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On Spotify, music listens to you: Streaming platform wins patent to surveil users’ emotions to recommend music

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Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional states and location types to serve up an appropriate soundtrack. Not creepy at all! … Read More >On Spotify, music listens to you: Streaming platform wins patent to surveil users’ emotions to recommend music

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Horn-wearing ‘QAnon Shaman’ charged over Capitol riot says he’s willing to testify at impeachment trial, feels ‘betrayed’ by Trump

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The man who showed up to the Capitol riot sporting fur and a horned headdress – known as the “QAnon Shaman” – is willing to testify at ex-president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, his lawyer said. … Read More >Horn-wearing ‘QAnon Shaman’ charged over Capitol riot says he’s willing to testify at impeachment trial, feels ‘betrayed’ by Trump

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Bolivia welcomes 1st batch of Sputnik V coronavirus jab ahead of vaccination campaign launch (VIDEO)

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The first installment of Sputnik V vaccines have reached Bolivia, which is set to kick off its own vaccination drive on Friday. The plane with the inoculation was greeted by Bolivian President Luis Arce at the airport. … Read More >Bolivia welcomes 1st batch of Sputnik V coronavirus jab ahead of vaccination campaign launch (VIDEO)

Categories World

As the Olympics and Euro 2020 hang in the balance, should elite athletes be fast-tracked for the Covid-19 vaccine?

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Considerable question marks remain as to the possibility of holding two of this summer’s largest sporting events amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, but should athletes be allowed jump the vaccine queue to ensure they go ahead? … Read More >As the Olympics and Euro 2020 hang in the balance, should elite athletes be fast-tracked for the Covid-19 vaccine?

Categories Op-ed

Even in victory, liberals brand all Trump supporters ‘white supremacists’, not caring that this slander is tearing America apart

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Recent testimonies from ‘survivors of the Trump regime’ are creating the false narrative that half the US is irredeemably racist, but it is those misguided views, not the MAGA crowd, that pose the real danger to the republic. … Read More >Even in victory, liberals brand all Trump supporters ‘white supremacists’, not caring that this slander is tearing America apart

Categories Russia

Back to class: Russian universities set to resume full-time teaching as Covid-19 cases fall sharply nationwide

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Students in Russia will soon be dusting off their travelcards as the country prepares for a return to traditional, in-person teaching at universities and colleges, with Covid-19 lockdown measures due to be relaxed. … Read More >Back to class: Russian universities set to resume full-time teaching as Covid-19 cases fall sharply nationwide

Categories Russia

The best way to repair the Russian/American relationship is for both sides to minimise contacts, and keep out of each other’s way

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Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone this week, and the issue of extending the vital New START nuclear treaty is now as good as settled. … Read More >The best way to repair the Russian/American relationship is for both sides to minimise contacts, and keep out of each other’s way