Власти столицы Саудовской Аравии Эр-Рияда и бюро Zaha Hadid Architects нашли, похоже, общий язык из-за любви к футуризму. Иногда к излишнему, крикливому дорогому футуризму, как "тяжелый люкс", от которого у кого-то может захватить дух, а у кого-то зарябить в глазах. Архитекторы бюро спроектировали в таком стиле новую станцию метро в Эр-Рияде - King Abdullah Financial District, или кратко KAFD.
Власти столицы Саудовской Аравии Эр-Рияда и бюро Zaha Hadid Architects нашли, похоже, общий язык из-за любви к футуризму. Иногда к излишнему, крикливому дорогому футуризму, как "тяжелый люкс", от которого у кого-то может захватить дух, а у кого-то зарябить в глазах. Архитекторы бюро спроектировали в таком стиле новую станцию метро в Эр-Рияде - King Abdullah Financial District, или кратко KAFD.
You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever." A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram.
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