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Southern Brazil has been hit by the worst floods in more than 80 years. At least 39 people have died 05/04/2024 04:23pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul killed 39 people, with another 68 still missing, the state civil defense agency said Friday, as record-breaking floods devastated cities and forced thousands to leave their homes. It was the fourth such environmenta Google, Justice Department make final arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly 05/03/2024 07:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Google's preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition, Justice Department lawyers argued at the closings of a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit. Google, on the other hand, A Chinese flavor of rap music is flourishing as emerging musicians find their voices 05/03/2024 03:28am • CHENGDU, China (AP) ��� In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature artists with tattoos and those who represent hip-hop or any other subculture. Right after that well-known rapper GAI missed a gig on a popular singing compe As hip-hop grows in China, its performers seek a voice that reflects their lived experiences 05/03/2024 12:44am • CHENGDU, China (AP) ��� In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature artists with tattoos and those who represent hip-hop or any other subculture. Right after that, a well-known rapper, GAI, missed a gig on a popular singing E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it 05/02/2024 10:09pm • HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) ��� Dam Chan Nguyen saves dead and dying computers. When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat Tao market, Ho Chi Minh City���s biggest informal recycling market, he usually salvaged computers with bulky monitors and heavy processors. Now he works mostly wit Judge in landmark antitrust case grills Google, Justice during closing arguments 05/02/2024 06:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The judge overseeing a pivotal antitrust trial focused on whether Google is stifling competition and innovation repeatedly indicated Thursday that he believes it would be difficult for a formidable rival search engine to emerge. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta went back and forth OneSpan: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 05/02/2024 04:22pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� BOSTON (AP) ��� OneSpan Inc. (OSPN) on Thursday reported earnings of $13.5 million in its first quarter. The Boston-based company said it had net income of 35 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 43 cents per share. The internet security company p Thousands rally in Slovakia to protest a controversial overhaul of public broadcasting 05/02/2024 01:59pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Thousands of Slovaks rallied in the capital on Thursday to protest ��� again ��� a controversial overhaul of the country���s public radio and television services, a move that critics say would result in the government taking full control of the media. The coalition gove Broadband internet services are disrupted in most parts of Nepal 05/02/2024 09:54am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� Broadband internet was disrupted in many parts of Nepal on Thursday as Indian vendors from whom most Nepali private operators source the bandwidth stopped providing the services because of payment defaults. Private internet service providers in Nepal issued notices saying t How to Find a Mentor in College 05/01/2024 08:00pm • Adjusting to college life can be challenging as students navigate living alone for the first time. However, mentors -- who can be faculty, staff members, peers or alumni -- can provide advice and guidance about campus life, academic tracks and career paths. Mentors may also help students differentia Google and Apple now threatened by the US antitrust laws that helped build their technology empires 05/01/2024 09:02am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� The U.S. Justice Department's double-barreled antitrust attack on Google's dominant search and Apple's trendsetting iPhone is reviving memories of the epic battle that hobbled Microsoft before it roared back to yet again become the world's most valuable company. The parallels Phones, Islamic books and currency exchange. Some businesses are making money out of Taliban rule 05/01/2024 04:05am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� Yunis Safi, a businessman in Kabul, knows very well the importance of showing off your phone if you want something done. ���In Afghanistan, your phone is your personality,��� he said, smiling, a jewel-encrusted ring on each hand. One boasts an emerald, the other a fat Rus 5 of the Best Stocks to Buy Now 04/30/2024 08:00pm • After a relentless run-up over the past year, the stock market started to cool off in April. Increasingly, investors are growing preoccupied about various macroeconomic concerns. For example, persistently elevated levels of inflation are casting doubt on the Federal Reserve's planned 2024 rate cuts. Lawmakers and advocates make last-ditch push to extend affordable internet subsidy 04/30/2024 03:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Twenty-three million families in the U.S. will have bigger internet bills starting in May. That's because a federal broadband subsidy program they're enrolled in is nearly out of money. Dozens of people joined Biden administration officials, advocates and U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, Deepfake of principal's voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm 04/30/2024 02:19pm • The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged last week from a Maryland high school, where police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice. The case is yet another reason why everyone ��� not just politicians and celebrities ��� should be conce