Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Xbox has reportedly started suspending players who run emulators in retail mode - Wrong community every! Being deleted! (www.videogameschronicle.com)
India, Manipur genocide : ‘The next Kashmir’; On Manipur ground zero, ‘rising’ bullet prices, armed youth at police bunkers (www.newslaundry.com)
Self-proclaimed ‘village volunteers’ are armed with weapons sourced from the black market and looted from police armouries.
How China’s gallium and germanium bans will play out (asiatimes.com)
India, Japan look to collaborate in building semiconductors and resilient supply chains (japantoday.com)
who had this on ukraine war bingo? (sopuli.xyz)
Chinese foreign minister’s mysterious fall from grace: Qin Gang, China’s ousted top diplomat, has not been seen in public for over a month (novayagazeta.eu)
On 25 July, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was removed from his position and replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi. No official reason is provided by Chinese authorities for the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress’s decision to replace Qin following his vague, “health-related” absence from his official...
AMD plans to invest $400 million in India by 2028 (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/803087...
Why Chatbots Fail to Replace Human Interaction (lucas-mcgregor.medium.com)
Large language models like ChatGPT are reviving interest in chatbots and virtual assistants. However, chatbots have failed to gain traction in the past during the rise of both websites and apps. The key issue is that users prefer to interact with their personal virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, rather than individual...
Mali drops French from official to working language, 13 local languages get official status (mobile.ghanaweb.com)
Practical matters require French to remain a working language, but no longer will it hold prestige as an official means of communication. Another win for the continued decolonization efforts in the imperial periphery.
African Union calls on Russia to reinstate Ukrainian grain deal (www.politico.eu)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/791944...
Niger coup: Ruling party HQ attacked after President Bazoum ousted (www.bbc.co.uk)
This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation (www.technologyreview.com)
The Ready Room: "Under the Cloak of War" (Babs Olusanmokun and Melissa Navia interview) (startrek.com)
Elden Ring Tarot - V - The Hierophant (beehaw.org)
Miriel is known as the Pastor of Vows and is a canine of great honor, wisdom, and renown. In his role as Pastor, he brought the union of the Carian royalty and the hero Radagon to fruition and brought peace, however temporarily, to the Lands Between. After all, heresy is not native to the world; it is but a contrivance. All...
Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset (backed by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom) (overturemaps.org)
The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF) is a collaborative effort by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom “to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products”. This is their first open map dataset.
Cigna health giant accused of improperly rejecting thousands of patient claims using an algorithm (www.witn.com)
Health insurance really is just another grift.
Greece fires: Drone shows fire-ravaged Rhodes (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/732469...
Israel's parliament greenlights controversial judicial reform amid raging protests (www.euronews.com)
The UPS showdown: What to expect from a strike (therealnews.com)
First Size-Adjustable Single-Leg Exoskeleton For Children With Cerebral Palsy - Nerdyinfo (nerdyinfo.com)
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise... (chat.openai.com)
Electric Vehicles (UK/Europe) (feddit.uk)
A place to discuss EVs and charging networks, specifically UK but wider European discussion and news is great too....
Know Your Vulcans (sh.itjust.works)
China solar power capacity could post record growth in 2023 (www.reuters.com)
