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Yellen says she’s ‘involved’ about China’s new export controls in her first public remarks in Beijing

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (R) shakes arms with U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns (L) on her arrival in Beijing on July 6, 2023, as Yang Yingming, Director Normal of the Division of Worldwide Financial Relations of China’s Ministry of Finance, appears on. Mark Schiefelbein | Afp | Getty Pictures BEIJING — U.S. Treasury … Read more

Google adjusts privateness coverage permitting use of public knowledge for AI coaching

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Google can now use public knowledge to assist practice and create AI merchandise, in keeping with new privateness coverage adjustments(opens in a brand new tab). As of July 1, the tech large’s newly adjusted coverage(opens in a brand new tab) reads: “Google makes use of data to enhance our providers and to develop new merchandise, … Read more

How activists in Lebanon are preventing to reclaim public areas

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Touch upon this storyComment BEIRUT — To get to a park in Karantina, an impoverished neighborhood close to this metropolis’s blast-destroyed port, two youngsters on a current day needed to climb a utility pole and soar over a spiked iron fence as a result of the park, with timber and a jungle health club, is … Read more

Zoox begins testing robotaxis on public roads in Las Vegas

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Amazon subsidiary Zoox has begun testing its purpose-built, electrical, autonomous robotaxis on public streets in Las Vegas, the corporate introduced Tuesday. Zoox says this marks the primary time that an autonomous automobile constructed with out pedals or a steering wheel has operated on public roads in Nevada. Zoox is beginning small with a one-mile loop … Read more

Il Makiage creator Oddity has filed to go public

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Magnificence and tech firm Oddity, which runs the Il Makiage and Spoiled Little one manufacturers, filed to go public Friday because the once-frozen IPO market warms up.  The Israel-based firm plans to commerce on the Nasdaq utilizing the ticker ODD. The corporate did not instantly disclose how the providing can be priced in regulatory filings … Read more

Half of U.S. Public Nonetheless Approves of Arming Ukraine

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WASHINGTON — Just like the blue and yellow flags that popped up across the U.S. when Russia invaded Ukraine 15 months in the past, U.S. standard assist for Washington’s backing of Ukraine has light a bit however stays widespread, a survey by the College of Chicago’s Harris Faculty of Public Coverage and NORC exhibits. It … Read more

Clarence Thomas’s first public scandal got here in 1980, when he was a no-name aide to a GOP senator and complained to a journalist that his sister simply waited by the mailbox for her welfare test

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Clarence Thomas in 1992.Larry Downing/Sygma/Sygma through Getty Photographs In 1980, 32-year-old Clarence Thomas was a no-name aide to a Republican senator. At a convention for Black conservatives, he complained to a journalist about his sister being on welfare. The journalist, Juan Williams, wrote a column about it that caught the eye of Reagan’s staff. Lengthy … Read more

South Korea’s ‘no-kid zones’ immediate debate about youngsters in public locations

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Touch upon this storyComment SEOUL — The primary time South Korean lawmaker Yong Hye-in, 33, ventured out of her residence after having her son in 2021, she was battling postpartum melancholy, and her husband wished to cheer her up with a stroll. However when Yong’s household tried to stroll into a close-by cafe, they had … Read more