Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel

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Those Virus Sequences That Were Suddenly Deleted? They’re Back

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China's top court issues new guidelines that hotels, airports, and other commercial venues must get consent from customers to use facial recognition from Aug. 1 (Eva Dou/Washington Post)

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China's top court issues new guidelines that hotels, airports, and other commercial venues must get consent from customers to use facial recognition from Aug. 1  —  Guo Bing, a law professor in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, liked the zoo enough to purchase an annual pass.

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Simone Biles Gets the Yips. She Is Not Alone.

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House Democrats Call for C.D.C. to Expand Eviction Moratorium

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What to Do This Weekend

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Florida’s governor plans to sign an order ‘protecting the rights of parents’ on masks in schools.

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From ‘Call My Agent!’ to Hollywood Career

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Biden’s Renewed Drive Against Covid

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In BMX racing, danger is never far from the lead.

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Lakers’ Russell Westbrook Deal Shifts Power Back to Los Angeles

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As patients stream into a Covid I.C.U. in Florida, hopes fade.

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Guggenheim Museum Curators Move to Join a Union

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Safari's extremely slow pace in adopting popular features and fixing showstopping bugs, and refusal to engage with contentious API proposals, is harming the web (Tim Perry/HTTP Toolkit)

Tim Perry / HTTP Toolkit:
Safari's extremely slow pace in adopting popular features and fixing showstopping bugs, and refusal to engage with contentious API proposals, is harming the web  —  There's been a lot of discussion recently about how “Safari is the new IE” (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).  —  I don't want to rehash …

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European banks would survive a worst-case-scenario downturn, a stress test finds.

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What Should I Do With My White Privilege at Work?

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Devastation Grips California as Dixie Fire Burns

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New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’

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The U.S. authorities are seeking documents from a troubled Covid vaccine manufacturer

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Mexican softball players apologize for tossing team gear.

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Woman charged for disturbing Yellowstone mother grizzly

A woman faces wildlife endangerment charges for a close call with a mother grizzly in Yellowstone.

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Russia stops Cubans trying to enter EU by air bed

Three Cubans caught trying to cross a river into Estonia are said to have been heading for Spain.

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Germany to allow institutional funds, which currently manage a total of ~$2.1T, to hold up to 20% of their holdings in Bitcoin and other crypto assets (Stephan Kahl/Bloomberg)

Stephan Kahl / Bloomberg:
Germany to allow institutional funds, which currently manage a total of ~$2.1T, to hold up to 20% of their holdings in Bitcoin and other crypto assets  —  - Law would let billions of euros flow into crypto assets  — Spezialfonds effected currently manage 1.8 trillion euros

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The Biden administration wants states and cities to pay people $100 to get vaccinated.

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A look at Turkey's aggressive regulatory stance towards Google, like banning shopping search ads, which some attribute to Erdogan's authoritarian leadership (New York Times)

New York Times:
A look at Turkey's aggressive regulatory stance towards Google, like banning shopping search ads, which some attribute to Erdogan's authoritarian leadership  —  The antitrust backlash against Big Tech is playing out in places not known as regulatory hotbeds.

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Biden to nominate a Cuban American Democrat to be the U.S. ambassador to O.A.S.

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How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back

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Senate Agrees on $1 Trillion Infrastructure Deal

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Watch Live: Biden Outlines Next Steps in Coronavirus Vaccine Efforts

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Like other families of Olympians, Sunisa Lee’s relatives are cheering (and crying) from afar.

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California Wine Country Rebuilds as Threats Persist

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China’s sports machine’s single goal: the most golds, at any cost.

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Electric Utilities, Formed Decades Ago, Struggle to Meet Climate Crisis

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Hedge Fund Buys Paper. Hedge Fund Closes Paper.

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Budget watchdog group warns bipartisan infrastructure deal may fall short on funding.

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A poultry producer and four executives are charged in a chicken price-fixing case.

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Activision, Facing Internal Turmoil, Grapples With #MeToo Reckoning

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Israel will give third Covid vaccine shots to those over 60.

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Masks are mandated indoors in Washington, D.C., as localities grapple with revised federal guidance.

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The Senate unanimously passes a $2.1 billion emergency spending bill to secure the Capitol and aid Afghan refugees.

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Italy’s Mr. Fix-It Tries to Fix the Country’s Troubled Justice System — and Its Politics, Too

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What’s in Our Queue? Mario and More

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Theodore McCarrick: Defrocked US cardinal charged with assault and battery

Theodore McCarrick is believed to be the highest-ranking US Catholic to face criminal abuse charges.

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Merqueo, which operates an online supermarket in more than 25 cities in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $85M (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Merqueo, which operates an online supermarket in more than 25 cities in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $85M  —  Merqueo, which operates a full-stack, on-demand delivery service in Latin America, has landed $50 million in a Series C round of funding.

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A job listing shows that Google is considering making Stadia the backend of other "interactive streaming platforms" as a white-label option (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
A job listing shows that Google is considering making Stadia the backend of other “interactive streaming platforms” as a white-label option  —  After closing its in-house Stadia Games & Entertainment studios earlier this year, many have wondered what the future of Google's game streaming ambitions will look like.

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Voiceflow, a Canada-based SaaS platform that lets companies launch their own voice and chat bots, raises $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures (Igor Bosilkovski/Forbes)

Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes:
Voiceflow, a Canada-based SaaS platform that lets companies launch their own voice and chat bots, raises $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures  —  Canadian collaborative conversational AI tool Voiceflow announced today that it has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Felicis Ventures.

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