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Elon Musk’s X will begin experimenting with a new way to use Community Notes, its crowdsourcing fact-checking system, to highlight well-liked posts from users with different perspectives. On Thursday, the Community Notes X account announced the launch of a pilot test where select contributors would be able to rate posts by answering questions about why they either like or don’t like that particular post. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works. Instead of simply allowing users to upvote or downvote posts for accuracy — something that could be easily gamed if like-minded contributors teamed up to promote…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Coffee hasn’t always been an easy sell in Nepal.The Himalayan country is a major tea producer, as well as a major consumer. When people greet each other in the morning, they don’t ask “how are you.” They say “have you had your tea?”Tea — usually served with as a sweet, milky beverage in a piping hot glass tumbler — is as much a part of Nepal’s culture as rice, a constant presence at homes, meetings and social gatherings.But a growing number of Nepalis are warming up to coffee, as trendy cafes spring up street corners in…

G Adventures is debuting three new Eastern Europe itineraries, including a highly anticipated debut in Moldova.Travelers can look forward to the new seven-day “Moldova Discovery,” the eight-day “Highlights of Romania & the Danube Delta” and the 14-day “Heart of the East: Romania & Moldova Adventure.” Moldova serves as a new destination for the adventure operator, and the itinerary will focus solely on that destination. Similarly, the eight-day trip will focus solely on Romania, while the 14-day journey will combine the two countries.“These trips are a fantastic example of tourism done right – where travelers can have real cultural experiences and build…

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on his plan for the company to shed its inefficiencies. And that includes spiking several manufacturing projects. The semiconductor giant reported Thursday in its second-quarter earnings report that it will delay, and in some cases not move forward with, multiple manufacturing projects. Specifically, Intel said it was no longer going forward with its previously announced projects in Germany and Poland. Those projects included an assembly and testing facility in Poland and a chip factory in Germany. Both projects have been sitting in limbo since being suspended in 2024, shortly after being announced. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” to spark discussion among her students about the Holocaust and its lingering traumas. But after Columbia’s recent adoption of a new definition of antisemitism, which casts certain criticism of Israel as hate speech, Hirsch fears she may face official sanction for even mentioning the landmark text by Arendt, a philosopher who criticized Israel’s founding. For the first time since she started teaching…

Facebook Tweet Email Link New Delhi  —  Buckets of holy water slung over their shoulders, millions of Hindu devotees have been walking for days. The water, scooped up from the holy river Ganges, is destined for the pilgrims’ local temples. And the precious cargo must be treated delicately: spilling a single drop, or touching another person before reaching home, would cancel out the devotional deed. Breaking up the wearying journey, devotees gather for outbreaks of extravagant revelry – ground-shaking music and dancing fueled by devotion, ganja and alcohol, as befits in their eyes Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and…

Passengers were ready to board a Delta Air Lines flight out of Sweden’s Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ARN) when one of their pilots was led away by local authorities.The pilot had reportedly failed a random breathalyzer test administered on the crew by local police. It’s not clear if the pilot was drunk, just that the breathalyzer showed her blood alcohol level was over the European Union’s 0.02 percent legal limit for airline pilots.  The EU’s limit is half the acceptable level for airline pilots in the United States, who are allowed a blood-alcohol level of 0.04 percent, according to the FAA. For reference,…

After two years as a venture capitalist for top-shelf firm Benchmark, Victor Lazarte is leaving that company to start his own investing gig, he announced on X on Thursday. Lazarte became known in tech for co-founding mobile gaming company Wildlife Studios, which was last valued at an estimated $3 billion in 2020. Wildlife raised money from a multitude of VCs, including Benchmark. During his two years at Benchmark, Lazarte invested in recruiting and data labeling startup Mercor, AI video intelligence platform HeyGen, and AI infrastructure company Decart AI. Lazarte is leaving Benchmark to “build a new investment practice,” he wrote…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Bangkok, Thailand / Phnom Penh, Cambodia  —  Fighting has resumed for a second day between Cambodia and Thailand at several locations along their disputed border, Thai and Cambodian officials told CNN on Friday. Clashes broke out at 4:30 a.m. local time on Friday after Cambodia initiated firing, using small arms and heavy weapons, Col. Richa Sooksuwanon, the deputy spokesperson for the Thai army, told CNN. The Thai army responded with artillery fire, he said. The Thai army in the region also posted on Facebook in the following hours into Friday morning, warning that its forces were…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — “South Park” co-creator Trey Parker had the briefest of responses Thursday to anger from the White House over the season premiere of the animated institution, which showed a naked President Donald Trump in bed with Satan. “We’re terribly sorry,” Parker said, followed by a long, deadpan-comic stare. Parker was asked for his reaction to the fracas as he sat on the stage at San Diego’s Comic-Con International at the beginning of a Comedy Central animation panel that also included his “South Park” partner Matt Stone, “Beavis and Butt-Head” creator Mike Judge, and actor Andy Samberg, who…