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Image Source: Outlook India CNET, a technology news and reviews site owned by digital media and marketing firm Red Ventures, joined the media-industry layoff in March. According to a person familiar with the changes, CNET downsized its news and video workforce by around 50% on Thursday; sibling site ZDNet likewise reduced its editorial team by …

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Image Source: The New York Times For many generations, the Murdaugh family was in charge of a rural part of South Carolina. Alex Murdaugh was then accused of brutally killing his wife and son. What happened next was shocking: a life of power and privilege fell apart, exposing theft, drug use, and a failed plan …

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Image Source: Techloy Starting on Tuesday, the video app TikTok won’t work on any government-owned devices in Canada. The decision was made after Canada’s top IT official looked at the situation. A government representative said that the app “poses an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security.” A representative from TikTok said that the …

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Image Source: Yahoo Sports The end of the sophomore season of The White Lotus on HBO was as shocking as a whodunit could be. We still didn’t see it coming, though. Tanya, played by Jennifer Coolidge, falls off the side of a yacht and dies. The next day, Daphne (Meghann Fahy) finds her body in …

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Image Source: Bloomberg After British Steel said it would close its coking ovens in Scunthorpe and lay off up to 260 workers, unions were worried about the future of steelmaking in the UK. The company, which is owned by China, said that rising energy costs and stricter environmental rules were to blame. The biggest union …

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Image Source: Bloomberg US Vice President Joe Biden has chosen Ajay Banga, an Indian-American businessman, to lead the World Bank. More pressure is being put on the bank by the US to do more to fight climate change. Mr. Banga ran the credit card company Mastercard for more than a decade. He now works in …

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Image Source: Bloomberg For the first time in history, Australia has halted the construction of a coal mine due to environmental regulations. On Thursday, the government rejected a proposal for a new mine approximately 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the Great Barrier Reef. Tanya Plibersek, the project’s environmental manager, stated that the project needs to …

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Image Source: News7 Authorities in Western Australia announced they have found the small radioactive capsule that went missing last month. They said that the emergency services had found “the needle in the haystack.” A vast search began when the object got lost while moving across the state on a 1,400km (870 miles) route. Authorities released …

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Image Source: Business Journals After Russia invaded Ukraine, oil prices went up, giving ExxonMobil a record profit of $55.7 billion (£45.2 billion). The total was more than twice as high as in 2021. Since some countries, like the UK, put special taxes on profits last year, this is likely to put more pressure on the …

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Image Source: Toledo Blade The race to rid the world of carbon emissions has created a potential green trade war between the United States and the United Kingdom. When Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act was passed by the US Congress last summer, it was a good idea. The act included billions of dollars in subsidies …

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Image Source: PBS About 25 million people in California are under a flood warning this weekend as the latest in a series of storms that have killed people pours rain on the state. At least 19 people have died, and thousands more people have been told to leave their homes because of flooding. Residents of …

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Image Source: DW In connection with an ongoing corruption probe, the EU has declared that it will take steps to deprive two MEPs of their parliamentary immunity. Roberta Metsola, Parliamentary President, indicated that she made the decision in response to a request from Belgian police. Her statement, however, did not name the MEPs who were …

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Image Source: Bloomberg The prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, said that another €10 billion (£8.8 billion) would be given to help with rising prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He said that as the cost of living, energy, and food went up, the middle class and workers would be protected by the government. …

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Image Source: PYMNTS According to an internal report from the Chinese company, four ByteDance employees broke company policy by improperly accessing data on U.S. TikTok users, including two journalists, in order to find the source of information leaks. ByteDance said it fired all four of its employees in the United States and two of its …

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Image Source: Global Times Some U.S. lawmakers to call for a ban on the social media app TikTok, due to concerns about national security. The bill is the latest thing the U.S. government has done against the company owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance. Last month, the head of the FBI said he was …

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Image Source: Bloomberg On Thursday, the US Senate voted to pass a stopgap bill to keep the government from shutting down at the end of this week. Currently, funding is set to run out at midnight on Friday. There were 71 yes votes and 19 no votes. Now that it has passed the US Senate, …

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Image Source: Bloomberg Last month, job growth in the US remained strong, and wages sharply went up. This shows that the world’s largest economy still has a hard fight ahead of it as it tries to keep prices from increasing even more. From last year to this year, employers added 263,000 jobs, and the average …

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Image Source: PBS The US central bank Chief said that it might slow down on raising interest rates as soon as this month. After raising interest rates quickly earlier this year. Since June, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage points, which is a lot. They did this to stop inflation when …

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Image Source: Bloomberg Some controversial parts of the Online Safety Bill have been amended or outrightly removed. These parts would have forced big tech companies to remove legal but harmful content. People who didn’t like that part of the bill said it was bad for free speech. Michelle Donelan, who is in charge of culture, …

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Image Source: NPR Twitter has banned Kanye West once again because of offensive tweets, and this time he is being accused of “inciting violence.” His last ban was only two months ago. The US rapper, now Ye, sent out a bunch of strange tweets. One of them looked like it had a symbol that was …

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Image Source: Bloomberg Due to its inability to get enough computer chips for new cars, Jaguar Land Rover suspends production at its Solihull and Halewood factories until spring. Because of what happened, the company will make fewer Jaguar F-Pace and Land Rover Discovery Sport cars. The Guardian was the first to say that the move …

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Image Source: Bloomberg Videos circulating online show that there have been protests at the biggest iPhone factory in the world, which is in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. On videos, hundreds of workers marched, as people in hazmat suits and riot police accosted them. People who watched the protests on live streams said that police …

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Image Source:Bloomberg Kanye West has declared his intention to run for the office of the president of the United States in 2024. Even though his recent actions have led to several scandals. Kanye West, whose legal name is now Ye, posted a video of his campaign logo with the words “Ye 24” next to it …

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