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Cases rise, criticism mounts, but ships keep cruising
Even as case numbers rise, ships keep sailing and guests keep embarking, adamant that the onboard environment is safe because of stringent health and safety requirements, including pre-departure testing and vaccine mandates
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In a race to shape the future, history is under new pressure
History is continuously rewritten, whether by scholars updating their assumptions, activists reframing the record, or politicians massaging collective memory for their own ends
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Storyboard 18 - Metaverse: India will just not benefit from it, it will play a significant role in building it, says Meta's Ajit Mohan
In an interview with Storyboard18, Ajit Mohan, Managing Director, Meta India, talks about the big shift from offline to online in the last 18 months, new content czars, brand safety, the Reels rocketship, and India's role in building the metaverse
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Why the upheaval in Kazakhstan could rattle energy markets
Kazakhstan, where violent protests against the government have been raging, has some of the largest oil fields on earth and more than 40% of the world's uranium production
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China's latest lockdown shows stubborn resolve on zero Covid-19
China has continued to rely on the same authoritarian virus-fighting methods from early 2020, including strict quarantines, border closings and lockdowns, that have led to food and medical shortages and growing questions about how much longer its zero Covid-19 strategy, the last in the world, can continue
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Meet the Speed Guns: Can Zepto live up to its billing?
Two 19-year-old Stanford dropouts are writing the A to Z of Q commerce in India with speed, guts and gusto
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Storyboard 18 - New-age D2C brands are fuelling demand for product designers
Indian product design sector that was mostly catering to international clients, now has abundant business in India. Thanks to the growing Direct to Consumer (D2C) brand space and their focus on giving users a seamless interface
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10% of world's electricity now generated from nuclear energy
A look at the state of electricity from nuclear power around the world, including India, and other countries that get more than one-fourth of their electricity from the low-carbon source
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As Beijing takes control, Chinese tech companies lose jobs and hope
Beijing's hyperpolitical approach shows that it is more about the Communist Party taking control of the industry than about levelling the playing field, killing innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit that made China a tech power in the past decade
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German startups lay the groundwork for a marijuana bonanza
Germany's new government announced that it would legalise recreational cannabis for adults in its coalition contract presented in October
