Chinese taxi service flies on Wall Street

Chinese taxi service flies on Wall Street

Photo: ANP Didi Global rose more than 56 percent on Monday in stock markets in New York. Investors have welcomed a report in the business newspaper The Wall Street Journal that Chinese officials will end their investigation into the taxi service this week. Uber’s competitor was, among other things, suspected of illegally collecting personal data from users and violating competition …

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Apps of the week: keep memories of your loved ones | NOW

Apps of the week: keep memories of your loved ones |  NOW

Keep memories of loved ones together and more opportunities to find your next Airbnb stay. These are the apps of the week. lalo The Lalo app aims to preserve your family history by saving memories with your friends and family. You can do this in the form of voice messages, videos, photos and texts. You can use Lalo to capture …

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US Proposes Plans to Boost Solar Power Generation | NOW

US Proposes Plans to Boost Solar Power Generation |  NOW

US President Joe Biden wants the US to produce more solar power in the years to come. To make this possible, Biden wants to take steps to dramatically increase the production of solar panels in the United States. It also does not introduce import duties on cheap panels from Southeast Asia at this time. The press service reports that Reuters† …

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Skiing legend Marcel Hirscher faces hell

Skiing legend Marcel Hirscher faces hell

New Multiple world ski champion Marcel Hirscher knows better than anyone how to descend a mountain. It remains to be seen how the Austrian sporting hero emerges during the Erzbergrodeo. Hirscher certainly didn’t step aside. Despite fifteen world titles and two Olympics, he has extremely realistic expectations for his first participation in the macabre Erzbergrodeo. “Every checkpoint is a success …

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Russian newspaper: Agreement on the supply of grain to Ukraine via Odessa

Russian newspaper: Agreement on the supply of grain to Ukraine via Odessa

Photo: ANP Ukraine will supply grain via the Black Sea from the hitherto banned port of Odessa. According to the Moscow-based newspaper Izvestia, according to Russian government sources, an agreement has been reached with Russia on distribution. Russia and Turkey are said to have agreed on a road map. In doing so, Turkey will clear the coastal area near Odessa …

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Irma Vep S01E01-02: beautiful game with stories

Irma Vep S01E01-02: beautiful game with stories

Photo credits: Warner Media In 1996, filmmaker Olivier Assayas made the feature film Irma Vepiabout an actress (Maggie Cheung) chosen for a remake of the French classic The vampires (1915). Cheung played a sort of fictionalized version of himself at the time. The eight-part Irma Vepi – which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival – is another remake of …

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A moon time capsule

A spider's web as an eardrum |  BNR news radio

After 50 years of waiting, researchers began opening and examining a special sample of the moon last March. Apollo 17 mission astronauts rammed a cylinder into the remnants of a landslide on the northern half of the moon in 1972 and safely returned the soil sample to Earth. Now, researchers are beginning to uncover the secrets of this lunar story …

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Donna Blue portrays a unique and idiosyncratic sense of time and space

Donna Blue portrays a unique and idiosyncratic sense of time and space

Rarely has a band name been so well represented in images and music as Donna Blue. “Donna is a character from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. And Blue is the feeling of melancholy and sadness, longing. You could also see the blue hour, the mystical transition from light to dark. And that is allowed, because Donna Blue represents a unique and …

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Hindu replacements of slaves commemorated each year: that’s how it is | NOW

Hindu replacements of slaves commemorated each year: that's how it is |  NOW

Every year on June 5, the Hindu-Surinamese community in the Netherlands and Suriname commemorates Prawas Din, Hindu Immigration Day. Here you can read why. On June 5, 1873, the first indentured laborers arrived from India† Pakistan and Bangladesh †former British India) by boat in Suriname. The Netherlands needed these “Hindoestanen”, a population group and not by definition followers of the …

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