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S6Thailand's cooling rice dish to beat the heat  The sweltering heat during Buddhist New Year calls for Thailand's cooling khao chae, a fragrant and refreshing bowl of rice delicately scented with flowers.By the time Songkran, Thailand's new year based on the Buddhist calendar, arrives in April, the temperatures in the Southeast Asian country are soaring. The sky is typically blue and spotless, so reprieve under the shade of a passing cloud is non-existent while the humidity is as thick as a fleece blanket. One way to cool off is in the country-wide water fights that take place during the annual celebrations (this year from 13-15 April), which include water guns, buckets and coloured powder smeared onto the face like war paint. Another way to celebrate and cool off is to eat khao chae.
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S7 Engineer Your Own Luck Prediction is hard. The longer the time range — six months, three years, a decade — the less reliable any forecasting becomes. And yet, some companies prosper through extreme uncertainties.
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S8Look! NASA's Lucy Mission Stumbled Upon An Asteroid With Planet-Like Features NASA's Lucy mission, which is a first of its kind mission to study a population of mysterious relics from the formation of the Solar System near Jupiter. And, as mission photos suggest, it’s not always about the destination, but the rocky encounters you make along the way.The Lucy mission, named after the famous 3 million year old hominid fossil, is slated to visit the Trojans, a swarm of asteroids stuck in Jupiter’s orbit that may be relics of the Solar System’s formation. But the spacecraft made a pitstop at asteroid Dinkinesh on November 1, 2023 for what was meant to be a simple test subject for the spacecraft's navigational systems.
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S9'Elden Ring's DLC Is a Brutal, Beautiful, and Massive New Expansion Even after 200 hours with Elden Ring, setting foot into the Land of Shadow was enough to take my breath away. You enter the shadowy realm through a decrepit cocoon and your first sight is a visual feast of rolling black hills adorned with swarms of ghostly tombstones. Misty castles loom in the background, and a ghastly fiery beast stalks the ethereal cemetery. Three hours of playtime later it was clear that Shadow of the Erdtree is the biggest expansion FromSoftware has ever made. I’m also hopeful that it could be its best too. The story of Shadow of the Erdtree is fittingly cryptic, and I only had the faintest idea of what was going on with my initial visit. The expansion will largely expand on the story and lore of the main game, with a particular emphasis on Miquella the Kind, an Empyrean and son of Marika who mysteriously vanished. In The Land of Shadow, Miquella and his followers seem to be locked in a brutal conflict with a fiery godlike being named Messmer.
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S10Star Wars' Most Experimental New Show is the Shot in the Arm the Franchise Needs On Dec. 10, 2020, Kathleen Kennedy announced 10 Star Wars series as part of Disney’s 2020 Investor Day presentation. Some, like Andor and Ahsoka, actually managed to make it to the platform. Others, like Rangers of the New Republic and A Droid Story have been either canceled or indefinitely delayed. Some, like Lando, were transformed into future movies. Now, four years later, the last of these series is set to premiere — and it’s the most experimental and galvanizing of the lot. Helmed by Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland, The Acolyte finally explores a previously unseen time period in the franchise: the High Republic, which is set a century before everything else we’ve seen in Star Wars canon. The result is a noir-esque series that paints an entirely different light on the parts of Star Wars that seemingly had been unquestioned and redefines the very standards by which we define what makes Star Wars so good in the first place. It may be the last series in that presentation to come to fruition, but it’s the start of a new Star Wars era — and one that’s more than welcome.
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S1140 Years Later, An Immortal Sci-Fi Hit Is Back In Theaters -- But There's a Catch Nobody ever made them like this! On June 8, 1984, the genres of science fiction, horror, and comedy were forever blended when writers Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis teamed with director Ivan Reitman to create Ghostbusters. Although the franchise has produced several sequels and spin-off animated TV shows, the only thing fans can agree on when it comes to bustin’ is that the original film, more than any of the others, is the one that makes us feel good. Some might have a soft spot for Ghostbusters II, and the newer sequels have their merits, but the first movie has never been topped.Now, on its 40th birthday weekend, the film that started it all is back in movie theaters for a very limited time. Here’s why Ghostbusters was such a huge summer blockbuster hit, and how to catch it in theaters again.
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S12Netflix's Best Vampire Thriller Will Never Get a Physical Release, Creator Reveals Just as vinyl records made a comeback in the Spotify era, physical media is returning amid the success of streaming. Blu-ray collectors are getting the last laugh: while streaming is convenient, libraries are constantly shifting, and streaming originals are erased whenever a platform needs to save money. Even purchasing digital content can leave your ownership of that media up for debate. The only way to have guaranteed access to media is to own a physical copy. Netflix and Warner Bros. can erase a streaming title, but they can’t take a Blu-ray from your bookshelf. Naturally, physical releases are attractive to creators too. In a 2023 Tumblr post responding to a fan question, prolific horror director Mike Flanagan said that while he wanted to release physical copies of his complete works for Netflix, getting the streamer onboard was an uphill battle.
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S1345 Years Later, an Iconic Sci-Fi Thriller Franchise is Finally Resetting Its Convoluted Timeline A group of desperate humans in space are stalked by vicious aliens who reproduce by infiltrating bodies, and bursting out through the chest. In the end, it looks like one woman (Cailee Spaeny) is the last hope of exterminating these creatures, who are as relentless as they are terrifying. If this all sounds familiar, it should. The new trailer for Alien: Romulus is aggressively paying homage to both Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), and, in the process, utterly sidestepping the confusing continuity questions raised by the last two movies in the franchise.With Romulus, the Alien franchise isn’t doing a full reboot, but in terms of vibe, there does seem to be a massive reset button getting pressed here. Here’s why the next Alien movie looks terrifying, and a little bit safe at the same time.
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S14One of the Most Affordable Folding E-Bikes Is Getting a Big Overhaul Without a Price Hike Take Lectric’s new XP Lite 2.0 e-bike. It upgrades one of the most popular entry-level folding e-bikes with an improved motor, a color display, and an optional battery boost while still keeping the original $799 starting price tag. Pound for pound, this combination of improved features and affordable pricing is why people are choosing Lectric over other e-bike brands.The standard version of the Lectric XP Lite 2.0 gets 45 miles with its 7.8Ah battery, but there’s a long-range option that uses a 14Ah battery for up to 80 miles of range.
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S15Summer Game Fest 2024 Will Be 'Quieter' For One Depressing Reason Don’t get too excited about Summer Game Fest. I’m not just sharing my opinion — though it’s also that — this is coming straight from host Geoff Keighley himself. Ahead of this week’s games showcase, Keighley hosted a live Q&A session on Twitch to answer questions about the show and tried to set audience expectations a little lower in the process.In the hour-long Twitch stream, the former journalist turned event host took questions from fans about Summer Game Fest, covering everything from the show’s history to the minute details of this year’s presentation. Before diving into questions from chat, Keighley laid out a more general overview of the show, noting that it isn’t going to be a year full of groundbreaking reveals. Keighley noted that it will be a “lighter” year for announcements. When asked how high he’d rate his excitement for the event on a scale from one to ten, measuring gamer-friendly hype, he said an eight out of ten. It’s a far cry from most similar showcases, which try their best to build up anticipation beforehand, rather than deflating it.
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S16Amazon's Yakuza TV Series Should Be an Easy Slam Dunk Adaption It feels like we’ve entered a golden age for video game adaptions between the likes of Fallout, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Last of Us, Arcane, and many more. The list of not just good but genuinely great adaptions keeps on growing, and hopefully we’ll have a new one to add to that list this year. Amazon has announced a live-action adaption of Sega’s cult classic series Yakuza, and it already has a release date of October 25. Seeing the show launch so soon is surprising, but if there’s one video game series that feels like the perfect fit for television, it’s Yakuza. It could, and should, be a slam dunk for Prime Video, which is already riding high on the success of the Fallout series. If you’re unfamiliar, the Yakuza series follows a notorious gangster named Kazuma Kiryu, also known by his nickname The Dragon of Dojima. Most of the series chronicles Kiryu’s rise in Japan’s largest criminal organization, the Tojo Clan, and then his unsuccessful efforts to leave the Yakuza life. From the initial details, it seems the show will adapt the events of the first game across six episodes. Just like the game, the story will have a time jump, taking place in 1995 and then 2005.
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S177 Years Later, Gaming's Most Annoying Problem Has Only Gotten Worse Months after the Nintendo Switch launch in 2017, an undisclosed source leaked that the famed developer was making a new game starring the lovable green dinosaur, Yoshi. The game would later launch on the console-handheld hybrid, a major release early on in the then-unproven device’s life cycle.A recent report from 404 Media confirmed that the leak resulted from a Google contractor using administrator privileges to access Nintendo’s YouTube account. The employee “deliberately leaked private Nintendo information,” according to an internal note from Google obtained by 404 Media. This leak was also the subject of an internal investigation at the tech giant.
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S18'House of the Dragon's Showrunner Has a "Roadmap" to Avoid 'Game of Thrones' Finale Mistake Game of Thrones began as a cultural behemoth and then ended as a cautionary tale as what could happen when a show goes on for too long. By Season 8, the source material had long been overlapped and the action had become so bloated that wrapping up every storyline was going to feel rushed no matter what. Now, as the Game of Thrones universe begins to grow, there seems to be an air of caution: spinoffs are being delayed, canceled, or moved to animation. But one spinoff, the smash hit House of the Dragon, is finding success in telling the story of the Dance of the Dragons, the most brutal and bloody civil war in Westeros history. The recently appointed showrunner, Ryan Condal, knows the reputation that lies behind him and is working on House of the Dragon with the greater narrative in mind.
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S192024's Most Exhilarating Action Thriller Sequel is a Surprising Return to Form It's been nearly 30 years since Michael Bay’s Bad Boys first brought Martin Lawrence and Will Smith together as a bankable pair of bickering, brotherly Miami cops. But in those three decades, the famously bombastic franchise has shown remarkable restraint by only releasing a total of four movies. But thankfully, the latest, a muscular sequel directed by Bad Boys for Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (now going by the moniker Adil and Bilall), shows that the franchise is still more ridin' than dyin'. An uptempo, deliriously enjoyable sequel, Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a movie so kinetic it feels like your own ticket could light on fire.Picking up some years after Bad Boys for Life, hotshot Miami detectives Mike (Smith) and Marcus (Lawrence) are well into middle age. Their bodies are prone to betraying them than before, and both have arcs centered around kinds of heart failures. But the two are once more engaged by police business, in this case their late mentor Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano, reprising his role in a capacity amounting to vlogs and hallucinatory medicine ads) having his named dragged in the mud when he's posthumously accused of corruption and collusion with drug cartels. Mike and Marcus – the latter spiritually renewed after a near-fatal heart attack – soon become fugitives on the lam, along with Mike's estranged criminal son Armando (Jacob Scipio).
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S20How to Start the Insanely Difficult 'Elden Ring' DLC Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring is a massive game filled with countless dungeons, bosses, and secrets to take on. But it’s about to get even bigger with the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, which adds on a brand-new region, over ten bosses, new weapon types, and more. It’s bound to have some of the biggest challenges in Elden Ring. But just like everything else in Souls games, Shadow of the Erdtree is difficult, even to access. You won’t be jumping into the DLC from a menu, no that’s far too simple. There’s a very specific point that you’ll need to have reached in the game to even think about starting Shadow of the Erdtree. We’ll help walk you through what that is, and the easiest way to reach it. If you’ve already beaten Mohg and Radahn, simply interact with the hand outside of the cocoon to start Shadow of the Erdtree.
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S21Netflix Is Finally Getting A New Season of Star Trek's Most Underrated Show The continuing mission of the crew of the USS Protostar is coming to Netflix at warp speed. After previously having been yanked from Paramount+, the nascent animated Star Trek spinoff series Star Trek: Prodigy is staging a massive comeback. After its apparent cancellation in 2023, it was later announced that Netflix would pick up the distribution of the series. And now, Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 is almost here. Here’s when the new episodes will hit Netflix, how many episodes there will be, and how to catch up on this Trek show if you missed it the first time around, back in 2021.Set in the late 24th century — after Voyager, but before the flashbacks in Picard — the events of Prodigy mostly focus on a group of rag-tag teenage aliens who find an abandoned experimental Starfleet ship called the USS Protostar. Because all these kids are working in a horrible slave-mining situation (think Temple of Doom in space) they use the downed Protostar to escape. Armed with the life-changing Trek technology of the universal translator, this crew can suddenly understand each other, and, in search of a better life, leave the Delta Quadrant to find the Federation and Starfleet.
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S22The Best New Star Wars Game Subverts a Boring Franchise Trope Star Wars: Hunters, the free-to-play, third-person hero shooter set in Disney’s sci-fi universe, releases on Nintendo Switch and mobile platforms today. It’s a solid competitive live service game, that’s both easy to pick up and fun to play. Given how saturated the market of hero shooters is, Hunters will ultimately sink or swim depending on how much audiences are willing to give it a shot. Borrowing its settings from one of the most beloved franchises in modern history does give it a major leg up on the competition. But it’s how Hunters decided to exist within the well-documented Star Wars canon that makes it an exciting addition to the established lore. It’s an addition that subverts one of the more annoying tropes in the franchise.
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S23Meta's Affordable Quest 3S Could Cost 11 Times Less Than Apple Vision Pro Apple’s Vision Pro may be the most expensive way to get into mixed reality, but that doesn’t necessarily make it the best. In fact, people still recommend Meta’s Quest 2, which came out in 2020, as a starting point.However, a string of rumors suggests Meta’s next mixed reality headset will be a more affordable version of its Quest 3. There hasn’t been any official announcement yet, but some accidental listings recently indicated that the rumored headset could be called the Quest 3S. We’re expecting more info at Meta Connect 2024, which is currently set for September 25 and 26.
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S24S25Who's The Sith Villain in 'The Acolyte'? 5 Possible Characters From Star Wars Canon “The Jedi live in a dream. A dream they believe everyone shares. If you attack a Jedi with a weapon you will fail. Steel or laser are no threat to them. But an acolyte, an acolyte kills without a weapon. An acolyte kills the dream.” These words close The Acolyte Episode 1, and they’re a terrifying thesis for a Jedi/Sith clash unlike any we’ve seen in Star Wars canon. But as powerful as these words are, we have no idea who said them. Mae’s master, the Sith she’s seeking vengeance for as part of her “final test,” is unknown even to her, and seen only by viewers in the distance during Episode 1. Just who could this big villain be? Here are all the possible suspects.
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S26Star Wars Just Completely Changed Jedi Canon With One Line In the first Star Wars film back in 1977, Obi-Wan made it clear that “the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic.” But in the even older Republic, about a century before Obi-Wan was even around, the Jedi had another job beyond guarding peace and justice. Turns out, the other major job of the Jedi was to be a kind of Force cop — a person who keeps an eye on those who use the Force in secret. In the first scene of the first episode of the latest Star Wars series, The Acolyte, one quick line from Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) changes the nature, philosophy, and purpose of the Jedi, maybe forever. Spoilers ahead for The Acolyte, Season 1, Episode 1.
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S2744 Years Later, 'The Acolyte' Finally Gets a Classic Star Wars Trope Right Ever since Yoda murmured “There is another” in The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars has been enamored with the idea of twins. That Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa turned out to be long-lost siblings was a bit of an afterthought on George Lucas’ part — Luke’s twin was originally going to be a different, unintroduced character — but their bond set the tone for a trope that’s echoed throughout the saga. In the non-canon Legends timeline, there were Jacen and Jaina Solo, the firstborn twins of Leia and Han Solo. They might be the best-known Star Wars twins apart from Leia and Luke, though others have popped up across television, film, and comic canon. Apart from a one-off episode of Star Wars: Visions, however, no story within the saga has made a concerted effort to focus on twins, and how their relationship can be deepened (or complicated) by the Force. No story, that is, until The Acolyte, Lucasfilm’s latest live-action series, and the most radical update to the timeline in decades.
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S28Netflix's Wildest New Sci-fi Show Defies a Popular Genre Trend Scavengers Reign, now freshly available on Netflix (and ripe for a second season), is full of monsters. From the opening few minutes, it’s clear the show’s creators put a lot of effort into concocting beasts of all shapes and sizes, ones that would stand out even amid the crowded genre of “science-fiction creatures.” However, this approach to fauna (and flora) extends far beyond littering the planet Vesta with creepy-crawly window dressing. Scavengers Reign invents a full-fledged ecosystem from the various critters and their habitats, and it makes the show all the more effective.The animated series is most frequently compared to the original Alien, and it’s easy to see why. They both share a sci-fi/horror atmosphere, one where intricate wonder is just as prominent as lurking dread (with the former often giving way to the latter). Alien’s Xenomorph, a creature that evolves from a deadly symbiotic attachment to an large, unstoppable hunter, has become the preeminent space monster of the modern age and one can find traces of its influence not only in Reign but throughout the genre. But while the Xenomorph remains terrifying, we’re rarely granted the chance to see what it can do when it’s not hunting down humans.
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S29A Week in the Life of a Big-Time Food-Waster A typical U.S. citizen keeps a diary of his food mindlessness — and tries to change his ways.I am an expert on wasting food, if only because I do it so much. For me, there’s a sense of profound shame in this profligacy because I’m acting in ways that I know are destructive to Mother Earth, squandering the generous gifts she gives us from her soil.
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S30Amazon Just Quietly Added The Most Unique Noir Thriller of the Century What if modern-day high schoolers talked and acted like they were in a ‘50s hardboiled noir? It’s an intriguing premise for a short film, but it doesn’t seem like a gimmick strong enough to sustain a two-hour feature. And yet, with his 2005 directorial debut, Rian Johnson not only manages to turn a unique idea into a thoroughly engaging feature film, he actually transcends a potentially labored gimmick to produce something wholly original. Shot on a $450,000 budget at Johnson’s own high school, Brick is a high-concept indie in every respect. The film draws inspiration from the works of Dashiell Hammett (the author of such novels as The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) and transplants them into a contemporary California suburb populated by bored, privileged teens. The one outsider is Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a Sam Spade-esque loner who finds himself drawn into a sinister conspiracy after receiving a cryptic phone call from his ex-girlfriend Emily (Emilie de Ravin) the day before she’s found dead. Tracing Emily’s steps, Brendan encounters kingpins, teenage femme fatales, and a missing “brick” at the center of it all.
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S31Five Gadgets to Fight Food Waste: The Good, the Bad, and the Ridiculous Only recently has the idea of reducing food waste moved beyond a niche concern. Gone are the days when it was solely the preoccupation of Depression-era grandparents and self-righteous dumpster divers. But it’s not like we’re reviving the can-do frugality of the pioneers — when was the last time you saw a house with a root cellar? For most people, pickling and canning are a hobby they embrace after taking a Groupon class at that crafting store downtown and abandon after the first half-sour. Even as fighting food waste has entered the mainstream consciousness, 38 percent of all food in the United States is simply thrown away, and the average household tosses out almost $2,000 a year in wasted food.Thankfully, corporations and entrepreneurs have noticed America’s recent (and admittedly half-hearted) swing back toward food efficiency. We’re finally seeing products designed to help people do their part to eliminate the plague of food waste and stretch their dollars.
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S32PlayStation Plus Just Quietly Added the Best Retro Beat 'Em Up Game In Years Side-scrolling beat ‘em up games used to be all the rage. Back when arcades dominated gaming, beat ‘em ups like X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Simpsons gobbled up quarters like nobody’s business, and the genre stayed just as popular throughout early console generations. And while Metroidvanias and 3D action games have taken over the spotlight, there’s still plenty of appetite for classic beat ‘em ups, including some revivals of popular retro series.In recent years, we’ve seen games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and River City Girls pick up the torch from old-school beat ‘em ups. One of the best games of the beat ‘em up resurgence is Streets of Rage 4, a direct sequel to a series that started on the Sega Genesis, and it’s now available on PlayStation Plus.
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S33To capture grief in poetry is to describe the ineffable. Here's why Tennyson did it best | Aeon Videos In this short, the US video essayist Evan Puschak (also known as the Nerdwriter) makes his case that Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) is the ‘great English poet of grief’. Combining biography and literary criticism, Puschak details how the sudden death of Tennyson’s best friend at a young age moulded him into an extraordinary writer on a subject that he surely wished he didn’t understand so acutely. In particular, Puschak centres his analysis on the poem Break, Break, Break (1842), which, in just 16 lines, traces the trajectory of a life from boyhood to the grave. Through this, Puschak argues, the work captures the feeling of an ‘incessant reaching for something that’s not there’ and the jarring indifference of the greater world that characterise bereavement.
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S35S36S37S38S39Why American investors are pouring money into European football Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan) were crowned champions of this year’s Serie A, the top flight of Italian football, on April 22. A month later, they were back in the news having been taken over by US investment firm Oaktree Capital Management. This is not the first nor is it likely to be the last we see of US investment in European club football. Inter became the seventh Serie A club under American ownership, while US investors now own nine of the English Premier League’s 20 clubs. What is driving this interest? And will it last?
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S40We polled EU citizens on what they want asylum policy to look like - their answers may surprise you The issues of migration and asylum are contentious in Europe, and have caused deep rifts among EU member states for years. These topics are fully on the agenda for the 2024 EU elections. Political parties have taken radically different stances, from proposing to triple the number of staff at Frontex, the EU’s border agency, to dissolving it entirely.In April, the European parliament passed its pact on migration and asylum, an overhaul of its migration policies nearly a decade in the making. The pact aims to improve immigration and control and asylum policy at the EU’s external borders, and make it easier to return failed applicants to their countries of origin.
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S41S42Hostile environment, Brexit and missed targets: 14 years of Tory immigration policy Migration is a top issue for some voters and candidates in the UK’s general election. The last 14 years of Conservative policy have introduced restrictive policies on both legal and irregular migration. And yet, net migration stands at 685,000, a near historic high.Since the Conservatives entered office in 2010 and introduced a pledge to reduce net migration, these targets have been part of the political conversation. The general election campaign so far suggests not much has changed.
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S43Sunak and Starmer's first TV debate: a tetchy PMQs where no one dared mention the F-word As it turned out, after stealing the limelight on the day, the man most notable by his absence at the first leaders’ TV debate of the 2024 election campaign was never even mentioned by name. Only in his closing statement did the prime minister find it necessary to aim an indirect blow at Nigel Farage, telling his ITV audience that a vote for any party other than the Conservatives would amount to a vote for Labour.Since their inception in 2010, these encounters on live TV have become familiar fixtures of the electoral ordeal, for leaders, advisers and viewers alike. They remain highly newsworthy, chiefly because Britain’s general elections are, even among people who understand the parliamentary system, regarded as “presidential” in nature. The focus is on the party leaders at every opportunity.
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S44Early childhood education was largely missing from the budget, undermining other education spending Despite a NZ$1 billion increase in spending on education in the 2024 budget, there was a noticeable absence of any substantial investment in early childhood education (ECE). This contrasts starkly with the money put aside for primary and secondary education, particularly in areas such as literacy.The budget allocates $191 million over four years for ECE, and $13 million to support play centres. By comparison, Labour set aside $1.8 billion for ECE over four years in its 2023 budget, expanding the 20-hours-free scheme to include children as young as two. This policy has since been repealed by the current government.
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S45Naira is in crisis but cryptocurrency isn't to blame - Nigeria needs consistent policy Cryptocurrency is a digital representation of a value or of a right. It can be transferred and stored electronically using distributed ledger technology. This is technology that allows multiple parties to share and update a common ledger (record) without relying on a central authority. Records of transactions are called blocks and they make up a blockchain. The origin of cryptocurrency can be traced to 1989 when DigiCash, a company in the Netherlands, launched a digital currency called “eCash”. Although eCash didn’t survive, it influenced blockchain developments. The first and the best known cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was launched in 2009 by an anonymous person or group using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Another is Ether, used on the Ethereum network. All other cryptocurrencies aside from Bitcoin are called Altcoins and each has unique features.
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S46eSafety commissioner drops court effort to force Elon Musk to put international ban on stabbing video The eSafety Commissioner has abandoned the legal case to try to force X – formerly Twitter – to remove footage of the April stabbing attack on a Sydney bishop from the platform worldwide. This follows a federal court ruling in May rejecting eSafety’s argument for a ban globally. The judge ruled such a ban would not be a “reasonable” step because it would likely “be ignored or disparaged in other countries”, and took issue with the attempt to regulate the global internet. eSafety had argued for a continuation of an earlier injunction in the case.
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S47Has the tide finally turned for Narendra Modi in India? Most pundits and exit polls predicted a big win for Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s massive six-week election that just came to a close. They were wrong. Instead, many voters in key battleground states cast their ballots for opposition parties, cutting the BJP’s tally of seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower hour of parliament, from 303 to 240.
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S48A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across the vast expanse of the universe. We call them “radio transients”: some erupt only once, never to be seen again, and others flicker on and off in predictable patterns.We think most radio transients come from rotating neutron stars known as pulsars, which emit regular flashes of radio waves, like cosmic lighthouses. Typically, these neutron stars spin at incredible speeds, taking mere seconds or even a fraction of a second to complete each rotation.
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S49Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer's election debate: an audience asking for a way out of hopelessness and getting nothing in response Two questions are commonly asked after televised election debates have taken place. The first is “who won?” This is the favourite question of journalists, pollsters and spin doctors. It is rooted in a conception of politics as battle, all the more exciting when there are metaphorical blood stains left on the TV studio wall.“Who won” evaluations focus on knockout blows, smart, pithy, memorable one-liners, gaffes and flash-poll verdicts. Behind the question is an assumption that a one-hour televised exchange of views might rewrite the electoral odds. Excitable party activists run around the press room during and immediately after the debate claiming that their leader stole the show. In truth, most studies of televised leaders’ debates around the world have reported that they rarely change viewers’ settled preferences.
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