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As it turns out, sources have told Danish news outlet DR News that the supporters wearing fresh MAGA hats during a visit from Trump’s representatives Don Jr and Charlie Kirk were homeless and socially disadvantaged people who were bribed with hotel dinners:

“Several sources now tell DR that a portion of the people who appear in the video from Trump's campaign people …are homeless and socially disadvantaged, who often find themselves outside the Brugsen in Nuuk …which is located directly opposite Hotel Hans Egede.”

Don Jr and Charlie Kirk described the warm reception from what was described as a group of Greenlandic Trump supporters. MAGA accounts on social media used the footage of Trump talking on speaker phone to the group as evidence for his proposal to annex Greenland as part of the United States.

Now we learn the group support was likely transactional. DR reported:

“All they have to do is put on a cap and be in the Trump staff's videos. They are being bribed, and it is deeply distasteful.”

DR News reported on others who were able to identify individuals who traded support for a nice meal at a hotel. Trump's team found one of the men living under a bridge. This isn’t the first time Trump has staged events.

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Some features that LG is introducing to high-end TVs this year seem to better serve LG’s business interests than those users' needs. Take the new remote. Formerly known as the Magic Remote, LG is calling the 2025 edition the AI Remote.

The new remote doesn’t have a dedicated button for switching input modes, as previous remotes from LG and countless other remotes do.

By overlooking other obviously helpful controls (play/pause, fast forward/rewind, and numbers) while including buttons dedicated to things like LG's free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels and Amazon Alexa, LG missed an opportunity to update its remote in a way centered on how people frequently use TVs.

LG and Samsung are incorporating Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot into 2025 TVs.

Samsung, which is also adding Copilot to some of its smart monitors, said in its announcement that Copilot will help with “personalized content recommendations.” Samsung has also said that Copilot will help its TVs understand strings of commands, like increasing the volume and changing the channel.

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The black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.

The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to Muan, South Korea, on December 29 carrying 181 passengers and crew when it belly-landed at the Muan airport and exploded in a fireball after slamming into a concrete barrier.

It was the worst-ever aviation disaster on South Korean soil.

"The analysis revealed that both the CVR and FDR data were not recorded during the four minutes leading up to the aircraft's collision with the localiser," the transport ministry said in a statement, referring to the two recording devices.

The localiser is a barrier at the end of the runway that helps with aircraft landings and was blamed for exacerbating the crash's severity.

The damaged flight data recorder had been deemed unrecoverable for data extraction by South Korean authorities, who sent it to the United States for analysis at the US National Transportation Safety Board laboratory.

But it appears that the boxes holding clues to the flight's final moments experienced data loss, leaving authorities trying to find out what happened.

"Plans are in place to investigate the cause of the data loss during the ongoing accident investigation," the ministry said.

South Korean and US investigators are still probing the cause of the crash, which prompted a national outpouring of mourning with memorials set up across the country.

Investigators have pointed to a bird strike, faulty landing gear and the runway barrier as possible issues. The pilot warned of a bird strike before pulling out of a first landing, then crashed on a second attempt when the landing gear did not emerge.

This week, lead investigator Lee Seung-yeol told reporters that "feathers were found" in one of the plane's recovered engines, but cautioned a bird strike does not lead to an immediate engine failure.

Rival parties later formed a joint task force to probe the crash, while Transport Minister Park Sang-woo offered his resignation this week.

"As the minister responsible for aviation safety, I feel a heavy sense of responsibility regarding this tragedy," he said.

At CES 2025, a company called Sybran Innovation showed off the Code27 Character Livehouse. It's an AI-powered digital purgatory that you can trap a small anime girl in, forever.

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The original was posted on /r/japantravel by /u/YachiyoTodoroki on 2025-01-11 14:12:14+00:00.

My SO is moving using a wheelchair. This Spring we are visiting Japan. Friends are recommending to visit as many cities as possible during the two weeks that we have. But the logistics are really complicated for us. That's why I would like to limit our trip to 3 cities at most. Right now we are thinking about the most popular ones:

• Tokyo
• Kyoto
• Osaka

Do you think that it might be the right choice when it comes to accessibility? I'm slightly worried about Kyoto, as there seem to be a lot of stairs and other obstacles (due to old architecture) in the videos that I'm looking at.

Other than that, I have the following questions:

1. How is Japan in general when it comes to accessibility? Are there a lot of places that are generally inaccessible to people using wheelchairs? How are the streets in general? Are they nicely flat or should we expect a lot of bumps etc.?
2. How accessible are Hotels in general? Are most of them adapted to the Wheelchairs or not really?
3. How accessible are Trains in general? I think that this point might be the most scary for me. There are some videos on the web about people who can't get into Trains due to how packed it is. Can we expect to move freely using city communication?
4. I know about the website. Do you know any other websites or YouTube channels with some tips about traveling in Japan with a wheelchair?

If you have any other tips, suggestions or you have been in a similar situation - I will be super happy to learn more about your experience!

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Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban rulers have shunned a major international conference on girls’ education in the Muslim world.

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The original was posted on /r/portugal by /u/okvadizla on 2025-01-11 23:44:57+00:00.