The primaries for Taiwan’s forthcoming presidential election are highlighting fears over China’s political influence. Pro-Beijing media are being credited with populist Han Kuo-Yu’s victory to lead the opposition, The Financial… Read more »
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Russia’s notorious federal security service, the FSB, has a secret project to de-anonymize Tor. Big news or nothing to see here?
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Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own business in a corner of Africa with all the other animals. But now, few would disagree that humans dominate planet Earth; we've spread to every continent, and our actions determine the fate of other animals (and possibly Earth itself). How did we get from there to here? Historian Yuval Noah Harari suggests a surprising reason for the rise of humanity.
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In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.
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We don’t need to win this nationalistic race — especially when we don’t even know what’s at the finish line.
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We've noted a few times now how the protectionist assault against Huawei hasn't been supported by much in the way of public evidence. Despite allegations that Huawei helps China spy on Americans wholesale, nobody has actually been able to prove that claim.
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It would take a lot. Like a real lot.
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Its parent company views it as an artificial intelligence platform.
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Its last mine is about to close.
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There are 8,565 of them across the country, meaning a place to take a hike, fire up some s’mores or simply recharge is often just around the corner. In a year of traveling, we visited 53 of them.
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