China makes a big bet on electric vehicles with Brazil investment (www.aljazeera.com)
Sao Paulo, Brazil – Stella Li stood in front of a packed stage, banging a brightly decorated drum to a samba-reggae rhythm....
For the fox it was yesyesyesyesno (imgur.com)
Senior doctors in England stage rare walk out over pay, placing ‘routine care virtually at a standstill’ (www.scmp.com)
Two-day strike by consultants comes amid record waiting times due to a pandemic backlog and multiple strikes over the past year as workers battle a cost of living crisis, Transport workers are due to strike at the same time as the consultants with staff at 14 train operators walking out on Thursday, Saturday and on July 29....
Opinion | How a song threatens the Chinese Communist Party’s grip (wapo.st)
No, Threads didn't rate limit like Twitter. Here's what Meta did. (mashable.com)
Threads recently announced that they would be introducing tighter rate limits to combat spam on their new social media platform. This led many to compare it to Twitter’s controversial rate limiting that restricted how many tweets users could view. However, Threads’ rate limits are unlikely to significantly impact users as...
Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now (www.theverge.com)
The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall....
Classified documents have been exposed:US Intelligence conduct infiltration activities disguised as Mormons? (lemm.ee)
How to make America great again? The preference goes to supporting a religion that has the most rapists. Awesome!...
Afghanistan: Women protest against beauty salon closures (www.bbc.co.uk)
UN Human Rights Expert Calls for Immediate Close of Xinjiang Muslim Detention and Torture Facility (wapnews.org)
Kenya braces for 3 days of anti-gov’t protests: All the details (www.aljazeera.com)
‘There is always risk’: The Zimbabwean de-miner in South Sudan (www.aljazeera.com)
It's a journey to the center of the rare earths discovered in Sweden (www.npr.org)
KIRUNA, Sweden — There are a number of sensations you experience as you make the 30-minute descent by pickup truck into the main tunnel of the LKAB iron ore mine in Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost city. Your skin becomes noticeably drier, your ears pop and it’s hard to shake a feeling of isolation as the truck twists and...
France to raise regulated household electricity prices by 10% from August (ghostarchive.org)
PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - The French government has decided to raise regulated household electricity prices by 10% starting from August, a government official said on Tuesday, confirming a report from newspaper Les Echos....
12 killed in a suspected rebel attack in the northeast of Congo, a civil society organizations says (abcnews.go.com)
Exploring the ingenious science and science fiction of making things invisible (arstechnica.com)
AT&T and Verizon’s ancient lead cables have US lawmakers demanding action (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/104472...
Tunisia and EU finalise deal on migration (www.aljazeera.com)
The European Union and Tunisia have signed a memorandum of understanding for a “strategic and comprehensive partnership” aimed at combatting irregular migration and boosting economic ties between the bloc and the North African country, which lies on a major route for migrants and refugees travelling to Europe....
The NES at 40: Seven ways it changed the gaming world forever (archive.is)
Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow is negative due to ad revenue declines, ‘heavy debt’ (www.cnbc.com)
Bishop Expresses ‘Moral Concern’ Over U.S. Provision of Cluster Munitions to Ukraine (www.ncregister.com)
Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza: 9 years of terror & impunity (www.newarab.com)
Chip wars: The escalating battle between EU, US, and China for tech supremacy (thenextweb.com)
Signs of an escalating chip trade war were evident already in October last year. Now, a set of new strategic measures have further ignited the conflict, raising fears over the stability of the global supply chain, and even threatening to derail the EU’s green transition.
Google Play changes policy toward blockchain-based apps, opening door to tokenized digital assets, NFTs (techcrunch.com)
Be wary of scams as Amazon Prime Day kicks off, experts warn (apnews.com)
Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads, media researcher says (web.archive.org)
In the last year, Meta, along with other major social media platforms, has noticeably deprioritized its content moderation and user safety practices, the research organization Media Matters says. Instagram specifically has a long history of allowing hate speech and misinformation to prosper on the app, including permitting...