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Year: 2022

‘The Peripheral’ travels into two different futures and still isn’t worth your time

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN In terms of Nolan brothers productions, “The Peripheral” appears to have been made for people who think “Tenet” and the fourth season of “Westworld” weren’t complicated enough. Adapting William Gibson’s sci-fi novel, this Amazon series again deals with themes of virtual reality and sort-of time travel, but in a grinding

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Facebook and TikTok are approving ads with ‘blatant’ misinformation about voting in midterms, researchers say

By Jennifer Korn Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” misinformation about when and how to vote in the US midterms, as well as about the integrity of the voting process, according to a new report from human rights watchdog Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy Team (C4D) at New York University.

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Democratic lawmakers ask State Department to review whether state abortion laws comply with human rights commitments

By Kylie Atwood, CNN Two Democratic members of Congress are asking the State Department’s top lawyer to remind state and local governments of their human rights commitments and to review how state laws pertaining to abortion access “comply with international human rights and treaty obligations,” according to a letter reviewed by CNN. “In particular, we

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Q&A: The head of the FDA answers why parents are still struggling to find baby formula and when things might return to normal

By MJ Lee, CNN White House correspondent Dr. Robert Califf, a cardiologist by training, admits that he never imagined he would one day become an expert on infant formula. But during the eight months Califf has served as head of the US Food and Drug Administration under President Joe Biden, baby formula emerged as one

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The era of the meme trade is over

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business It’s been a tumultuous year for retail traders — people who buy shares of individual companies or indexes on popular trading platforms like Robinhood or E-Trade. Facing an economic outlook full of bear markets, high inflation and interest rate hikes, they’ve finally decided that they’ve had enough. What’s happening: Back

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