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2022 July
7/31/2022 - Daily Brief:中国ロケットへのブーイング
7/31/2022 - 🌍 China’s uncontrolled rocket debris
7/31/2022 - US wages show the economy is still very strong
7/31/2022 - ✦ An awareness breakthrough
7/31/2022 - Nigeria's Tems leads soundtrack for Black Panther sequel
7/30/2022 - MTV’s new Video Music Awards category is opening the gate for virtual stars
7/30/2022 - Are we there yet?
7/29/2022 - The Zelenskyys' Vogue cover story is a brilliant war tactic
7/29/2022 - Direct indexing: Indulge in what you want
7/29/2022 - Sex pods: Like covid pods, but for monkeypox
7/29/2022 - Why Proton is lobbying against Apple and Google’s app store monopolies
7/29/2022 - Ola chief says a report of merger talks with Uber is "absolute rubbish"
7/29/2022 - The Ukraine war is enriching oil company shareholders
7/29/2022 - Weekend:気候非常事態に意味はあるか
7/29/2022 - 🌎 Down but not out
7/29/2022 - Why can’t we have legs in the metaverse?
7/29/2022 - India was the top beneficiary of trade aid from developed economies in 2020
7/29/2022 - The Tatas helped provide wifi at more than 4,000 Indian railways stations as “charity”
7/28/2022 - Daily Brief:ジャック・マーとビヨンセ
7/28/2022 - 🌎 The Ant and the Bey
7/28/2022 - Trader Joe's just got its first union
7/28/2022 - Inside the first private mission to Mars
7/28/2022 - Do you know how pay works at your company?
7/28/2022 - Inflation is making McDonald's breakfast a success
7/28/2022 - Can Manchin's reversal save global tax reform, too?
7/28/2022 - US GDP shrank for the second straight quarter. How worried should we be?
7/28/2022 - Aspiring midwives of color are mainly motivated by racism witnessed during childbirth
7/28/2022 - Yes, Abercrombie is back and its new look involves a lot of going out dresses
7/28/2022 - Congress is finally realizing that clean energy fights inflation
7/28/2022 - Kenya is facing a shortage of small-denomination banknotes due to voter bribery
7/28/2022 - The critical minerals industry desperately needs new engineers
7/28/2022 - 🌎 What's next for interest rates?
7/28/2022 - ✦ Cracking Ethiopia's delivery market
7/28/2022 - Why Chinese smartphone brand Honor isn't exactly abandoning India
7/28/2022 - 🌎 Prices ⬆️ for EU gas, Quest 2, and McNuggets
7/27/2022 - Daily Brief:欧州の天然ガス価格が高騰
7/27/2022 - 🌎 Prices ⬆️ for EU gas, Quest 2, and McNuggets
7/27/2022 - The Fed to markets: Don't expect us to tell you what comes next
7/27/2022 - Inside the first private mission to Mars
7/27/2022 - The White House will lower gas prices today by purchasing oil tomorrow
7/27/2022 - Leading the "Wakanda Forever" soundtrack caps a stunning rise for Nigeria’s Tems
7/27/2022 - Are Starbucks and Chipotle union-busting by closing stores?
7/27/2022 - サル痘をめぐるLGBTQ+の自助
7/27/2022 - 🌎 Shopify lost a bet
7/27/2022 - India is tapping blockchain technology for overseas payments
7/27/2022 - Indians are worried about being able to afford less over the next five years
7/26/2022 - Daily Brief:ロシアは「宇宙」が欲しい
7/26/2022 - 🌎 Russia wants some space
7/26/2022 - Why is Meta raising the price of its Quest 2 headset now?
7/26/2022 - A brief history of Russia leaving the International Space Station
7/26/2022 - Why Americans keep splurging even as they turn sour on the economy
7/26/2022 - How New York City restaurants are pulling off Restaurant Week at a time of record inflation
7/26/2022 - Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection
7/26/2022 - Here are all the countries taking a second look at nuclear
7/26/2022 - 🌎 Walmart's profit warning
7/26/2022 - Europe isn't ready for mandatory gas rationing—yet
7/26/2022 - Health experts want big pharma to manufacture drugs in Africa
7/26/2022 - Africa:メタの「口封じ」に非難殺到
7/25/2022 - Daily Brief:欧州、ガス不足に四苦八苦
7/25/2022 - 🌎 A Nord Stream curtail
7/25/2022 - A trace of polio in New York sewers could help the global transition to safer vaccines
7/25/2022 - Google’s new smart glasses won’t make you look like a creepy cyborg
7/25/2022 - How unions could help solve housing and debt crises, too
7/25/2022 - A Nigerian is now the fastest female hurdler ever, partly due to long-distance shoes
7/25/2022 - Climate:エアコンの地政学
7/25/2022 - 🌎 The next phase of monkeypox
7/25/2022 - Some Chinese employers are discriminating against covid survivors
7/25/2022 - Even Domino’s thinks Zomato and Swiggy’s commissions are too high
7/25/2022 - 🌎 The next phase of monkeypox
7/24/2022 - Daily Brief:サル痘、緊急事態宣言
7/24/2022 - 🌎 The next phase of monkeypox
7/24/2022 - How New York City restaurants are pulling off Restaurant Week at a time of record inflation
7/24/2022 - Meta under fire for allegedly gagging Daniel Motaung
7/23/2022 - ✦ We do declare
7/22/2022 - Twitter is blaming Elon Musk for its poor second-quarter results
7/22/2022 - In the UK, design is still largely a man’s job
7/22/2022 - Weekend:解説「新興国デフォルト」の連鎖
7/22/2022 - 🌎 Dr. Amazon will see you now
7/22/2022 - The US economy’s recovery from covid helped boost remittances to India
7/22/2022 - 🌍 Release the grain
7/21/2022 - The US’s first crypto insider-trading case could mean serious trouble for Coinbase
7/21/2022 - Daily Brief:ついに解禁、ウクライナ穀物輸出
7/21/2022 - Is Netflix’s best hope an acquisition by Microsoft?
7/21/2022 - Corporate greenwashing is getting harder to spot—here’s how to do it
7/21/2022 - New York’s LGBTQ community is facing a severe monkeypox vaccine shortage
7/21/2022 - Nearly 90% of American homes are now using AC
7/21/2022 - Why investors love GameStop’s stock split
7/21/2022 - Droupadi Murmu will be the new president of India
7/21/2022 - Global rights groups want Meta to stop gagging South African whistleblower
7/21/2022 - NASA is going back to the Moon
7/21/2022 - Obsession:暗黒のサマーキャンプ
7/21/2022 - 🌎 Tesla slows down
7/21/2022 - Local funding for early-stage startups is taking off in Africa
7/21/2022 - Global internet giants urge India to let them handle grievances with “expertise”
7/21/2022 - Future Group’s retail arm to face insolvency proceedings amid its tussle with Amazon
7/21/2022 - China’s next recession may be lurking on its balance sheets
7/21/2022 - Cheetahs to return to India after 70 years
7/21/2022 - IIT Bombay students won’t accept a 35% fee hike without a fight
7/21/2022 - Think the US Fed has a tough job? The ECB’s Lagarde has it worse
7/21/2022 - 🌎 EU says use less gas
7/20/2022 - Tesla’s supply chain struggles forced it to sell off 75% of its bitcoin
7/20/2022 - Daily Brief:EU、ガス節約
7/20/2022 - Pet grooming
7/20/2022 - A US judge ordered Glassdoor to disclose the identities of anonymous online reviewers
7/20/2022 - Climate emergency declarations already cover 14% of the global population
7/20/2022 - Why Hollywood’s obsession with the 1980s should fastforward to the 1990s
7/20/2022 - Designers are racing to digitize Hong Kong’s disappearing street typography
7/20/2022 - A climate emergency declaration won’t fix America’s climate problem
7/20/2022 - Financing Africa’s $100 billion annual infrastructure gap just got trickier
7/20/2022 - The Memo: The ever-evolving conversation about burnout
7/20/2022 - Africa:闇市に流出した子ども向けタブレット
7/20/2022 - 🌎 Twitter: 1, Elon: 0
7/20/2022 - The rapid growth of crypto mining is threatening to slow the US clean energy transition
7/20/2022 - The NCAA is realigning around two super-conferences
7/20/2022 - ✦ Using gaming to tame betting addiction
7/20/2022 - Not every country—not even Russia—may be ready to settle trade in Indian rupees
7/20/2022 - India’s ponds and lakes are witnessing mass fish death
7/20/2022 - The US was the top destination of Indians who gave up their citizenship in 2021
7/20/2022 - 🌎 Twitter: 1 Elon: 0
7/19/2022 - Daily Brief:Twitter、マスクに先勝
7/19/2022 - Twitter has won the first leg of its legal battle with Elon Musk
7/19/2022 - In New York City, a six-figure salary can qualify you for affordable housing
7/19/2022 - Feature:③ 保存版・IPCC報告書を全部読む
7/19/2022 - 🌎 Yellen advocates friendshoring
7/19/2022 - This €110 million VC fund for Africa is now prioritizing startups that can break even quickly
7/19/2022 - Iceland is bringing back the forests razed by Vikings
7/19/2022 - The James Webb Space Telescope images aren’t what your eyes would see. But that makes them science, not faked
7/19/2022 - Nyama choma, Bongo Flava, and daladala are now in the Oxford English dictionary
7/19/2022 - Employers are giving workers the WFH days they want
7/19/2022 - India’s aviation regulator has given airlines ten days to fix flight glitches
7/19/2022 - India’s latest GST revisions will worsen the problem of high inflation
7/19/2022 - 🌍 Europe strikes energy deals
7/18/2022 - Daily Brief:欧州、熱波が深刻化
7/18/2022 - 🌍 Europe strikes energy deals
7/18/2022 - What interest rates look like around the globe and where they’re going
7/18/2022 - Mastercard may have disabled African virtual dollar cards due to fraud claims
7/18/2022 - Europe isn’t ready for this heat wave
7/18/2022 - How AfCFTA can boost Africa’s cultural economy
7/18/2022 - What the newest high-end AR devices will cost
7/18/2022 - How Wave rose to become Francophone Africa’s first unicorn
7/18/2022 - 🌍 Europe feels the heat
7/17/2022 - The IMF says it will cut its global growth outlook again
7/17/2022 - Kenya’s school tablets are now being sold in Uganda’s black market
7/17/2022 - Why Unicode is approving fewer and fewer new emoji
7/17/2022 - How the creator of World Emoji Day is celebrating the “holiday”
7/16/2022 - Climate change is causing a mustard shortage in France
7/16/2022 - ✦ An emerging crisis
7/15/2022 - 18 million kids didn’t get any vaccines in 2021
7/15/2022 - Russia has its own grade of crude oil—and its price is languishing
7/15/2022 - Find the closest unionized Starbucks to you with this map
7/15/2022 - Despite inflation and recession worries, Americans are spending again
7/15/2022 - Feature:② 保存版・IPCC報告書を全部読む
7/15/2022 - Here’s how much US emissions have cost every country on earth
7/15/2022 - 🌍 China’s growth slows
7/15/2022 - Meta’s AI can now translate more African languages, helping create a more inclusive internet
7/15/2022 - Netflix’s Emmy nomination for “Squid Game” is validation of its global investments
7/15/2022 - The US and UAE are spending billions in India to fight global food insecurity
7/15/2022 - Female police officers make it easier for India’s women to access justice
7/15/2022 - The Indian rupee is not the worst performing currency in Asia—yet
7/15/2022 - The Tatas and Adanis illegally extracted groundwater but India has let them off the hook
7/15/2022 - 🌍 A new UK leadership frontrunner
7/14/2022 - Daily Brief:中国で広がる住宅ローンボイコット
7/14/2022 - DoorDash will increase subtotal minimums for US subscribers
7/14/2022 - TSMC’s great quarter is bad news for semiconductor supply chains
7/14/2022 - Pritzker Prize winning architect Francis Kéré on what the West still gets wrong about Africa
7/14/2022 - Feature:保存版・IPCC報告書を全部読む ①
7/14/2022 - Engineers need better tools to design spacecraft and robots more quickly
7/14/2022 - Ghana is seeking the IMF’s bailout as inflation spikes
7/14/2022 - What’s the best case—OK, least bad—scenario for Twitter?
7/14/2022 - China’s Vivo is once again free to make its $355 million monthly payments in India
7/14/2022 - A rural banking crisis is brewing in China
7/14/2022 - 🌍 Sri Lankan military called to restore order
7/13/2022 - Daily Brief:スリランカで非常事態宣言
7/13/2022 - The White House’s BA.5 variant plan is to do everything that didn’t work before
7/13/2022 - The euro may be historically cheap, but your European vacation won’t be
7/13/2022 - Amazon warehouses aren’t just unionizing—they’re upending labor organizing in the process
7/13/2022 - Industrial policy
7/13/2022 - Prices in the US soared again last month, with inflation at a 40-year high
7/13/2022 - Covid was twice as deadly in poor countries as in rich ones
7/13/2022 - The G7 is playing catch-up with China in Africa
7/13/2022 - Kids’ mental health and the needs of working parents
7/13/2022 - Africa:告発されたユニコーン
7/13/2022 - An Indian startup has lost its plea for “direct access” to the world’s largest selling biscuits
7/13/2022 - Employee anger is now adding to Indian aviation’s air safety troubles
7/13/2022 - ✦ The informal retailers driving Africa’s economy
7/13/2022 - Tablets from Kenya’s failed digital literacy program are now being sold in Uganda’s black market
7/13/2022 - 🌍 Then there were eight
7/12/2022 - Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa escapes to the Maldives
7/12/2022 - Daily Brief:クロアチア、ユーロ圏になる
7/12/2022 - Twitter has sued Elon Musk to complete the terms of his takeover
7/12/2022 - There’s not much oil left for Joe Biden to find
7/12/2022 - The coming chickpea shortage could affect far more than hummus
7/12/2022 - The Euro-US dollar exchange rate has parity for the first time in two decades
7/12/2022 - Popsicles shaped like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos allow you to “eat the rich”
7/12/2022 - See the first five scientific images from the James Webb Space Telescope
7/12/2022 - What parents—and their bosses—need to know about children’s mental health
7/12/2022 - The share of active crypto traders among Nigerian adults is the world’s highest
7/12/2022 - Forecast:メタバースで「職業訓練」がアツい
7/12/2022 - As costs rise, buy now pay later plans are increasingly attractive
7/12/2022 - The battle of who wants to own Twitter less
7/12/2022 - India wants to save its forex reserves by allowing trade settlements in rupees
7/12/2022 - Why Facebook took a Bengaluru-based cake shop to court
7/12/2022 - 🌍 A picture 13 billion years in the making
7/11/2022 - Daily Brief:ダウニング街10番地の11人
7/11/2022 - 🌍 A picture 13 billion years in the making
7/11/2022 - Here’s the first, high-resolution image of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope
7/11/2022 - The pill is finally on its way to be over-the-counter in the US
7/11/2022 - Rumors of the death of movie theaters were greatly exaggerated
7/11/2022 - Warren Buffett’s big bets on oil are betraying the climate
7/11/2022 - Europe’s best defense against Russia’s gas squeeze is looking vulnerable
7/11/2022 - Climate:太陽光発電にいま起きていること
7/11/2022 - How a fake Indian Premier League fooled Russian punters
7/11/2022 - India is set to surpass China in 2023 as the world’s most populous nation
7/11/2022 - India is seeking help from students and startups to curb onion prices
7/11/2022 - South Sudan’s fairytale basketball story is an inspiration to many
7/11/2022 - IndiGo employees—this time technicians—go on mass leave again
7/11/2022 - 🌍 Abe’s legacy won
7/10/2022 - Daily Brief:自民党大勝、次に日本で起きること
7/10/2022 - Corrected: Flutterwave under fire, again
7/10/2022 - Airlines are piloting a program to sell “zero carbon” flights
7/10/2022 - ✦ Training in the metaverse
7/9/2022 - Startup:長寿はWeb3が解決する
7/9/2022 - Sri Lankan president flees as protesters storm his home and set fire to the prime minister’s
7/9/2022 - Is Amazon a harbinger on labor, or an outlier?
7/9/2022 - It’s the best and worst of times for semiconductor supply chains
7/9/2022 - Japanese researchers are developing artificial-gravity buildings for space
7/9/2022 - ✦ Bye bye, Boris
7/8/2022 - Twitter will sue Elon Musk for calling off his $44 billion takeover
7/8/2022 - Why this tightening cycle is so brutal for the US housing market
7/8/2022 - Covid was the US leading cause of deaths for 45 to 54 year-olds in 2021
7/8/2022 - The US job market is “defying gravity” and calming fears of a recession
7/8/2022 - The first major battle in VR is between Facebook and TikTok’s parent companies
7/8/2022 - L’Allemagne va restituer la statue de la déesse volée au peuple Nso du Cameroun
7/8/2022 - Weekend:米最高裁、右傾化のウラ面
7/8/2022 - Germany to return looted goddess statue to Cameroon’s Nso people
7/8/2022 - Shinzo Abe’s murder was a rare shooting in Japan
7/8/2022 - Indian flyers are avoiding SpiceJet and other airlines over frequent safety scares
7/8/2022 - Shares of Chinese bulletproof vest makers surged after Shinzo Abe’s shooting
7/8/2022 - Indians shouldn’t have to rely on the “benevolence of companies” like Twitter to protect their rights
7/8/2022 - A new corridor for India-Russia trade via Iran is almost ready
7/8/2022 - 🌍 New leaders in the UK
7/7/2022 - Daily Brief:利上げでアジア株も苦境
7/7/2022 - With his latest tweets about Mars and children, Elon Musk embodies the privilege of the patriarchy
7/7/2022 - Shell is building Europe’s largest green hydrogen plant…to produce fossil fuels
7/7/2022 - Kenya freezes $52 million linked to Flutterwave over money laundering claims
7/7/2022 - WNBA star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty in Russia following Biden’s call to her family
7/7/2022 - How much money would you need to live your ideal life?
7/7/2022 - Why are Starbucks and Kroger investing in EV charging stations?
7/7/2022 - Obsession:英首相、なぜ辞める?
7/7/2022 - It’s Elon Musk versus Charlie Ergen in a battle for the airwaves
7/7/2022 - 🌎 Time’s up for BoJo
7/7/2022 - UK prime minister Boris Johnson has resigned
7/7/2022 - China wants India to conduct a “non-discriminatory” probe into Vivo
7/7/2022 - American fashion brand Gap to enter India with Reliance
7/7/2022 - 🌍 Johnson digs in
7/6/2022 - How China beat US pharma giant Gilead in the race to create a covid antiviral pill
7/6/2022 - Daily Brief:ロシアのエネルギー販売は好調
7/6/2022 - 🌍 Johnson digs in
7/6/2022 - Will Boris Johnson resign as UK prime minister?
7/6/2022 - Miami Vice
7/6/2022 - The US labor market is cooling from ‘white hot to red hot’
7/6/2022 - Even Japan is fighting inflation now
7/6/2022 - Rheumatology patients are already having trouble accessing essential drugs because of abortion bans
7/6/2022 - Why “The Simpsons” production crew is unionizing
7/6/2022 - ESG: Not woke capitalism or greenwashing—but an opportunity for employee voice
7/6/2022 - Senegal’s ladoum sheep are the stars of Eid al-Adha/Tabaski celebrations
7/6/2022 - Les moutons Ladoum du Sénégal sont les vedettes pour la célébration de la Tabaski
7/6/2022 - 🌎 Oil swings
7/6/2022 - Forecast:CRISPRこの10年・次の10年
7/6/2022 - The battle for a share of Zimbabwe’s billion dollar remittance industry
7/6/2022 - There’s a proposal to rename Manila’s airport after the country’s deadliest dictator
7/6/2022 - ✦ From your phone to your home
7/6/2022 - Twitter is putting up a legal fight against Indian authorities
7/6/2022 - India’s low-budget airline SpiceJet is facing frequent mid-air glitches
7/6/2022 - Sending money back home is about to get cheaper for Indian expats
7/6/2022 - Razorpay “handed over” AltNews donor data to the Indian police
7/6/2022 - Should India tax games of skill and games of chance the same 28%?
7/6/2022 - 🌏 Retaliation against Johnson
7/5/2022 - Daily Brief:信頼なくしたボリス英首相
7/5/2022 - “Minions 2” broke a box office record with help from nostalgia-driven Gen Z flash mobs
7/5/2022 - “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy” production workers are unionizing
7/5/2022 - Chinese Internet users are spooked by alleged government data breach
7/5/2022 - Tanzania’s new electric rail will help it cut carbon emissions
7/5/2022 - Are Africans ready for WhatsApp banking?
7/5/2022 - Hyperinflation in Ethiopia is the product of cascading missteps
7/5/2022 - Turkey plans to secure food supplies via Sudan, despite previous failure
7/5/2022 - 🌎 Shooting in Chicago
7/5/2022 - Africa:金融包摂の可能性
7/5/2022 - 🌍 Luhansk falls
7/4/2022 - India’s reluctance to raise fuel prices has created a major domestic shortage
7/4/2022 - Daily Brief:消えた中国大富豪、裁判へ
7/4/2022 - 🌏 Billionaire on trial
7/4/2022 - Climate:地球に優しいビットコイン大暴落
7/4/2022 - 🌎 Air travel agony
7/4/2022 - Zambia’s Union54 is bringing virtual debit and credit cards to the unbanked
7/4/2022 - Is the Indian government now banning Sikh voices on social media?
7/4/2022 - 🌍 Shimao in default
7/3/2022 - Daily Brief:中国不動産、またデフォルト
7/3/2022 - ✦ Our Crispr future
7/3/2022 - The era of WhatsApp banking is with us
7/2/2022 - Delta is experimenting with flight information boards that know who you are and where you’re going
7/2/2022 - GameStop trading nearly destroyed Robinhood
7/2/2022 - The US can still fight climate change, but only the hard and expensive ways
7/2/2022 - ✦ The US Supreme Court’s hard right turn
7/1/2022 - Trump’s Truth Social just got a criminal subpoena over its dubious SPAC deal
7/1/2022 - It sure looks like the Fed is hiking interest rates too fast
7/1/2022 - How the Sony Walkman changed everything
7/1/2022 - Unilever isn’t displaying leadership by selling Ben & Jerry’s in Israel—just avoidance
7/1/2022 - In an EV world, Europe’s automakers are even more reliant on China
7/1/2022 - New York City is trying to reduce subway crime by harassing beloved station musicians
7/1/2022 - Weekend:インフレ下のインフラ投資
7/1/2022 - 🌍 SCOTUS curbs EPA
7/1/2022 - Byju’s wants to buy an American startup—but does it have the funds?
7/1/2022 - 🌍 A new iron curtain