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Rihanna Rallies to the Wrong Cause in India. What do Rihanna, Greta Thunberg and Vice President Kamala Harris’s niece, Meena Harris, have in common? They’re all rallying support for India’s farmer protests, which are morphing from an arcane domestic dispute into an emotive international cause. (Sadanand Dhume via Wall Street Journal)
Twitter expands Google Cloud partnership to 'learn more from data, move faster'. Twitter is upping its data analytics game in the form of an expanded, multiyear partnership with Google Cloud. The social media giant first began working with Google in 2018 to move Hadoop clusters to the Google Cloud platform as a part of its Partly Cloudy strategy. (Mary Ann Azevedo via TechCrunch)
U.S. added 49,000 jobs in January vs. 50,000 expected. Job growth returned to the U.S. in January, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by 49,000 while the unemployment rate fell to 6.3%, the Labor Department said Friday in the first employment report of the Biden administration. (Jeff Cox via CNBC)
When Will Life Return to Normal? In 7.4 Years at Today's Vaccine Rates. When will the pandemic end? It’s the question hanging over just about everything since Covid-19 took over the world last year. The answer can be measured in vaccinations. (Tom Randall via Bloomberg)
This is how we lost control of our faces. In 1964, mathematician and computer scientist Woodrow Bledsoe first attempted the task of matching suspects’ faces to mugshots. He measured out the distances between different facial features in printed photographs and fed them into a computer program. (Karen Hao via MIT Technology Review)
The Most Hated Man in Washington. Since josh hawley was a young man, powerful people have told him he was special. His teachers gave him the “Special R” award, just one feather in the Rockhurst High School valedictorian’s cap of outstandingness. (Emma Green via The Atlantic)
PayPal is shutting down domestic payments business in India. PayPal is shutting down its domestic business in India, less than four years after the American giant kickstarted local operations in the world’s second largest internet market. (Manish Singh via TechCrunch)
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