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• US Copyright Office calls for better legal protections against AI-generated deepfakes
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• What German business makes of France's leftward turn
• 'It was awesome': after Rio and Tokyo false starts, golf hits an Olympic high
• US investors trigger major Wall Street sell-off over recession fears
• How the Olympics Are Saving Athletes from Heat Stress
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• China's economic model retains a dangerous allure
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• Nike Paid Him to Make Gold-Dipped Sneakers for LeBron. Now, It Is Suing Him.
• Amazon Has to Recall More Than 400,000 Dangerous Products
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• As Trump Attacks Her Identity, Harris Responds on Her Own Terms
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• Most of the money Harris secured for California householder relief after the financial crisis didn't wind up in owners' pockets or stop them from losing their homes, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.
• An Australian spy chief triggers a debate about China
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• It Isn't Easy for Students to Get a Credit Card Anymore. Here's What to Know.
• India's economic policy will not make it rich
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• California Supreme Court Rules That Uber and Lyft Drivers Will Remain Independent Contractors
• The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
• Why New York scrapped congestion charging
• The Real Reason People Aren't Having Kids
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• Ancient artistic loot will finally make its way back to Cambodia
• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
• A digital payments revolution in India
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
• Labour sweet-talks the public sector
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• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Bill Ackman Pulls Investment Fund IPO After Shrinking Its Size
• Children 'at death's door' as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• America's rich never sell their assets. How should they be taxed?
• A D-Day commemoration that was not just about beating Hitler
• What the cases of Robert Menendez and Henry Cuellar have in common
• The Cybertruck caused Fortnite players to get Cyberstuck
• Javier Milei finally lugs key reforms through Argentina's Senate
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
• Turkey blocks Instagram over 'censorship' of Hamas leader's death
• Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes
• ING Lifts Revenue Outlook After Strong Second Quarter
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• Has China reached peak emissions?
• South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
• Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
• GLAAD Paid For CEO's Lavish Spending, Documents Reveal
• "A day of shame" for the British state
• The fightback against Javier Milei's radical reforms has begun
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• Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
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• Under Joe Biden, America struggles to reassert itself in Africa
• America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission
• Dungeons & Dragons Is Shedding 'Race' in Gaming. Here's Why It Matters
• AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
• Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing
• Legal immigration to America has rebounded
• China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
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• The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
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• Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's dictator, thumbs his nose at Joe Biden
• Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn
• The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
• For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador's mañaneras boost his presidency
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
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• Germany is thinking about bringing back conscription
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• China's currency is not as influential as once imagined
• Shell Launches $3.5 Billion Buyback After Earnings Beat
• Fresh leak shows the Google Pixel Watch 3 comes in two sizes instead of one
• How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?
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• How countries rank by military spending
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• A live-streamed attempted coup in Congo shakes the region
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• Vivian Silver knew no good could ever come of war
• Romania's hard right looks strong in a year of four elections
• How oceans became new technological battlefields
• 'I'm happy for everyone released, but there is also sadness': film-maker Odessa Rae on today's momentous prisoner swap
• The world's first museum of homelessness
• Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia's government
• Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza
• How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame
• Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
• The Mexican president's latest boondoggle officially opens
• Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It's Still Losing Money.
• The Kamala Harris effect on the polls has been dramatic
• The end of cricket's Indian monopoly
• American stocks are consuming global markets
• What would get China's consumers spending?
• An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done
• Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom
• The British election is not close. But the race in Bicester is
• EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed
• A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
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• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
• Why are so many of the victims in Gaza children?
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• Apple beats earnings forecast despite decline in iPhone sales
• Israel Confirms Death of Muhammad Deif, Who It Says Helped Planned Hamas Attack
• The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway
• How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes
• Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
• Elon Musk's Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt
• China's probe returns from the far side of the moon
• A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
• Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
• Scientists propose lunar biorepository as 'backup' for life on Earth
• War and climate change are overwhelming Somalia
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• The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people's hearts
• Taiwan wants to prove that it is serious about defence
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• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
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• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• EU sets up team to prepare for Trump's potential return to power
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• By 2100 half the world's children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa
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• How to decode Kamala Harris's foreign policy
• Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself
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• Why Britain's Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot leave Israel's war cabinet
• People in the US: how do you stay cool in extreme heat?
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• How crises reshaped the world financial system
• How We Are Trying to Improve the Odds of Having a Healthy Retirement
• Was the Bank of England right to start lowering interest rates?
• Louisiana could soon start castrating child-rapists
• Ethiopia is in the midst of a kidnapping epidemic
• Why India should create dozens of new states
• America recreates a warfighting command in Japan
• For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda
• The rise of the truly cruel summer
• New Math Breakthrough Reveals the Fifth 'Busiest Beaver'
• Ukraine has a month to avoid default
• Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• Lawrence Wong in his own words
• Walmart's latest product? Its customers
• A Kenyan-led security mission finally starts to arrive in Haiti
• Does motherhood hurt women's pay?
• The Bank of England cut its key interest rate for the first time in over four years, bringing the benchmark to 5%.
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• A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions
• NASA's PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
• Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
• Colombia's first avowedly left-wing president is mired in scandal
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• How filming a cappella concerts and dance recitals led Northzone's newest partner Molly Alter to a career in VC
• Reaper - Proof Of Concept On BYOVD Attack
• It is dangerously easy to hack the world's phones
• Meta's Ad Strength Gives Its AI Spending Some Cover
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• The secret to good government? Actually trying
• China has become a scientific superpower
• "Don't Look Up", Adam McKay's political farce, is bleakly realistic
• Big tech's great AI power grab
• Soaring food-price inflation is hurting Nigeria's poor
• Once high-flying Boeing is now a corporate criminal
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• The Mysterious Discovery of 'Dark Oxygen' on the Ocean Floor
• The Top New Features in Apple's iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
• Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
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• Will chatbots eat India's IT industry?
• Which Kamala Harris is now at the top of the Democratic ticket?
• How Harris Can Tackle the Clinton Factor
• Here come the new climate leaders
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• Which country has the most Olympic medals?
• China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
• On shame, Liz Truss and the turnip Taliban
• Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan's airport after Silvio Berlusconi
• Five reasons why Indonesia's election matters
• Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America's top oil company
• Open source startup FOSSA is buying StackShare, a site used by 1.5M developers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Economist's final prediction points to a Tory wipeout in Britain
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• The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
• China doesn't want people flaunting their wealth
• The unsteady comeback of the California condor
• Le Pen's hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
• GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best
• KAL's cartoon
• Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals
• Apple revenues rise on strong services business and iPad sales
• After Years of Raising Prices, Food Companies Hit Consumers' Limits
• Child poverty will be a test of Labour's fiscal prudence
• The temptations of deferred removals
• Secret Service's Tech Errors Helped Gunman at Trump Rally Slip By
• Airlines would have to allow parents to book seats next to young children without paying extra fees under a Biden administration proposal that seeks to address a major travel headache for families.
• What the war on tourism gets wrong
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
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• New industrial policies will not help economic stability
• To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• The new economy net zero needs
• The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
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• The Most Efficient Solar Panels Ever Have Been Found—In Giant, Sparkly Clams
• Britain's Conservatives rule the Thames Estuary. Not for long
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
• The 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Will Be Unlike Any Before It
• Venezuela's autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• Donald Trump tries to be both unifier and pugilist in his convention speech
• A catastrophic gearbox failure caused an Osprey aircraft to crash off the coast of Japan last year, killing all eight personnel aboard, though crew actions also contributed to the accident, the U.S. Air Force said.
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• Roxie, one of China's few lesbian bars, closes its doors
• The notable obituaries of 2023
• Living outside China has become more like living inside China
• In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices
• Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown
• Google brings Gemini-powered search history and Lens to Chrome desktop
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• T-Mobile Has a New Side Gig: Fiber Internet
• Rabbit Says Former Employee Handed Hacking Collective the Keys to the R1's Backend
• Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• The travails and bold aims of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
• Checks and Balance: Trump's guilty verdict and unprecedented presidenting
• The Islamic State's branch in Afghanistan is at war with the world
• Is America giving Narendra Modi an easy ride?
• Severe drought is constraining the Panama Canal
• The drug-overdose capitals of Europe
• The 21 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (July 2024)
• What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• China's leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
• SunRay Kelley wanted to build in rhythm with nature, his teacher
• Microsoft's AI Dreams Make for an Expensive Reality
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• The truth behind Olena Zelenska's $1.1m Cartier haul
• Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China
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• The Beats Fit Pro earbuds drop to a new low of $140
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• Why avocados are driving another sort of green economy in Kenya
• Elon Musk Says He Would Recognize a Harris Election Victory
• The New Threat to the Chip Industry: Worker Unrest
• China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
• Why house prices are surging once again
• New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
• Emmanuel Macron's centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
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• A North Korean Hacker Tricked a US Security Vendor Into Hiring Him—and Immediately Tried to Hack Them
• Tanzania's opposition, once flat on its back, is now on its knees
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• A strange snafu and a cross-ideological coalition at America's Supreme Court
• Britain's Conservative Party faces up to its own mortality
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• The "effective altruism" movement is louder than it is large
• Angela Carini abandons Olympic fight after 46 seconds against Imane Khelif
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• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
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