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    As AIs become part of everyday life, the pressure to give them rights will mount. But this might help bring about the most disastrous consequences for everyone on Earth and all their descendants bit.ly/4qqIfLd
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    In the past decade, listening bars have sprung up in the West, South America and Africa. Register for free to discover why this Japanese tradition has a found a new groove
    A diptych of two images of Space Talk, a new Listening Bar in Farringdon, London.
    Japan’s music cafés are striking a chord abroad
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    Why did so many Americans die from covid relative to the numbers who succumbed in other rich countries? Understanding the answer would seem relevant to guarding against the next, inevitable pandemic: bit.ly/3S1EqPV Illustration: David Simonds
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    Peter Navarro, America’s chief trade ideologue, has provided yet another illustration of the mess his boss’s attack on the global trading order has created
    A shipping container labeled ''China Shipping'' is seen on the back of a truck waiting to be unloaded and stacked in the Port of Seattle in Seattle, Washington, USA.
    The White House’s absurd claim of a Chinese transshipment “scam” 
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    In reality, many of South Africa’s municipalities—responsible for running basic services—do not balance the books. Money is wasted or stolen. Residents are unhappy and worse off
    Township housing in Mooi River, Mfona, South Africa
    State capture is holding back South Africa
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