China has unveiled plans to build what it says will become the world's largest solar farm, a sprawling facility high on the Tibetan plateau covering 610 square kilometres - about the size of Chicago. Once fully complete, the project will host more than 7 million solar panels and generate enough electricity to power 5 million households, according to a recent report by Associated Press.
Three design choices underpinned that experience. First, Bolivia separated a rapid preliminary tally from the official count, promising final certification within days while making preliminary data public on the same night. The new OEP's SIREPRE portal—an official, public-facing system—streamed these preliminary results in real time and was trialled openly ahead of polling day. Second, authorities welcomed robust international scrutiny: the European Union (EU) deployed around 120 observers, and the OAS mission issued a same-day preliminary assessment. Third, the law's runoff threshold ensures the eventual winner commands broad legitimacy rather than a narrow plurality.
According to the report, the hacking group known as 'ShinyHunters' is said to have gained access in June by tricking a Google employee into revealing login credentials for a system managed on Salesforce's cloud platform.
The three-year-old company, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas, said multiple funds have offered to fully finance the deal, though it did not name them, according to a report by Reuters on the matter, which added that Perplexity has raised about $1 billion so far from investors including Nvidia and SoftBank.
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In a blog post on the YouTube Help page, the company revealed that visits to the Trending Page have decreased sharply over the past five years as users increasingly discover popular content through other features like recommendations, search suggestions, Shorts, comments, and Communities.
