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By James Pearson (Reuters) – The White House convened a meeting with representatives of Amazon.com (NASDAQ:), Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google, Microsoft (NASDAQ:), Cloudflare (NYSE:) and civil society activists on Thursday in a bid to encourage U.S. tech giants to offer more digital bandwidth for government-funded internet censorship evasion tools. The tools,…
Officials in China have been telling young people that spies or foreign powers could be out to trick them through casual activities like online dating and listening to pop music.National authorities raised these red flags at least twice recently, amid a wider push from leader Xi Jinping to bolster Chinese…
By Christopher Bing and Katie Paul (Reuters) – A Chinese social media influence operation is impersonating U.S. voters, denigrating U.S. politicians and pushing divisive messages ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election in the United States, new research by intelligence company Graphika showed. The campaign is part of a known…
Iconic 1990s band Oasis are back together and are set for a reunion tour in Ireland and the UK. The band behind “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” announced last week that they will perform 17 shows in total over the summer of 2025.Fans eagerly awaited tickets to be…
By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart (NYSE:)’s stake in Chinese e-commerce firm JD (NASDAQ:).com was once central to its China strategy. Now it is tearing up that playbook by unloading its entire $3.74 billion stake in one of China’s biggest online retailers, in another example of the volatile nature…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday left intact a key part of an injunction blocking a California law meant to shield children from online content that could harm them mentally or physically. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said NetChoice, a trade…
Ever since the FDA approved the prescription of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, it’s been hard to get hold of the real thing.Demand is so high for semaglutide, a GLP-1 sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, that it almost immediately went into shortage after it was FDA-approved for weight control…
The way we shop is in for a revolution.Instead of walking into a store, browsing a catalog, or scanning the web for your favorite brands, imagine being able to shop just like you’d identify a song with the music discovery app Shazam — on demand, whenever, and wherever you’re located.…
In the middle of the pandemic, my phone pinged with an email from InterNations, an expat group I had joined after spending time in Switzerland.My first thought was, “Oh great, here we go again, another man old enough to be my dad is contacting me.” I opened it anyway and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nicky Wake. It has been edited for length and clarity.Around a year after my husband, Andy, 57, died after having a heart attack that led to catastrophic brain injuries, I dabbled in online dating.There were false starts in the form of…
