical militants
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• The best memes of 2021
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• How real is America's chipmaking renaissance?
• Sunday brunch is the new Friday night
• The World Isn't Ready for the Next Decade of AI
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• Meet the Psychedelic Boom's First Responders
• A Canadian lake could mark the start of humanity's geological epoch
• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• Car Thieves Can Hack into Today's Computerized Vehicles
• An unlikely tech cluster exemplifies China's economic vision
• Evidence is growing that playing contact sports can lead to long-term brain injuries
• A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
• The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The speech police are coming for social media
• Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga: 'People should not feel they are on the brink of extinction'
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• The Real Reason Steph Curry Is So Damn Good
• How to Export All Your Photos and Videos Out of Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Messenger
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Phyllida Barlow had a lifetime of adventure making art
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• Delta Goodrem looks back: 'I couldn't speak a word, let alone sing, and I had to learn how to talk from scratch'
• Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution
• Issey Miyake saw clothes in a completely new way
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• A biographer explores Greta Garbo's glamour and vacuity
• Making Sense of Donald Trump's 91 Felony Charges
• NATO is drafting new plans to defend Europe
• This Psychologist Wants To Vaccinate You Against Fake News
• America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies
• Labour makes striking gains in the heartland of Brexit
• A cartography of human histology is in the making
• Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
• How much is a human head?
• One year after Dobbs, America's pro-life movement is in flux
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• To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test
• Legacy for You, but Not for Me
• Uber's CEO Says He'll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks
• Britons love country fairs. Why?
• There's more than one way to spay a cat
• The world is in the grip of a manufacturing delusion
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
• Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
• American exceptionalism exists, but other countries also have problems
• A step towards a contraceptive pill for men?
• To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test
• A year of war in Ukraine, in maps
• A new book explains the tragic failure of Boeing's 737 MAX
• A new study of studies reignites controversy over mask mandates
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• What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
• How Donald Trump's trials and the Republican primary will intersect
• Venezuela's autocrat launches a massive corruption probe
• Women's football is becoming bigger and better
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• Britain is falling behind in clinical trials of medicines
• Still in the game: The rapid rise of walking football – in pictures
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
• The Taliban embrace cultural heritage
• Will Xi Jinping outsmart Emmanuel Macron?
• Why Republicans Would Welcome a Biden Challenger
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• Brazil's new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• The Americas face a historic opportunity. Will the region grasp it?
• How to predict record-shattering weather events
• Middle-class Sri Lankans are fleeing their country
• How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books
• The American left and right loathe each other and agree on a lot
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• The PGA agrees to team up with its golfing arch-enemy
• Surging stockmarkets are powered by artificial intelligence
• Microsoft is holding a 'special event' on September 21st
• South Korea has given up on talking to the North
• HHS Launches 'Digiheals' Project to Better Protect US Hospitals From Ransomware
• Best Noise-Canceling Headphones Under $100 for 2023 - CNET
• SoftBank deal with Vision Fund values Arm at $64bn ahead of IPO
• Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us
• Germany's new strategy for dealings with China
• Brazil's new president faces a fiscal crunch and a fickle Congress
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• For Western democracies, the price of avoiding a clash with China is rising
• Mortgage Rates Hit 7.09%, Highest in More Than 20 Years
• England's Lionesses reach the World Cup final
• How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
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• There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
• Russia and Iran are upgrading their transport links
• Corals are bleaching and dying earlier in the year than ever before
• America is courting India in part for its growing economic clout
• Why are more British adults still living with their parents?
• The 17 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now
• War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten
• Australia and Canada are one economy—with one set of flaws
• Narendra Modi's yoga evangelism
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• Mukesh Ambani returns to the spotlight
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Africa is poised to become a big player in energy markets
• Germany's new national security strategy is strong on goals, less so on means
• Scientists want to fix tooth decay with stem cells
• The South is fast becoming America's industrial heartland
• The United States says corruption in Paraguay starts at the top
• Investors brace for a painful crash into America's debt ceiling
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• The fading charms of Britain's historic cinemas
• Uber and Lyft Could Leave Minneapolis Over $0.51
• Anti-Piracy Group Takes Massive AI Training Dataset 'Books3′ Offline
• The race to be Latin America's next top development banker
• Killing the Skydancer: episode three, An Open Secret – podcast
• Boris Johnson strikes again
• Chief executives cannot shut up about AI
• The Anglophone military alliance in Asia is seriously ambitious
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• 'Venba' Takes Me Back to My Roots Through Food and Family
• New forms of debt restructuring reward bad behaviour
• The invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war, but it is the most viral
• Uber and Lyft Drivers Have Some Advice for Autonomous Vehicles Set to Swarm the Streets
• David Bowie delved into his own past on "Toy"
• In China, Artists Create Miniature Homes From Memories
• Yurii Kerpatenko refused to bow to Russian orders
• Russian Strike on Ukrainian City Kills Seven, Injures More Than 100
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• A lot can be done to adapt farming to near-term climate change
• Scrapyards adopt new high-tech ways to dismantle cars
• How American universities will react as race-based admissions end
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
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• Meet America's most profitable law firm
• Outback Steakhouse Owner Draws Activist Investor
• Microsoft to Hold Special Event on Sept. 21 - CNET
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• Ukraine's counter-offensive appears to have begun
• How birth/rebirth Explores the Joys and Horrors of Motherhood
• Many Britons have changed their minds on gay marriage
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