Hackers took over the Gentoo Linux GitHub repository

Popular Linux distribution Gentoo has been “totally pwned” according to researchers at Sophos, and none of the current code can be trusted. The team immediately posted an update and noted that none of the real code has been compromised. However, they have pulled the GitHub repository until they can upload a fresh copy of the unadulterated code. “Today 28 June at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown

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Trump, Trudeau Discuss Economic Issues by Phone

BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY / OTTAWA, ONTARIO — U.S. President Donald Trump discussed trade and other economic issues late Friday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Saturday.The phone call between the two leaders was the first to be publicly disclosed since Trump blasted Trudeau as “very dishonest and weak” at the end of the Group of Seven

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Evangelicals Downplay Roe v. Wade Fate

NEW YORK — For evangelical Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr., this is their political holy grail.Like many religious conservatives in a position to know, the Liberty University president with close ties to the White House suspects that the Supreme Court vacancy President Donald Trump fills in the coming months will ultimately lead to the reversal of the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade.

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Italy, Malta in Fresh Standoff Over Boat Carrying 59 Migrants

ROME — A rescue boat saved 59 migrants at sea off Libya on Saturday and Italy immediately said it would not welcome them, setting up a fresh standoff with Malta and adding to tensions among European governments over immigration.The migrants on board Open Arms, a boat run by the Spanish Proactiva Open Arms charity, include five women and four children, said Riccardo Gatti, head of the

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Replacing pills with a Band-Aid? Avro Life Science thinks there’s a patch for that

Shak Lakhani, the  21-year-old chief executive and co-founder of Avro Life Science, started researching biomaterials when he was 15 years old. Every summer and after school the teenager would travel nearly two hours by bus and train from the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Toronto where he lived to the tissue engineering lab at the University of Toronto and develop three-dimensional, in-vitro

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Testimony: Manafort Aide Gave FBI Access to Locker

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — A personal assistant to Paul Manafort granted the FBI access to a storage locker, allowing the government to secure evidence that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager is trying to suppress, according to testimony on Friday in a federal court hearing in Virginia.FBI special agent Jeff Pfeiffer made the disclosure at a hearing to consider whether evidence from the

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Trump: Expect Another Tax Cut, ‘Probably in October’

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects a second tax overhaul to be unveiled in October or a bit earlier, and he is considering cutting the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 21 percent.In an excerpt of a Fox Business Network interview to be broadcast Sunday, Trump said: “We’re doing a phase two. We’ll be doing it probably in October, maybe a little sooner than that.”“One of

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Istanbul LGBT Pride March Will Go Ahead Despite Ban

ISTANBUL — Istanbul’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride march will go ahead on Sunday even though the governorship of the Turkish city banned it citing security concerns, the organizers of the event said on Friday.In a statement published on the Facebook page of Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week, the organizers said the decision to ban the march was discriminatory and illegitimate.“

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WhatsApp copies Telegram to add one-way ‘broadcast’ mode to group chats

“Good artists borrow great artists steal” is a phrase that Facebook seems acutely aware of. It’s common to speak of Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-app-now-social-network, borrowing from Snapchat, but now Facebook’s WhatsApp chat app is increasingly drawing its innovation from others such as Telegram. This week, WhatsApp outed a new feature for its groups that is essentially a replica of

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Google Pay prepares integrating Google Pay Send features into the main app

In the world of mobile payment systems, Google had a bit of an identity crisis until earlier this year. Their services once included Android Pay, Google Wallet, and Pay with Google. The Android Pay app was a digital wallet that used NFC to make payments. Google Wallet was a peer-to-peer payment service for people to send and receive money. Pay with Google used the Google Payment API to allow

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Apps to Keep Your Wholesale Business Running Smoothly

Apps to Keep Your Wholesale Business Running SmoothlyA lot of business owners like yourself are often doing business development too, traveling frequently to meet customers, suppliers and being physically away from your employees and business operations.Of course, having a great team to sell and manage things is important but these tools can make them better and more efficient. Plus you get

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What's involved in designing World Cup jerseys?

Nearly 3.5 billion people are expected to watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. They’ll all see players wearing a fresh batch of national jerseys, designed by the major sport product manufacturers. Millions of authentic tops are made for fans to buy. Even more are counterfeited.Before I became a professor of sports product design at the University of Oregon, I spent about 20 years working for a

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OnePlus 6 Smartphone Face Detection System Easily Bypass By Simple Trick

OnePlus 6 Smartphone Face Detection System Easily Bypass By Simple Trick OnePlus using facial recognition technology from china-based SenseTime. It is also working for CCTV face recognition for Chinese authorities.The Company said the face recognition feature is designed as a convenience for users and admitting that passwords are the more secure than facial lock pattern. The new feature of

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Hydrate, intoxicate, caffeinate, repeat: Meet the startups pouring the future

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor VCs serve up a large helping of cash to startups disrupting food US startups off to a strong M&A run in 2018 These days, it seems like everyone with extra cash has some kind of pricey drinking habit. It might be fine wine, craft beer or cocktails. Or it could come in the form of coconut water, cold-pressed juice or the latest frothy

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The hottest investors at The Europas, & your specially discounted ticket

In partnership with TechCrunch, The Europas Unconference & Awards, features smaller breakout sessions on key subjects for startups, followed by a glittering awards show for the hottest startups in Europe, based on voting by expert judges and the industry itself. Plus loads of networking opportunities with investors, and the super-fun Pitch Rolette pitch competition. See below for your special

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Announcing TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Latin America in São Paulo on Nov. 8

TechCrunch is excited to announce that the Startup Battlefield Latin America is coming to São Paulo on November 8 this year. This is the first event TechCrunch has ever held in Latin America, and we are all in to make it a memorable one to support the fast-emerging startup ecosystem in the region. The Startup Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premier startup competition, which over the past 12 years

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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky will reportedly step down from Snap’s board of directors

Benchmark partner Mitch Lasky, who has served on Snap’s board of directors since December 2012, is not expected to stand for re-election to Snap’s board of directors and will thus be stepping down, according to a report by The Information. Early investors stepping down from the board of directors — or at least not seeking re-election — isn’t that uncommon as once-private companies grow into

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Here’s what it was like to stumble into Netflix and Lyft’s activation for GLOW at ‘Muscle Beach’

Today at “Muscle Beach” in Venice, Calif., Netflix and Lyft joined forces for a promotional campaign in support of the streaming media site’s (really excellent) dramatization of the origin story for the women’s wrestling league — GLOW (or the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling). Your intrepid reporter was taking a walk on the beach and stumbled upon the marketing stunt (which was kind of genius). For

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StoryCorps: She Was the One

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US House Fails Again to Pass Immigration Legislation

The U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass major immigration legislation Wednesday, after weeks of debate and mixed messages of support from President Donald Trump. The bill’s failure leaves 1.8 million undocumented young people without a solution, while the problem of addressing the family separation crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that has galvanized American public opinion remains.

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EU Leaders Consider New Migration Reforms

European Union leaders are considering reforms to address migration as they begin a two-day summit Thursday.Arrivals to the continent have dropped sharply since a 2015 crisis that drew sharp divisions among the bloc’s 28 members about how they should respond. Some countries promoted more open-door policies, while others set up barriers to prevent those who reached Europe from crossing their

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Salman Khan’s Nephew Ahil Sharma is a strict trainer to Sonakshi Sinha

Get Daily Updates In Email It is the time in Bollywood where Star Kids are getting more famous day by day and the media always try to cover them first wherever they go or are spotted. From Taimur Ali Khan to Misha Kapoor, they are all favourites to media and to many fans also. Salman Khan’s nephew Ahil Sharma is one of them. Ahil, son of Salman’s dearest sister Arpita Khan and Aayush Sharma is

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Gboard testing smart replies for WhatsApp, Facebook, Allo, Snapchat, and more

Google’s stock keyboard app for Nexus and Pixel smartphones, Gboard, is my go-to keyboard ever since Swype for Android was discontinued. The popular keyboard app for Android devices recently received the ability to create GIFs but the last update that added a feature I would call “smart” was back in February with the addition of email address autocompletion. Now, it appears that a feature hinted

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Math explains why your bus route seems so unreliable

Have you ever waited for your bus at a bus stop for a very long time – only to be greeted by two or more buses arriving together? This phenomenon, known as “bus bunching,” is a problem that bus transit systems around the world have been trying to solve for decades. During this time, researchers have used mathematical models to study the behavior of bus transit systems to better understand why

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Facebook Makes Two Factor Authentication Easier To Setup

Facebook Makes Two Factor Authentication Easier To SetupFacebook is working more on their security after the Cambridge Data Scandal. The company explains that how Two-factor authentication (2FA) for the Facebook user now easier to set up.Now Facebook is allowing users to use 2FA without having to register their phone number with Facebook. It means we can use third party authentication apps like

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हमारे बीच नही रहे बॉलीवुड के ये दिग्गज कलाकार, शूटिंग के दौरान तड़प तड़प कर मरा था यह एक्टर

फिल्मे हमारी ज़िन्दगी का एक अहम् हिस्सा है. और उतना ही अहम् है इन फिल्मो में काम करने वाले एक्टर. अपनी अदाकारी से ये एक्टर हमारी ज़िन्दगी पर एक अमित छाप छोड़ जाते है. लेकिन जब ये सितारे हम छोड़कर चले जाते है तो ये बहुत दुःखदाई पल होता है. साल 2018 भी बॉलीवुड के लिए अच्छा नही रहा है. श्रीदेवी जैसे कई बड़े सितारे हमे छोड़कर चले गई. ऐसे ही और भी कई एक्टर है जो हमारे दिमाग पर कभी अमिट छाप छोड़ गए थे लेकिन

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California man arrested for sending death threats to FCC’s Ajit Pai over net neutrality

While many people in this country are angry with current chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai, arguably with good reason, it’s unfortunate that at least one has descended to the level of sending credible death threats and, unsurprisingly, has subsequently been arrested. Shortly after the FCC voted in December to nullify the agency’s 2015 net neutrality rules, Norwalk resident named Markara Man contacted

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What we know about Maryland’s controversial facial recognition database

When police had difficulty identifying the man whom they believed opened fire on a newsroom in Maryland, killing five people, they turned to one of the most controversial yet potent tools in the state’s law enforcement arsenal. As The New York Times reports, Anne Arundel County Police Chief Timothy Altomare’s department failed to ID its suspect through fingerprinting. The department then sent a

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A robotic astronaut named CIMON is on its way to the ISS

There’s a new astronaut on its way to the International Space Station this morning aboard SpaceX’s most recent resupply launch, and it’s only the size of a medicine ball. CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) is an artificial intelligence assistant designed by Airbus and IBM to assist the European Space Agency’s astronauts in everyday tasks aboard the ISS. Weighing in at just 11 pounds and

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Meet founders and investors at Disrupt SF 2018 with CrunchMatch

In only a few short months — on September 5-7 — TechCrunch will play host to more than 10,000 members of the tech startup community at Disrupt San Francisco 2018. Our flagship event draws the best and brightest early-stage founders looking to launch, and investors to fund, their companies. Making the right connections in just three program-packed days can be a challenge, which is why we created

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फिल्म ‘संजू’ देखने जा रहे है तो ज़रूर पढ़े, सोशल मीडिया पर लोगो ने दिया फिल्म का रिव्यु

जिस फिल्म का लोगो को सालों से इंतज़ार था वह आज रिलीज़ हो ही गई. संजय दत्त की बायोपिक संजू आज देश के सभी सिनेमाघरों में रिलीज़ हुई है. इस फिल्म में संजय दत्त के पुरे जीवन पर प्रकाश डाला गया है. रणबीर कपूर इस फिल्म में मुख्य भूमिका में है. फिल्म को देखने के बाद लोगो के रिव्यु बहुत अच्छे गए है. सोशल मीडिया पर ज्यादातर लोगो ने फिल्म को बहुत शानदार बताया है.संजू देखने के बाद प्रतिक्रिया देते हुए ट्विटर

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Doctrine raises $11.6 million for its legal search engine

French startup Doctrine is raising a $11.6 million funding round (€10 million) from existing investors Otium Venture and Xavier Niel. Doctrine is building a search engine for court decisions and other legal texts. This is a key tool if you’re a lawyer or you’re working in the legal industry in general. There are now a thousand companies using the service. It currently costs around €129 per user

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Blast from past: Gauri Khan revealed how SRK is possessed for daughter Suhana Khan

Get Daily Updates In Email Bollywood’s King Shah Rukh Khan is just not a great actor but also a good husband and a father to his children. SRK is protective of his children Aryan, Suhana and AbRam. We have always seen SRK at any event or school functions at his kid’s side by side.Once the actor had committed that he’s extremely possessive about his daughter Suhana Khan. Here are some extracts

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Shweta Tripathi & Chaitanya Sharma’s engagement was a dreamy affair, see pics

Shweta Tripathi who is best known for her performances in Masaan and Haraamkhor, is all set to tie the knot with her beau, actor-rapper, Chaitanya Sharma aka Slow Cheeta tonight.The couple will tie the knot in a private ceremony in Goa. Their wedding celebrations has kick-started with mehendi ceremony which was followed by a pre-wedding bash.The couple had a ring ceremony prior to the party.

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Celebs arrive at Akash Ambani-Shloka Mehta’s Pre-Engagement Function

Get Daily Updates In Email It’s a big occassion for the Ambani family as their eldest son Akash Ambani is going to get engaged with Shloka Mehta. The function is taking place at Ambani residence named Antilia. Bollywood celebrities have started arriving at the function and Ranbir Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Karan Johar are among the first ones to arrive.Have a look at the guests arriving

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Katrina Kaif’s this latest black and white pic will take your breathe away!

Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif is one of the hottest actress in the b-town. The actress is currently shooting for the Da-Bangg tour with Salman Khan and others in US and Canada.The actress who surely knows how to turn heads has recently posted a black and white picture of herself on social media.She has captioned the photo “Malang #tarunvishwa” which reminded everyone of her beautiful dance

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In London, Uber has won the battle but risks losing the war

Bradley Tusk Contributor More posts by this contributor Shockingly, Congress acted responsibly in regulating autonomous cars… So what’s next? When don’t f*** with people’s cars became don’t f*** with people’s phones The sighs of relief are palpable. Uber can keep operating in London. With 3.6 million customers, 45,000 drivers, and a slew of reforms, changes and concessions already made to

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Get the Samsung Galaxy S9/S8/Note 8 Edge Screen feature on any Android phone

Samsung introduced curved edge displays to their phone lineup starting with the Galaxy Note Edge, a phone that was sold in limited quantities. The Edge display became mainstream with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in 2015. With the Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and Samsung Galaxy S9, every Samsung flagship device now has a curved display. The Edge display was also

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How A Good Travel Laptop Can Help You Increase Mobile Productivity

How A Good Travel Laptop Can Help You Increase Mobile ProductivityThe enterprise world is now almost entirely run by computing devices, which means that computers are essential business tools for any modern-day entrepreneur. It’s therefore not surprising that professional PCs have held their place atop office desks worldwide since they first hit the market.Recently, however, the business scene

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Why your brain never runs out of problems to find

Why do many problems in life seem to stubbornly stick around, no matter how hard people work to fix them? It turns out that a quirk in the way human brains process information means that when something becomes rare, we sometimes see it in more places than ever.Think of a “neighborhood watch” made up of volunteers who call the police when they see anything suspicious. Imagine a new volunteer who

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Penetration Testing Linux Based Operating System Parrot 4.0 Version Released

Penetration Testing Linux Based Operating System “Parrot 4.0” Version Released.  Parrot is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian and focused on Penetration Testing, Digital Forensics, Programming, Reverse Engineering and Privacy protection. It also introduces new Linux 4.16 Kernel.Parrot 4.0 includes all the updated packages and many bug fixes released since its last version. Also updating new

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Apple buries the hatchet with Samsung but could tap LG displays

After years of legal procedures, Apple and Samsung have reached an agreement in the infamous patent case. Terms of the settlement were undisclosed. So is everything clear between Samsung and Apple? Not so fast, as Bloomberg reports that Apple wants to use OLED displays from LG to reduce its dependence on Samsung. You might remember that Apple first sued Samsung for copying the design of the

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Coinbase CEO unveils crypto charity fund targeted at $1 billion

Hot on the heels of Coinbase expanding its crypto fund to U.S.-based investors, the company’s own CEO has unveiled a fund of his own but this time it is focused on philanthropy. GiveCrypto.org is aiming to raise $10 million by the end of this year — it has already secured $3.5 million — with a view to growing its total pot to $1 billion over the next two years. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said

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Kremlin Says Trump-Putin Summit to Take Place

Kremlin officials say there is an agreement for Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump to hold a summit in a third country.The announcement came Wednesday as U.S. national security adviser John Bolton was in Moscow for talks with Putin and other senior Russian officials. Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said details about the venue for a Trump-Putin summit would be

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Senators Push Plans for Migrants on US-Mexico Border

CAPITOL HILL — While U.S. immigration reform failed again in the House of Representatives, senators on Wednesday promoted competing partisan plans to address the plight of undocumented families detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.Senate Democrats unveiled a multipronged proposal, the Central American Reform and Relief Act, that aims to alleviate pressure along America’s southern border by curbing

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Automakers Warn US Tariffs Will Cost Jobs, Hike Prices

WASHINGTON — Two major auto trade groups on Wednesday warned the Trump administration that imposing up to 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles would cost hundreds of thousands of auto jobs, dramatically hike prices on vehicles and threaten industry spending on self-driving cars.A coalition representing major foreign automakers including Toyota Motor Corp, Volkswagen AG, BMW AG and Hyundai

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बॉलीवुड का ये फेमस अभिनेता है इस अभिनेत्री का बॉयफ्रेंड, नाम जानकर नहीं होगा यकीन

Ramesh June 28, 2018 Hindi एक समय था जब फिल्मो में सनी देओल के एक्शन की तूती बोलती थी. ग़दर फिल्म में उनके एक्शन को आज भी याद किया जाता है. लेकिन आज दौर बदल चूका है और आज के एक्शन हीरो भी काफी बदल चुके है. नए दौर के एक्शन हीरो में विध्युत जमवाल का नाम सबसे ऊपर आता है. इनकी पर्सनालिटी बहुत आकर्षक है. और इन्होने जबरदस्त बॉडी भी बना रखी है. विध्युत ने अपने फिल्म कमांडो में बेहद शानदार एक्शन

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Singapore sovereign fund Temasek snaps up tech events firm Unbound in $12M deal

Media exits happen, but typically you don’t hear of tech events companies being sold. Well, that’s the case in Singapore where SingEx — a subsidiary of the country’s Temasek sovereign wealth fund — has forked out to buy a majority share in Unbound Innovations, a five-year-old UK-based business that runs technology events worldwide. Details of the transaction were not made public, but TechCrunch

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What's leisure and what's game addiction in the 21st century?

The World Health Organization’s description of “gaming disorder” as an “addictive behavior disorder” includes a vague description of how much digital gaming is too much. The WHO warns that “people who partake in gaming should be alert to the amount of time they spend on gaming activities.” At what point does a leisure activity turn into an addiction?Games researchers are no strangers to

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MongoDB launches Global Clusters to put geographic data control within reach of anyone

MongoDB‘s Atlas service has been giving companies a managed database service in the cloud for some time. Mongo deals with all the heavy lifting behind the scenes, relieving the developer of creating it all themselves. Today the company announced it was taking that a step further by allowing customers to have granular control over where the data lives with a new feature called Global Clusters.

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Nokia 6.1, Nokia 7, & Nokia 8 Sirocco get Android P beta in China

HMD Global has been hard at work supporting their Nokia line of devices by providing timely security patch updates. Not only that, they’ve made some rather bold promises. The company states that all of their Nokia devices will receive an upgrade to Android P. We’ve also heard that face unlock is coming for the Nokia 6.1, Nokia 7, and Nokia 8 Sirocco in the coming months. According to a report

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FireShodanMap: Realtime Map that integrates Firebase, Google Maps And Shodan

FireShodanMap is a Realtime Map that integrates Firebase, Google Maps and Shodan. It’s Code written in Python script.A search is carried out using Shodan searching vulnerable devices and they are showed on the map for analysis. All data updated in Firebase are Realtime.ChangesWe have a file named “fireshodan.py” responsible for fill Firebase database, we need to change:[+] FILE_WITH_KEY.json (

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Social SafeGuard scores $11M to sell alerts for brand-damaging fakes

Social SafeGuard, a 2014-founded U.S. startup which sells security services to enterprises aimed at mitigating a range of digital risks that lie outside the corporate firewall, has closed an $11 million Series B funding round, from AllegisCyber and NightDragon Security. It’s hoping to ride the surge in awareness around social media fakery — putting the new funding towards sales and marketing,

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Disrupt Berlin 2-for-1 Innovator passes available today only

Did you miss out on our 2-for-1 Innovator passes to TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018 on November 29-30? If so, you’ve caught a lucky break, because we’re bringing it back for a flash sale. You have until June 28 at midnight CET time — exactly 24 hours — to score two Innovator passes for the price of one: €695 + VAT. Buy them here and buy them quickly, because they’ll be gone in a, well, flash.

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Songs Of Singer Birthday Boy Nitin Mukesh Will Take You To A Different World Of Music

Get Daily Updates In Email Music is the most essential part of any films and Bollywood movies are incomplete without it. Songs play a huge role in delivering the right kind of emotions so many scenes which can’t be expressed through just filmy dialogues.Bollywood has some of the finest singers since decades whose songs will make you discover your love for music.Playback singers like R D Burman,

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Sanjay Dutt is seen in an intense look in the motion poster ‘Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3’

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will soon be seen in his upcoming film ‘Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3’. Meanwhile, the makers of the gangster drama have released the motion poster of the film and we must say it looks impressive.In the poster, Sanjay Dutt is seen in an intense look, holding a gun in his hand.Noted film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared the poster on Twitter. He wrote, “Sanjay

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Helping plants remove natural toxins could boost crop yields by 47 percent

Can you imagine the entire population of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom and France going hungry? You don’t need to imagine. That is exactly what happens every day when an estimated 815 million people around the globe go hungry. In the short term, the problem is likely to get worse as the population grows, diets change and urban sprawl forces farmers to produce more

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Google Home now supports Spanish

Google Home has learned Spanish. Google announced this morning that its smart speakers are now able to listen and respond to users’ voice commands in Spanish. The update may help the speakers gain more ground against Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo devices, not only in the U.S. where a number of people today speak Spanish as their native language, but also in other international markets. Related to

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TourRadar, the OTA for tour holidays, scores $50M Series C led by Silicon Valley’s TCV

TourRadar, the online travel agency (OTA) that targets the multi-day touring market, continues to be on a roll. The Vienna, Austria-headquartered company, which also has offices in Brisbane and Toronto, has raised $50 million in Series C funding. Consisting mostly of primary funding, the round is led by the Silicon Valley growth VC firm TCV, with participation from existing investors Cherry

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Shah Rukh Khan Completes Beautiful 26 Years In Industry, On 25 June 1992 Debuted From Deewana

Get Daily Updates In Email On 25th June 1992, Bollywood welcomed a boy who had dreams in his eyes and passion in his heart. The boy who is now known as the King Khan of Bollywood. Yes, we are talking about Shahrukh Khan who exactly 26 years ago marked his presence In Bollywood industry.Deewana was the film of Divya Bharti and Rishi Kapoor from which he made his debut. And, from that date till

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ऐश्वर्या राय की कट्टर दुश्मन है ये अभिनेत्री, अभिषेक बच्चन की रह चुकी है गर्लफ्रेंड

दोस्तों बॉलीवुड में वेसे तो बहुत सी खूबसूरत एक्ट्रेस है लेकिन बॉलीवुड में अपनी खूबसूरती और अदाकारी से अपना दीवाना बने वाली एक ही एक्ट्रेस है। और वो है पूर्व मिस वर्ल्ड और बॉलीवुड की टॉप एक्ट्रेस में से एक ऐश्वर्या राय ऐश्वर्या राय, बच्चन परिवार की बहु है आप को बता दे की इनकी खूबसूरती के चर्चे ना सिर्फ देश में हो रहे है बल्कि विदेशो में भी लोग इन्हें बहुत पसंद करते हैं। किन क्या अप जानते है।

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Apply to compete in Startup Battlefield MENA 2018

There’s nothing we love more than the excitement of Startup Battlefield, unless it’s bringing the world’s best early-stage startup pitch competition to a new region for the first time. And guess what? Thanks to Facebook, we’re heading to Beirut to showcase amazing entrepreneurs across the Middle East and North Africa! The search is on for the very best entrepreneurial tech minds and makers in the

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Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Set It Up’ hits the rom-com sweet spot

In the new Netflix film “Set It Up,” two personal assistants (played by Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell) come up with an unusual plan to keep their tyrannical bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) busy: Make them fall in love with each other. As decreed by the unbreakable laws of romantic comedy, it’s not just the bosses who find themselves attracted to each other, but their assistants as well. And in

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Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enforcement

Brian Brackeen Contributor Recent news of Amazon’s engagement with law enforcement to provide facial recognition surveillance (branded ‘Rekognition’), along with the almost unbelievable news of China’s use of the technology means that the technology industry needs to address the darker, more offensive side of some of its more spectacular advancements. Facial recognition technologies, used in

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Lust Stories Actress Kiara Advani Trolled For Sharing A Picture With Karan Johar

Get Daily Updates In Email Kiara Advani is very well known young actress in the Bollywood Industry. She was first seen in MS Dhoni the untold story. She played the role of MS Dhoni’s wife Sakshi Dhoni in the film. Since then she has become very famous in the industry.The diva is currently working in Lust Stories. It’s an anthology film directed by Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, and

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इन 6 लोगों के साथ रहा था करिश्मा का संबंध, अब कर रही हैं इस तलाकशुदा बिजनेसमैन को डेट!

बॉलीवुड की 90 के दशक की फैमस एक्ट्रेस करिश्मा कपूर की आज भले ही फिल्मों में  नजर नही आ रही  हों लेकिन वो हमेशा ही लाइम लाइट में बनी रहती हैं। करिश्मा बेहद ही खूबसूरत अभिनेत्रियों में से एक रही हैं। बात करे अभिनेत्री करिश्मा का फ़िल्मी करियर काफी अच्छा रहा है लेकिन उनकी निजी जिंदगी की बात करे तो कुछ ठीक नही रहा है , आप को बता दे की  बॉलीवुड के गलियारों में करिश्मा के अफेयर्स के चर्चे आज भी होते हैं

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Tencent becomes a Linux Foundation platinum member to increase its focus on open source

Tencent, the $500-billion Chinese internet giant, is increasing its focus on open source after it became a platinum member of the Linux Foundation. The company has long been associated with the foundation and Linux generally, it is a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s deep learning program that launched earlier this year, and now as a platinum member (the highest tier) it will take a board

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Facebook mistakenly leaked developer analytics reports to testers

Set the “days without a Facebook privacy problem” counter to zero. This week, an alarmed developer contacted TechCrunch, informing us that their Facebook App Analytics weekly summary email had been delivered to someone outside their company. It contains sensitive business information, including weekly average users, page views and new users. Forty-three hours after we contacted Facebook about the

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Zcash: life on the crypto roller coaster

Suppressed in Japan. Championed in New York. Accused of betraying the billion-dollar community he created with an arcane and byzantine ritual, while accidentally solving — maybe — a transnational clandestine mining mystery. All this while leading the rollout of some of the world’s most cutting-edge cryptographic technology into production. It’s been an interesting six months for Zooko Wilcox,

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IIFA ROCKS 2018: Anil Kapoor, Karan Johar, Iulia Vantur and others graced the event!

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Snag your super early-bird passes for Disrupt Berlin 2018

Der frühe vogel fängt den wurm! Yikes, if we’re trotting out our tortured German to say “the early bird catches the worm,” it can mean only one thing, folks. It’s time for all you European startup fans to go catch super early-bird tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018 on November 29-30. Our pricing tiers start at €595 + VAT. The value is real, and your time is limited, so go buy your

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Your second chance for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF

If you missed the deadline last week to apply for the renowned Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF, have no fear. There is still one more chance at being part of the action! Out of all of the early-stage companies exhibiting at Disrupt, three Startup Alley companies will have the opportunity to be selected as one of the “Wild Card” winners. You might be wondering, “what is Wild Card”? Wild Card is

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IIFA Rocks 2018 Videos: Arjun-Varun-Shraddha Grooves On Taarefan

Get Daily Updates In Email The 19th edition of International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards has kick-started on a grand note. This year IFFA is going to rock in Bangkok, which is one of the happening places in the world.We already gave you a glimpse of the green carpet where celebs graced the event looking all kinds of stylish in the designer clothes.Well, apart from making the red and green

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Nick Jonas confirms his relationship official with Priyanka Chopra with this video, watch

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is reportedly dating Nick Jonas. Recently, the couple landed in Mumbai for the grand house-warming party of Priyanka Chopra’s new sea-facing bungalow.Last night, the couple steps out for a dinner date and guess what, the couple were joined by Priyanka’s mother Madhu Chopra. The trio spotted on a dinner date at a popular restaurant BKC.And now, it seems like Nick 

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बॉलीवुड के ये 5 अभिनेता पीते हैं सबसे ज्यादा सिगरेट, नंबर 3 नम्बर वाले पर नहीं होगा यकीन!

दोस्तों ये बात तो सभी जानते है की  धूम्रपान करना स्वास्थ्य के लिए हानिकारक और जानलेवा भी हो सकता  है, इसका विज्ञापन सिगरेट के पैकेट पर भी होता है फिर  लोग धूम्रपान करना नहीं छोड़ते।  आप को बता दे की देश के कई हिस्सों में धुम्रपान करना वर्जित है लेकिन फिर भी लोग नियमों का उल्लंघन करते हुए धूम्रपान करते हैं। आपको बता दे की आम लोगो के साथ साथ   धूम्रपान करने के मामले में  कई  बॉलीवुड के स्टार भी कुछ

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Remains From North Korea Likely to be Hard to Identify

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military will face a difficult task in identifying the remains of soldiers missing from the Korean War as the Pentagon prepares to receive them from North Korea in coming days, officials and experts said.U.S. President Donald Trump, who met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an historic summit in Singapore this month, said Thursday that Pyongyang was in the process of

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AP Fact Check: Trump Off Mark on Immigrant Crime

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got some crime and immigration statistics right Friday but was off the mark on others in an appearance with those he calls “angel families,” people who lost loved ones at the hands of those living in the country illegally.A look at how his statements compare with the facts:TRUMP: “So here are just a few statistics on the human toll of illegal immigration.

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US, Russia Energy Officials to Meet, Discuss Natural Gas

WASHINGTON — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry will meet Russia’s energy minister next week in Washington, a person familiar with the situation said Friday, as the two countries compete to supply global markets with natural gas and crude.Perry will meet Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak on Tuesday, in the context of the World Gas Conference in Washington, the source said.Meetings between

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Are scooter startups really worth billions?

It’s been hard to miss the scooter startup wars opening fresh, techno-fueled rifts in Valley society in recent months. Another flavor of ride-sharing steed which sprouted seemingly overnight to clutter up sidewalks — drawing rapid-fire ire from city regulators apparently far more forgiving of traffic congestion if it’s delivered in the traditional, car-shaped capsule. Even in their best,

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People Are Unfollowing Anushka On Instagram For Scolding The Man Who Was Littering On Road

Get Daily Updates In Email Virat and Anushka are surely the most loved and talked about couple since they got married last year. The two keep sharing adorable pics together and their pics are always viral. Anushka Sharma is a part of Prime Minister Shree Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.Recently, actress Anushka Sharma posted her photos on Instagram with a shirt that had a comic character

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टीवी सीरियल ‘वीरा’ में नजर आए ये तीनों बाल कलाकार अब हो गए हैं इतने बड़े, देखिए तस्वीरें!

दोस्तों बॉलीवुड के साथ साथ टीवी जगत भी बहुत ही पोपुलर हो गया है आज के समय में हर व्यक्ति टीवी पर आने वाले किसी न किसी  धारावाहिक देखना पसंद करते हैं। वैसे तो टीवी पर बहुत से धारावाहिक आते हैं, मगर उनमें से कुछ धारावाहिक ही लोगों के दिलों में अपनी जगह बना पाते हैं, उन्हीं धारावाहिक में से एक धारावाहिक था ‘वीर की अरदास-वीरा’। आज हम आपको इस धारावाहिक में काम करने वाले तीनों बाल कलाकार के बारे में

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How backups, backups, backups protect NYC’s cellular infrastructure

The infrastructure that underpins our lives is not something we ever want to think about. Nothing good has come from suddenly needing to wonder “where does my water come from?” or “how does electricity connect into my home?” That pondering gets even more intense when we talk about cellular infrastructure, where a single dropped call or a choppy YouTube video can cause an expletive-laden tirade.

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Samsung is reportedly testing an Android Go phone in several countries

Android Go is Google’s answer to the ultra low-end segment of the smartphone market and so far it has produced an interesting collection of devices. This lightweight, optimized OS is ideal for emerging markets where customers are highly sensitive to how much a product like this costs. There has been a new Android Go device from a number of different OEMs, but the most popular one has yet to

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Astronaut Sally K. Ride's legacy – encouraging young women to embrace science and engineering

On June 24, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride returned to earth after becoming the first American woman to fly into space, riding Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7 along with four other crew members. Only five years earlier, in 1978, she had been selected to the first class of 35 astronauts – including six women – who would fly on the Space Shuttle. Sally’s first ride, with her STS-7

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SleuthQ- A Tool To Find SQL Injection Vulnerability

SleuthQ- A Tool To Find SQL Injection VulnerabilityPython3 Burp History parsing tool to discover potential SQL injection points. To be used in tandem with SQLmap.SleuthQL is a python3 script to identify parameters and values that contain SQL-like syntax. Once identified, SleuthQL will then insert SQLMap identifiers (*) into each parameter where the SQL-esque variables were identified.Supported

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Reddit launches a ‘News’ tab into beta testing

Reddit is rolling out its “news” tab into beta, the company announced this week. The expansion follows on Reddit’s initial test of a news-related feature that began this May, when an alpha version shipped to some users of Reddit’s iOS app. At the time, Reddit explained it wanted to give news its own dedicated home on its site in order to make it easier for those with a lot of subreddit

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Mouni Roy’s Rumored Boyfriend Mohit Raina To Make His Bollywood Debut Soon

Get Daily Updates In Email TV Celebs are gaining massive popularity with the help of Social Media. Due to this, the talented actors are getting chances in commercials as well as in the Indian film industry as well. Mouni Roy, who is known for her acting in Naagin and extraordinary beauty is making Bollywood debut with Gold. The good news is that her rumoured boyfriend Mohit Raina is also

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Akshay Kumar is seen with his gang in the new poster of ‘Gold’

After treating us with an impressive teaser, now the makers of Akshay Kumar starrer ‘Gold’ has released yet another poster of the film.The new poster features Akshay Kumar with his gang which includes Kunal Kapoor, Amit Sadh,Vineet Singh and Sunny Kaushal amongst others.Akshay shared the poster and captioned it as, “One generation dreamt it, the other achieved it. #GoldTrailer out on 25th June at

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A look back at the best tech ads of the last 35 years

Last week the Association of Independent Commercial Producers announced the winners of its annual awards honoring the best moving image marketing of the year and Apple’s “Welcome Home” ad took home the prize for Advertising Excellence in the single commercial category. Directed by Spike Jonze, the person behind movies like Her and Being John Malkovich, the musical short film follows the journey

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Supreme Court decision requires warrant to obtain cellphone records for tracking

The United States Supreme court issued a decision this morning required police to obtain a warrant from a judge in order to track individuals through cellphone records. The 5-4 ruling is being regarded as a win for privacy advocates in the U.S. The decision derived from a 2011 case in which FBI agents used three months of phone records in order to capture and convict a Michigan man of robbing

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Nia Sharma disappoints fans with her outfit from ‘Gold Awards 2018″, gets trolled

Get Daily Updates In Email One of the most prestigious award function in the Television industry recently took place in the city of dreams, Mumbai. Gold awards 2018 is here with all the stars of Television and will be telecasted soon. It brings together the very talented actors from different shows. As it is all about gathering of TV stars, it also raises the discussion on who wore what?With

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कैंसर से जंग लड़ रहे इरफान खान ने दर्द को किया बयान, ट्विवटर पर लिखा ऐसा मैसेज,पढ़कर रोने लगा पूरा बॉलीवुड!

बॉलीवुड एक्टर इरफान खान इन दिनों गंभीर बीमारी न्यूरोएंडोक्राइन कैंसर से जूझ रहे हैं। बीमारी का इलाज कराने के लिए वो भारत से दूर लंदन में हैं।  इरफान ने अपने ट्विटर हैंडल पर अपनी बीमारी को लेकर कई बार जानकारी दी और उनकी पत्नी ने भी ट्वीट किया। उन्होंने इरफान की सेहत के लिए दुआ करने की अपील की थी। इरफान खान इन दिनों लंदन में अपनी बीमारी का इलाज करवा रहे हैं। इरफान खान के खत को द टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया ने

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Announcing the agenda for The Europas Unconference, July 3, London

There are only 10 more days until The Europas where the winners of this year’s startup awards will be announced at our gala dinner, in association with TechCrunch! The Europas half-day “Unconference” will have a fantastic lineup of panels taking place in the afternoon before the awards. This year, we’ve done away with mainstage lectures, and we’ve created a series of more tightly focused

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Labstep wants to fix the way science experiments are recorded and reproduced

Labstep, an app and online platform to help scientists record and reproduce experiments, has raised £1 million in new funding, including from existing investors. The company, whose team has a background in commercial R&D and academic research, including at Oxford University, is backed by Seedcamp and says it plans to use the new capital to double its team to 12, and for further product

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Google Assistant’s ‘Continued Conversation’ feature is now live

Google I/O was awash with Assistant news, but Duplex mystery aside, Continued Conversation was easily one of the most compelling announcements of the bunch. The feature is an attempt to bring more naturalized conversation to the AI — a kind of holy grail with these sorts of smart assistants. Continued Conversation is rolling out to Assistant today for users in the U.S. with a Home, Home Mini and

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Ohio Restaurant Owner Gives Ex-Cons a Second Chance

Former U.S. prison convicts often face big challenges after they are released from jail. Aside from having to relearn how to function in normal society, many find that having a criminal background makes it difficult, if not impossible, to land a suitable job. But one restaurant in Cleveland wants to give ex-cons a second chance. VOA’s Yahya Barzinji visited Edwins Restaurant to learn more. Bezhan

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Lawmakers Grill Commerce Secretary Over Escalating Trade Battles

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross faced tough questions during a Senate hearing Wednesday on the Trump administration’s tariff proposals and actions. Senators on both sides of the aisle criticized the administration’s rollout of proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. VOA’s Elizabeth Cherneff has more on the fallout from Washington.

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Bolton to Visit Moscow, Plan Possible Trump-Putin Meeting

MOSCOW — U.S. national security adviser John Bolton plans to visit Moscow next week to prepare for a possible meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing sources.The Kremlin said Tuesday there are no plans for a meeting between Trump and Putin before the NATO summit, Interfax reported. Trump is expected to attend

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बॉलीवुड के एक्टर चंकी पांडे की बेटी अनन्या दिखती बेहद खुबसूरत और हॉट, देखे फोटो!

Pankaj June 21, 2018 Hindi बॉलीवुड इंडस्ट्री के सबसे मशहूर कॉमेडियन अभिनेताओं में से एक चंकी पांडे के बारे में तो आप सभी लोग जानते ही होंगे  बॉलीवुड सितारों के बच्चों की होती है तो अभिनेता चंकी पांडे की बेटी अनन्या की खूबसूरती के चर्चे भी जरूर किए जाते हैं। अनन्या की भोली भाली सूरत को देखकर तो यही लगता है कि बॉलीवुड को जल्द ही एक और टैलेंटेड हीरोइन मिलने वाली है। लेकिन आज हम बात करेंगे

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China’s VIPKID, which links native English speakers with online learners, raises another $500M, reportedly at $3B+ valuation

The online language school market is continuing to heat up, and a startup that connects native English speakers with an audience of students spanning China and 35 other countries for live language tutorials, is helping fan those flames. VIPKID, based out of Beijing, today announced that it has raised $500 million in funding — a Series D+ round that potentially values the startup at over $3

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Silexica, which optimises how disparate applications work together on autonomous cars, raises $18M

As we inch closer to building increasingly autonomous cars, the complexities that these vehicles will present as programmable hardware are increasing, with some 250 applications ranging from cameras to navigation controls to weather sensors running on a typical high performance system today. Now, a startup that is building a system to help optimise that and let all of those vendors work together

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US Man Pleads Guilty of Trying to Aid IS

A 22-year-old man from New York has pleaded guilty of attempting to provide material support to Islamic State.Parveg Ahmed was arrested after flying from the United States to Saudi Arabia last year and then attempting to cross into Syria. But he was stopped before he could complete his mission.Law enforcement officials searched Ahmed’s computer and found a recording of radical Islamist clerics,

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Poll: Voters Give Trump Mixed Grades on Foreign, Domestic Issues

More than half of American voters say U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reduced the likelihood of nuclear war, according to a poll released Wednesday.The poll, administered by Quinnipiac University, found that 54 percent of voters thought the summit, which took place June 12 in Singapore, reduced the risk of war. Thirty-seven percent of respondents

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European Business Lobby Presses China to Stop Dragging Feet on Reform

BEIJING — As the United States and China teeter on the brink of an all out trade war and tit-for-tat tariffs loom, a European businesses lobby is urging Beijing to stop dragging its feet on reforms and using unfair trade policies to pamper Chinese companies.Each year, foreign trade groups in China roll out a laundry list of concerns about market access, regulatory hurdles and other policies that

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Kareena, Jacqueline and Manushi sizzle the dance floor at the Miss India 2018 finale

On June 19, the gorgeous 19-year-old Anukreethy Vas, a resident of Tamil Nadu, has been crowned with the ‘Femina Miss India 2018’. As always it was a star studded event and Bollywood beauties stole the show with their dance performances. Among the celebrities, Jacqueline Fernandes, Madhuri Dixit and Kareena Kapoor were also seen in the Miss Femina event. They won the hearts of all with their

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इन बॉलीवुड अभिनेत्रियों ने एक विदेशी लड़के को चुना है अपना जीवनसाथी, देखें तस्वीरें

अक्सर देखा जाता है की बॉलीवुड एक्ट्रेस अपने किसी साथी एक्टर के साथ ही अफेयर में पड़ जाती है और अक्सर इनसे शादी भी कर लेती है. बॉलीवुड में कई ऐसे एक्ट्रेस है जिन्होंने अपने को स्टार से शादी की है. या फिर किसी फिल्म इंडस्ट्री से जुडी लड़के से ही शादी की है. लेकिन आज हम आपको उन बॉलीवुड एक्ट्रेस से मिलवाने जा रहे है जिन्होंने किसी विदेशी को अपना जीवनसाथी चुना है.1. राधिका आप्टेराधिका काफी बोल्ड

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Flower vendors indulge in a brutal fight outside Ujjain’s famous ‘Mahakal Temple’

Get Daily Updates In Email Mahakal temple in Ujjain is one of the most famous religious place in the country. This religious spot is in news for no good reason this time. It is very common if any happening occurs on a crowded religious place like stampede. But this time what happened outside the temple is shameful. A video of the flower vendors outside Mahakal temple indulged in a fight is

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ये है बॉलीवुड की इन फैमस और खूबसूरत अभिनेत्रियों के पति, देख कर नही होगा यकीन!

दोस्तों बॉलीवुड में कई खुबसूरत अभिनेत्रिया आती है और अपने अभिनय से सब को अपना दीवाना बनाती है उनमे से कुछ बॉलीवुड की इस जगमगाती दुनिया में अपनी जगह बना लेती है और इस पर राज़ करती है लेकिन कुछ अभिनेत्रिया बीच में ही सब कुछ छोड़ कर कई गुम हो जाती है, आज हम आपको कुछ ऐसी अभिनेत्रियों के बारे में बता रह है जो किसी समय में बॉलीवुड में छाई हुई थी, और आज वो कहा है। अपनी सुंदरता से लाखों लोगों को दीवाना

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative hires to donate tech, not just money

A cell atlas. AI that reads science papers. Personalized learning software. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s $45 billion philanthropy organization wants to build technology that can do good at scale rather than just trying to drown problems in cash. Now 2.5 years after its launch, CZI has finally filled out its tech leadership team. Today CZI announced the hire of Jonathan Goldman as its head

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Trump Rallies Republicans for Hill Immigration Vote

President Donald Trump made a last-minute trip to Capitol Hill to convince lawmakers he backs their attempt to pass an immigration bill. Republican’s push to address border security and the fate of 800,000 undocumented young people comes amid growing outcry over the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy toward undocumented immigrants and the separation of families. VOA’s Congressional

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Challenger Takes Campaign to Erdogan's Backyard in Bid to Win Religious Voters

Turkey goes to the polls this Sunday, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could be facing his toughest test in his 16 years in power. Challenger Muharrem Ince’s platform of breaking down Turkey’s deep political divides, especially between the religious and secular have seen him reaching out beyond his pro-secular CHP Party’s base. An increasingly confident Ince has even taken his campaign to

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Mexico’s World Cup Goal Resulted Into ‘Man-Made Earthquake’

Get Daily Updates In Email Mexico’s triumph over Germany during an initial World Cup game on June 17 caused quite the stir in Mexico City.At 11:35 am, when Hirving Lozano hit the last goal to bag the competition in Russia, seismographs all over the Mexico City found out a spike in seismic movement.Mexico’s Institute of Geological and Atmospheric Research stated that such vibrations took place

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Rishi Kapoor introduces his on-screen son from ‘Rajma Chawal’

Bollywood veteran actor Rishi Kapoor is all set to be seen in the upcoming film ‘Rajma Chawal’. The film will feature the actor as the father of actor Anirudh Tanwar.On the occasion of Father’s Day, Rishi Kapoor has introduced his on-screen son from the film. Talking about it, the actor said, “I would like to introduce the main family member from my new film ‘Rajma Chawal’, my on-screen son, 

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Facebook launches Workplace for Good, a free version of its enterprise product for non-profits

Workplace is making a push into the non-profit segment. Today the enterprise communications app from Facebook is launching a new tier of the product called Workplace for Good, which will let non-profits use the product for no fee. To be completely clear, Facebook has never charged non-profits to use Workplace, and it’s already used by over 2,500 of them out of the 30,000 or so organisations using

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American Arrested in Vietnam 'Regrets' Breaking Law

HANOI — An American student held in Vietnam for “causing public disorder” at violent protests this month has appeared on state television to say he regrets breaking the law and will stay away from future rallies.William Nguyen was detained on June 10 in Ho Chi Minh City after attending mass demonstrations against proposed special economic zones that would grant investors 99-year leases.Video

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Amid Outcry, Trump Doubles Down on 'Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Enforcement

U.S. President Donald Trump is doubling down on his “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration, a crackdown that has led to at least 2,000 undocumented children being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. VOA Senate correspondent Michael Bowman reports, human rights advocates and lawmakers of both political parties are outraged, sparking action on Capitol Hill.

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Russia's Record-Breaking $15 Billion World Cup Price Tag: What Does It Buy?

The World Cup in Russia is the most expensive ever – with the official price tag around $15 billion. The result: several huge new stadiums, railroads and upgraded airports, plus the chance to reboot Russia’s global image. So, will the tournament represent a good value for Russians? As Henry Ridgwell reports from Moscow, the government appears to have used the World Cup to bury some bad economic

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Italian grocery delivery service Supermercato24 picks up €13M Series B

Supermercato24, an Italian same-day grocery delivery service, has raised €13 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is FII Tech Growth, with participation from new investor Endeavor Catalyst, and current investors 360 Capital Partners, and Innogest. Similar to Instacart in the U.S. and claiming to the leader in Italy, Supermercato24 lets customers order from local supermarkets for

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Korean beauty startup Memebox relaunches its U.S. e-commerce platform and signs Sephora deal

Beauty startup Memebox is relaunching its United States e-commerce business, about one year after putting it on hold to focus on building a review and community platform. Beginning today, the company will sell its in-house brands, I Dew care and Nooni, through the site before adding makeup line Pony Effect next month. Memebox, which is based in San Francisco and has raised about $160 million in

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Trump Administration Seeks to Limit Court's 'Sanctuary Cities' Order

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, escalating its fight with so-called sanctuary cities, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to narrow a lower court’s nationwide order preventing the federal government from denying public safety grants to municipalities that limit cooperation on immigration enforcement.The Justice Department asked the high court to make the injunction issued by a federal

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Upping Ante, Trump Threatens New Tariffs on Chinese Imports

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Trade Representative to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports Monday as the two nations moved closer to a potential trade war.The tariffs, which Trump wants set at a 10 percent rate, would be the latest round of punitive measures in an escalating dispute over the large trade imbalance between the two countries. Trump recently

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Right-Wing Italian Interior Minister Wants to Look into 'Roma Question'

Italy’s new right-wing interior minister Matteo Salvini said his department has to look into “the Roma question” in Italy — a comment the opposition said reminds them of Italian fascism.Salvini said Monday he wants to take a census of Italy’s Roma population.“Unfortunately, we will have to keep the Italian Roma because we can’t expel them,” Salvini told Telelombardia television.Center-left

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Looking for Truth Behind Separating Families at US Border

The Trump administration at least since April has been separating children and parents who enter the United States illegally at the border — that much is supported by the numbers. But much of everything else surrounding the practice has become mired in confusion. Here is what we know:In recent weeks, news stories of children in detention centers have circulated more widely, and the numbers of

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Crate.io raises $11M and launches its hosted IoT data platform.

Crate.io, the winner of our Disrupt Europe 2014 Startup Battlefield competition, today announced that it has raised an $11 million Series A round. In addition, the company also launched its ‘Crate Machine Learning Platform’ today, a new hosted solution for businesses that want to use the company’s SQL-based database platform for working with IoT data. The new funding round was led by Zetta

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A Throwback Video Of Small Janhvi Kapoor As She Presented ‘The Best Actor Award’ To Shah Rukh Khan

Get Daily Updates In Email There have been awards in various fields. Awards are usually given to people who have done an excellent job in their respective fields. Like all other fields have awards given to people, Bollywood also hosts many Award shows for people to let them know how important their contribution towards a movie or their field of work is important.Shah Rukh Khan was presented

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KBC Question 13,KBC Question 13, What Is Meaning of “Protem” In Protem Speaker?

KBC Registration Question – Now LiveTodays KBC QuestionQuestion 13KBC Question 13KBC Question 13, What Is Meaning of Protem In Protem Speaker?A. LearnedB. ProfessionalC. For the Time BeingD. Expertआज का कौन बनेगा करोड़पति का सवालQuestion 13A.B.C.D.जवाब देने के लिएType KBC A 25 M/F and send to 509093 if your answer is A (25 DENOTES TO AGE AND M FOR MALE AND F FOR FEMALE )Type KBC B 25 M/F and send

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Penta, the bank account for SMEs, adds multi-card support to manage expenses

Penta, the German fintech startup that offers a digital bank account targeting SMEs, has launched multi-card support to make it easier to manage company expenses. Dubbed ‘Team Access,’ the new feature — which affords similar functionality to the likes of Pleo, Spendesk, and Soldo — lets business owners issue multiple MasterCards to employees who need to make purchases on a company’s behalf. Each

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Google’s Datally app adds more ways to limit mobile data usage

In November, Google introduced Datally, a data-saving app largely aimed at emerging markets where users often rely on prepaid SIM cards, and don’t have access to all-you-can-eat unlimited data plans. The app lets users granularly control which apps can use data, which resulted in a 30% savings on data usage during pilot testing and now saves users 21%, on average. Today, Google is giving Datally

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WearableX’s ‘smart’ new Yoga pant is aimed at the guys

A lot has been said about the coming future of wearables, but, it turned out, not a heck of a lot took off. It seemed most of us were happy with ‘wearing’ a smartwatch and leaving it at that. In fact, Apple’s recent announcements around the iWatch show that ‘wearables’ are not really about just wearing something with electronics embedded, but really about health. Now, we know that the home

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Email security startup Tessian raises $13M led by Balderton and Accel

Tessian (formerly called CheckRecipient), the London-based startup that is deploying machine learning to improve email security, has raised $13 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Balderton Capital, and existing backer Accel. A number of previous investors also followed on, including Amadeus Capital Partners, Crane, LocalGlobe, Winton Ventures, and Walking Ventures. Founded in 2013

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ARKit 2

June 4, 2018 iOS is the biggest AR platform in the world, and now you can create even more incredible experiences with ARKit 2. Multiple users can use their iOS device to simultaneously view AR experiences or play multiplayer games, as bystanders spectate. AR experiences can be saved and resumed at a later time in the same state. And you can incorporate real-world objects into your AR experiences

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Cinnamon Desktop Spices Up RoboLinux Raptor

By Jack M. Germain May 19, 2018 5:00 AM PT RoboLinux is a unique distro that focuses on incorporating Windows versions XP through 10 within a fully functional Linux operating system.You might never need the Stealth VM features that let you easily install and run Microsoft Windows within most any Linux distro. Still, RoboLinux is a topnotch general purpose Linux computing platform that comes with

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Jewish Artifacts Disappear From Damascus

BEIRUT — Jewish artifacts, including ancient parchment torahs from one of the world’s oldest synagogues, have gone missing from the Syrian capital amid the tumult of ongoing civil war, with some precious items reportedly surfacing abroad.Activists say the artifacts, moved from the now-destroyed Jobar Synagogue in Damascus’ eastern Ghouta suburb when it was taken by rebels, were allegedly put into

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Yoga Practitioners Bring Mats to the Lawn of US Capitol

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Greece, Macedonia Sign Deal Ending Name Dispute

PSARADES, GREECE — The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia signed an accord Sunday to rename the former Yugoslav republic the “Republic of North Macedonia.”The landmark accord follows decades of inconclusive talks that soured relations between the two countries and held up the admission of the Balkan state into the EU and NATO, of which Greece is a member.The agreement still requires the

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The techlash

People hate hubris and hypocrisy more than they hate evil, which is, I think, why we’re seeing the beginnings of a bipartisan cultural backlash against the tech industry. A backlash which is wrongly conceived and wrongly targeted … but not entirely unfounded. It’s hard to shake the sense that, as an industry, we are currently abdicating some of our collective responsibility to the world. Jeff

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Cloud Providers Look for Legal Loopholes to Protect Customer Data

By John K. Higgins May 17, 2018 10:36 AM PT United States-based providers of e-commerce resources, including cloud services, must release foreign-held customer information to law enforcement agencies under a new law enacted in March.Providers have strongly objected to releasing customer information residing outside the U.S. for fear of violating the privacy laws of other countries. In a legal

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Original Content podcast: ‘Queer Eye’ season two is even more of a tearjerker

It’s only been a couple months since we reviewed the first season of Netflix’s revival of Queer Eye, but the show’s Fab Five are already back with another eight episodes where they remake the homes, wardrobes and lives. For season two, however, they mix things up a little — not only does the format feel more varied, but the folks being helped now include a woman and a transgendered man. On

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Congo's Ebola Outbreak Poses Challenges for Bush Meat

MBANDAKA, CONGO — For 25 years, Patrick Matondo has earned a living buying and selling monkeys, bats and other animals popularly known as bush meat along the Congo River. Standing on the riverbank in Mbandaka, a city affected by the deadly new outbreak of the Ebola virus, the father of five said that for the first time he’s worried he won’t be able to support his family.“Since Ebola was declared,

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Middle Office or No-Man's Land?

It was once common knowledge that Apttus was the next big acquisition target on Salesforce’s radar, until Salesforce decided to acquire another CPQ (configure, price, quote) vendor to augment its Sales Cloud. In the two-ish years since, Apttus has nicely pivoted, diversifying its partner base and justifying its existence with a new strategy and nomenclature around what it calls the “middle office

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Here’s a list of Chromebooks with Linux app support

Linux apps on Chrome OS made their debut on the Google Pixelbook at Google I/O this year. Since then, support has come quietly to more Chromebooks, new and old. Here’s a list of all the Chromebooks that support the functionality.Linux apps on Chrome OSThis is a new feature that allows users to start up Linux applications from Chrome OS without janky hacks or the dreaded Developer Mode. What it

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With its new in-car operating system, BMW slowly breaks with tradition

When you spend time with a lot of BMW folks, as I did during a trip to Germany earlier this month, you’ll regularly hear the word “heritage.” Maybe that’s no surprise, given that the company is now well over 100 years old. But in a time of rapid transformation that’s hitting every car manufacturer, engineers and designers have to strike a balance between honoring that history and looking forward.

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Cinnamon Desktop Spices Up RoboLinux Raptor

RoboLinux is a unique distro that focuses on incorporating Windows versions XP through 10 within a fully functional Linux operating system.You might never need the Stealth VM features that let you easily install and run Microsoft Windows within most any Linux distro. Still, RoboLinux is a topnotch general purpose Linux computing platform that comes with a choice of leading desktop

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Native American Two-Spirits Look to Reclaim Lost Heritage

Growing up, Timothy “Twix” Ward, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, thought he was “normal.” But his family recognized there was something “special” about him.“It wasn’t until I got older that I knew who I was, that I was different from everyone else,” he said. Ward identifies not as a man or a woman, but both — and neither: Twix Ward is a Two-Spirit.The term was first devised in

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Beijing Ready to Retaliate Against US Tariffs on Chinese Goods

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he would proceed with 25-percent tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese technology imports, intensifying a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.Trump followed through on a promise to crack down on what he considers to be unfair trade practices by China, imposing tariffs on goods that “contain industrially-significant technologies.”“These

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Trump Says It's 'Possible' He'll Meet With Putin This Summer

President Donald Trump says “it’s possible” he’ll meet with Russian President Vladimir this summer.And he’s again making the case that Russia should be allowed to re-join the Group of Seven industrialized nations during in an impromptu interview and gaggle on the White House driveway.Trump is blaming former President Barack Obama for Russia’s dismissal, saying “I think President Obama didn’t like

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TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield is coming soon to Beirut, São Paolo and Lagos

Everyone knows there are thriving startup communities outside of obvious hubs, like San Francisco, Berlin, Bangalore and Beijing, but they don’t always get the support they deserve. Last year, TechCrunch took a major page from its playbook, the Startup Battlefield competition, and staged the event in Nairobi, Kenya to find the best early stage startup in Sub-Saharan Africa, and also to Sydney,

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Here are some interesting facts about ‘Race 3’ actress, Daisy Shah!

Salman Khan’s much awaited film ‘Race 3’ has been released in cinemas.The film also stars Jacqueline Fernandez, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Daisy Shah, Saqib Saleem, Freddy Daroowala. The film is a third installment of the franchise.Well, today here we are not talking about the film, but we are talking about it’s actress Daisy Shah who recently became a target of the trolls for her dialogue “Our

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TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield is coming soon to Beirut, São Paolo and Lagos

Everyone knows there are thriving startup communities outside of obvious hubs, like San Francisco, Berlin, Bangalore and Beijing, but they don’t always get the support they deserve. Last year, TechCrunch took a major page from its playbook, the Startup Battlefield competition, and staged the event in Nairobi, Kenya to find the best early stage startup in Sub-Saharan Africa, and also to Sydney,

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KBC Question 10, Which of these leaders has never been the prime minister of pakistan ?

KBC Registration Question – Now LiveTodays KBC QuestionQuestion 10KBC Question 10KBC Question 10,Which of these leaders has never been the prime minister of pakistan ?A. mohammed ali jinnahB. Liaqat Ali khanC. Yusaf Raza GilaniD.Zulfikar Ali BhuttoAns : A. mohammed ali jinnahआज का कौन बनेगा करोड़पति का सवालQuestion 10A.B.C.D.जवाब देने के लिएType KBC A 25 M/F and send to 509093 if your answer is A

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Facebook’s new AI research is a real eye-opener

There are plenty of ways to manipulate photos to make you look better, remove red eye or lens flare, and so on. But so far the blink has proven a tenacious opponent of good snapshots. That may change with research from Facebook that replaces closed eyes with open ones in a remarkably convincing manner. It’s far from the only example of intelligent “in-painting,” as the technique is called when a

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Costa Rican Research Institute Develops Snakebite Antidotes

The Central American nation of Costa Rica is among the tropical countries in the world with a very high concentration of snakes. Twenty of the country’s more than 130 species are among the most poisonous. VOA reporter Iacopo Luzi traveled to Costa Rica to report on the work of a research institute that produces the snakebite antidotes that, in many cases, are the only things that make a

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Cloud Providers Look for Legal Loopholes to Protect Customer Data

By John K. Higgins May 17, 2018 10:36 AM PT United States-based providers of e-commerce resources, including cloud services, must release foreign-held customer information to law enforcement agencies under a new law enacted in March.Providers have strongly objected to releasing customer information residing outside the U.S. for fear of violating the privacy laws of other countries. In a legal

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Apple and Oprah sign a multi-year partnership on original content

Apple announced today a multi-year content partnership with Oprah Winfrey to produce programs for the tech company’s upcoming video-streaming service. Apple didn’t provide any specific details as to what sort of projects Winfrey would be involved in, but there will be more than one it seems. Apple shared the news of its deal with Winfrey in a brief statement on its website, which read: Apple

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Upcoming iOS Access Restrictions Could Stymie Law Enforcement

Apple plans to equip iOS 12 with USB Restricted Mode, a feature that requires users to unlock their iPhone with their passcode before USB accessories can connect if the phone last was unlocked more than an hour earlier.The company included this feature in the developer versions of iOS 11.4.1 and iOS 12.Apple will release USB Restricted Mode publicly in a future software update, it confirmed to

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Technology Makes Soccer Training More Efficient

Among the millions of fans watching the World Cup are amateur football players who have dreams of being as good as their heroes, Now, they have a new way to compare their performance to the best professionals in the game, so they can build their skills. The help comes from a new wearable device that uses GPS and other sensors to track their movements. Faiza Elmasry has the story. Faith Lapidus

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Cinnamon Desktop Spices Up RoboLinux Raptor

By Jack M. Germain May 19, 2018 5:00 AM PT RoboLinux is a unique distro that focuses on incorporating Windows versions XP through 10 within a fully functional Linux operating system.You might never need the Stealth VM features that let you easily install and run Microsoft Windows within most any Linux distro. Still, RoboLinux is a topnotch general purpose Linux computing platform that comes with

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Judge says ‘literal but nonsensical’ Google translation isn’t consent for police search

Machine translation of foreign languages is undoubtedly a very useful thing, but if you’re going for anything more than directions or recommendations for lunch, its shallowness is a real barrier. And when it comes to the law and constitutional rights, a “good enough” translation doesn’t cut it, a judge has ruled. The ruling (PDF) is not hugely consequential, but it is indicative of the evolving

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NICE Bot Wants to Take Over Employees' Most Tedious Tasks

NICE on Tuesday debuted its NICE Employee Virtual Attendant, or NEVA, a process automation bot powered by the company’s desktop automation technology.With chatbot capabilities, NEVA “is designed for both front- and back-office employees,” said NICE VP Oded Karev, head of advanced process automation.Employees can use NEVA either to execute a complex business process or inquire about a process, he

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California Moves to Clear Coffee of Cancer-Risk Stigma

LOS ANGELES — California officials, having concluded coffee drinking is not a risky pastime, are proposing a regulation that will essentially tell consumers of America’s favorite beverage they can drink up without fear.The unprecedented action Friday by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to propose a regulation to clear coffee of the stigma that it could pose a toxic risk

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Elizabeth Holmes reportedly steps down at Theranos after criminal indictment

Elizabeth Holmes has left her role as CEO of Theranos and has been charged with wire fraud, CNBC and others report. The company’s former president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, was also indicted today by a grand jury. These criminal charges are separate from the civil ones filed in March by the SEC and already settled. There are 11 charges; two are conspiracy to commit wire fraud (against investors,

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Suicide Is Not Just a US Problem, It's a Global Issue

By now, you have probably heard that suicide rates in the United States have increased sharply over the past two decades.There was a lot of media coverage after fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain took their own lives. Their suicides happened around the same time that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report showing a 25 percent increase in

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Venmo is discontinuing web support for payments and more

PayPal-owned, peer-to-peer payments app Venmo is ending web support for its service, the company announced in an email to users. The changes, which are beginning to roll out now, will see the Venmo.com website phasing out support for making payments and charging users. In time, users will see even less functionality on the website, the company says. The message to users was quietly shared in the

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At UN, World Cup Reminder of Role of Sport in Peace

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Members of Congress Take to Baseball Field Year After Shooting

Republican and Democratic lawmakers took to the field Thursday night for the annual congressional charity baseball game. It fell on the first anniversary of a shooting spree at a practice last year that almost killed U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. Jill Craig was in the stands for the first pitch.

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Oxfam: French Border Police Cut Off Soles of Migrant Children’s Shoes

Oxfam says French border police are mistreating migrant children who are seeking to enter France from Italy, sending them back to Italy in violation of French and European Union law.“Some children even had the soles of their shoes cut off, before being sent back to Italy,” an Oxfam staff member says in a newly released report entitled “Nowhere But Out.”“Police yell at them, laugh at them, push

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Suresh Raina’s Daughter Gracia Out On Shopping, Video Is Ruling Our Hearts

Get Daily Updates In Email It seems this is the era of star cricketer’s daughter, MS Dhoni’s daughter Ziva, Harbhajan Singh’s daughter Hinaya and Suresh Raina’s daughter who always manage to make headlines.And this time the leading one is Gracia who went out grocery shopping with mom Priyanka. She can be seen pushing the trolly by herself and picking up the things she likes, like chips and

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इस एक्टर ने सुनाई अपनी दुःख भरी कहानी ‘जब घर चलाने के लिए बीवी को बेचनी पड़ी ज्वेलरी’

हर किसी की जिंदगी में उतर चढाव भरे दिन आते है. ऐसे ही हमारे एक्टर्स के संघर्ष के दिन होते है जो बेहद दुःख भरे होते है. आज हम जिस एक्टर की बात कर रहे है उसने भी अपनी कुछ ऐसी ही कहानी सुनाई जब संघर्ष के दिनों में उनकी पत्नी ने अपने गहने बेचकर घर चलाया था. आज हम बात कर रहे है एक्टर मोहित मालिक की. जो हाल ही में राजीव खंडेलवाल के चैट शो जज्बात में पहुंचे.कई टीवी शो में काम कर चुके मोहित फिलहाल ‘

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Antarctica Losing Ice Faster Than Thought

Once again, hard facts support the claim that the planet is getting warmer. According to a new report, published in the scientific journal Nature, Antarctica is losing ice so fast that by the end of this century, the sea level could rise as much as 16 centimeters. This may not sound like much, but scientists say the trend is alarming. VOA’s George Putic has more.

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Dank learning system autogenerates memes

We all know that in the near future humanity will come to a crossroads. With 99% of the world’s population currently tasked with creating memes and/or dank memes, what will happen when computers get better at it than humans? Researchers may have just found out. Using machine learning, a pair of Stanford researchers, Abel L. Peirson V and E. Meltem Tolunay, have created a system that automatically

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Thousands Flee Colorado Wildfire

DENVER — The threat of hot, windy weather and thunderstorms Thursday posed more problems for firefighters battling a Colorado wildfire that has forced residents of more than 1,000 homes to evacuate and led to warnings for others to get ready to leave.The fire 13 miles (43 kilometers) north of Durango is in the Four Corners Region where Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah meet, the epicenter of

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IG Faults Comey's Judgment, But Sees No Bias

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department’s watchdog on Thursday criticized former FBI Director James Comey for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but said it found no evidence that Comey had been motivated by “political bias.”In a long-awaited review of the investigation, the department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, did not

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Honey Smacks Cereal Recalled Over Salmonella Risk

Kellogg Co said Thursday it is recalling an estimated 1.3 million cases of its Honey Smacks cereal from more than 30 U.S. states because of the potential for salmonella contamination, in the latest case of U.S. food products possibly tainted by the illness-causing bacteria.The U.S. Food & Drug Administration said it worked with Kellogg to issue the recall after preliminary evidence linked the

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NICE Bot Wants to Take Over Employees' Most Tedious Tasks

NICE on Tuesday debuted its NICE Employee Virtual Attendant, or NEVA, a process automation bot powered by the company’s desktop automation technology.With chatbot capabilities, NEVA “is designed for both front- and back-office employees,” said NICE VP Oded Karev, head of advanced process automation.Employees can use NEVA either to execute a complex business process or inquire about a process, he

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Budget-Friendly Surface Tablet May Horn In on iPad's Turf

Microsoft plans to release a line of Surface tablets priced in the US$400 range later this year, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.The tablets will have 10-inch screens and rounded edges, and USB-C connectivity — a first in Microsoft tablets. They will be about 20 percent lighter than the Surface Pros. Their battery life will be about four hours shy of the 13.5-inch Surface Pro

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AT&T completes its acquisition of Time Warner

AT&T has sealed the deal to buy Time Warner in a major piece of media and technology consolidation. The deal — which is $85.4 billion and a total of $108 billion with debt — was first announced in October 2016 and, having passed a court approval earlier this week, it was completed on Thursday. That’s a long cycle to complete a transaction, but this is a complicated one that sees AT&T take control

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Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report

By Jack M. Germain May 15, 2018 5:00 AM PT Black Duck by Synopsys on Tuesday released the 2018 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis report, which details new concerns about software vulnerabilities amid a surge in the use of open source components in both proprietary and open source software.The report provides an in-depth look at the state of open source security, license compliance and

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Android One Moto X4 receiving May security update with fixes for Android Auto and USB transfer

The transition to Android 8.0 and Android 8.1 has been a mixed bag for those of us in the community. There are some companies out there who pushed out their updates to Oreo very quickly and have even gone as far as to offer beta builds of Android P as well. Then there are other companies who are lagging far behind due to various reasons. We recently talked about the big Android 8.1 Oreo update

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New European rules may give US internet users true privacy choices for the first time

Europe’s new data privacy rules, the General Data Protection Regulation, have taken effect, but what they actually mean remains to be discovered. And whether the GDPR, as it’s known, really helps protect your private data may depend on complaints that Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, filed against Google, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on the day the regulation went into effect.It’s

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Some Sushi Served With a Hidden Ingredient: Microplastic

WASHINGTON — The beautiful, all-you-can-eat sushi platter you shared with friends last week might have included a special ingredient: plastic.Microplastics — the remnants of plastic bags, takeout containers and straws that almost-but-not-quite disintegrate in the oceans — are found in 3 out of 4 fish, such as squid, cuttlefish and swordfish in markets around the world, say the authors of a

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Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report

By Jack M. Germain May 15, 2018 5:00 AM PT Black Duck by Synopsys on Tuesday released the 2018 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis report, which details new concerns about software vulnerabilities amid a surge in the use of open source components in both proprietary and open source software.The report provides an in-depth look at the state of open source security, license compliance and

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Marketing startup Influential raises $12M from WME and others

Influential announced today that it has raised $12 million in Series B funding. The funding came from existing investors Capital Zed, ECA Ventures, Paradigm Talent Agency, ROAR and Tech Coast Angels, as well as from Hollywood agency WME. Just a couple weeks ago, Influential said it was working with (and had raised money from) WME. The agency is the first to try out a new Influential product

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Budget-Friendly Surface Tablet May Horn In on iPad's Turf

Microsoft plans to release a line of Surface tablets priced in the US$400 range later this year, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.The tablets will have 10-inch screens and rounded edges, and USB-C connectivity — a first in Microsoft tablets. They will be about 20 percent lighter than the Surface Pros. Their battery life will be about four hours shy of the 13.5-inch Surface Pro

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UNAIDS Chief: Testing is Critical in Combating HIV/AIDS

The head of UNAIDS says testing for the HIV virus is critical in reaching the goal of eliminating the virus by 2030. But the U.N. official tells VOA the effort is hampered in many countries by social taboos and stigma attached to AIDS and other HIV-related diseases. VOA’s Zlatica Hoke has more.

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Luminar rolls out its development platform and scores Volvo partnership and investment

The wizards in lidar tech at Luminar are doubling down on the practical side of autonomous car deployment with a partnership with and investment from Volvo, as well as a new “perception development platform” that helps squeeze every last drop out of its laser-based imagery. Volvo Cars has been one of the big investors in autonomous vehicles, and while they have produced some cars equipped for

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Didi will resume late night Hitch rides, but only allow drivers to pick up passengers of the same sex

Didi Chuxing’s inter-city carpooling service will resume night operations on a limited basis about a month after a female passenger was allegedly murdered by an unregistered driver who accessed the platform using his father’s account. Called Didi Hitch, the service will return on June 15 with new safety measures, including one that only allows drivers to serve passengers of the same sex during

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Health Experts Dispatch Experimental Vaccine to Fight Congo's Latest Ebola Outbreak

Health experts are dispatching an experimental vaccine in areas of The Democratic Republic of the Congo that are considered ground zero in the fight against Ebola. Their hope is to try to combat the outbreak from the onset. The crucial test is providing hope, in times of uncertainty. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more.

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Machine Learning

June 4, 2018 With Core ML 2, you can process models faster than ever, make them smaller, and much more. And now, you can easily build and train models using the new Create ML framework, with no machine learning expertise required.Learn more about machine learning

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NICE Bot Wants to Take Over Employees' Most Tedious Tasks

NICE on Tuesday debuted its NICE Employee Virtual Attendant, or NEVA, a process automation bot powered by the company’s desktop automation technology.With chatbot capabilities, NEVA “is designed for both front- and back-office employees,” said NICE VP Oded Karev, head of advanced process automation.Employees can use NEVA either to execute a complex business process or inquire about a process, he

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How to Back Up iPhone Data to an External Drive

A recent incident reminded me of the importance of backing up one’s phone regularly. Soon after carrying my recycling out to the curbside, I realized I had misplaced my 6-month-old iPhone. Cue brief panic, followed by deep concern that I’d somehow tossed my device into that transparent bag I’d left outside for the world to see.That led me to yelling “Hey, Siri” a few times around my apartment

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Frustrated AMA Adopts Sweeping Policies to Cut Gun Violence

CHICAGO — With frustration mounting over lawmakers’ inaction on gun control, the American Medical Association on Tuesday pressed for a ban on assault weapons and came out against arming teachers as a way to fight what it calls a public health crisis.At its annual policymaking meeting, the nation’s largest physicians group bowed to unprecedented demands from doctor-members to take a stronger stand

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Safety app Watch Out acquires paywall startup BitWall

BitWall, a Bitcoin-focused startup promising to help online publishers make money, has been acquired. Its new owner is Watch Out, the company behind an app that sends alerts about things like product and food recalls and weather-realted emergencies. It’s not the most obvious acquirer, but the companies say BitWall can help Watch Out improve its data, payments and loyalty systems. “We are excited

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In Singapore, Trump Says He will Halt US-S. Korea "War Games"

The Singapore Summit ended Tuesday with the United States and North Korea committed to denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. But the seemingly biggest headline does not even appear in the official signed summit agreement, with President Donald Trump repeatedly expressing his commitment to halt what he called joint military ‘war games’ between the U.S. and ally South Korea. VOA Pentagon

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GOP Seeks Immigration Accord Under Pressure from Moderates

House Republicans labored to strike an immigration accord Tuesday, the day restive moderates have said they’d move to force future votes on the divisive issue if no compromise is reached. Aides said any deal would likely include provisions changing how immigrant children are separated from their families at the border.Speaker Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, planned to meet with centrist and

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As Russia Readies For World Cup Kick-Off, Critics Accuse Moscow and FIFA of Foul Play

Eight years after it was awarded the right to host the football World Cup, Russia says it is ready for kick-off in the month-long competition. But with the total World Cup budget having been increased no less than 12 times and allegations of corruption surrounding stadium construction, how ready is Russia to host one of the world’s biggest sporting competitions? Henry Ridgwell reports.

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बॉलीवुड की ये हॉट एंड बोल्ड एक्ट्रेस, सड़क के किनारे खा रही थी गोला, लेकिन नहीं पहचान पाया कोई!

Pankaj June 13, 2018 Hindi बॉलीवुड फिल्म मर्डर से सुर्खियों में आई अभिनेत्री मल्लिका शेरावत को आज किसी पहचान की जरुरत नही है आप को बता दे की बॉलीवुड की सबसे फेमस और सबसे ज्यादा हॉट दिखने मल्लिका शेहरावत है,लेकिन कुछ समय से वे बॉलीवुड फिल्मो से काफी ज्यादा दूर है। बॉलीवुड में जिस मुकाम पर पहुंचना मल्लिका का ख्वाब था आप को बता दे की मल्लिका ने सबसे ज्यादा मशहूर और वो सुर्खियों में छायी थी जब

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एक्शन हीरो सनी देओल के सबसे बड़े दुश्मन माने जाते है बॉलीवुड के ये अभिनेता है , नाम जानकर नही होगा यकीन!

 दोस्तों बॉलीवुड में ऐसे कई स्टार्स है जिनकी दोस्ती की लोग मिसाल देते है और इनकी दोस्ती के चर्चा पूरी दुनिया में होती है लेकिन आज बॉलीवुड अभिनेता ऐसे भी जो आपस में बहुत ही ज्यादा गहरी दोस्ती भी रखते हैं तो कई बॉलीवुड अभिनेता आपस में कड़े दुश्मन भी माने जाते हैं। बॉलीवुड में दोस्ती से ज्यादा मशहूर नहीं यही और अपने दुश्मनी से काफी ज्यादा मशहूर है और बॉलीवुड में उनकी दुश्मनी की चर्चा भी होती है।

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Salesforce deepens data sharing partnership with Google

Last Fall at Dreamforce, Salesforce announced a deepening friendship with Google. That began to take shape in January with integration between Salesforce CRM data and Google Analytics 360 and Google BigQuery. Today, the two cloud giants announced the next step as the companies will share data between Google Analytics 360 and the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. This particular data sharing partnership

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Using Art, An All-Girl Public School in NY Engages Students To Go Into STEM Fields

By mixing dance with the disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, an all-girl public school in New York encourages its students to go into the Stem fields. According to the U.S. National Science Foundation, while women make up half of the college-educated workforce, less that 30 percent of science and engineering jobs are filled by women. VOA Correspondent Mariama Diallo

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Open Source Is Everywhere and So Are Vulnerabilities, Says Black Duck Report

By Jack M. Germain May 15, 2018 5:00 AM PT Black Duck by Synopsys on Tuesday released the 2018 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis report, which details new concerns about software vulnerabilities amid a surge in the use of open source components in both proprietary and open source software.The report provides an in-depth look at the state of open source security, license compliance and

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US High Court Voter Roll Decision May Have Limited Impact

ATLANTA — A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for states to take a tougher approach to maintaining their voter rolls, but will they?Ohio plans to resume its process for removing inactive voters after it was affirmed in Monday’s 5-4 ruling. It takes a particularly aggressive approach that appears to be an outlier among states.Few appear eager to follow.“Our law has been on the books.

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Trump-Kim Summit Sparks Diverging Reactions on Capitol Hill

CAPITOL HILL — American lawmakers differed sharply in their reaction to the first-ever face-to-face meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history with their meeting Tuesday in Singapore, which ended with a pledge by Pyongyang “to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” and an unexpected

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First Gas Arrives in Turkey Through Pipeline From Azerbaijan

ANKARA, TURKEY — The Turkish and Azerbaijani presidents on Tuesday inaugurated a key pipeline carrying natural gas from Azerbaijan’s gas fields to Turkish markets and eventually to Europe, part of a wider Southern Gas Corridor project that aims to diversify gas supplies and reduce countries’ dependence on Russia.The Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline, or TANAP, is also part of Turkey’s ambition

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After Gold and Brahmastra, Mouni Roy bags another film opposite John Abraham

Get Daily Updates In Email TV Diva Mouni Roy who rose to fame with Ekta Kapoor’s Naagin is all set to fly high as she is soon going to make her Bollywood debut this year.Though the actress has been in the TV industry since several years and worked in classic shows like Kyuki Saas bhi kabhi bahu thi, she made a mark with Naagin and since then, she has not looked back. Last year, she signed a

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सगाई करने के बाद भी जुदा हो गए ये 5 बॉलीवुड कपल्स, नहीं पहुँच पाई शादी तक बात

बॉलीवुड स्टार्स के बीच अफेयर्स की खबरें तो रोज आती रहती है. अक्सर फिल्म के सेट पर रोमांस करते करते हीरो हीरोइन रियल लाइफ में एक दुसरे के दिवाने हो जाते है. लेकिन अक्सर देखा जाता है ये प्रेम कहानियाँ अक्सर फिल्मो की तरह अधूरी रह जाती है. आज हम आपको बॉलीवुड के ऐसे ही कुछ कपल्स के बारे में बताने जा रहे है जिनकी प्रेम कहानी की खूब चर्चा हुई, सगाई तक बात पहुंची कुछ की सगाई भी हुई लेकिन फिर भी इनकी

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Dixons Carphone discloses data breach affecting 5.9M payment cards, 105k of which were compromised

European electronics and telecoms retailer Dixons Carphone has revealed a hack of its systems in which the intruder/s attempted to compromise 5.9 million payment cards. In a statement put out today it says a review of its systems and data unearthed the data breach. It also confirms it has informed the UK’s data watchdog the ICO, financial conduct regulator the FCA, and the police. According to

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WHO Chief: 'We Are Still at War' With Ebola

KINSHASA — The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday cautioned against declaring victory too early in Congo’s Ebola epidemic, despite encouraging signs that it may be brought under control.“The outbreak is stabilizing, but still the outbreak is not over,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists on a visit to Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa. “We are

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Reining In Data-Crazed Tech Companies, Part 2

Several countries — including the United States, France and Germany — have pointed a finger at Russia for meddling in their elections. Part 1 of this two-part series covers how Russia used social media as a big part of that effort.Facebook has been scrambling to win back the public’s trust since the Russia and Cambridge Analytica scandal. However, it’s not clear what exactly hostile nation states

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Highly Sensitive Encrypted Email at Risk of Exposure

By John P. Mello Jr. May 15, 2018 9:36 AM PT A newfound flaw in email clients that use PGP and S/MIME to encrypt messages can be exploited to expose the plain text of the missives, according to a paper published Monday.By injecting malicious snippets of text into encrypted messages, attackers can use the flaw to make the email client exfiltrate decrypted copies of the emails, explained the

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CRMDialer President Dimitri Akhrin: Raw Data Is No. 1 Thing

Dimitri Akhrin is president of CRMDialer.In this exclusive interview, Akhrin addressesCRMDialer President Dmitri AkhrinCRM Buyer: What are some of the current trends you see in the CRM space?Dimitri Akhrin: AI is giving the ability to gain insight, and the most important example is visitor tracking. That’s a big component — knowing how in real time to react to something a prospect is doing on a

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Amino raises $45M for to bring fan communities to smartphones

Amino has raised a big Series C round of funding — $45 million from GV, Venrock, Union Square Ventures, Goodwater Capital and Time Warner Investments, with Hearst Ventures joining as a new investor. Co-founder and CEO Ben Anderson has described Amino as an way to help people who have “passionate niche interests” find others who feel the same way, via smartphone apps. The company started out with

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New technology can see your body through walls

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has created a system that can see your body through walls, recreating your poses when you walk, sit, or simply stand still. It uses RF waves to sense where you are and then recreates your body as a simple stick figure. It’s called RF-Pose. From the release: The researchers use a neural network to analyze radio signals that bounce off

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PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi and other prominent leaders visit AIIMS to meet Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Get Daily Updates In Email Former Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was admitted to AIIMS, New Delhi today with complaints of respiratory tract infection and issues related to the kidney. The 93-year-old leader has been facing severe health issues for almost a decade now. He is currently under the supervision of Dr. Randeep Guleria who has served as a personal physician to the

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Kamal Haasan starrer ‘Vishwaroopam 2’ trailer is out!

Finally! Kamal Haasan’s much-awaited film ‘Vishwaroopam 2’ trailer is out. The film is a sequel to the 2013 hit film, Vishwaroopam.The trailer shows Kamal Haasan portraying the role of an Indian agent, who is on a mission to protect the country from an international terrorist attack.The trailer takes off from snippets of the first part where Indian intelligence along with the FBI successfully

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Vaccines Make Major Dent in Child Deaths from Pneumonia, Meningitis

A vaccine against bacterial pneumonia and another against meningitis have saved 1.45 million children’s lives this century, according to a new study.The diseases the vaccines prevent are now concentrated in a handful of countries where the medications are not yet widely available or were only recently introduced, the research says.Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children worldwide.

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Tech Career Checklist: Aggressive Diversity, Cold Cash

I’ve become convinced that too many of us don’t prioritize our employment choices properly. What recently drew my attention to this was a conversation I had with Dell’s CFO Tom Sweet at Dell Technology World. We were chatting about Dell’s problem attracting employees. Because Dell is a private company, few employees get stock or stock options — they get cash instead. It seems that has put Dell at

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Spanish soccer app caught using microphone and GPS to snoop

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why an app is requesting microphone access when there doesn’t seem to be any logical reason why it should need to snoop on the sounds from your surroundings, hold that thought — and take a closer look at the T&Cs. Because it might turn out that spying is exactly what the app makers have in mind. To wit: La Liga, an app for fans of Spanish soccer which has

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Charter Spectrum May Want to Rethink Its Digital Pay-TV Service

Cable television companies have been rushing to introduce new digital pay-TV products. Traditional cable TV has been on the decline in the midst of a growing wave of new competition and new technologies. The new offerings reflect forward thinking and are a step in the right direction, but too many providers still don’t offer good quality digital pay-TV.Charter Spectrum is a great example of what

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Climate Change May Boost Cost of Eating Your Greens

LONDON — Keeping healthy could become more costly as climate change and water scarcity cause a huge drop in the global production of vegetables and legumes, scientists said Monday.The amount of vegetables produced could fall by more than a third, especially in hot regions like southern Europe and swaths of Africa and South Asia, said researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

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South African Fossils Rewrite Early History of Life on Land

Fossils of two amphibians that lived within the Antarctic circle 360 million years ago are forcing scientists to rethink the origins of land vertebrates, including where these pioneers first appeared and the climatic conditions that spawned them.Scientists said on Thursday they have unearthed partial remains of primitive Devonian Period amphibians named Tutusius umlambo and Umzantsia amazana at a

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Square Enix didn’t show off much at its E3 2018 showcase

Well, Square Enix just wrapped up a short and uneventful E3 press conference that really seemed to phone it in. No Final Fantasy VII remake details and nothing on The Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy.  The hyped presentation did have plenty to share on a new Tomb Raider title which they devoted about seven minutes of their half-hour presser to. They also spent a lot of time with close-ups of

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By automating code compliance, UpCodes AI is “the spellcheck for buildings”

For many architects, the hardest part of their job starts after they finish designing a building, when the onerous process of code compliance begins. Written to ensure the safety and accessibility of buildings, codes dictate everything from the height and depth of stairs and where railings end, to the amount of floor space in front of toilets and the height of windows. Regulations are constantly

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Oracle's Drive to Automate

Oracle — or could we say “Autoracle”? — has introduced more autonomous products, generally in keeping with what I see as a build-out of an information utility.The products, announced last week, include Autonomous Analytics, Autonomous Integrations, Autonomous Builder code generation and free premium service. Let’s take a look.The autonomous products broadly leverage a variety of analytics and

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Divers Fight Damaging 'Ghost' Fishing Nets

Some 640,000 tons of lost fishing gear pollute the world’s oceans, according to the United Nations. Slow to break down, these so-called “ghost nets” take a huge toll on sea creatures from tiny sponges to dolphins, turtles and whales. A group of volunteer divers is working to clean up sea floors and draw attention to the damage these ghost nets do. VOA’s Steve Baragona has more.

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Spotify's New Anti-Hate Policy Muzzles R. Kelly

Spotify on Thursday announced a new policy governing hate content and hateful conduct.The service identified as hate content anything that expressly and principally promotes, advocates or incites hatred or violence against a group or individual, based on characteristics including race, religion, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability.It may

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Lawnchair v1 stable is out, brings Pixel Launcher features to any Android

Lawnchair is a customizable launcher based on the Pixel Launcher. It’s been in the works for about a year now, and Lawnchair v1 stable has just been released. Lawnchair boasts a huge amount of features over similar launchers, such as the Rootless Pixel Launcher. That’s not to say it’s any better, it’s just made differently. Lawnchair is a separate application under a different package name with

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When does hungry become hangry?

Have you ever been grumpy, only to realize that you’re hungry?Feeling hangry has become a meme, even used in ads. But how does it work, psychologically? Snickers Many people feel more irritable, annoyed, or negative when hungry – an experience colloquially called being “hangry.” The idea that hunger affects our feelings and behaviors is widespread – from advertisements to memes and merchandise.

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South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked Lose In Million of Dollars

South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked Lose In Million of DollarsThe South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange ‘CoinRail’ Hacked and Lose in $42 Million. The company wallet address has linked to an cyber attacker and stole $42 Million worth of cryptocurrency.According to recent CyberSecurity report, more than 1 Billion dollar worth of cryptocurrency has been hacked in the first half of this

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OpenShift Brings Full Cross-Platform Flexibility to Azure Cloud

By Jack M. Germain May 10, 2018 5:00 AM PT Microsoft and Red Hat on Tuesday introduced OpenShift on Azure at Red Hat Summit 2018 in San Francisco.This release is the first fully managed, easy-to-use version of OpenShift in the cloud, the companies said. The fully managed integration of OpenShift on Azure means that Microsoft and Red Hat will join to engineer, operate and support the

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Pan-European seed fund firstminute hits a final fund close of $100M

New UK early stage VC firstminute Capital launched in June last year to the tune of $60m, with European VC Atomico as its first cornerstone investor. They were joined by 30 unicorns founders from Europe and the US. Last September they brought in the huge China-based company, Tencent, as well as European payment giant Adyen, reaching a fund size of $85m. Today firstminute capital, the London-based

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Impossible Makes Plant-based, Meat Free Burger Possible

After years of research and 400 million dollars from investors, Impossible Foods has produced the hottest new item on the vegan market, meat-free burgers. The goal of the California-based start-up is to make an all-natural organic product that could deliver the pleasure people get from eating meat, but with no cholesterol, antibiotics, hormones, harmful bacteria… or meat. Faiza Elmasry has the

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CapitalG leads $21.5M investment in Aye Finance, its first deal in India

India is a major part of Google’s global focus. The company launched a new product in India last week as its program to bring free WiFi to the public registered its 400th railway station. Now, the U.S. tech giant is continuing to deepen its focus after CapitalG — its venture arm formerly known as Google Capital — made its first investment in India by backing micro-loan startup Aye Finance.

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Senate Action on Net Neutrality Could Change the Debate

All 49 members of the Senate Democratic caucus have expressed support for a resolution to save Net neutrality, introduced Wednesday by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass, under the Congressional Review Act. The CRA is a legislative tool that lets Congress reverse federal regulations via a simple majority vote.For the resolution to become law, it also would need support from a majority of House members as

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See What’s New on Apple Platforms

June 4, 2018 Download the Xcode 10 beta, which includes the SDKs for iOS 12, watchOS 5, tvOS 12, and macOS Mojave. With powerful advancements in Apple software and tools, you can build your most interactive, intelligent, and engaging experiences yet.Learn more

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Senate Action on Net Neutrality Could Change the Debate

All 49 members of the Senate Democratic caucus have expressed support for a resolution to save Net neutrality, introduced Wednesday by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass, under the Congressional Review Act. The CRA is a legislative tool that lets Congress reverse federal regulations via a simple majority vote.For the resolution to become law, it also would need support from a majority of House members as

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Nadal Wins 11th French Open Title

Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal has won his record extending 11th French Open title, defeating Dominic Thiem of Austria in straight sets Sunday 6-4, 6-3, 6-2.“It’s not even a dream to win here 11 times, because its impossible to think of something like this,” Nadal said after the match.After a hard-fought first set, the number-one seeded Nadal dominated the rest of the match to capture his 17th

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Korean crypto exchange Coinrail loses over $40M in tokens following a hack

Another day, another crypto hack. This time it’s Korea, the crypto-mad Asian country, where an exchange called Coinrail lost more than $40 million in altcoins, ICO-issued tokens that aren’t bitcoin or Ethereum, after it was hit by an apparent attack over the weekend. Korea may be a hot spot for crypto investment, but Coinrail is one of its smaller exchanges, just about ranking inside the world’s

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Sea Waves Offer New Energy Source for Power-starved Gaza Strip

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention … and Gaza needs electricity. The coastal enclave’s two million residents now receive only three to four hours of power per day. So four university students invented a device that uses sea waves to generate electricity, in a bid to solve the power shortage. Faith Lapidus has details.

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Kim Jong Un in Singapore for Historic Summit

SINGAPORE — Kim Jong Un on Sunday strayed further from his North Korean home than he has at any other time since taking power in 2011.The North Korean leader arrived in Singapore midday Sunday, flying on a Chinese jet to the Changi Airport.Kim on Tuesday is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in a historic summit that Trump has called a “one-time shot” at peace.The media did not catch a

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Environmentalists Slam US Interior Chief Over Yellowstone Chief's Ouster

PINEDALE, WYOMING — Environmentalists on Friday accused the Trump administration of political interference and retaliation in the ouster of Yellowstone National Park’s chief after his disputes with U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke over the park’s celebrated bison.Dan Wenk, who has led one of the nation’s premier parks since 2011, on Friday described as “punitive” the decision by Zinke that he

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Spotify's New Anti-Hate Policy Muzzles R. Kelly

Spotify on Thursday announced a new policy governing hate content and hateful conduct.The service identified as hate content anything that expressly and principally promotes, advocates or incites hatred or violence against a group or individual, based on characteristics including race, religion, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability.It may

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VIDEO: Kangana Ranaut Is Ready To Give You Fitness Goals

Get Daily Updates In Email The national awards winning actress Kangana Ranaut is currently busy in London for the second schedule of her upcoming film Mental Hai Kya. The film also starrer Rajkummar Rao.In the movie, Kangana will be seen playing the role of an eccentric person. However, as per the recent reports, “the actor is making sure to go an extra mile to get into the skin of the

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KBC Question 3 in which country did the wedding ceremony of the celebrity couple Virushka take place?

KBC Registration Question – Now Livein which country did the wedding ceremony of the celebrity couple Virat Anushka take placeTodays KBC QuestionQuestion 3in which country did the wedding ceremony of the celebrity couple Virushka take place?A. SpainB. GreceC. MaldivesD.Italyआज का कौन बनेगा करोड़पति का सवालQuestion 3मशहूर जोड़ी विरूष्का की शादी किस देश में हुई थी ?A. स्पेनB. ग्रेसC. मालदीवD.

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The piggyback problem

I wanted to write about scooter startups this week, but, alas, I failed to care enough about them to muster any opinion at all. The problem is that they are pure piggyback startups, and pure piggyback startups are boring because they have no chance of being genuinely transformative. Let me explain. Many, or even most, successful tech startups / movements succeed because they manage to piggyback

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Putin Says Willing to Meet Trump Whenever US Is Ready

QINGDAO, CHINA — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that he’s happy to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump once Washington is ready to hold the summit and welcomed Trump’s call to bring Moscow back into the G-7 group of leading industrialized nations.Speaking to reporters in Qingdao, China, Putin said that some nations, including Austria, have offered to host his summit with Trump,

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Student and Street Vendor Has Passion for Inventions

A Yemeni student has taken his passion for invention to a new level by building household appliances such as refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and cooling fans out of cardboard. Surprisingly, the boy’s creations work very well. VOA correspondent Mariama Diallo reports.

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Oracle's Drive to Automate

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Girl Scouts Troop Gets Overwhelming Response to Eid Holiday Project

After a month of fasting, the holiday of Eid, which marks the end of the fast, is a big celebration for Muslims. Muslim girl scouts in Virginia are helping others celebrate the tradition in a unique way, by educating people about the holiday and raising money for charity and future projects. Saba Khan has more.

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Accenture wants to beat unfair AI with a professional toolkit

Next week professional services firm Accenture will be launching a new tool to help its customers identify and fix unfair bias in AI algorithms. The idea is to catch discrimination before it gets baked into models and can cause human damage at scale. The “AI fairness tool”, as it’s being described, is one piece of a wider package the consultancy firm has recently started offering its customers

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Trump: Meeting with Kim 'One-Time Shot' for North Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Saturday that his meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12 is a “one-time shot” for the reclusive leader.Before leaving the international Group of Seven summit in Quebec, Trump told reporters that he expects to know right away if Kim is serious about giving up the country’s nuclear weapons. “Within the first minute I’ll know,” he said. “

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UK to Force Big Companies to Publish Worker-to-Boss Pay Gap

LONDON — Britain’s biggest companies will from 2020 be legally required to publish the gap between the salaries of their chief executives and what they pay their average U.K. workers, under proposed government rules.Business Minister Greg Clark said that the government would set out new laws in Parliament on Monday directing that U.K.-listed companies with more than 250 employees would have to

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Girls Education Fund Announced at G-7

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday that nearly $3 billion in pledges has been raised to help fund the education of vulnerable girls and women around the world.Canada will contribute $300 million to the campaign. Germany, Japan, Britain and the World Bank are among the additional supporters. The prime minister made the announcement on the last day of the G-7 summit which was

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Senate Action on Net Neutrality Could Change the Debate

All 49 members of the Senate Democratic caucus have expressed support for a resolution to save Net neutrality, introduced Wednesday by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass, under the Congressional Review Act. The CRA is a legislative tool that lets Congress reverse federal regulations via a simple majority vote.For the resolution to become law, it also would need support from a majority of House members as

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Silicon Valley scooter wars

Electric scooters have become the hot new area for startups and “innovation.” For those who haven’t been keeping track, there are three main players in the Silicon Valley scooter wars: Bird, Lime and Spin. Bird first launched in Venice, Calif. before expanding into San Francisco in March. It’s worth pointing out that Bird, for now, is strictly an electric scooter company. That’s not the case for

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[Update: OnePlus Statement] Bootloader Protection Bypass Discovered on OnePlus 6 (requires physical access)

Update 2:31PM CT: OnePlus has issued a statement regarding this topic.The OnePlus 6 was made official in the middle of last month. The device has only recently started to make its way into the hands of consumers and developers on our forums, and already we’re hearing about the work that’s being done. An official build of TWRP is already available and work is progressing nicely on an unofficial

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Golden State Warriors Sweep Cleveland Cavaliers for 2nd Straight NBA Title

CLEVELAND — Golden State. Golden still.Stephen Curry scored 37 points, NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant added 20 and a triple-double and the Warriors stamped themselves a dynasty after winning their second straight title and third in four years Friday night, 108-85, over the Cleveland Cavaliers to complete a sweep and perhaps drive LeBron James from his home again to chase championships.Overcoming

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California Group Funds Candidates It, Trump Supporters Like

MILL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA — Sipping California zinfandel, eating deviled eggs and fretting about President Donald Trump, the guests attending a political fundraiser at a Silicon Valley executive’s home were the usual assortment of tech entrepreneurs and investors.But the congressional candidate they had come to meet that March evening in the hills north of San Francisco was anything but

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