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Musk says video and audio calls coming to Twitter

"Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform," Musk said in a tweet.

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Musk says Twitter to soon allow calls, encrypted messaging

Last year, Musk flagged plans for "Twitter 2.0 The Everything App", which he said would have features such as encrypted direct messages (DMs), longform tweets and payments. ...

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Health

Discovering HIV started 'race against time': Barre-Sinoussi

In an interview with AFP, the 75-year-old virologist described how she and colleagues at the Pasteur Institute in Paris discovered HIV in 1983, which led to her jointly winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine. ...

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Inclusive: Koes Adiati said people with disabilities should be able to experience art like everyone else. (Courtesy of Koes Adiati)

Culture

Sign language interpreters describe their experience with music

Indonesian sign language interpreters talk about their practice and how it feels to “perform” for the hard of hearing and deaf to create a more inclusive performance.

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Creator: Uli Artha Panggabean shows some of the 'ulos' she has made. (JP/Tonggo Simangunsong)

Art & Culture

A Batak tale of weaving: Preserving tradition and beliefs

Uli Artha Panggabean is a weaver of ulos, the traditional woven cloth of the Batak tribe. Her passion for the tradition goes deep.

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Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin performs during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States, on Sept. 22, 2017.

Entertainment

Open up your eyes: Coldplay to hold a concert for the first time in Indonesia

British rock band Coldplay will hold their first-ever concert in Indonesia after much anticipation from the public.

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Venezuelan migrant Laura Linares prepares turmada, a Venezuelan Andean dish, at her house in Mexico City on March 27, 2023. When Laura Linares misses her country Venezuela, which she left five years ago to move to Mexico, she finds that cooking traditional dishes from her childhood eases her homesickness. Like many other migrants who leave their family and friends in search of a better life, rediscovering the dishes of her country is a bit like rediscovering what she holds dearest.

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Taste of home offers comfort to nostalgic migrants

Linares moved to Mexico to study for a master's degree in linguistics after leaving her crisis-racked country five years ago.

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The why of AI: LinkedIn’s subscription revenue has increased 8 percent after it adopted explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) that not only predicted clients at risk of canceling, but also explained how it arrived at the conclusion.

Science & Tech

LinkedIn cuts over 700 jobs

LinkedIn, which has 20,000 employees, has grown revenue each quarter during the last year, but it joins other major technology companies including its parent in laying off workers amid a weakening global economic outlook.

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Sentimental sounds: Albert Hammond Jr appears in his music video for the single '100-99' which features rapper GoldLink and inspired by the sounds of '90s hip-hop. (YouTube/Courtesy of Albert Hammond Jr)

Entertainment

The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr talk new album and upcoming show at We The Fest, Indonesia

With the release of his new solo album and The Strokes’ first concert in Indonesia, Albert Hammond Jr opens up about life as a father, sobriety, and friendship with Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders.

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Home-cooked: The Tannoor's baynjan borani, pan-fried eggplant with tomato gravy sauce and onion topped with yoghurt and mint, is served with zeera rice and Afghani naan. (Courtesy of The Tannoor)

Food

Food from the heart: A hidden Afghan restaurant in Yogyakarta

This is the story of an out-of-job travel agent and an Afghan refugee who started a private dining restaurant, The Tannoor, in Yogyakarta

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In this picture taken on April 27, 2023, Iraqi Kurd Shylan Kamal poses for a picture at a gym in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. As a young girl, Shylan would help her mother knead bread until one day she realised the work was a way to build up muscles -- and she liked it. Now 46 and herself a mother to three adult children, Kamal sees her passion for bodybuilding as a matter of gender equality in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.

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Iraqi Kurdish bodybuilder breaks down gender barriers

The nutritionist and former photographer returned to Kurdistan from Germany three years ago and found a conservative and patriarchal society where her passion for bodybuilding raised some eyebrows.

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This picture taken in Hong Kong on March 2, 2023 shows students Ho Cheuk-wai (R) and Mo Jia-Yu (L) tying bamboo polls together at the Hong Kong Institute of Construction during a bamboo scaffolding class. The world's most skyscraper-laden metropolis is also one of the last remaining major cities to use bamboo scaffolding for modern construction and building repair.

Art & Culture

Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolders preserve ancient technique

The metropolis is one of the world's last remaining cities to use bamboo scaffolding in modern construction and building repair.

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Getting by: A photograph of Endang at his house, on May 1. Shown in the background are the sewing machines that his son uses as a clothing vendor when he is not out taking food orders.(JP/Anindito Ariwandono)

Culture

Dying light: Indonesian neon sign makers refuse to call it quits for now

A look into the life of one of Bandung’s last generation of neon sign makers

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Striking: Mujahidin works on a painting for the Your Silence Will Not Protect You exhibition (Courtesy of Mujahidin)

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An artistic exploration of Islamic paradoxes

Artist Mujahidin Nurrahman uses his art to explore the contradictions and paradoxes of Islam

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This handout image obtained September 14, 2021 courtesy of Apple Inc. shows Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiling the new iPhone 13 during a special event at Apple Park.

Science & Tech

Rising iPhone sales help Apple beat forecasts

Apple said iPhone sales powered quarterly earnings that beat forecasts, despite inflation pressure and the slowing global economy.

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A Royal fan wears an elaborate hat in honour of Britain's King Charles III, near to Buckingham Palace in central London, on May 4, 2023, ahead of the coronation weekend.

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Pomp and protests as UK holds first coronation in 70 years

Britain's first coronation in 70 years takes place on Saturday, with Charles III crowned king in an elaborate Christian ceremony.

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A view of BuzzFeed offices in the Hollywood neighborhood on April 20, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

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BuzzFeed, Vice woes signal crisis in digital-only media

With the closure of BuzzFeed News and bankruptcy looming at Vice, the once promising world of free digital media finds itself at a crossroads.

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(L-R) Matt Fritch, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Mark Hamill, Billie Lourd, Steve Nissen and Ellen K attend the ceremony for Carrie Fisher being honored posthumously with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 04, 2023 in Hollywood, California.

People

Carrie Fisher's Walk of Fame star provokes family wars

Late Star Wars actor Carrie Fisher was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Thursday, in a ceremony overshadowed by a bitter feud among her family.

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Indigenous activist Txai Surui speaks during the first day of the Web Summit Rio 2023 at the RioCentro Expo Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 1, 2023.

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Indigenous youths use tech as 'weapon' to protect Amazon

Today, the weapon of choice for many young Indigenous activists to defend native lands in the Brazilian Amazon is technology.

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Music for Ukraine: British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran performs live on Feb. 8 during the BRIT Awards 2022 ceremony and live show in London. Sheeran joined other music stars at a televised concert on Tuesday that aimed to raise funds for a Ukrainian humanitarian appeal.

Entertainment

Ed Sheeran wins US copyright trial

The English musician hugged his team inside a Manhattan federal courtroom after jurors ruled that he had "independently" created his 2014 song.

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Kanye West at Milk Studios on June 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California, the United States. Adidas and Kanye West announce the future of their partnership: adidas + KANYE WEST.

Culture

Adidas posts Q1 loss as Kanye split weighs

The company booked a net loss of 39 million euros ($43 million) from January to March, compared to a profit of 482 million euros in the period a year earlier.

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A handout artist impression released by NSF's NOIRLab on May 3, 2023, shows a star devouring one of its planets as astronomers, using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have observed the first compelling evidence of a dying Sun-like star engulfing an exoplanet. The “smoking gun” of this event was seen in a long and low-energy outburst from the star — the telltale signature of a planet skimming along a star’s surface. This never-before-seen process may herald the ultimate fate of Earth when our own Sun nears the end of its life in about five billion years.

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Star swallows planet in first glimpse of Earth's likely end

But when the Sun finally does engulf Earth, it will cause only a "tiny perturbation" compared to this cosmic explosion, the US astronomers said.

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In this photograph taken on April 24, 2023, Afghan boys travel in a Toyota Corolla taxi in Kabul. Little is certain in Afghanistan -- armies invade and retreat, governments rise and fall -- but when the key of a Toyota Corolla turns in the ignition, the engine can be relied upon to roar to life.

Culture

'Beautiful Corolla': Afghan love affair with Toyota endures the ages

A humble Japanese runabout with a reliable albeit unglamorous reputation, the Toyota Corolla is said to be the world's most popular car, with over 50 million trundling off production lines since 1966.

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Devout leads: 'Buya Hamka Vol. 1' stars Vino G. Bastian (right) as renowned cleric, novelist, politician and philosopher Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, better known as Hamka, and Laudya Cynthia Bella as his wife Sitti Raham. (Courtesy of Falcon Pictures)

Entertainment

'Buya Hamka Vol. 1': Biopic oversimplifies life of famed cleric

Director Fajar Bustomi’s biopic about Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah shows that local filmmakers need to be bolder in scrutinizing Indonesian figures of the past, even one regarded as possibly the most virtuous.

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Cast member Brie Larson poses at the premiere for the movie 'Captain Marvel' in Los Angeles, California, US, on March 4, 2019.

Entertainment

Brie Larson, Paul Dano on Cannes festival jury The jury for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

Organisers of the prestigious French festival had previously said that last year's Palme d'Or winner, "Triangle of Sadness" director Ruben Ostlund, would preside over the main competition jury.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 02: Ed Sheeran attends the Disney+ World Premiere of “Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All” at The Times Center on May 02, 2023 in New York City. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Disney+

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Sheeran copyright battle could stoke songwriting paranoia

The trial centers on whether the British pop phenom plagiarized Marvin Gaye's 1973 soul classic "Let's Get It On" in his 2014 hit "Thinking Out Loud."

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Seasonal surge: Prama Tirta Leksana prints a political T-shirt at his T-shirt printing company in Jakarta. Prama says that his orders at least triple during election season. (Courtesy of Prama Tirta Leksana)

Culture

Good money, tough clients: The business of political T-shirts

'Tis the season when campaign T-shirts become hot items among politically conscious voters.

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Culture

Pokémon Justice: Japanese store bans adults from buying Pokémon cards

A Japanese store is enforcing a policy to block adult resellers and making new Pokemon cards more accessible to children.

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Lebanese Michelin-Starred chef Alan Geaam prepares a dish in his restaurant 'Alan Geaam', in Paris on December 22, 2022. My mum doesn't agree with what I'm doing here: back home, we don't eat like this,“ laughs Alan Geaam, the first and only starred Lebanese chef in his gastronomic restaurant in Paris.

Food

Foreign chefs conquer Paris with childhood flavours for French cuisine

The self-taught chef, who fled his country's civil war in 1999, nonetheless believes that promoting Lebanon's culinary riches means combining them with some of "the elegance and refinement" of French cuisine.

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BURBANK, CA - MAY 02: Striking Writers Guild of America workers picket outside the Warner Brother studios, on May 2, 2023 in Burbank, California. After talks with studios and streamers over pay and working conditions failed to result in a deal, more than 11,000 Hollywood television and movie writers went on their first strike in 15 years. Late-night shows are expected to stop production immediately, while television series and movies scheduled for release later this year and beyond could face major delays.

Entertainment

Picket lines in Hollywood as writers go on strike

Late-night shows fronted by the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers and Stephen Colbert were expected to be the first casualties as 11,000 union members walked off the job for the first time in 15 years.

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