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Building a modern metropolis using a centuries-old technique

Every year, in the middle of summer, hundreds of Hong Kong construction workers and engineers walk up some 200 steps to Ching Lin Terrace in the seaside neighborhood of Kennedy Town. There, in one of ...
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Sainsbury’s to start using facial recognition technology in shops

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Kim has long sought recognition as a nuclear power. Xi may have just given it to him

Of the more than two dozen foreign leaders invited to Xi Jinping’s massive military parade in Beijing last week, no one reaped a bigger diplomatic windfall than Kim Jong Un. The reclusive North Korean ...
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‘They’re using us as pawns on their political chessboard’: How Venezuelans abroad feel the tension with the US

“They use us. Some use us as pawns in their political schemes, and others as collateral damage.” This is how Adelys Ferro, who works at an NGO that advocates for the rights of Venezuelan immigrants, ...
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Using the phone while you poop greatly raises hemorrhoid risk, new study says

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a freelance health and science journalist based in New York. There’s nothing like shutting the bathroom door, maybe even locking it and hiding away from one’s family, even ...
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Sainsbury’s to start using facial recognition tech

Sainsbury’s will soon introduce facial recognition across its supermarkets, in a move privacy campaigners told Metro is ‘chilling’. The divisive technology will be trialled for eight weeks at the ...
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South Korea is using this technology to keep citizens safe at night

Everything you need to know about ‘kissing bug’ disease in the US ...