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Russia’s president has succeeded in exiling Wagner mercenary head Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief mutiny last week, but the fate of several top generals is still unclear. There were unconfirmed reports that one of them with ties to…

Emily Reed lost her younger sister Jessica more than 10 years ago. For much of the last decade, she’s visited Jessica’s Twitter page to help “keep her memory alive.” Twitter became one of the places where Emily processed her grief and…

If you haven't logged into your Twitter account in a few years, you could be at risk of losing your handle. And if you've been waiting for a handle to free up, you could be in luck soon. Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX and a…

Micro-blogging site Twitter will purge accounts that have been inactive for years, according to a tweet by CEO Elon Musk, who added that users on the social media platform could see a drop in follower count.“We’re purging accounts that have…

International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna in an interview with Bloomberg stated the company is expected to pause hiring for roles it believes can be replaced with AI. Krishna suggests that hiring in…

Last Updated: April 21, 2023, 02:18 ISTThe legacy blue checks were supposed to end on April 1st, but Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, shifted the end date to April 20th.The legacy blue checkmarks were previously granted to journalists,…

At the start of a new year, I like to take inventory of my wardrobe and clear out the pieces I no longer wear. Doing this annually allows me to edit down my closet to contain only items I really love. As I've been doing so for 2023…

Moscow’s nights display few signs of a nation at war. Cheerful crowds packed restaurants and bars in the Sretenka neighborhood on a recent Saturday night, watched by officers marked as “tourist police.” Nearby, a top-hatted guide led about…

Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to.The campaign by American photographer Nan Goldin to shame galleries and museums into…

Amazon is on a different employment plane, with most of its workforce labouring not at computers but in warehouses, supermarkets and other elements of what the company calls “field and customer support”. It added 810,000 employees from 2019…