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Welsh translation error on car park road sign branded 'shameful'

Hundreds of people have responded to a post showing the error on Facebook, according to resident Nerys Hewitt

Wales Online

The Marcos makeover: How history was rewritten to place a dictator's son on the cusp of power

Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Sr, is poised to become the next president of the Philippines, despite his father's legacy of brutality and corruption.

ABC News

Ford, Kia, And Others Celebrate Star Wars Day With May The 4th Posts

Even the NHTSA is in on fun.

Motor1

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Mark Zuckerberg Teases Wearable Tech with Neural Interface in Facebook Post

Meta Platforms Inc's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, on Wednesday teased a new smart glasses project with EssilorLuxottica, posting a photo of the eyewear company's chairman sporting a prototype of a neural interface wristband - designed for directing other devices. "Here Leonardo is using a prototype of our neural interface EMG…

Asharq Al-Awsat

This Plot Of Digital Land Just Sold For $60,800 In MANA In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $60,800, which is 11.01x the current floor price of 1.93818088 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($60,800 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

Benzinga

This Plot Of Digital Land Just Sold For $89,681 In MANA In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $89,681, which is 16.24x the current floor price of 1.93818088 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($89,681 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

Benzinga

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $12,814 (4 ETH) In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $12,814, which is 3.21x the current floor price of 1.4 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Benzinga

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Stormont parties spend big on social media adverts in last days of NI election campaign

Stormont parties have published many social media ads in a final pitch to persuade voters

Belfast Live

Watch: Jet-ski rider speeds over whale, almost hits boat

A photographer has captured drone footage showing a seemingly out-of-control jet-ski rider speeding directly over a gray whale and nearly slamming into a whale-watching boat.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Elon Musk's proposed takeover of Twitter raises questions about its role in the digital social infrastructure

Over the last few weeks, there has been a lot of talk of the public square fuelled by Elon Musk’s recent proposed takeover of Twitter. Many have balked at the idea that a billionaire would entirely control another one of the world’s important social networks, one that has been adopted…

The Conversation

'Goodbye everyone' Iconic Dundee comic shop to close as pandemic losses bite

Stuart Kane - owner of Big Dog Books - announced the decision on Facebook ‘with great sadness’.

Daily Record

Morning Brief: Top Financial Stories Dominating on Wednesday, May 4

Reuters HSBC Kick Starts Its $1B Planned Share Buyback

Benzinga

TechScape: This cutting edge AI creates art on demand – why is it so contentious?

Dall-E 2 can conjure vivid pictures of dogs in berets to astronauts playing basketball. It also represents every major ethical concern there is about AI.

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk hints at charges for some Twitter users

Twitter may begin charging some users for access in a bid to make more money, Elon Musk has hinted.

Evening Standard

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Asharq Al-Awsat

German Regulator Imposes Tougher Rules on Facebook Owner Meta

Germany's cartel office said that Meta Platforms Inc, the owner of Facebook, has "paramount significance for competition across markets", a classification which gives the regulator more leeway to curb digital companies' market power. Under legislation introduced by German lawmakers in early 2021, the cartel office can ban what it deems…

Wales Online

Election candidate tells pub landlady his family won't ever go there again after she endorses a rival

Mark Tribe has been criticised for his Facebook message but he felt it was 'pretty harmless' and that going to the pub would have been awkward

Axios

Facebook keeps pivoting to new projects — and then abandoning them

The company's been swiveling from one big effort to the next. Is it "failing fast" or just flailing?

Manchester Evening News

'Have some respect': Fury as pile of rubbish dumped near graves at Greater Manchester cemetery

'It's heartbreaking... and a symptom of a society that doesn't care'

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Daily Mirror

Creepy house with hidden torture chamber cave in basement goes on market

This incredible property in Pennsylvania, US, has just hit the market - with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a basement cave that Facebook users have said looks like a "torture chamber"

Los Angeles Times

She's been branded a traitor. A new exhibition says Mexican icon Malinche was anything but

DENVER — Though he may be renowned for lobbing vulgar insults, the barb that Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva directed at Supervisor Hilda Solis in July 2020 left even longtime observers stunned. Solís had made comments critical of systemic racism by police toward people of color. "Are you trying,"…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Musk Says Twitter May Charge Slight Fee for Commercial, Government Users

Elon Musk said on Tuesday Twitter Inc might charge a "slight" fee for commercial and government users, part of the billionaire entrepreneur's push to grow revenue which has lagged behind larger rivals like Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook. "Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost…

Benzinga

Facebook's Parent Developed A New AI Language Model — Now It's Giving It Away For Research

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) says it is giving away research surrounding a large language model in its commitment to “open science.”

ABC News

Federal election 2022: Political parties spend big to win over West Australian voters

An ABC analysis of advertising dollars being ploughed into social media campaigns by political parties reflects the key role Western Australia will play in the federal election.

ABC News

Federal election: Rising interest and inflation rates dominate debate between Josh Frydenberg and Jim Chalmers — as it happened

Interest rates, cost-of-living pressures and how each party would start to repay our historic debt dominate the treasury debate. Look back at all the day's politics.

Reason

Cops Who Arrested Man Over Fake Facebook Page Get Qualified Immunity

Anthony Novak's arrest and subsequent lawsuit set up a debate around overcriminalization and free speech.

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