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Chinamaxxing: A TikTok trend captures Chinas soft power sparkle
It was hard to miss: glitzy skyscrapers, a sprawling high-speed rail network, highways packed with electric vehicles, and a boom in green energy, robotics and artificial intelligence. Chongqing – a humid southwestern metropolis which once made global headlines for a corruption scandal and murder – turned popular and cool.
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Moment crew docks at International Space Station
Four astronauts have docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after blasting off from Earth on Friday. The crew will spend eight months aboard the ISS after replacing a team that evacuated last month due to a medical emergency. On board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft travelling to the ISS were two Nasa astronauts from the…
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US-Iran talks to be held in Geneva next week, hosted by Oman
Switzerland said on Saturday that Oman would host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next week, with Washington pushing Tehran to make a deal to limit its nuclear programme. “Switzerland stands ready at all times to offer its good offices to facilitate dialogue between the United States and Iran,” a Swiss foreign…
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Laurens weekend preview: Ronaldos return, Inter-Juve in Serie A
Every Friday, I pick for you the best or most exciting games not to be missed in the world of football each weekend. From derbies to top of the table clashes, relegation six-pointers to world class players facing each other or other interesting tactical battles, there will be something for everyone to enjoy. This week,…
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Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts | TechCrunch
The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of social media accounts that criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to The New York Times. This echoes other recent reporting, with Bloomberg pointing to five cases in which Homeland Security sought to identify the owners of anonymous…
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Designer Kate Barton teams up with IBM and Fiducia AI for a NYFW presentation | TechCrunch
On Saturday, designer Kate Barton will unveil her latest collection at New York Fashion Week — with a twist, of course. Barton teamed up with Fiducia AI to create a multilingual AI agent (built with IBM watsonx on IBM Cloud) to help guests identify pieces of the collection and try them on virtually. TechCrunch caught…
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Turn your doodles into video clips in minutes with this new AI tool – heres how
AI transformed doodles of birds into scary winged creatures. Webb Wright/ZDNET/via Runway AI Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways A new feature from Runway lets you generate video from doodles. It’s impressive, but it performs best with some careful hand-holding. Access requires paying for (at least) a Standard Runway account….
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How will Takaichi navigate between right-wing ideals and reality?
In her short term as prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has shown that she has the same kind of reality distortion field that other singular political talents have. Her status as Japan’s first female prime minister, her middle-class (read: non-hereditary) background and her blunt, earnest manner have inspired a well-documented frenzy,Sanakatsu, akin to the parasocial attachment…
