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• Russian internet giant Yandex takes rare stand against state snooping
• Robots: Job killers or co-workers?
• Why Cuba’s zip lines and B&B’s have fallen on hard times
• In Sudan, blast of Arab ‘winter’ freezes spirit of Arab Spring

Russian internet giant Yandex takes rare stand against state snooping Posted: 14 Jun 2019 12:19 PM PDT Russia has always been some version of a national security state, in which individuals, companies, and other group interests are expected to unquestioningly submit to the needs and demands of state agencies. As surprising, if not more so, was that Yandex seemed to resist the FSB's demands – with the backing of some government officials.

Robots: Job killers or co-workers? Posted: 14 Jun 2019 12:03 PM PDT Will a robot snatch away your job? Or will you learn to love intelligent machines as co-workers?

Why Cuba’s zip lines and B&B’s have fallen on hard times Posted: 14 Jun 2019 11:38 AM PDT Las Terrazas employees clip visitors to the wire cable one by one and give them a small push. Like many of the other employees, Ms. González has lived and worked at Las Terrazas, a nature reserve and tourist destination west of Havana, her entire life, so she is used to touring strangers around her home. Recent hurricanes have affected tourism numbers in beach resort towns like Varadero, Cuba, but the tourism market in Las Terrazas has been hit by more than storms, says Ms. González.

In Sudan, blast of Arab ‘winter’ freezes spirit of Arab Spring Posted: 14 Jun 2019 07:45 AM PDT There are two kinds of weather these days in Khartoum, the Nile-side capital of Sudan. The political future of Sudan, on the northeastern flank of Africa across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia, still hangs in the balance.

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