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View More NewsI lived in Reykjavík for a year in 2011, doing fieldwork for my PhD. The best thing about living there—better than the Northern Lights, better than the glaciers and volcanoes, better even than the fact that nobody locks their doors—was the public pools. They’re geothermally heated and open all winter, with ice coating the decks and steam rising off the water like the River Styx with lap lanes. The smell of sulphur rises with the steam. It seeps up from where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is slowly splitting the island in two.The Icelanders don’t put any chemicals in their pools. So…
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Beijing’s Cold War with the West entered a new phase this month. The chastened creators of AI agent Manus are preparing a return to Singapore, after witnessing the forced collapse of their US$2 billion sale to Meta. Manus was originally developed in China, before its parent company relocated to the city-state. But three months after the big sale to Meta was announced, the founders were summoned back to Beijing and prevented from leaving until the deal was scrapped.In the midst of the Manus fallout, China’s State Council issued revised exit and entry regulations. Citizens can be prohibited from travelling outside…
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