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Online Content Is Disappearing ( www.pewresearch.org )
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping: No longer a partnership of equals ( www.bbc.com )
Vladimir Putin’s state visit to China this week was a show of strength. It was a chance for the Russian president to prove to the world that he has a powerful ally in his corner....
Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models ( www.engadget.com )
Global life expectancy set to grow by nearly 5 years by 2050 ( www.dw.com )
New research predicts a rise in life expectancy worldwide over the next three decades, particularly in Africa. Meanwhile, obesity and other factors are also set to play a larger role in poor health....
Education ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
'Massive' French police deployment arrives to secure New Caledonia ( www.reuters.com )
SYDNEY/PARIS, May 17 (Reuters) - French police reinforcements have started arriving in New Caledonia as part of a massive operation to regain control of the capital Noumea, the top French official in the Pacific island territory said on Friday....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban ( arstechnica.com )
Putin and Xi pledge a new era and condemn the United States | Reuters ( www.reuters.com )
Putin and Xi cast U.S. as Cold War hegemon...
Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards ( www.cnet.com )
Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves ( arstechnica.com )
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower ( hub.jhu.edu )
Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
4 months durability for an $800 phone!
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...
Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog ( slrpnk.net )
"If you don't save your data to someone else's computer then we can't monetize it."...
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news ( english.elpais.com )
Why states are suddenly making it a crime to sell lab-grown meat ( wapo.st )
Florida and Alabama have banned lab meat, but some in the livestock industry fear the precedent of states deciding what goes on store shelves, and what can’t.
ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! ( youtu.be )
Come inside! I'll get the Neosporin! Ba na na na na! Neo! Ba na na na na na na! Sporin! ( lemmy.world )
For semi context from Kung Pao: Enter the Fist...
You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts! ( wedistribute.org )
Bridgy Fed's Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa....
Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble ( www.ign.com )
Great, can we get FF7 Rebirth on PC now?
Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira ( investors.squarespace.com )
Stockholders will receive $44.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 29% over the 90-day volume weighted average trading price of $34.09 Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...
Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire ( www.bbc.com )
Thousands of Canadians have been ordered to leave their homes in Fort Nelson, British Columbia due to the threat of a wildfire....
Is there anyone here who uses BSD on their desktop? ( lemmy.world )
Euro bottles are so much better now ( toobnix.org )
I know they're supposed to be good for the environment but... God I hate those caps.
Japanese angst as India set to become 4th largest economy ( www.dw.com )
Once an economic powerhouse that was the envy of much of the world, there is deep concern in Tokyo that the economies of China and Germany have already surpassed Japan's — and that India's will do so next year....
With the recent Open Home Foundation announcement I decided to finally buy some ESP32 chips. They're arriving today, what can I do with them?
I've been in the HA world since the time the government placed the world under house arrest. Since then I've seen all sorts of amazing things people can do with an esp32 device....
Ghost of Tsushima, on Steam, will be unavailable in countries without PSN ( nitter.poast.org )
Twitter link...
Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter ( www.engadget.com )
Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period' ( news.sky.com )
On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country's victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country's national identity....
A “Tradwife” Discovers the Anti-Feminist Lifestyle Is Miserable and Oppressive ( www.currentaffairs.org )
A horrendous alt-right influencer who encouraged “traditional” gender roles realized that practicing what she preached made her feel enslaved.
What's stopping you from using Ecosia? Your searches could plant trees! ( www.ecosia.org )
Ecosia is a search engine that aggregates search results from multiple other search engines. The ad revenue from our searches funds the planting of trees worldwide. With over 200 million trees planted so far, Ecosia have learned to be fully transparent about their projects, and financials which are available right on that...
A Ukrainian Sport Plane Drone Just Flew 800 Miles Into Russia To Blow Up An Oil Refinery ( www.forbes.com )
I designed a 3D Printable e-reader case for Kobo's newest E-Readers ( lemmy.world )
You can download the files on:...
77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified ( www.commondreams.org )
"I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South," one expert said.