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One of the first errors came from Crunchbase, known for its database about tech startups. I emailed my access request to its privacy address on August 17. My message laid out the rights I wanted to exercise and included a direct request not to erase anything: “I am not requesting deletion at this time. Please do not treat this as a deletion request.” I received a reply two days later from a Crunchbase support representative. “Thanks so much for your patience. Your account has been permanently deleted from Crunchbase. Please let me know if you need anything else!” the message…

By Juliet Umeh & Henry Umoru The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has declared that it does not need a coalition of opposition parties to defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election, expressing confidence that Nigerians are ready for a change of government. Read Also: 2027 Campaign: What we want to hear from candidates – Stakeholders ADC spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this on Arise TV while speaking on the opposition party’s preparedness for the 2027 election, saying the party had enough support among Nigerians to win the presidential contest. Abdullahi said although discussions were ongoing among opposition parties on…

When the Forest Breathes Suzanne Simard Knopf (2026)In 2015, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard established the Mother Tree Project in British Columbia, Canada, funded by the country’s federal government. Now, Simard and her team, aided by local Indigenous people, have planted 225,000 trees across an area as large as Denmark, including in both the province’s rugged interior and the lush rainforests on its west coast. Their goals are “to document the effects of clearcut logging on carbon pools and biodiversity” and “to discover new ways of tending forests”, which she discusses in her appealing book.The Unconscious Antonio Melechi MIT Press (2026)Any…

Aug 29, 2026, 04:00 AM ETBarcelona and Arsenal target Julián Álvarez is being lined up for a return to Manchester City, while his Atlético Madrid teammate Alexander Sørloth is being looked at by Manchester United. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe.Transfers home page | Men’s summer grades | Women’s gradesTrending rumorsJulián Álvarez left Manchester City for Atlético Madrid in an £82 million transfer in 2024. (Photo by Pierre-Philippe MARCOU / AFP via Getty Images)- Manchester City have entered the race to sign Julián Álvarez in the final few days of the transfer market, according…

“Time itself is a circle,” as the rock’n’roll philosopher Nietzsche once said, accurately foreshadowing Charli xcx’s only UK festival appearance this summer. Like her performance on Glastonbury’s Other Stage last year – a pyrotechnic farewell to the puke-green reign of Brat – Charli’s Reading and Leeds appearance is a not-quite-headline slot that also follows a rowdy set from grime don Skepta.Yet in the past 14 months, everything else in Charli’s pop factory has undergone a hard reset. She’s released two albums – a grandiose, gothic soundtrack to Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and last month’s high-concept Music, Fashion, Film,…

In the run-up to the 2027 elections, the Big Tent Coalition has unveiled Obidient Connect, a digital platform designed to organise voters, engage the diaspora and protect electoral integrity. Coordinating the initiative is communications expert Charles Odibo, Director of Media and Communications at the coalition. In this exclusive interview, he explains the initiative, why Nigerians should register and how it could shape Peter Obi’s 2027 presidential campaign. Sunday Ehigiator brings the excerpts:  What exactly is Obidient Connect? Obidient Connect is the organisational backbone of the entire Obidient Coalition Movement for the 2027 elections. It is more than an Information Technology…

In mid-June, 99 guerrilla fighters were flown by helicopter to a small settlement in a rural area of southern Colombia where they lined up and, one by one, handed their weapons to government officials: rifles, pistols, machine guns and grenade launchers.They also stripped off their heavy tactical vests, field packs and camouflage uniforms, which were each piled into a bonfire to mark the beginning of a new life away from an armed conflict that has claimed nearly half a million lives in the last six decades.That was precisely what the former president Gustavo Petro’s “total peace” plan had sought to…

A Chinese rescue team has reached the all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex for the first time and found “nothing but ruins” as Nepal and China continue their arduous rescue operations in the flood-hit Himalayas.Surveillance camera footage from the worst-hit Gyirong border crossing complex showed huge torrents of water and debris on Wednesday engulfing buildings and people trying to flee. Only ⁠on Friday were rescuers able to reach the area.State media reported that the Chinese team of 21 rescuers and a search-and-rescue dog crossed mountains and valleys and used ropes to navigate forests and cliffs after roads to the complex, hemmed…

The Kwara State Government on Friday reunited 146 victims of the Woro community kidnapping with their families after 21 days of rehabilitation. The government also provided cash support to the victims, with adults receiving N1 million each, youths N500,000 each and children N200,000 each to enable them to rebuild their lives after the trauma. Abubakar Abdullahi Danladi, the Chairman of Kaiama Local Government Area and Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Kwara State chapter, disclosed this in Kaiama during a ceremony to celebrate the return of the victims at the palace of the Emir of Kaiama.…

I am nothing if not a huge movie buff. I watch way too many of them, and I’m always on the hunt for a new format in which to experience them. So when XREAL, the smart glasses company, sent me an a01 — one of its newer models, which it released in May of this year — I was eager to give them a spin as the newest vector by which to satisfy my media fanaticism. The a01 isn’t a particularly sophisticated smart glasses model. Unlike more software-heavy AR glasses like, say, the Meta Orion or Snap’s Specs, it’s basically…