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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Acquired LIVE event at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Listeners heard how Meta is playing a big role in defining the next decade of computing with AI. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Spotify, Meta and others blast EU’s decision-making on AI and data privacy

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – JUNE 26: Fans look on during the MrBeast Feastables launch at Sydney Opera House on June 26, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)

MrBeast named in lawsuit claiming participants in his $5 million ‘Beast Games’ show were exploited and sexually harassed

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This illustration photo shows the trailer for the game “Palworld” being played on a screen behind a smartphone showing the PocketPair website, in Los Angeles, January 22, 2024. PocketPair, the studio behind the “Palworld” game – dubbed “Pokemon with Guns” by the public – claimed on X (formerly Twitter) on January 22 to have sold over 5 million copies in just three days. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Nintendo accuses developer of hit game nicknamed ‘Pokémon with guns’ of patent infringement

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An Airbus SE A330 aircraft operated by Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. flies in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. Deformed or degraded fuel lines are suspected to be the reason Cathay Pacific has canceled multiple Airbus A350 flights for fleet-wide precautionary checks, according to two people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Yik Yeung-man/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Cathay Pacific’s Airbus defect risked ‘extensive damage’ if left unaddressed, says Hong Kong probe

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FILE – Colorful Tupperware products are seen in Bellflower, Calif. on Aug. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Garrett Cheen, File)

Tupperware party fades as iconic food container firm files for bankruptcy

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The United States Steel Corp. Clairton Coke Works facility in Clairton, Pennsylvania, US, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. United States Steel Corp. faces the prospect of being broken apart and sold in parts if Nippon Steel Corp.’s $14.1 billion takeover fails. Photographer: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Japan’s Nippon Steel gets 3 month reprieve as Washington pushes review of U.S. Steel bid past the election

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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – NOVEMBER 07: A Miss America crown is on display at Schoppy’s Trophies where they are filming a documentary about the history of Miss America and Atlantic City on November 7, 2020 in Linwood, New Jersey. (Photo by Donald Kravitz/Getty Images)

Miss America and Miss World pageants accused of discrimination by candidate disqualified for being a mother

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TOPSHOT – Union members react as Aerospace Machinists District 751 President Jon Holden (out of frame) announces that union members rejected a proposed Boeing contract and will go on strike, following voting results at their union hall in Seattle, Washington, on September 12, 2024. Boeing workers in the Seattle region overwhelmingly voted to strike on September 12, rejecting a contract the embattled aviation giant characterized as a boon for staff given the company’s stressed financial condition. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Boeing and machinists union resume talks after 33,000 workers go on strike and shutter Seattle plants

By Yehyun Kim, John Biers, and others

US Attorney General Merrick Garland (C), with FBI Director Christopher Wray (R) and US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco (L), speaks at the beginning of a meeting of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force at the Justice Department in Washington, DC on September 4, 2024. The US indicted two employees of Russia’s RT and imposed sanctions on top editors of the state-funded news outlet, accusing them of seeking to influence the 2024 US presidential election. Garland, chairing the meeting, said two Russia-based RT employees have been indicted in New York for money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Meta is banning Russian state media outlets like RT from its apps everywhere for engaging in political interference campaigns

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Fang Hongbo, chairman and chief executive officer of Midea Group Co., during the company’s listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. Shares of Chinese appliance maker Midea rose in their Hong Kong debut after the city’s biggest listing in three years saw robust demand and revived hopes of a turnaround for its struggling market. Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Shares in Midea, one of the world’s largest sellers of home appliances, surge in Hong Kong after city’s largest IPO in 3 years

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Amazon's Echo Spot device

A man with ALS can control Amazon’s Alexa with his mind using a brain implant

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Taylor Swift poses

Swifties use Trump’s ‘I Hate Taylor’ tweet to raise thousands for Harris

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SHANGHAI, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 16: Pedestrians struggle with their umbrellas in strong winds and rain brought by typhoon Bebinca on the Nanjing East Road pedestrian street on September 16, 2024 in Shanghai, China. Bebinca, the 13th typhoon of this year, made landfall in Shanghai at about 7:30 a.m. on September 16. (Photo by Yin Liqin/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

Shanghai battered by Typhoon Bebinca, the strongest storm since 1949: ‘If I step out…I can barely speak’

By Rebecca Bailey and AFP

A cow on the banks of the Mornos reservoir during low water levels, near the village of Lidoriki, Greece, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. Low water levels caused by low rainfall have revealed buildings from the former village of Kallio, submerged in the late 1970s, when the Mornos dam was built to supply Athens with water. Photographer: Nick Paleologos/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Once vibrant, now desolate: Drought ravages Greece’s lakes, leaving a lifeless landscape

By Vassilis Kyriakoulis and AFP

FUYANG, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 – Elderly people relax at a park on the Forest Belt Road in Yingzhou district of Fuyang city, East China’s Anhui province, Sept 13, 2024. On the same day, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress voted to implement the decision to gradually raise the statutory retirement age. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Chinese grumble about Beijing’s decision to hike the retirement age: ‘I’ll just have to bear the three extra years of work’

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