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IFTTT introduces a paid plan, reduces free usage to 3 applets

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If This Then That (IFTTT), a web-based service that lets you set up useful task flows between popular apps (like sync photos you post on Twitter to your Dropbox storage) is adding a paid tier after a decade of being available for free. More importantly, it’s reducing free tier usage to three applets (tasks). The company said it’s taking this step to “better align our Pro product roadmap with the needs of our most active Applet creators.”  With the pro tier, IFTTT is introducing new features such as multi-step applets, multiple action execution with logic, and faster execution. The last…

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China debates cutting US access to drugs as hostilities spike | South China Morning Post

In recent weeks, as the United States has ramped up its

attacks on Chinese tech firms

and the threat of

financial decoupling

has grown, government advisers in Beijing have begun debating a so-called nuclear option: cutting US access to medicines.

From pills for pain relief to HIV medications, the US is heavily

reliant on imported medicines

from China thanks to large-scale offshoring in the 1990s.

While weaponising drug exports and precursors does not have official backing, its discussion has provoked concern in both Washington and Beijing.

The idea has been recently floated by the likes of

Li Daokui

, a prominent Chinese academic and government adviser, who told local media that limiting access to medicines could be legitimate retaliation for US export controls on American technology and software.

Source: China debates cutting US access to drugs as hostilities spike | South China Morning Post

The Artistic World of the Taíno People — Repeating Islands

In Arte del mar, curator James Doyle highlights some of the most fascinating precolonial objects at the Metropolitan Museum. A conversation with Hrag Vartanian for Hyperallergic. You can listen to the podcast here. The Taino civilization was decimated by Christopher Columbus and other European explorers during first contact, but the legacy of these people, who inhabited […]

The Artistic World of the Taíno People — Repeating Islands

Deutsche Bank Hires Bill Barr’s Friend Robert Kimmitt | Law & Crime – (Can smell this stink for miles and miles

Multinational investment firm Deutsche Bank AG has hired one of U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s longtime friends to help the bank manage some of its pressing political problems in the nation’s capital, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

Source: Deutsche Bank Hires Bill Barr’s Friend Robert Kimmitt | Law & Crime