Several Chinese social media platforms including Sina Weibo, WeChat and Douyin have banned an internet influencer’s account for fabricating a false video claiming to have found a student’s lost booklets of homework in Paris, which has seriously “damaged the online ecosystem and wasted public resources.” ThurmanMaoyibei, the 29-year-old female internet influencer surnamed Xu, is from Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province, and has more than 10 million followers. On February 16, she posted...
The Washington Wizards set out to lose this season, and that they accomplished, finishing with a 15-67 record, second only to the 14-68 Detroit Pistons for the worst record in the NBA.
As City and Chelsea square off in the FA Cup quarterfinals Palmer has the
Smartphone demand in India remained strong in the opening quarter of 2024, with four of the top five vendors recording year-on-year growth driven by aggressive pricing for premium models, data from Canalys showed.
The popular Chinese app TikTok may soon be banned in the U.S. as a measure to outlaw it is on its way to President Biden for his signature.
The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where
Shafaqna English- As a rport by Anadolu Ajansı, Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen, the current Formula One champion, clinched victory in the 2024 Formula One World Championship’s fifth round at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday. The Dutch driver, who secured pole position, completed the 56-lap race in 1 hour
Not only is the 2024 presidential election weirder than we imagine, but it is weirder than we can imagine. Former President Donald Trump enjoys an insurmountable 22-point lead among people who don't vote. Presidentish Joe Biden has an insurmountable nine-point lead among those who do. This is all according to Interactive Polls.
The Oakland A’s are baseball’s biggest losers. But their new temporary home—West Sacramento—is one of California’s greatest winners. No California city has had a better 21st century than West Sacramento. The municipality of 54,000 people has grown in population and prosperity with striking speed, even as California has stagnated on both fronts. The A’s will spend three years, 2025 through 2027, in West Sacramento’s minor league ballpark as the team waits for a new stadium to be built in their...
Taylor Swift is the biggest star in the world, and The Tortured Poets Department is, so far, the biggest album of the year. Those facts can be proven in numerical terms: the record-breaking tour, the record-breaking concert film, the record-breaking vinyl sales, the record-breaking streaming numbers. But feelings, to flip a phrase from professional conservative complainer Ben Shapiro, don’t care about facts. Though Swift is indisputably on top, her fans still feel the need to protect Swift from...
OnePlus has angered retailers in India – the Organized Retailers Association (ORA) represents 4,300 brick and mortar stores and it announced that it would ban its members from selling OnePlus products from May 1. And this might be just the tip of the iceberg. The much larger All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA), which represents more than 150,000 stores, is considering a similar ban. What did OnePlus do to upset store owners? The retailers accuse the phone maker of not supplying...
Doctors, confused about how to practice medicine under Idaho’s abortion ban, pleaded with state legislators for a solution. by Kyle Pfannenstiel, Idaho Capital Sun Idaho, already in a doctor shortage, is losing doctors who specialize in obstetrics and gynecology. In a presentation at the Idaho State Capitol Building on Wednesday, Idaho medical leaders say the workforce shortage is exacerbated by doctors’ confusion about how to practice medicine under Idaho’s abortion ban that only...