China Unlikely To Impose Lockdown Despite COVID-19 Surge

In December, after a massive surge of infections and rising public anger against lockdowns that imposed draconian quarantines, China abruptly abandoned its “Zero Covid” policies. But with coronavirus cases again on the rise, Beijing seems determined to press on with everyday life as it focuses on reigniting economic growth. The…

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China To Send First Civilian To Space On Tuesday

The country’s Manned Space Agency said that the first civilian astronaut would fly into space on Tuesday as part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space station. Payload expert Gui Haichao is a professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the agency’s spokesperson Lin Xiqiang told reporters Monday.…

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Google to Test Ads in Generative AI Search Results

The new search results will appear alongside regular ads and will be labeled as such. Users can turn the feature on or off. This is the latest move in a heated artificial intelligence (AI) race to reinvent the Internet and is likely to have profound implications for the online advertising…

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Instagram Outage Affects Over 180,000 Users

Instagram is back up and running after a brief outage that affected over 180,000 users on Sunday. The outage, which began around 5:45 p.m. EST, caused users to be unable to access the app or website. Instagram confirmed the outage on Twitter, saying that it was “working to resolve the…

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20 Children Killed in Guyana School Fire

“Guyana school fire kills at least 20 children,” reports that the fire broke out in the early hours of May 22 at the Mahdia Secondary School in the central city of Mahdia. The fire quickly spread through the dormitory, which housed 56 children, and many of the students were trapped…

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