Global News
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Mass vaccination, India's Covid-19 escape route, poses a giant challenge
India is the world's leading producer of vaccines, but over the past week has also been the global leader in Covid-19 deaths, and it is not at all clear that the country can vaccinate itself out of the crisis
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To be tracked or not? Apple is now giving us the choice
On April 26, Apple released iOS 14.5, one of its most anticipated software updates for iPhones and iPads that includes App Tracking Transparency and a new privacy tool that could give us more control over how our data is shared
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Extremists find a financial lifeline on Twitch
Twitch, a livestreaming video site owned by Amazon, has become a new mainstream base of operations for many far-right influencers. Streamers turned to the site after Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms clamped down on misinformation and hate speech before the 2020 election.
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'This is a catastrophe.' In India, illness is everywhere
India is recording more infections per day—as many as 350,000—than any other country has since the pandemic began, and that's just the official number, which most experts think is a vast underestimation
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Amid India's second virus wave, the world responds distress call
Facing increased pressure, the White House said that it had removed impediments to the export of raw materials for vaccines and would also supply India with therapeutics, test kits, ventilators and personal protective gear
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Prince Philip's death adds new urgency to UK monarchy's transition plans
While the queen has gone back to work since Philip's death, she is never going to return to the hectic schedule of meetings, receptions and garden parties that she plowed through for decades
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US to send vaccine materials and other supplies to hard-hit India, officials say
The announcement, an abrupt shift for the administration, came after Jake Sullivan, President Biden's national security adviser, held a call earlier in the day with Ajit Doval, his counterpart in India, and as India reports higher case numbers each day
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An EV startup backed by UPS does away with the assembly line
Arrival, is creating highly automated "microfactories" where its delivery vans and buses will be assembled by multitasking robots, breaking from the approach pioneered by Henry Ford and used by most of the world's automakers
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Jake Paul promised them fame. Was it worth the price?
The 24-year-old Vine star turned vlogger has polarised viewers with videos of dangerous pranks and is a serial entrepreneur linked to several dubious and misleading business ventures
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How the Super League fell apart
While soccer is the biggest business in sports, it remains, at heart, an intensely local affair with teams rooted in neighbourhoods and based in small towns, competing in leagues that have existed for more than a century
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Jack Ma shows why China's tycoons keep quiet
Under the Communist Party's top leader, Xi Jinping, China has punished and shamed a series of tycoons who amassed enormous wealth and influence but were seen to overstep their bounds