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Jordan: Palestinian refugees struggle amid UNRWA funding cuts (Hanna Davis, Al Jazeera)

Inside Jordan, Ali is a foreigner from the Gaza Strip. But outside, he is regarded as a Jordanian. “How?” the 35-year-old asks. “I’m stuck in...

Chinese aircraft carrier battle group enters Pacific for ‘routine drills’ (Liu Xuanzun, Global Times)

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy recently sent an aircraft carrier battle group through the Miyako Strait into the Pacific Ocean, with analysts...

China welcomes all proposals that will bring economic and social devt, improvement of local residents’ livelihoods in more countries: FM Wang Yi (Global Times)

The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a joint cause of all partners, and it is a development-driven, inclusive and green path that...

Secessionist DPP turns ‘referendum’ on Taiwan livelihood issues into anti-mainland manipulation (Xu Keyue, Global Times)

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on the island of Taiwan has been criticized for selling the interests of the people of Taiwan out in...

Sure, DeepMind’s AI is impressive, but can it guide human intuition? (Ben Dickson, The Next Web)

Deep learning can help discover mathematical relations that evade human scientists, a recent paper by researchers at DeepMind shows. Like many things coming from...

The US says it has a tool that predicts what will piss off China — I have so many questions (Thomas Macaulay, The Next...

The US has unveiled an unusual new approach to saber-rattling with China: emotion predictions. According to Reuters, military commanders in the Pacific have developed a...

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Lab is throwing in the towel. Can any manufactured smart city succeed? (Cate Lawrence, The Next Web)

This week, Daniel L. Doctoroff announced that he’s stepping down from his role of CEO at Sidewalk Labs due to serious health conditions. Sidewalk has been limping along...

Pegasus isn’t all you have to worry about: Meet Cytrox’s spyware, Predator (Ivan Mehta, The Next Web)

Israel-based NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware comes first to mind when you think about notorious ways to snoop on people’s phones. But there’s a new player in town:...

Racism is already real in the metaverse — here’s how we can fix that (Breigha Adeyemo, The Conversation, The Next Web)

Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies. For example, the algorithms that automatically make decisions about who gets...

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