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On Eve of TikTok Ban, Chinese App RedNote Surges in Popularity, Delighting Chinese State Media
Chinese social-networking site RedNote became the #1 most-downloaded app in America, reports the Associated Press, with some new users considering it a way to protest America's possible TikTok ban.
So what happened next?
They were met with surprise, curiosity and in-jokes on Xiaohongshu — li...
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NATO Will Deploy Unmanned Vessels to Protect Baltic Sea Cables - Plus Data-Assessing AI
The BBC brings news from the Baltic Sea. After critical undersea cables were damaged or severed last year, "NATO has launched a new mission to increase the surveillance of ships..."
Undersea infrastructure is essential not only for electricity supply but also because more than 95% of internet traff...
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America's Top Three Insurers Reaped $7.3 Billion From Their Drug-Middlemen's Markups, FTC Says
America's Federal Trade Commission has been "raising antitrust concerns" about them for years, reports NBC News.
The latest? America's three largest drug middlemen "inflated the costs of numerous life-saving medications by billions of dollars over the past few years, the FTC said in a report Tues...
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Jackie: Timely
World's First AI Chatbot, ELIZA, Resurrected After 60 Years
"Scientists have just resurrected 'ELIZA,' the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code," reports LiveScience, "and it still works extremely well." (Click in the vintage black-and-green rectangle for a blinking-cursor prompt...)
Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software arc...
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Jackie: Cool
Bumble Founder Returns As CEO Amid a Dating App Decline
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, is returning to the post in mid-March. Former Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who succeeded Herd, has resigned for "personal reasons" and will remain ...
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