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‘I don’t think it’s going well’: Turks see little upside to country’s military involvement in Syria NATO

‘I don’t think it’s going well’: Turks see little upside to country’s military involvement in Syria

Turkey's recent military operations in Syria highlight the tightrope Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is walking between East and West — and especially between his NATO partners and Russia, writes Margaret Evans.Many Turks are skeptical of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's insistence that the country continue to be militarily involved in…
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March 19, 2020
World leaders rush in to shore up panic-hit global financial system Chinese Economy

World leaders rush in to shore up panic-hit global financial system

LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in the new epicentre Europe, with the number of deaths in Italy outstripping those in mainland China, where the virus originated. With over 242,000 infections and nearly 10,000 deaths, the…
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March 19, 2020
Announcing Who Has Your Face Clearview

Announcing Who Has Your Face

The government and law enforcement should not be scanning your photos with face recognition technology. But right now, at least half of Americans are likely in government face recognition databases—often thanks to secretive agreements between state and federal government agencies—without any of us having opted in. Although the majority of…
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March 19, 2020
Bigger Brother Be Evil

Bigger Brother

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff PublicAffairs, 691 pp., $38.00 ‘The Happy Way’ by Pushwagner; from Soft City, published by New York Review Comics in 2016In the 1970s, when Shoshana Zuboff was a graduate student in…
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March 19, 2020
How tech could help tourist destinations struggling in the wake of COVID-19 VR

How tech could help tourist destinations struggling in the wake of COVID-19

For years, popular destinations have been heaving under the weight of overtourism, desperate to get the problem under control. But thanks to the coronavirus’s spread, destinations that were once struggling with too many visitors, such as Venice and Rome, are eerily empty of travelers.Venice has been one of the hardest-hit…
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March 19, 2020