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Mehul Reuben DasNov 22, 2022 10:54:26 ISTAfter conducting a poll among his followers, Elon Musk reinstated the account of the former President of the United States, Donald Trump. Among the 15 million or so Musk’s followers who voted in the poll, about 52 per cent favoured the reinstatement. However, it seems that Trump isn’t interested in returning to the platform. After Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s account, the former US President said he won’t be returning to Twitter as he doesn’t see any reason for it. Image…

Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor of reinstating the former US President, who was banned from the social media service for inciting violence, in a poll organized by new owner Elon Musk.Slightly over 15 million Twitter users voted in the poll with 51.8 percent voting in favor of reinstatement."The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated," Musk tweeted.Trump's Twitter account, which had over 88 million followers before he was banned on…

Richard Nixon astride a dragon, sort of. Image: Dall EIf you haven’t been tracking it, Game of Thrones is back—and it’s up to its same old tricks: namely, violence, incest, and great power politics. My opinion is that House of the Dragon is a mediocre follow-up to the original series, but it’s still an interesting meditation on power and rivalry in a brutal world. Well, DALL-E, the AI-fueled art creator, is good at putting famous or iconic figures into bizarre scenarios, so we thought: who better to insert into the cold…

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Wars begin, continue and end for a whole host of different reasons, but the personalities of the people in charge have a role to play. According to a new study there's an intriguing link between the characters of past US presidents and the length of time they went to war for.Based on an analysis of the 19 presidents who served between 1897 and 2009 (from William McKinley to George W. Bush), the degree to which a commander in chief exhibited grandiose narcissistic personality traits is correlated with the duration of any…

Among the most notable fans of High Noon, Fred Zinnemann’s unusually circumspect and politically loaded western, are two US presidents: Ronald Reagan, who considered it his favorite film, and Bill Clinton, who reportedly hosted 17 screenings of it at the White House. It is not difficult to see how heads of state might see themselves in Gary Cooper’s Will Kane, a small-town marshal in the New Mexico territory who’s determined to do what’s right, even if it defies popular will. And while it’s funny to imagine either of…

On Wednesday, July 5 (today), when Africa’s leading investigative newspaper- PREMIUM TIMES, resumes its Twitter Spaces- a live audio conversation on the popular social media platform, Twitter, key stakeholders within the nation’s oil and gas sector and labour and rights activists will engage on addressing the unending fuel scarcity troubling Nigeria’s economy and the biting consequences. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory…

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Lawyers for Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani called their second and final witness and rested their brief defense of the onetime Theranos Inc. executive charged with a dozen counts of criminal fraud.Mr. Balwani didn’t testify in his own defense. Thursday’s testimony from technical consultant Richard Sonnier brings the trial, which follows the conviction of Theranos founder and Chief Executive Elizabeth Holmes in January,…

Samsung on Friday demonstrated the industry's first chip made using its 3 nm-class process technology featuring gate-all-around type transistors to Joe Biden and Yoon Suk-yeol, presidents of the U.S. and South Korea. The company is on track to start high-volume manufacturing of chips using its 3GAE technology in Q2 2022. On Friday, Joe Biden arrived at the U.S. Osan Air Base in South Korea and immediately headed to Samsung's flagship semiconductor manufacturing facility near Pyeongtaek, which is currently the world's…