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Amazon to unveil its $1 billion bet with 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'
'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' is central to Amazon's bid to stand out in the 'streaming wars' with Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max—whose own 'Game of Thrones' prequel just launched
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IMF agrees to $2.9 billion bailout for bankrupt Sri Lanka
The IMF said Sri Lanka had agreed to increase revenue, remove subsidies, ensure a flexible exchange rate and rebuild its foreign reserves, which had hit rock bottom
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Trump's Truth Social unwelcome in Google store over moderation issues
Google released the statement after the Trump camp argued it didn't know why its social network app had yet to be approved for the Google Play Store
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'Submit or quit': Teacher, student brain drain hits Hong Kong schools
The latest government figures show more than 4,000 teachers left their jobs in the past school year, a five-year high and a 70 percent spike from the year before
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Volkswagen shifts gears with Oliver Blume taking the wheel
The storied manufacturer announced its decision to part ways with former boss Herbert Diess, who stirred up discontent with his uncompromising push to electrify the group
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Silicon Valley lawyers up for Musk-Twitter trial
Jack Dorsey, a founder of Twitter, got a subpoena. So did Marc Andreessen, a prominent venture capitalist. Larry Ellison, Oracle's chairman, and investors David Sacks and Joe Lonsdale received them, too
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Greenland already locked in to major sea level rise: study
In the new study, published in Nature Climate Change, glaciologists found that regardless of any future fossil fuel pollution, warming to date will cause the Greenland ice sheet to shed 3.3 percent of its volume, committing 27.4 centimetres to sea level rise
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From Montreal's Wellington street to Mumbai's Colaba Causeway, these are the coolest streets in the world
The coolest street ranking by Time Out magazine considers each destination's urban fabric—restaurant openings or store closures making and breaking the life of a neighbourhood
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Taiwan is caught in a great game over microchips
Taiwan's biggest trading partners — which include China, the United States, Europe and Japan — have different ideas about the self-ruled island's political future, yet all share common ground in one desire: to expand their piece of its cutting-edge semiconductor industry
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Musk subpoenas Twitter's former head of security-turned-whistleblower in buyout battle
The Tesla boss hopes that allegations made by the former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko, about major security gaps and problematic practices at the firm, will bolster his case to bow out of the $44 billion buyout
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What makes a museum a museum?
It took decades for the members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to decide on a new definition of what a museum is