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Swimming in the president’s pool – palaces and power in times of crisis

Footage flashed across television and smartphone screens this week showing rowdy crowds of Sri Lankan protesters mobbing the official presidential palace in Colombo.

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Here's How Alibaba Looks To Aid In Digital Transformation Of Enterprises

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) created a new subsidiary, Lingyang Intelligent Service Co, to help companies in their digital transformation, the SCMP reports. It reflects Alibaba's effort to engage new market segments and industries as domestic online retail competition amplified amid weak consumer spending and economic slowdown. The move shortly follows Chair and…

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How does the cockpit pecking order impact decision-making during the final approach?

Deciding whether to land or to make a go-around is one of the most important and hazardous operations involved in flying. In fact, the vast majority of accidents in the past 20 years have occurred during the final approach or landing phases. While these are not the deadliest accidents (accounting for…

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You've seen the Stranger Things version, but what went on at the infamous historical Hellfire Club?

Stranger Thing's Hellfire Club is mainly made up of the school's "losers" and outcasts — but the original 18th century version was much more racy, writes Esmé Louise James.

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Clothes-eating moths: where they come from, identifying them and how to get rid of them – for good

It’s moth season, and they’re wreaking havoc on our woollen jumpers and furniture. Here’s how to get rid of them — once and for all.

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Meet 5 remarkably old animals, from a Greenland shark to a featherless, seafaring cockatoo

Some animals can live to a startlingly old age, from the famous 392-year-old “Greenland shark” to a 190-year-old tortoise in the Seychelles. Two science studies published last week brings us closer to understanding why some animal species can live for so long – far longer than humans.

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Meta Abruptly Ends Sponsorship Of US Event Struck With Controversy

Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:META) terminated its sponsorship agreement with the organization planning the federal government’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reports. Meta did not disclose the reasons for the pullout. Internal battle and a discrimination lawsuit filed by ex-female executives plagued the project, WSJ wrote.…

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Google agrees to pay for beefed-up Wikipedia service

San Francisco (AFP) - Google has agreed to pay for ramped-up Wikipedia services, part of a growing trend for the US tech giant to strike commercial deals with other web companies.

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Moral ambiguity and the representation of genocide – is there a limit to what can be depicted?

On January 10 2022, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus from the school’s curriculum, and ban it. The board cited concerns about nudity and profanity, implicitly raising broader questions about the book’s depiction of violence.

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Galleries continue to erase women artists in their blockbuster exhibitions

The National Gallery recently announced its summer 2023 exhibition, After Impressionism, claiming the show will celebrate the “towering achievements of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaugin and Rodin” among others. The response on social media to this announcement was largely, “where are the women?”

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'The Red Witch': how communist writer, intellectual and activist Katharine Susannah Prichard helped shape Australia

Nathan Hobby’s The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard takes on the challenging task of sorting out the complicated details of Prichard’s life as a child, sibling, governess, teacher, friend, lover, wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, traveller, celebrity, journalist, poet, novelist, short-story writer, social activist, public speaker and communist.

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JP Morgan Sees Buying Opportunities In Alibaba And Other Chinese Stocks Citing These Reasons

The 2021's deep selloff in Chinese stocks could finally be on the verge of a turnaround, Bloomberg quoted JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) strategist Marko Kolanovic. Kolanovic expected the Chinese equities to have reached their turning point with ease in lockdowns, continued growth support measures, and possible relaxation in the regulatory crackdown.…

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Lamborghini Sees E-Fuel Super Cars In Its Range Beyond 2030: Reuters

Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Lamborghini, part of Volkswagen AG (OTC:VWAGY), is preparing to have at least two supercars powered by e-fuels in its range beyond 2030, Reuters reported. In a newspaper interview, Chief Executive Officer Stephan Winkelmann said the company plans to convert its entire fleet to a hybrid between 2023 and…

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Washington Attorney General Indicts Meta's Mark Zuckerberg For Alleged Role In Cambridge Analytica Scandal

The attorney general for Washington, D.C., charged Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly participating in decision-making that led to the Cambridge Analytica data breach, the Wall Street Journal reports. The evidence shows Zuckerberg was personally involved in Facebook’s failure to protect the privacy and data of its users leading…

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Meta Looks To Cutback In Reality Labs In Its Quest For Metaverse

Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is preparing cutbacks in its Reality Labs division to refocus on hardware products and the "metaverse," Reuters reports. Meta was not planning layoffs as part of the changes. The division could not afford to do some projects anymore and postponed others. According to Reuters, Reality Labs lost…

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T-Mobile US Shares Gain On Q1 Performance; Boosting Sprint Merger Synergies Outlook

T-Mobile US, Inc (NASDAQ:TMUS) reported first-quarter FY22 revenue growth of 1.8% year-on-year to $20.12 billion, beating the consensus of $20.11 billion. EPS of $0.57 beat the consensus of $0.32. Service revenues of $15.1 billion grew 7% Y/Y, including Postpaid service revenue growth of 9%. T-Mobile added 348 thousand postpaid net accounts and 1.3…

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Here's Why Meta Investors Remain Divided Over Board Member Election

A group of shareholders urged Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) shareholders to vote against the re-election of two board members, Marc Andreessen and Peggy Alford. PayPal Holdings Inc's (NASDAQ:PYPL) Peggy Alford joined the Facebook parent's board in 2019, whereas venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has served on the company's board since June 2008, Reuters reports. "We…

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Wikimedia editors vote to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

They accounted for just .08 percent of the Wikimedia Foundation's revenue.

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Friday essay: empathy or division? On the science and politics of storytelling

Writers can’t always be trusted when they talk about the power and importance of story. We have a vested interest and can get sentimental, promoting the immense power of story, of narrative, as inherently benign.

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If animals could speak, would we understand them?

Turin, once briefly the capital of Italy, is famous today for its coffee, delectable hazelnut chocolate, Fiat cars, Juventus FC and the architectural wonder, the Mole Antonelliana. It also happens to be the city of a reportedly epiphanic moment in the life of multi-faceted German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Ibogaine Blocks Alcohol's Rewarding Effects On Mice, Recent Study Finds

According to a recent study published in the Frontiers in Psychopharmacology journal, the psychoactive substance ibogaine could block some addiction-related effects of alcohol. The study analyzed the effects of ibogaine in mice through the model of addiction known as “conditioned place preference” (CPP), which measures the tendency for animals to spend…

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GM Keeps Up Production In China By Retaining Workers In Factory: Reuters

General Motors Company’s (NYSE:GM) joint venture in Shanghai, China, is continuing production amid lockdown by making workers sleep on factory floors, Reuters reported. The company has formed an arrangement in which workers sleep, live, and work in isolation from the rest of the world to prevent virus transmission. General Motors runs the facilities…

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Domino's Pizza China Operator Eyes Hong Kong Listing: CNBC

Domino’s Pizza Inc’s (NYSE:DPZ) store operator in China, DPC Dash, is planning to go public on the Hong Kong stock exchange, CNBC reported. Domino’s Pizza has a 15.7% stake in DPC as of the filing date through wholly-owned entities, the report added. Bank of America Securities is the sole sponsor of the listing, the…

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Read Why Morgan Stanley Upgraded Bank Of America

Morgan Stanley analyst Betsy Graseck upgraded Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) to Equal Weight from Underweight with a price target of $49, down from $51. The price target implied an upside of 13.7%. Graseck downgraded the U.S. banks and consumer finance sector to In-Line from Attractive, saying "war changes everything." Graseck upgraded Bank of…

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Bias, politics and protests: how human laws constrain and sometimes liberate animals

Guilty Pigs traverses the world of nonhuman animals – and their human owners, guardians, and policy makers – as they brush up against the law in a myriad diverse ways. The book is not jurisdictionally specific, nor is it temporally bound. It is startling in its breadth.

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