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Apple aims to thwart secret AirTag tracking with tweaks

Apple aims to thwart secret AirTag tracking with tweaks

Apple on Thursday announced updates to AirTag coin-sized tracking devices to prevent them from being used to secretly track people instead of just finding lost keys, wallets or other items.

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Carbery's moment of truth arrives with Ireland in Paris

Carbery's moment of truth arrives with Ireland in Paris

Joey Carbery has long been seen as Ireland playmaker Johnny Sexton's successor at fly-half and on Saturday he gets his chance to rubberstamp his credentials against a vibrant France in the Six Nations.

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Shunned by French studios, 'Amelie' director clinches Netflix deal

Shunned by French studios, 'Amelie' director clinches Netflix deal

He made perhaps the most famous French film of the century so far with "Amelie", and now Jean-Pierre Jeunet says he'll make his new movie with Netflix after failing to find a traditional backer.

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Telework in metaverse precursors already a reality

Telework in metaverse precursors already a reality

Depending on his mood, Jeff Weiser settles down to work in a Parisian cafe, a mysterious cave or high above the Earth, thanks to the budding metaverse.

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Asian markets drop on Fed rate fears as US inflation rages

Asian markets drop on Fed rate fears as US inflation rages

Asian markets sank Friday after a sell-off on Wall Street in response to a forecast-busting jump in US inflation that fanned expectations the Federal Reserve will embark on a more aggressive campaign of monetary tightening.

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Russian skater Valieva trains at Olympics as doping reports swirl

Russian skater Valieva trains at Olympics as doping reports swirl

Teenage Russian figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva, who is at the centre of a reported doping scandal at the Beijing Olympics, trained briefly Friday even as doubt surrounded her participation at the Games.

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Generation game: young coaches set for Super Bowl showdown

Generation game: young coaches set for Super Bowl showdown

One year after Bruce Arians became the oldest head coach to win the Super Bowl at the ripe old age of 68, Sean McVay could become the youngest.

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Burrow happy to be underdog as Super Bowl looms

Burrow happy to be underdog as Super Bowl looms

Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals head into Sunday's Super Bowl showdown with the Los Angeles Rams as firm underdogs. And that's just the way the talented Bengals quarterback likes it.

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Las Llamadas: Uruguayan festival born from African struggle

Las Llamadas: Uruguayan festival born from African struggle

As a little boy, Cesar Pintos -- now 86 -- played "drums" with his friends in the streets of Montevideo's black-majority neighborhoods, beating tin cans with twigs to ancestral rhythms brought to Uruguay by enslaved Africans.

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Biden urges Americans to leave Ukraine as fears of Russian invasion mount

Biden urges Americans to leave Ukraine as fears of Russian invasion mount

US President Joe Biden urged Americans Thursday to immediately leave Ukraine, as Russia's live-fire drills and build-up of troops around the ex-Soviet state deepened fears of an invasion.

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