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U.S. considering joining boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics, State Department says. The State Department denied Tuesday evening that it was considering a joint boycott alongside allies of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. (Amanda Macias via CNBC)
Millions Are Tumbling Out of the Global Middle Class in an Historic Setback. One of the most economically significant trends of the past few decades has been the emergence of a global middle class. (Shawn Donnan via Bloomberg)
Why the U.S. Still Can't Donate COVID-19 Vaccines to Countries in Need. On the morning of March 31, roughly 25 Biden administration officials gathered at the White House, double-masked, for a meeting called on short notice by a member of the National Security Council. Â (Katherine Eban via Vanity Fair)
What Really Caused Facebook's 500M User Data Leak?. Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. (Lily Hay Newman via WIRED)
Fidelity, Square, Coinbase Launch Bitcoin Trade Group. Fidelity Investments, Square Inc. and several other financial firms are forming a new trade group that aims to shape the way bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are regulated. (Justin Baer via Wall Street Journal)
Kim Kardashian West Is Officially A Billionaire. When Kim Kardashian West was first mentioned in the pages of Forbes in 2011, it was simply a tally of her Twitter followers: 6.6 million, just below Barack Obama and just above Ashton Kutcher. (Madeline Berg via Forbes)
This old programming language is suddenly getting more popular again. Objective-C, the programming language superseded by Apple's Swift for iOS and macOS app development, has finally dropped off the top 20 most popular languages, according to the April 2021 edition of the Tiobe Programming Community index. (Liam Tung via ZDNet)
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