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News24 | Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban bills after Republican battle

Today at 19:24 PM, via News24

President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new US aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, notching a rare bipartisan victory for the president as he seeks reelect and ending months of wrangling with Republicans in Congress.

Africa

E-voting versus paper ballots

Today at 15:14 PM, via Mail & Guardian

Allowing independent candidates to contest the next general election in South Africa is a boon for democracy. Prof. Colin Thakur asks if it is time to move to an electronic voting system?

Politics

EFF member says he will apologise to Indian community after hate speech ruling

Today at 19:00 PM, via Mail & Guardian

But Khehla Mngwengwe argued that the term ‘coolie’ was not a hateful term

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Education

Joe Biden and the Israel-Gaza War

Today at 17:43 PM, via New York Times

Readers discuss a column by Nicholas Kristof. Also: Donald Trump, “unprecedented”; tech in school; how sorrow changes us; California’s property taxes.

Science/Tech

Framework Won’t Be Just a Laptop Company Anymore

Today at 20:02 PM, via Slashdot

Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company. Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. From a report: That’s one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding — it wants to expand beyond the laptop into “additional product categories.” Framework CEO Nirav Patel tells me that has always been the plan. The company originally had other...

Science/Tech

‘The Man Who Killed Google Search’

Today at 19:20 PM, via Slashdot

Edward Zitron, citing emails released as part of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, writes about Prabhakar Raghavan: And Raghavan — a manager, hired by Sundar Pichai, a former McKinsey man and a manager by trade — is an example of everything wrong with the tech industry. Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to...