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The Rijksmuseum Had Its Lowest Attendance Last Year Since 1964. But Its Digital Audience Has Grown by Leaps and Bounds
Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum, which was closed for much of last year, had its lowest attendance in decades in 2020, with visitors dropping by more than 2 million to just 675,000. That’s the lowest total for the museum since 1964, when it had…
WhatsApp Forces Users to Share Data with Facebook
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What Clive Palmer must now ask himself: would China’s ‘bastards’ buy a mine from him?
Colourful mining magnate Clive Palmer’s political ambitions appear to be in tatters. But what of his multibillion-dollar legal ambitions? On Sunday he announced his United Australia Party will not contest Western Australia’s state election in March – a logical decision…
Major businesses say they will pause political donations following Capitol riots
Major businesses are pausing donations to politicians in light of Wednesday’s deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol. Driving the news: Marriott will pause donations from its PAC to “who voted against certification of the election,” a company spokesperson confirmed on…
Amazon’s Parler ban sets off a free speech showdown for Big Tech
Amazon’s decision to boot conservative chat site Parler from its hosting platform, on the heels of Twitter and many other services banishing President Trump, brings three decades of hot argument over online speech to a boil. Why it matters: Four…
Twitter bans President Trump
Screenshot of Trump’s account. Twitter announced Friday that the platform will permanently suspend President Trump’s account effective immediately. Driving the news: It’s Twitter’s strongest-ever action against the president’s account and comes in response to the “risk of further incitement of…
Ethical minefields: the dirty business of doing deals with Myanmar’s military
Myanmar’s transition from five decades of military rule is a work in progress. Despite the junta’s formal dissolution in 2010, the release of political prisoners including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and democratic reforms allowing National League Democracy to…
Dominion plans to sue Sidney Powell, doesn’t rule out Trump
Dominion Voting Systems plans to sue attorney Sidney Powell “imminently” for defamation, and is continuing to explore similar suits against President Trump and others, company founder and CEO John Poulos told the Axios Re:Cap podcast on Monday. Between the lines:…
‘My Practice Looks Very Different Today’: 15 Artist-Mothers on Balancing Work and Family After a Year Like No Other
The events of 2020 turned the world upside down for everyone. But the burden of life in lockdown has predominantly fallen on women, and on mothers in particular, with many pressured to leave the workforce entirely to focus on childcare…
Selena Gomez Slams Facebook For Allowing Spread Of Lies About COVID-19, Vaccines
Selena Gomez criticised on Facebook on Tuesday for allowing “lies about COVID and vaccines to be spread on their platforms.” The singer had been responding to a tweet from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a London-based nonprofit with the…
Boeing 737 MAX flies U.S. passengers for first time after 20-month halt
American Airlines on Tuesday flew Boeing’s 737 MAX for the first time in nearly two years, having been grounded since March 2019 after a pair of crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people just months apart, the New York…
Voice boomed before Music City explosion
Police say a spooky audio recording boomed from an RV parked in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning, just before the vehicle blew up and turned a historic stretch of the bar-lined tourist district into a glass-strewn shambles. Officers, responding to…
Startups partner on plan to distribute rapid coronavirus tests to the home
The company behind one of the new fully at-home COVID-19 tests is partnering with a digital health platform to deliver rapid diagnostics to consumers. Why it matters: One of the biggest obstacles to at-home tests making a difference for the…
U.S. buys another 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine
The Trump administration has reached an agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech to purchase 100 million additional doses of their coronavirus vaccine, which will be fully delivered no later July 31, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.…
