Friday, March 24, 2023

CNN's David McKenzie looks at allegations Russians have kidnapped Ukrainian children

China said it would "firmly oppose" any forced sale of TikTok, in its first direct response to demands by the Biden administration that the app's Chinese owners sell their share of the company or face a ban in its most important market.

It is one thing to remake a movie from the 50s for a modern audience who believe anything released prior to the year 2000 is not worth watching, but when that movie is one of the best movies of all time? It seems that this scenario could be about to happen as it has been suggested that 1958 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo is to get a remake with Robert Downey Jr.

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The scrutiny of some Big Tech and social media platforms is running high as TikTok's CEO faces grilling before lawmakers. Emma Lembke, 20, is among those taking action against what she sees as the harmful effects of social media on her generation.

Nuxt.js is a powerful framework for building server-side-rendered Vue.js applications. In addition to providing a solid foundation for building complex applications, Nuxt.js also makes it easy to add meta tags to your pages.

USA TODAY's Paul Myerberg details what you need to know for Friday's Sweet 16 action.       

LeBron James, 38, tweeted Thursday that no target date has set for his potential return to the court from a right foot tendon injury suffered Feb. 26.       

We used to have a lot of national systems that used to work and didn't gouge consumers. Now we have "free market" everything, and life has changed for the worse. (Remember how cheap and reliable phone lines used to be?) Via Business Insider: Carl Wood, a former commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission, explained that for the next 60 years, "the local utilities controlled all the parts of the system," so "it was very easy for them to predict how much power was going through the high-voltage lines." The grid would rarely get overloaded, he said, "because it was all very controlled, very planned." And since the primary goal of state regulators and local commissions was to deliver electricity to everyone, rather than gain a profit edge, the grid received regular preventive maintenance.

The incident took place not long after Flight 6013 took off from Las Vegas bound for Columbus, Southwest Airlines said.