Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former president Donald Trump if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company. Musk, speaking virtually at a Future of the Car summit hosted by the Financial Times, said Twitter’s Trump ban was a …
Read More »US immigration agency operates vast surveillance dragnet, study finds
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has built a vast digital surveillance system that gives it access to the personal details of almost every person in America, a two-year investigation by Georgetown University law center has found. Researchers from the Center on Privacy & Technology on Tuesday released one of …
Read More »RBC and CIBC join banking group helping to finance Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter
Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce are lining up behind Elon Musk’s US$44-billion takeover of Twitter Inc., with the two Canadian banks putting US$1.15-billion into the lowest-risk loan to the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer. Mr. Musk announced a deal to buy social-media platform Twitter on …
Read More »Xi’s Finance Crackdown Grows as More Than 40 Officials Ensnared – BNN Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) — President Xi Jinping’s corruption crackdown on the nation’s sprawling financial sector is accelerating, reaching the upper levels at some of China’s premier institutions and further unnerving investors having to contend with mounting headwinds for the world’s second-largest economy. At least 16 officials, including former …
Read More »Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine
Placeholder while article actions load On March 8, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, …
Read More »Will mRNA Technology Companies Spawn Innovation Ecosystems?
Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which continues to play a key role in the ongoing fight against Covid-19, represents one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of our time. The widespread effectiveness of mRNA-based vaccines has attracted considerable attention to the prospect of mRNA technology serving as a platform that can …
Read More »‘That’s it? It’s over? I was 30. What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on
In her classic memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, Viv Albertine recounts not only the time she spent as a punk during the 1970s in her pioneering band the Slits, but also documents her life after the band had ended. This is unusual. Most music books …
Read More »Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis
We used to eat so many different varieties of corn Maize or corn is now grown in greater volume than any crop in history, and is still the staple food for about 1.2 billion people in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. A farmer in spreads recently harvested maize …
Read More »This is as good as movies are going to get
Are you one of the people who hates Hollywood because Hollywood only serves up superhero movies and sequels … most of which are sequels to superhero movies? Well, here’s some encouraging news: Two of the highest-grossing movies of 2022 are romantic comedies: The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing …
Read More »Samsung Electronics Launches New Bespoke French Door Refrigerator, Bringing Personalization and Convenience to More Kitchens
The new Bespoke French Door Refrigerator combines a customizable design with space and food-saving features, and ensures that there is a Bespoke fridge to suit every family’s needs Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. recently announced the global launch of the Bespoke French Door Refrigerator, which will be available in …
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