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World’s Top Street Dance Competition Comes To Arab World For First Time

Text size Rhythmic beats echoed through the Tunis Opera Theatre stage as dancers faced off at the first-ever edition in the Arab world of a street dance tournament originating in Paris. This year’s Juste Debout is hosted in eight cities including London, New York, Beijing and Tokyo, as well as the Tunisian capital. Bruce Ykanji, […]

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Big Tech expands its reach with new startup acquisitions and investments

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week’s newsletter is about startups, but it is also about Big Tech companies expanding their reach, both through acquisitions and through investments. Most interesting startup stories

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They’re Already Thinking About An “Emilia Pérez” Broadway Musical

Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival(Photo: Frank Sun) Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s Golden Globe Award-winning Spanish-language musical comedy crime film, may be Broadway-bound. In a recent interview with The Ankler, Emilia Pérez composing team Camille and Clément Ducol shared their hopes to translate the screen project to

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Treasury sanctions Salt Typhoon hacking group behind breaches of major US telecom firms

The U.S. government has announced sanctions against a Chinese organization with links to Salt Typhoon, the hacking group responsible for the largest telecoms hack in U.S. history.  The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Friday that it had sanctioned a China-based cybersecurity company, known as Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, which it

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Getty Museums In L.A. Now Seen As “Beacon Of Fire Preparedness”

“The Center, which houses a sprawling collection in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a ‘marvel of anti-fire engineering.’ The Villa, which focuses on ancient Greek and Roman art, has a well-tuned anti-fire protocol that kept it intact amid the devastation (in) Pacific Palisades.” – The Washington Post (MSN) Source link

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Trump spoke to China’s President Xi about TikTok just ahead of Supreme Court ruling

Just ahead of today’s Supreme Court ruling — which saw the nation’s highest court uphold the law banning TikTok in the U.S. as of January 19 — Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had a “very good” phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping, which included discussion of TikTok. Though the U.S. president-elect

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Instabase raises $100M to help companies process unstructured document data

Instabase, a company that creates software for extracting processing unstructured data from myriad document types, has raised $100 million in a Series D round of funding. The announcement comes as companies struggle under a deluge of data — data that can unlock key business insights. Indeed, most of the data that companies generate is “unstructured,”

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Countertenor David Daniels Sues U. Michigan For Firing Him For Sexual Misconduct

DETROIT (AP) — An acclaimed opera singer fired by the University of Michigan in 2020 over allegations of sexual misconduct is suing school officials, claiming his rights were violated during the process. David Daniels is seeking an unspecified financial award. A lawyer for the university on Thursday urged a judge to throw out the lawsuit,

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