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Is this the sketchiest VPN of 2024?

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There are a lot of scam VPNs out there, so I’m naturally suspicious when I’m reviewing a new VPN I haven’t seen before. I try to keep an open mind, but usually it becomes very evident we’re dealing with a scam provider pretty quickly.…
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Tech Fails, Wins, and WTFs of the week: Buggy Apps, Trillion Dollar Chips, AI DJs and more

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Ever feel like you’re drowning in breaking news, yet some good stuff always seems to slip through the cracks? Fear not, weary news consumer! This is your weekly escape hatch, your portal to the under-the-radar stories that deserve a moment in the spotl…

Amazon is worried about upstarts like Temu and Shein. Here’s how it’s confronting them.

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Amazon’s (AMZN) dominance in e-commerce makes any potential threat hard to take seriously. On the surface anyway. But the staggering growth of direct shippers like Temu and Shein, though puny in comparison, has grabbed the attention of the people who r…

Amazon is worried about upstarts like Temu and Shein. Here’s how it’s confronting them.

By ChinaPulse.com

Amazon’s (AMZN) dominance in e-commerce makes any potential threat hard to take seriously. On the surface anyway. But the staggering growth of direct shippers like Temu and Shein, though puny in comparison, has grabbed the attention of the people who r…

Fifty years after his defection, we’re still living in the age of Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Open this photo in gallery: Mikhail Baryshnikov rehearses with the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto, September, 1975, a year after defecting from the Soviet Union.Christopher Darling
John Fraser is a former dance and theatre critic for The Globe an…

and that would bring dire consequences for Ireland – The Irish Times

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Donald Trump’s last term as US president did not cause as much economic disruption as many had anticipated. A second threatens to be very different. Photograph: Kenny Holston/The New York Times
Joe Biden’s bumbling debate performance has thrown t…

Free speech and digital rights groups argue TikTok law would infringe on the First Amendment

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FILE – The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. The Federal Trade Commission has referred a complaint against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, to the Department of Justice….

SpaceX prepping tender offer at record $210B valuation: report

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Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch a tender offer that would reportedly value the space exploration firm at a whopping $210 billion — a record for a privately held US company.…
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Biden v Trump: What to know ahead of tonight’s debate

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WILL THESE TWO old dogs have any new tricks? Or will we get a repeat of the chaotic debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden that US voters were treated to last time the two men faced off?…
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Deepfakes pose a particular threat, but they are not as dangerous as you think

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One of our shoutiest moral panics these days is the fear that artificial intelligence-enabled deepfakes will degrade democracy. Half of the world’s population are voting in 70 countries this year. Some 1,500 experts polled by the World Economic Forum i…