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Prices Tripled in 5 Years: Netizens Shocked by High Cost of Shared Power Banks

Kuai Technology News, February 18th – Are you in the habit of bringing your own power bank when you go out? If so, you may have actually saved a lot of money, according to recent revelations by some netizens.

In a surprising discovery, some netizens have reviewed their past year’s expenses and found that they spent a whopping 1,200 yuan on a shared power bank. This revelation has left many shocked by the high phone bill incurred as a result.

To put the concept of 1,200 yuan into perspective, some netizens compared it to other expenses, such as Bilibili membership fees and video platform fees, and found that the cost of the shared power bank far exceeded these other expenses combined.

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A number of posts claiming the money spent on the Covid-19 Test and Trace programme could fund a 15% pay rise for every NHS worker for 35 years have been shared on social media again.

Posts shared on Facebook a number of times in early July said: “The money the Tories wasted on the failed Test & Trace would have paid for a 15% pay rise for every NHS worker from now until 2058.”

And an image posted to Facebook in May contains the claim: “The money the Tories spaffed on Test & Trace would have paid for a 15% pay rise for every NHS worker from now until 2058.” This wording is identical to a viral claim we looked at in January.

These claims are not true. As we’ve written many times before, the total budget over two years for NHS Test and Trace was £37 billion,…

Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in — and it’s generating offers of help and housing worldwide.

Moved by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape Russian bombardment across the former Soviet republic, Marco Burstein, 18, of Los Angeles, and Avi Schiffman, 19, of Seattle, used their coding skills to create UkraineTakeShelter.com over three frenzied days in early March.

Since then, more than 18,000 prospective hosts have signed up on the site to offer assistance to refugees seeking matches with hosts in their preferred or convenient locations. On a recent day, Burstein and Schiffman logged 800,000 users.

“We’ve heard all sorts of amazing stories of hosts…