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If AI’s Native Language Is English, Where Does That Leave China?

A Chinese business using artificial intelligence to improve its operations, speed up its research, or simply cut costs, has a wide variety of AI models to choose from. There are plenty of domestic options, including DeepSeek, Qwen, or Kimi. But many, especially those headquartered abroad, still opt to use the…

bubmagMarch 11, 2026

Checkpoint

‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Off Broadway Review: David Lynch Lives in This Wild Reagan-Era Comedy

Without putting any dwarves on stage, Knud Adams has picked up the torch of David Lynch like no other stage director before him. With the same deadpan creepiness lurking just under the wood-panel normalcy of life in America, Adams brings Ro Reddick’s exhilarating “Cold War Choir Practice” to perverse life at…

bubmagMarch 11, 2026

Black Hole

VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were all expelled by a pair of massive stars near the core of our Milky Way Galaxy. This VLT image shows the stars and gas surrounding Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in…

bubmagMarch 10, 2026

ORGANISED CRIME: SA’s Benjamin Mauerberger embroiled in ‘Thailand state capture’ accusations and billion-dollar scam probes

South African-born Benjamin Mauerberger’s name has cropped up in a global scandal involving suspicions of money laundering, human trafficking and organised criminality rooted in China. Now Thailand, where he reportedly infiltrated government circles, has issued a warrant for his arrest...Read More

bubmagMarch 10, 2026

TikTok

Safer Internet: TikTok Announces $200K AI Media Literacy Investment At Summit

TikTok today hosted government officials, regulators, online safety partners and industry leaders for its third annual Sub-Saharan Africa Safer Internet Summit, reinforcing the platform’s commitment to collaborative approaches to online safety. The two-day event held in Nairobi, under the theme #SaferTogether: ‘ Innovation and Safety ‘, marks a significant expansion of…

bubmagMarch 10, 2026

TikTok

Ottawa drops TikTok ban, will now let platform stay in Canada with conditions

OTTAWA — Ottawa says it will allow TikTok to continue operating in Canada now that it has more security guarantees from the social media company to protect Canadians' data...Read More

bubmagMarch 10, 2026

Space Debris

Middle East tension: British Airways suspends flights to Abu Dhabi

British Airways has suspended all flights to and from Abu Dhabi until later this year due to ongoing instability in the Middle East and uncertainty over airspace. The post Middle East tension: British Airways suspends flights to Abu Dhabi appeared first on Nairametrics...Read More

bubmagMarch 10, 2026

Peace

ROBERTS, Dale

On March 7, 2026, our world forever changed. Dale Mary Roberts (née Bell), born October 24, 1949, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, passed away peacefully at South Bruce Grey Health Centre, Chesley, with her partner Paul Rody, brother Robbie Bell, and niece, Melody Hawdon, by her side. Dale's beautiful, bright…

bubmagMarch 10, 2026

NATO

Senators Demand Funding Release for $1.8B Blatnik Bridge Replacement

Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Dept. of Transportation The Minnesota Dept. of Transportation and Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation are warning that if federal funds are not released swiftly, the cost to replace the Blatnik bridge that connects the two states, could balloon by at least $80 million. In an increasingly…

bubmagMarch 10, 2026

NOAA

Suspended NOAA satellite chief warns of threats to federal science programs

WASHINGTON — The head of NOAA’s satellite division, on administrative leave for more than half a year, warned that workforce reductions and cuts to science programs have “lobotomized” the federal government. Speaking at the “Stand Up for Science” rally on the National Mall March 7, Stephen Volz offered his sharpest…

bubmagMarch 10, 2026

‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Off Broadway Review: David Lynch Lives in This Wild Reagan-Era Comedy

VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Safer Internet: TikTok Announces $200K AI Media Literacy Investment At Summit

Ottawa drops TikTok ban, will now let platform stay in Canada with conditions

Middle East tension: British Airways suspends flights to Abu Dhabi

ROBERTS, Dale

Senators Demand Funding Release for $1.8B Blatnik Bridge Replacement

Suspended NOAA satellite chief warns of threats to federal science programs

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