Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app – report (www.theguardian.com)
Grey whales seen seeking human help to remove parasites (www.theguardian.com)
Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement (www.theguardian.com)
California thief steals $500,000 worth of wine by drilling hole through store roof (www.theguardian.com)
Burglar takes more than 600 bottles of high-end wine and liquor from Venice shop after lowering himself into store with rope
‘It’s fun to cook up the stupidest idea’: the people competing to make the worst computer games possible (www.theguardian.com)
Australian minister Clare O’Neil calls Donald Trump Jr ‘a big baby’ after speaking tour is postponed (www.theguardian.com)
Home affairs minister says that despite Trump Jr’s promoter’s claims, the US businessman was not ‘cancelled’ and had been granted a visa...
Middle-aged people ‘need sleep to see mental health benefits of exercise’ (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers find physically active short sleepers in their 50s and 60s suffer cognitive decline as fast as those who do less exercise
Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US (www.theguardian.com)
Meta delays EU launch of Twitter rival Threads amid uncertainty over personal data use (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse | Siva Vaidhyanathan (www.theguardian.com)
Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’ (www.theguardian.com)
This is unsurprising, because African iron working is a good thousand years older than what we call ‘the iron age.’ That African expertise in iron working was what helped kick off the Industrial Revolution is just another tragedy of slavery.
Unilever named ‘international sponsor of war’ by Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
Here’s a list of their products in case anyone wants to stop buying them. Looks like I’m buying generic q-tips from now on....
Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
Astronomers observe time dilation in early universe: Events appear to unfold five times slower when universe was a tenth of its present age, in effect predicted by Einstein (www.theguardian.com)
French rail operator SNCF fined after train killed cat hiding on tracks (www.theguardian.com)
Passengers Georgia and her 15-year-old daughter Melaina said their pet escaped from its travel bag and disappeared under a high-speed train as it prepared to leave Paris for Bordeaux, in south-western France, with 800 passengers onboard....
Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
Eighty Afghan civilians may have been summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
Vietnam bans Barbie film over disputed map of China’s South China Sea claims (www.theguardian.com)
Scene shows map of China’s controversial ‘nine-dash line’ – repudiated in international ruling
The scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix (www.theguardian.com)
President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring.
‘Boil in the bag’ environmentally friendly funerals arrive in the UK (www.theguardian.com)
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
Nikola Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes....
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
Putin claim that Russia funds Wagner group may make it easier to try him for war crimes (www.theguardian.com)
It'll probably never happen, but a person can dream