America, Israel and Hamas are trapped in a dangerous impasse [The Economist]

Houston, Texas: where asylum cases come to die [1843 Magazine]

Why the Influencer Industry Needs Guardrails [Harvard Business Review]

Ukraine's power plants at the mercy of Russian missiles [BBC]

Cocoa’s Surge Is Drawing Africa’s Farmers Back to the Bean [Bloomberg]

We don't all smoke weed in Germany, Scholz assures Chinese students [Reuters]

Will the Palestinian tech sector decouple from Israel? [AL-Jazeera News]

“Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China [Democracy NOW!]

Is This Israel’s Forever War? [The New Yorker]

Humane AI Pin review: not even close. For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There’s only one problem: it just doesn’t work. [The Verge] Damn, looks like Sam Sheffer’s DRU-VIP ALL-ACCESS finally is irrelevant. Maybe I’ll finally get invited to CES and Intel Foundry / AMD events now. Over 20 years of E3 in Los Angeles, I could never afford to go. I wonder who I should blame.

Every year, tuberculosis kills over a million people. Can a new vaccine turn the tide? [Vox]

OpenAI expands to Japan with Tokyo office and GPT-4 model optimized for the Japanese language [TechCrunch]

The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa [MIT Technology Review]

The biggest secret at work: your office crush. Office crushes, in all their mercurial glory and pain, shape our working lives in deeply meaningful ways. [Business Insider]

I’ve had my first computer when I was 12 and learned to code at 14. Ever since then, I’ve begun to realize the power of technological improvements. Low-code/no-code for example, is a gamechanger, making application development accessible to a much wider range of people within a company. In short: Innovation in tech can be truly powerful and that’s why I’m delighted to announce the winners of the SAP Innovation Awards 2024! From a pool of 170 organizations making waves in their respective fields, one in three emerged as finalists, and now, we proudly announce our champions. As an executive sponsor engaged in this year's activities, I've witnessed firsthand what sets the SAP Innovation Awards apart. It's more than a showcase—it's a testament to creativity, teamwork, and the power of SAP tools and cloud technologies to drive extraordinary results for and with our customers. The award celebrates organizations that have not only innovated but also effectively used SAP solutions to meet evolving needs and achieve remarkable outcomes across diverse domains such as AI, sustainability, and technology adoption. Congratulations to all winners! Learn more about this year’s awards and the winning companies: https://lnkd.in/e3DAyemA #SAPInnovationAwards [LinkedIn] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP

US House approves $61bn in military aid for Ukraine after months of stalling [The Guardian]

Do Tanks Have a Place in 21st-Century Warfare? [New York Times]

House Passes Bill That Could Lead To TikTok Ban In The U.S. [Huffington Post]

How to Be Less Busy and More Happy [The Atlantic]

Americans really love their governors [FiveThirtyEight]

Vinyl LPs now outsell CDs. See how records get made in 2024. [The Washington Post]

France has helped over 260 people leave Gaza [Le Monde]

How Japanese dry gardens inspired 'Shōgun's stunning title sequence [Mashable]

“No Palestinian Is Safe”: Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Arrested in Jerusalem [Democracy NOW!]

Vinyl Chrloride Industry Keeps Expanding Despite East Palestine Disaster [The Intercept_]

The is the story of the first Earth Day—and why it mattered [National Geographic]

House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill [NPR]

Wildfire smoke contributes to thousands of deaths each year in the U.S. [CapRadioNews]

Inde, l’envers d’une puissance [Le Monde diplomatique]

The World’s Biggest Election Is Set to Begin [Foreign Policy]

Brave New Ukraine [Foreign Affairs]

The US and Japan’s Mission to Push Next Generation Nuclear Power [The Diplomat]

How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? [Quanta Magazine]

Join us today, LIVE on CERN's LinkedIn, from 14.00 CEST for a restream of ‘The virtuous circle of knowledge and innovation’, the third in a series of events organised to celebrate CERN’s 70th anniversary #CERN70 : [CERN_FR]

NASA’s Juno Gives Aerial Views of Mountain, Lava Lake on Io [NASA]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1156 & BEKNYO RADIO 1156. Adam Gray lost his election in our gerrymandering district. It’s very sad. I could have joined his staff but it was refused. I’ve been a democratic volunteer since 2008. You ask me to be an unpaid volunteer at 40 years old when I should be on staff, when I can’t afford a new car, it’s a little insulting. I’m changing the video to a black nerd, just to upset the number of racist Republican red voters in our disctrict. Just because I know all of them want to use the N-word, and as soon as they do, NSA can flag their phone calls as #MAGAcult (KKK). Yup. They are all on a database. As soon as I found out that Modesto used to have Klan rallies in this town, I had never been this upset in my life. I told Governor Gavin Newsom to tell senator Alex Padilla that my entire neighborhood is off limit to those #MAGAcult morons. This is a Democratic house, and if you’re not a Democrat, you cannot walk through these doors. PS. Why did I move here? To be with my wife. I thought this was a little Rural town, not some former Deep-South wanna-be. Scarly-enough, there are a lot of white women who are very racist in the #MAGAcult. Please remember these women despise black people so much, after Obama’s presidency, they voted for Trump. They claimed they cared for Women’s Rights, and they voted for Trump. Some of them will do it again. That’s how racist they are. It’s a big problem.

Until Next Time!