According the article the data base consisted of about 3 billion faces, in 2020 when the article was published. If you go on their web page it says that is now consists of 30 billion, quite an increase

Both those countries are simultaneously building out their coal power

I have never had the problem of random people sending me money,

Yeah, it’s like old sci fi movies where you have space ships and similar hi tech stuff but still uses box monitors

SVB’s collapse resurrected a niche online market: financial-disaster merchandise

”and the hyper Functionalism has taken over cities. We have removed even ornament and other sign of beauty” if I recall correctly, the late author Paul Fussell called this ’the prolitarization of society’ or something similar. He pointed at that architecture used to symbolize something greater than the individual, not so much anymore