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More room for the Flower Market to bloom

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Well before dawn, vans begin to pull up along Flower Market Road. Buckets of lilies and roses are lifted onto the street, ha...

Jan 15South China Morning Postlifestyle

UK PM Starmer says trade war in no one’s interest after Trump's tariff threats

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that US President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs against allies over Greenland is “completely wrong” and a trade war is in no one’s interest. Trump sa...

6dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Trump’s audacious imperialism will only propel China’s rise

US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been held up as an example of American military power. As Venezuela is not a producer of fentanyl – despite the United ...

Jan 13South China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Hong Kong’s Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao to cease operations in Canada

Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao is winding up its operations in Canada by the end of this month, marking the closure of all newsrooms run by the city’s major print publications in the North American coun...

Jan 13South China Morning Postworld_newsImpact

Read the memo TikTok's CEO sent staff after closing a deal to avoid a US ban

TikTok's CEO Shou Chew Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images TikTok has finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US. The deal, a US joint venture, involves a new set of investo...

2dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

Russian oil firm says it will keep its Venezuela assets after US military operation

Russia and Venezuela maintain a strategic partnership spanning energy, defense, and diplomacy. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images Russia's state-owned Roszarubezhneft says its Venezuelan oil assets belong t...

Jan 14Business InsiderPoliticsImpact

2 military influencers say they never planned to have an online following, but standard recruiting efforts weren't working

Tyler Butterworth (left) and John Howell (right) have built a following on social media as military influencers. Jake Gabbard / Business Insider Army soldiers Tyler Butterworth and John Howell use soc...

Jan 15Business InsidersocietyImpact

Costa Rica builds new mega-prison modelled on El Salvador jail

El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a prison in Costa Rica modeled on his own CECOT mega-jail that rights groups say is the setting for serious...

Jan 16France 24PoliticsImpact

European reliance on US software: A digital sovereignty challenge

The standoff between the US and the EU over Greenland has heightened existing European concerns about over-dependence on the United States, particularly in the digital sector, with French President Em...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Satellite images of the secretive US military base at the center of a new Trump controversy

Satellite imagery from 2025 shows bombers and aircraft at Diego Garcia. Planet Labs PBC President Trump is criticizing a UK decision that could affect US operations on Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia has b...

4dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

YouTube is reaching a 'tipping point' in convincing advertisers it really is TV

Mr Beast and Rob Gronkowski attended YouTube's 2025 Brandcast event, where it pitched an audience of ad buyers in New York City. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images YouTube's pitch for TV advertising budge...

6dBusiness InsiderTechnology

This plugin uses Wikipedia’s AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human

A new tool aims to help AI chatbots generate more human-sounding text - with the help of Wikipedia's guide for detecting AI, as reported by Ars Technica . Developer Siqi Chen says he created the tool,...

3dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Congress doesn’t seem to know if the TikTok deal complies with its law

TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don't seem to know what's going on . The ...

2dThe VergePoliticsImpact

Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes

Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can "verify that Ring videos you receive haven't been edited or changed." But since Ring won't verify videos that have been altered in an...

2dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses

Your YouTube Shorts feed might soon be filled with a lot more AI-generated content from your favorite creators - including AI-generated versions of the creators themselves. In his annual letter releas...

4dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube

YouTube is now home to the "largest digital library of Sesame Street content" with the arrival of over a hundred older, "classic" episodes of the show, as first announced last year . YouTube's collect...

Jan 15The VergeEntertainmentImpact

In my 60s, I sold the home I raised my son in and took a job on a cruise ship. It gave me the freedom I needed.

The author sold her house and took a job as a cruise photographer. Courtesy of the author With my son grown and debt rising, I realized my longtime home no longer supported the life I wanted. Selling ...

Jan 18Business InsiderlifestyleImpact

Amazon’s New World: Aeternum MMO will shut down next year

Amazon has announced that the servers for New World: Aeternum , one of the company's MMOs, will be shut down on January 31st, 2027. The game will also be delisted and no longer available for purchase ...

Jan 15The VergeTechnologyImpact

What TikTok’s new owners mean for your feed

TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd , ByteDance - TikTok's Chinese parent company - and a group of investors...

2dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

Netflix’s Star Search will let you vote to decide who wins

Though Netflix's upcoming Star Search reboot will feature a panel of celebrity judges, viewers are going to have a hand in choosing which contestants win the competition. Ahead of Star Search 's premi...

5dThe VergeEntertainmentImpact
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