Huawei supplants Apple as the second largest smartphone seller

While Huawei was already a smartphone giant, analyst numbers released today show that in the last quarter it sold more smartphones than any company in the world other than Samsung. IDC and Strategy Analytics found that smartphone sales slowed overall, a trend that hit Samsung the hardest of the big companies with its sales dropping off by more than 10 percent from last year. In its earnings

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US Military in Africa Says Changes Made to Protect Troops

DAKAR — The U.S. military in Africa has taken steps to increase the security of troops on the ground, adding armed drones and armored vehicles and taking a harder look at when American forces go out with local troops, the head of the U.S. Africa Command says.Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser told reporters on Monday the U.S. also has cut the response time needed for medical evacuations — the result of a

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Trump Rejects Conservative Koch Donor Network

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the powerful Koch-led donor network as “globalist” and “a total joke,” rejecting the conservative group amid reports that the network was shifting away from him over trade and immigration issues.Trump’s comments follow media reports that the Koch donor network sought to distance itself from Trump and the Republican Party at a weekend

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6 Ways to Get Better Cell Phone Reception in Your Home

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Chinese Woman Speaks Fluent Tamil And Leaves Us Mesmerised

Get Daily Updates In Email We, as youngsters have tough time being a pro in a single language. Neither do we know proper Hindi, nor the correct English. We just keep juggling between the two. And forget mastering a third language. Remember how much we used to hate the third language class? Be it French, German, or the regional language like Punjabi etc, it took a heavy toll on us. However, we

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Why are we still putting up with power outage downtime?

One of the biggest causes of downtime and data loss comes not from hackers or other nefarious activities, but from massive power blackouts that are caused by faulty equipment or machine “downtime”. In fact, loss of power leads as the top IT related disaster most organizations face. San Francisco’s massive April power outage, for example, brought high-tech companies throughout the city to a

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Norton Security Review: Excellent Protection From Malware At A Great Price

The Norton Security lineup of antivirus programs offers some of the best malware protection around.  And that’s the good news. Norton Security malware protection is still as excellent as it’s ever been and there’s a bunch of discounts through July and August this year (up to 70% off in some cases) so there’s never been a better time to buy and upgrade your PCs protection.  There

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Samsung Galaxy Tab E gets Android Oreo Go Edition via unofficial LineageOS 15.1

Tablets don’t get a lot of love in the development community. They aren’t very popular in general, especially to average consumers. However, XDA Recognised Developer  is releasing an unofficial Android Oreo Go Edition build of LineageOS 15.1 for the Samsung Galaxy Tab E. That tablet came out in 2015 and isn’t exactly the most powerful of devices, hence why it’s getting an Android Oreo Go Edition

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Seattle judge blocks release of designs for 3D-printed guns

Today U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik granted a temporary restraining order sought by eight state attorneys general to block the sale of designs for 3D-printed guns. Based on a settlement between Defense Distributed and the US Department of State, they could have gone on sale starting tomorrow, but now that is on hold. In both the House and Senate, bills were introduced to block the sales, and

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Midterm attackers cited Black Lives Matter in false flag Facebook rally

Unknown midterm election attackers that Facebook has removed were hosting a political rally next month that they pinned on Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other organizations, according to third-party event websites that scraped the now-removed Facebook events. Facebook provided an image of the deleted “No Unite The Right 2 – DC” event as part of its announcement today that merely showed its

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Google declares Android phones can have two notches at most

Because Android is open source, Google can’t truly stop any manufacturer from making a device with three notches for some reason (for the record, one should be the absolute maximum). So device makers could create some monstrosity that has a notch on each side and still run Android, in theory, but they risk running the wrath of Google. We haven’t really seen any devices with more than one notch

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She went on our honeymoon alone, Anil Kapoor shares cute details about his love-story with Sunita

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New Low-Cost MacBook to Run on Older Processors Due to Intel Delays

Apple’s rumored lower-cost MacBook device could use an older Intel chip than initially forecasted, according to a new report. Taiwanese publication Economic Daily News reported that the entry-level MacBook device would run on Intel’s eight-generation Kaby Lake Refresh processors, which were first released back in 2017. EDN cites repeated delays of Intel’s Cannon Lake chips as the reason for

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Honor Note 10 is a massive 6.9-inch smartphone

People have been complaining about smartphones getting bigger and bigger for years. Some like the ability to reach all major portions of the screen when holding the device in one hand. Others are using their phones more and more for TV, movie, and gaming consumption so they prefer the bigger screens. This trend seemed to reach a certain plateau until companies moved away from the 16:9 aspect

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Designing a 'solar tarp,' a foldable, packable way to generate power from the sun

The energy-generating potential of solar panels – and a key limitation on their use – is a result of what they’re made of. Panels made of silicon are declining in price such that in some locations they can provide electricity that costs about the same as power from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas. But silicon solar panels are also bulky, rigid and brittle, so they can’t be used just

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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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EU Slaps Sanctions on 6 Russian Groups Over Crimea Bridge

BRUSSELS — The European Union has imposed asset freezes on six Russian firms for their involvement in the construction of a new road-and-rail bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula, which the bloc says is illegal.Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 after Ukraine’s pro-Russian president was toppled in an uprising. The West condemned the seizure as an illegal annexation and

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Nearly a Year Later, Many Struggle to Recover From Hurricane Harvey

HOUSTON — The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season has begun, but many families in Houston are still struggling to recover from the devastating floods brought last year by Hurricane Harvey. For Samantha and Justin Scott, trying to get their life back to normal has been a living nightmare.“It’s emotionally exhausting.I think when my kids think back to the past year of our life, especially our oldest, I

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Trump Celebrates Kelly's First Full Year as Chief of Staff

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is celebrating his chief of staff’s survival for a full year on the job.Trump congratulated John Kelly in a tweet that includes a photo of the two men smiling wide.He writes: “Congratulations to General John Kelly. Today we celebrate his first full year as (at)WhiteHouse Chief of Staff!”Trump also marked the occasion during an Oval Office swearing-in ceremony

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Audi will unveil its e-tron supercar EV concept next month

According to Audi, the new car features tech developed from the Le Mans-series winner R18 e-tron. As the above teaser pic shows, the PB 18 is squat, boasts bulging wheels, a raised spoiler and slim headlights — all the visual markings of a supercar, but we’ll have to wait until its debut on August 23 to find out what’s underneath the hood.

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6 Reasons Why IoT Leaders Are Focused on Tampa

Recently leaders from technology and the multifamily gathered in Tampa, Florida for an event called “Building Cities of the Future”, A CRE and Urbantech Summit. Tampa is already on its journey to becoming a smarter city, and thus was the perfect setting for this event. The one day event was designed to bring together executives and founders who are reshaping the Built Environment was produced by

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Yugolsav Architects 'Concrete Utopia' on Display in New York

After the devastation of World War Two, architects in Yugoslavia got to work helping to rebuild the country which straddled the Cold War divide between the East and West. The architecture reflects styles from both sides and the architects’ vision of the future. The Museum of Modern Art in New York examines their work in an exhibit called “Toward a Concrete Utopia.” Ardita Dunellari has the story.

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Walmart Aims To Take On Netflix, Hulu, And More

Walmart-owned Vudu is nothing new, at least not in terms of the basic function. It’s actually quite a refreshing break from the “pay for it all, consume everything” nature of most video streaming services. Like a lazy man’s Redbox, Vudu lets you pay only for titles you want to watch at the moment rather than tying up your finances with a subscription, all without leaving home or

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Lust Stories actress Kiara Advani celebrates her birthday with friends

Get Daily Updates In Email On the eve of her birth anniversary, Bollywood beauty Kiara Advani hosted a special bash in which her besties from film fraternity were also present. Shinning bright in a pretty golden bodycon costume, the bold and beautiful Kiara was full of a sweet smile on her big day. image source It is clear from her appearance that the birthday girl is in a cheery mood as she

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Unchecked Northern California Fire Claims Sixth Life

The wildfire burning almost unchecked in Northern California has claimed it’s sixth victim. At a news conference Sunday, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said the victim, who was not identified, didn’t evacuate despite receiving an evacuation warning. Other victims included two children and two firefighters.He said seven others are still missing in the Carr Fire near Redding, a city of 90,000

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Manafort Trial to Focus on Lavish Lifestyle, Not Collusion

The trial of President Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman will open this week with tales of lavish spending, secret shell companies and millions of dollars of Ukrainian money flowing through offshore bank accounts and into the political consultant’s pocket.What’s likely to be missing: answers about whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential election

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Everything we know about the Samsung Galaxy Note 9

The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is scheduled to be announced on August 9th at 11 am at the Barclays Center in New York. This is in a little less than 2 weeks from now. It’s hard for Samsung to keep this all under wraps because of how high profile this device is. We have seen leaks that go from official renders to software information to hardware specifications to the launch of the phone itself. It’s

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Samsung looks to foldable OLEDs as phone sales slow down

As expected, Samsung’s Q2 2018 earnings report shows that operating profit is still up from last year and net profit for the same periods came in 0.1 percent lower as growth is slowing. While its memory chip and processor businesses remain strong, the premium smartphone market is “sluggish” and has more competition, so it’s introducing the new Galaxy Note slightly earlier this year to expand

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Blockchain media project Civil turns to Asia with fund to kickstart 100 new media ventures

Civil, the blockchain-based journalism organization, is casting its eye to Asia after it set up a $1 million fund that’s aimed at seeding 100 new media projects across the continent over the next three years. The organization has teamed up with Splice, a Singapore-based media startup which will manage the fund, according to an announcement. There’s been a lot of attention lavished on Civil for

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Nokia, T-Mobile Announce $3.5B Deal to Bring 5G to the U.S.

Nokia Oyj and T-Mobile on Monday announced that they’ve inked a new “landmark” deal that will see the two companies accelerate the deployment of 5G networks in the U.S. The Finnish firm won the $3.5 billion order to help build out nationwide 5G grids for T-Mobile, the two firms announced in a press release. It represents one of Nokia’s largest contracts to date. It’s also just the latest sign of

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Hina Khan looks gorgeous in purple ethnic suit in London, attempts to tackle cold weather

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Apple iPhone X Plus Leaked With LCD Display And Stainless Steel body

Apple iPhone X Plus Leaked With LCD Display And Stainless Steel bodyiPhone X Plus is an upcoming device of Apple. And it is expected to come with the stainless steel body.In September, Apple expects new iPhone device’s launch. According to report new upcoming iPhone devices are leaked on Twitter. — Ben Geskin (@VenyaGeskin1) July 29, 2018 The leak images are showing that iPhone X Plus is coming

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What we’re watching: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’

While Marvel takes a break before releasing its next comic book movie, the first part of its Avengers vs. Thanos battle arrives via video on-demand services packing two hours of extras. Starting tonight you’ll be able to stream Avengers: Infinity War via iTunes, Vudu and all the rest before the Ultra HD Blu-ray version is released. Gamers can give Chasm’s 2D action RPG stylings a try, Starz

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Linux apps will now run better on low-memory Chromebooks

Earlier this year, Linux apps on Chrome launched on the Pixelbook, a speedy Chromebook with 8GB RAM. Since then, dozens of devices have received support from low-end to high-end, and even ARM Chromebooks too. A recent Chromium commit introduces better resource management for Linux apps on Chrome OS by dynamically managing RAM – great news for low-memory Chromebooks.Linux apps within the VM get

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Could your gut microbes hinder your cancer treatment? A new first-in-human trial investigates

Could the poop of some cancer patients hold the key to treating certain cancers in all people? What does cancer have to do with poop? In the past few years, researchers around the world, including us, have realized that the gut bacteria – what we call the gut microbiome – of cancer patients may hold the key to improving cancer therapies for patients. Exactly how this happens is unclear, but may

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Photon- A Web Crawler which Extracts URLs, E-mails, Files, Website Accounts and much more.

Incredibly fast crawler which extracts urls, emails, files, website accounts and much more. Photon is a lightning fast web crawler which extracts URLs, files, intel & endpoints from a target.160 requests per second while extensive data extraction is just another day for Photon!Photon has been tested on Linux (Arch, Debian, Ubnutu), Termux, Windows (7 & 10), Mac, and works as expected.Main

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Another Amazon S3 Exposure Compromised Voter Records

This isn’t a good time to be accused of tampering with voters’ personal information, but that hasn’t stopped yet another “person who should know better” from leaving their Amazon S3 server exposed and unprotected. This time, the villain is one of those companies that dials your phone number against your will to speak to you with a recorded message. Robocent, who sells voter

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The Blueprint for Building a Smart City

First, there were smartphones and then smart houses. Now, the next disruptive “smart” move is the smart city. As work, life, and society become increasingly connected through the wide adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it’s a natural progression to build smart cities that leverage tech to provide benefits like convenience and efficiency. What makes smart cities so interesting is

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Mira Rajput Shares How Her Mother Takes Care Of Her Even When She Is Far

Get Daily Updates In Email Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput are going to become parents again and their fans are very excited for the same. Mira is quite active on her Instagram page and often shares beautiful pictures and videos with Shahid and Misha and also her pregnancy woes. The night of June 27, 2018, and morning of June 28 was the longest lunar eclipse of this century. Naturally, people

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Phishing scam targets iPhone users with a fake call to ‘Apple Care’

As more and more people use their mobile devices for everyday computing tasks, it makes sense that there would be more attacks. The latest phishing attempt, discovered over at Ars Technica, involves a false webpage that initiates a call on your iPhone. According to the site, when they made the call, they were connected to a fake representative who said he was “Lance Roger from Apple Care.” The

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Future MacBooks Look More Likely to Use Your iPhone as a Touchscreen

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Interior Define, the custom furniture startup, opens new location in SF

The direct-to-consumer space has some stand-out players, both in newcomers like Brooklinen and old-timers like Warby Parker. But one company, Interior Define, has maintained a low profile over the four years of its existence. The company offers fully customizable furniture, including couches, dining sets and bed frames, to customers through an online showroom. But ID also has guide shops in

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Note 9, Unbreakable | #PNWeekly 315

[embedded content]The Galaxy Note 9 has a hard road ahead of it. It has to make up ground in sales from the Galaxy S9 and it’ll have to do so with few visceral upgrades. So, what can Samsung do to prop up the biggest chance it has against the iPhone? Put Fortnite on it. The world’s most popular MMO is coming to Android and it looks set to debut on a phablet. We’ll dig into a couple of follow-up

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Mobile MOBA ‘Vainglory’ is coming to PC

On PC, Dota 2 and League of Legends have a long established reign over the MOBA domain. But rather than immediately establish Vainglory as a direct competitor, Super Evil Megacorp chose to release the title in the less-crowded mobile space — an ostensibly safer option, which also let them take advantage of Apple’s A8 chip and the inherent mobility of touch screen devices. Of course, it was only

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Badminton World Championship 2018: Indians Have High Expectations From PV Sindhu

Get Daily Updates In Email PV Sindhu has become the new face of badminton after she made our country proud during the Rio Olympics. She then won a number of medals in the various championships and is now again heading to play the World Championship. With two bronze medals in 2013 and 2014 and a silver last year, Sindhu has an impressive record at the World Championship. Her epic final against

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What Is Cyber Security?

Understand the essence of cyber security and the issues facing digital, internet and mobile users. What is cyber security, and what kinds of security threats and implications face personal and business users of the internet and digital realm? These questions often confuse and occasionally overwhelm, as we’re bombarded on an almost daily basis with horror stories of major hacks,

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Why Private Access to Public Assets Will Decide the Fate of Smart Cities

Tech experts knew it was a long time coming: The interest in smart homes gave way to a desire for smart cities, and the U.S. is running into smart city development full force. A whopping 66 percent of U.S. cities indicated in 2017 that they were investing in smart technology — and 25 percent of the cities that haven’t invested yet are looking for ways to do so. But constructing smart cities comes

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YouTube’s dark mode reaches Android users

As on iOS and the web, this flips the main interface background to a dark gray with white text on top. It’s mostly helpful for sparing your eyes during late night video marathons (so long as the videos themselves aren’t blinding, of course). For that matter, it’s also appealing if you have one of the growing number of notched Android phones on the market — if you’re perturbed by that missing

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Sistine Chapel Choir Delivers Message of Peace, Unity Worldwide

Those who have been lucky enough to enjoy the Gregorian chants and complex Renaissance melodies of the pope’s choir say it’s like hearing the angels sing. The choir sings at all the main papal events and travels around the globe to perform. Officials say the choir delivers a message of peace to people of all faiths. VOA’s Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome.

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9 Smart Gadgets to Take Your Summer Cookout to the Next Level

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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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Trump, NYT Publisher Spar Over President's Attacks on US Media

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he recently told the publisher of The New York Times how he came to describe the mainstream news media as the “Enemy of the People,” but the news executive said he in turn told Trump his language was “inflammatory” and “increasingly dangerous” for journalists around the world.In a Twitter comment, Trump described his July 20 meeting at the

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New Intrigue in Russia Probe

Intrigue surrounding the U.S. Justice Department’s Russia probe has risen once again amid reports President Donald Trump’s former attorney is claiming Trump knew in advance of a 2016 meeting his top campaign staff and close family members held with Russians promising compromising material on then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. VOA’s Michael Bowman has this report.

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Protesters Chant Anti-Putin Slogans at Moscow Rally Against Retirement Age Plan

MOSCOW, RUSSIA — Thousands protested in central Moscow on Sunday against a proposed increase to the retirement age and the crowd chanted slogans critical of President Vladimir Putin whose approval ratings have been dented by the bill.The rally organized by the opposition Libertarian Party chanted “Putin is a thief” and “away with the tsar,” slogans common at anti-Putin and anti-government

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A Karnataka Clerk Is Sponsoring Education For 45 Girls

Get Daily Updates In Email A man named Basavaraj who works as a clerk in MPHS Government High School in Kalaburagi’s Maktampura, Karnataka is sponsoring education for not just one or two but 45 girls. Yes, you heard it right! Sadly, Basavaraj had lost his daughter Dhaneshwari last year due to some serious health problem. Basavaraj stated to ANI, “From this year I have started paying the fees

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Amazon’s Echo Spot is apparently free right now (Update: aaand it’s gone)

Update: Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy. It was fun while it lasted, but both Spots are back to their original $129 asking price — and the white version still appears to be totally sold out. It looks as if the whole thing was a pricing mistake, rather than extra generosity on the part of Jeff B. So, nice work if you nabbed one in time. Keep those fingers crossed that it actually gets delivered.  I

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NASA contest finalists show off their Mars habitat models

According to TechCrunch, the software requires various details about the structures creators are designing. In other words, the teams couldn’t just come up with a concept that looks good — they had to make sure their habitats’ wall thickness, heating, pressure sealing and other elements can actually withstand harsh Martian conditions. The five teams split a $100,000 cash pot earmarked for this

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Take the Hassle out of Private Browsing with Windscribe VPN

Hackers across the globe are becoming increasingly adept at breaking into the servers of major corporations and government agencies, but they’re not just after Fortune 500 companies and the FBI.These hackers are just as interested in obtaining your personal credit card numbers, banking information, and browsing history. The only thing standing in their way is a VPN (Virtual Private Network), but

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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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Black Man Accuses Sean Spicer of Hurling Racial Slur at Him

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. — A black man yelled at former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a bookstore and accused Spicer of calling him a racial slur when they were students at a prep school decades ago.Spicer was “taken aback” by the man’s “outrageous claim” and had no recollection of him or of being in school with him, his publicist said on Saturday.Spicer was at a book signing in Middletown

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Report: Erdogan Defiant in Face of US Sanctions

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, responding to a threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to slap sanctions on Ankara if it did not free an American pastor, said his country would stand its ground, Haberturk TV reported Sunday.The friendship between the United States and Turkey is on the line in this dispute, Erdogan said, according to TRT Haber and other media.“We will not take a

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With 100 Days Until the Midterms, Trump is the Top Issue

WASHINGTON — One hundred days from now, we should be better able to answer the following question: What does the country really think about the presidency of Donald J. Trump?Midterm congressional elections are on November 6th and party control of both the Senate and House of Representatives is at stake, not to mention the fate of the Trump presidency for the next two years.Opposition Democrats

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Mira Rajput Looks Gorgeous In Recent Pic, Janhvi Kapoor’s Comment Is Not To Be Missed

Get Daily Updates In Email Mira Rajput is one of the popular star wives of Bollywood. Shahid Kapoor’s wife hails from a non-filmy background but soon managed to adapt herself in the show business with her remarkable presence. She always accompanies hubby Shahid at various events and award shows, chat shows proving that she is no less than a diva. Mira has always impressed everyone with her

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Venmo To End Website Function

Peer-to-peer payments app Venmo begins phasing out website function to differentiate from PayPal. There are a handful of brand-name terms that have become such a part of our lives as to actually infiltrate our language. It’s not just limited to older words like “kleenex” or “coke,” either. Most of us have probably come to incorporate “Google” as a verb, as in, “Don’t worry, I’ll just Google it,”

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Love stories of Indian Sportspeople Are Just Too Beautiful

Get Daily Updates In Email A nation like India is very fond of just one game and it is cricket. Cricket is adored in our country and cricketers are considered as God. In such a situation, the achievements of players playing different games are not noticed. There are sportsmen and sportswomen from different sports like hockey, tennis, wrestling, and badminton among others who have won awards

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Sanjay Dutt Celebrated His Birthday With Wife And Close Friends At A Grand Party

Get Daily Updates In Email Today, Bollywood’s superstar Sanjay Dutt turned a year old. The actor had a midnight birthday celebration and quite a few of his close friends from the industry were spotted at the party. R Madhavan, Amrita Arora, Sanjay’s wife Maanayata Dutt, Tanishaa Mukerji among others, were seen at the venue. Actor R. Madhavan couldn’t escape the eyes of the paparazzi! He kept

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Sanjay Dutt Celebrated His Birthday With Wife And Close Friends At A Grand Party

Get Daily Updates In Email Today, Bollywood’s superstar Sanjay Dutt turned a year old. The actor had a midnight birthday celebration and quite a few of his close friends from the industry were spotted at the party. R Madhavan, Amrita Arora, Sanjay’s wife Maanayata Dutt, Tanishaa Mukerji among others, were seen at the venue. Actor R. Madhavan couldn’t escape the eyes of the paparazzi! He kept

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Sanjay Dutt Celebrated His Birthday With Wife And Close Friends At A Grand Party

Get Daily Updates In Email Today, Bollywood’s superstar Sanjay Dutt turned a year old. The actor had a midnight birthday celebration and quite a few of his close friends from the industry were spotted at the party. R Madhavan, Amrita Arora, Sanjay’s wife Maanayata Dutt, Tanishaa Mukerji among others, were seen at the venue. Actor R. Madhavan couldn’t escape the eyes of the paparazzi! He kept

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How old is my pet in dog years or cat years? A veterinarian explains

“Just how old do you think my dog is in dog years?” is a question I hear on a regular basis. People love to anthropomorphize pets, attributing human characteristics to them. And most of us want to extend our animal friends’ healthy lives for as long as possible.It may seem like sort of a silly thing to ponder, born out of owners’ love for their pets and the human-animal bond between them. But

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Google Pixel 3 XL Clearly White model leaks in new pictures

Early last month, the first live photos of the upcoming Google Pixel 3 XL (code-named “crosshatch”) were posted on the XDA-Developers forums. The pictures confirmed rumors such as the display notch, dual front-facing camera lenses, the sensor placement, a 4GB RAM and 128GB storage model, and the use of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 system-on-chip. The pictures also showed off what looked to be a

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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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Verizon’s new ‘Safe Wi-Fi’ is a VPN that blocks ad tracking for $3.99 a month

Verizon has rolled out a new product called Safe Wi-Fi, a VPN that provides a security stop gap for its mobile customers logging onto a public network. It’s also being marketed as a way to block ads. So WTF is a VPN and why does it matter? A VPN is a virtual private network. It sits between a device in front of you and a server in a data center. Think of it as a tunnel that cloaks or hides your

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Editors Calls Capital Gazette Victims 'Friends of the People'

ANNAPOLIS, MD — The five Capital Gazette employees killed in an attack in their newsroom last month were “friends of the people,” and “not one of them deserved to be seen as an enemy,” the executive editor of The Washington Post said Saturday at a benefit concert for the victims’ families and colleagues.While Martin Baron didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name while speaking to an audience

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Bolton May Meet Russian Security Official By End of Summer

JOHANNESBURG — U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton may meet the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, by the end of summer, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday.Ryabkov said a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was also being discussed but there had been some difficulties over

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Former Milosevic Defense Lawyer Killed in Belgrade

BELGRADE — A prominent Belgrade lawyer who in the past helped to defend late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was shot dead, gangland-style, in front of his home on Saturday, police said.Dragoslav Ognjanovic, 57, was gunned down in front of his apartment building in the Novi Beograd neighborhood and his 26-year-old son was wounded in the right arm, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.As

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Telegram 4.9 quietly adds “Mark as Read” button for notifications on Android

Telegram‘s latest v4.9 update is the talk of the town thanks to the new Passport functionality. Passport is marketed as a unified authorization method for services that would require personal identification. With Passport, users upload their personal identity and other important documents online to Telegram’s servers, and then this data can be instantly shared with services that require

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Why does my phone battery die so fast?

Why do batteries die? And, why can they only be recharged so many times before they won’t hold a useful amount of charge? My young son asked me about that years ago when his battery-powered toy car stopped moving, wondering about what he called an “everlasting battery.” And this same question has probably crossed the mind of every cellphone user trying to send one last text before the screen

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California Fires Spur Trump to Declare Emergency

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday declared a state of emergency in California as raging wildfires threatened thousands of homes.The move made federal funds available to help fight the fires and aid the recovery.Thousands of people in Southern California were forced to evacuate their homes early Saturday to avoid the Cranston Fire, southeast of Los Angeles. It and the Carr Fire in Northern

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Court Pick Kavanaugh's Gun Views Are No Mystery

SILVER SPRING, MD. — U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he recognizes that gun, drug and gang violence “has plagued all of us.” Still, he believes the Constitution limits how far government can go to restrict gun use to prevent crime. As a federal appeals court judge, Kavanaugh made it clear in a 2011 dissent that he thinks Americans can keep most guns, even the AR-15 rifles used in

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Tapping into the power grid could predict the morning traffic

Why is there traffic? This eternal question haunts civic planners, fluid dynamics professors, and car manufacturers alike. But just counting the cars on the road won’t give you a sufficient answer: you need to look at the data behind the data. In this case, CMU researchers show that electricity usage may be key to understanding movement around the city. The idea that traffic and electricity use

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Xiaomi Pocophone F1 gets certified with Snapdragon 845 and dual rear cameras

Xiaomi’s flagships generally do not do well outside of their home market of China, but the OEM is strongly intent on changing that. Earlier, we had found evidence of as many as five Xiaomi flagships that were running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, Qualcomm’s flagship SoC that would dominate the upper end of the Android smartphone releases in 2018. Of these five, four have already been

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UK Lawmakers Urge Tougher Facebook Rules

LONDON — The U.K. government should increase oversight of social media like Facebook and election campaigns to protect democracy in the digital age, a parliamentary committee has recommended in a scathing report on fake news, data misuse and interference by Russia.The interim report by the House of Commons’ media committee, to be released Sunday, said democracy is facing a crisis because the

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Tesla is making a $1500… surfboard?

Tesla is no stranger to branded merch. Its got the standard company swag — the hats, the shirts, and the mugs. It’s got quirkier stuff, like miniature Teslas for kids and USB chargers shaped like the Superchargers that juice up their vehicles. And now they’ve got… surfboards? While it’s now gone for some reason, a product page went live in its shop early this morning detailing a $1500

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Long-time Immigrants Defend, Praise Family-Based Visa System

NEW YORK — Retired and in their 70s, Ru-Liang Zhang and Xan-Xia Hong spend every weekday after lunch socializing at the Chinese Community Center, a few short blocks from their Delancey Street home in lower Manhattan. Inseparable and competitive, they battle in ping-pong, magnetic darts, karaoke, and occasionally practice the erhu, an ancient two-stringed bowed instrument.Twenty-eight years after

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AP Fact Check: Trump Falsely Claims Historic Turnaround

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump falsely claimed he’s pulled off “an economic turnaround of historic proportions.”Speaking at the White House Friday after the government reported that the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.1 percent in the second quarter, Trump declared that the gains were sustainable and would only accelerate. Few economists outside the administration agree with this

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The “Pixel Stand” may be a Charging Dock for the Google Pixel 3

Ever since Apple re-popularized wireless charging with the iPhone X, many Android smartphone manufacturers have rushed to introduce the feature in their devices. The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S is the first Xiaomi device with wireless charging, for instance. Google stopped including wireless charging support on their devices with the Google Nexus 5X and Google Nexus 6P, but there are hints that the upcoming

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One Plus 6 is Coming with 8GB Ram and 256GB of Storage

New One Plus 6 is Coming with 8GB Ram and 256GB of Storage.One Plus Team announced in forum that One plus 6 is coming up with truly fast and smooth user experience can realize a burdenless experience.Fast is not just about shorter loading times or top download speeds, any OEM can achieve high numbers in one or two metrics. Fast is about creating a lasting impression of speed and smoothness,

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AI more accurate than animal testing for spotting toxic chemicals

Most consumers would be dismayed with how little we know about the majority of chemicals. Only 3 percent of industrial chemicals – mostly drugs and pesticides – are comprehensively tested. Most of the 80,000 to 140,000 chemicals in consumer products have not been tested at all or just examined superficially to see what harm they may do locally, at the site of contact and at extremely high doses.I

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Home run exits happen stealthily for biotech

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom Shoe startups aren’t dragging their feet Startup exit tallies commonly underestimate biotech returns. Unlike most tech deals, the biggest profits in bio often come long after an IPO or acquisition. Take Juno Therapeutics, a publicly traded cancer immunology company that sold to

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US Prelate McCarrick Resigns From College of Cardinals Following Sexual Abuse Allegations

ATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has accepted U.S. prelate Theodore McCarrick’s offer to resign from the College of Cardinals following allegations of sexual abuse, including one involving an 11-year-old boy, and ordered him to conduct a “life of prayer and penance” in a home to be designated by the pontiff until a church trial is held, the Vatican said Saturday.Francis acted swiftly after receiving

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New Speed Record at SpaceX Pod Competition

A sleek futuristic train that travels through a special tunnel and covers the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco in 30 minutes. This was the dream of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX in 2013. And every year he’s getting closer to making that dream a reality. Late July was marked by the third annual Hyperloop pod competition in Los Angeles; a competition that has once again set a new

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Trump Says Economy Numbers Sustainable, But Experts Doubtful

Friday’s positive numbers on the U.S. economic growth are “very, very sustainable,” according to U.S. President Donald Trump. His comments came after figures showed U.S. GDP growth hit 4.1 percent in the second quarter. The question is whether that growth is sustainable, as VOA’s Bill Gallo reports from the White House.

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Robotic Tools Could Revolutionize Cancer Screening

Not counting certain types of skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women in the U.S. and worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Now researchers in Europe have come up with a robotic device that may speed detection of cancer tumors, potentially saving thousands of lives. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more.

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Supreme Court struggles to define 'searches' as technology changes

What the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution means when it protects citizens against an unreasonable search by government agents isn’t entirely clear. It certainly includes police physically entering a person’s home, but for almost 100 years, the Supreme Court has tried to define what else might qualify, including keeping the law up-to-date with new technologies – as a recent case

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AirBash: A POSIX-compliant, Fully Automated WPA PSK Handshake Capture Script For Penetration Testing

AirBash: A POSIX-compliant, fully automated WPA PSK handshake capture script aimed at penetration testingIt is compatible with Bash and Android Shell (tested on Kali Linux and Cyanogenmod 10.2) and uses aircrack-ng to scan for clients that are currently connected to access points (AP). Those clients are then deauthenticated in order to capture the handshake when attempting to reconnect to the

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Google Assistant can now do things automatically at a scheduled time

Back at Google I/O, Google announced two new features for Google Assistant: custom routines and schedules — both focusing on automating things you do regularly, but in different ways. The first lets you trigger multiple commands with a single custom phrase — like saying “Hey Google, I’m awake” to unsilence your phone, turn on the lights and read the news. Schedules, meanwhile, could trigger a

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Trump Thanks North Korea for Return of US War Remains

U.S. President Donald Trump extended a word of gratitude to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Friday for returning to U.S. authorities what are believed to be the remains of 55 U.S. service members who were killed in the Korean War more than six decades ago.“I want to thank Chairman Kim for keeping his word,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “We have many others coming, but I want to

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Harvard Slams Group Alleging Bias Against Asian-Americans

BOSTON — Harvard University is defending its admissions practices in new court records that also offer a scathing rebuke of the group that’s suing over alleged discrimination.Records filed by the school in Boston’s federal court Friday say the legal case made by Students for Fair Admissions amounts to a “45-page press release” with a “misleading narrative.”The two sides have been sparring over

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Twitter will suspend repeat offenders posting abusive comments on Periscope live streams

As part of Twitter’s attempted crackdown on abusive behavior across its network, the company announced on Friday afternoon a new policy facing those who repeatedly harass, threaten or otherwise make abusive comments during a Periscope broadcaster’s live stream. According to Twitter, the company will begin to more aggressively enforce its Periscope Community Guidelines by reviewing and suspending

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Pentagon Creating Software 'Do Not Buy' List to Keep Out Russia, China

The Pentagon is working on a software “do not buy” list to block vendors who use software code originating from Russia and China, a top Defense Department acquisitions official said Friday.Ellen Lord, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, told reporters the Pentagon has been working for six months on a “do not buy” list of software vendors. The list is meant to help the

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Some Music Festivals Fuel Rightist Extremism, German Officials Say

Music festivals have gained serious significance for right-wing extremists in their effort to draw more supporters in Germany and across Europe, the country’s domestic intelligence agency told VOA on Friday.The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, said it estimated the number of right-wing extremists in Germany at 24,000 in 2017, up from 23,100 in 2016. Over half of them

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“Disable YouTube for guests” on Google Home rolling out for some iOS users

To the surprise of no one, Google Home devices have tight integration with Google services. That includes everything from Google Calendar to Google Play Music. The YouTube family of services, of course, is also included in the bunch. You can use Google Home to send videos to a Chromecast device, tune in to a specific channel on YouTube TV, and play music with YouTube Music. It looks like Google

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How the Russian government used disinformation and cyber warfare in 2016 election – an ethical hacker explains

The Soviet Union and now Russia under Vladimir Putin have waged a political power struggle against the West for nearly a century. Spreading false and distorted information – called “dezinformatsiya” after the Russian word for “disinformation” – is an age-old strategy for coordinated and sustained influence campaigns that have interrupted the possibility of level-headed political discourse.

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Deadline Passes for Reuniting Immigrant Parents, Children

The court-ordered deadline has passed for U.S. officials to reunite all eligible children who were separated from their parents after entering the country.U.S. officials said they expected to reunite all eligible children who had been separated from their parents after entering the country illegally by Thursday’s court-ordered deadline (0700 UTC Friday). It was not immediately clear if that goal

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CNN: Lawyer Says Trump Knew in Advance of Meeting with Russian

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen said that Trump knew in advance about a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower at which Russians offered to provide damaging information about his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, CNN reported Thursday.CNN, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter, said Cohen is willing to make that assertion to Special Counsel

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What GDPR Means for Your Social Media Privacy

What GDPR Means for Your Social Media PrivacyBy now, you’ve likely heard of the GDPR (General Data Protection Rules), the sweeping data protection rules enacted by the EU. While these rules are primarily designed to protect the personal information of individuals located within the European Union, given the global nature of the internet – and social media in particular – the new regulations are

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Star Wars: Episode IX will feature unseen footage of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia

Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn’t seen The Last Jedi, though if you still haven’t at this point, what are you even doing reading Star Wars casting announcements for the next one? No one ever really dies in the Star Wars universe. The official cast list for Star Wars: Episode IX has been posted, and it features some familiar, intriguing names. Along with the long awaited return of Billy Dee

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Turning off/on lights via Google Home now only controls lights in the same room as the speaker

Home automation doesn’t require smart speakers, just like smart speakers are useful for more than home automation. But the two make a great combination. It’s super handy to be able to control things around your house with your voice. One of the most basic functions is turning lights on and off. Google Home can, of course, do this, but now it works a little differently.The Google Home app has a “

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A cooler ocean predator than sharks? Consider the mantis shrimps

When you think about fearsome predators in the ocean, the first thing that pops into your mind is probably a shark. Sure, sharks are OK, with their sleek, menacing shape and their gaping jaws with rows of jagged teeth. But if you were a fish living on a coral reef or cruising along the shore over the sands of a tropical island, you would fear a far more terrifying predator.Nabbed before it knew

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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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Samsung’s new flexible display can withstand a lot of drops

There are those who will almost certainly take Samsung’s declaration of an “unbreakable” display as a challenge. That’s just human nature. For every one else, there’s something undeniably appealing in the idea of a phone that can be dropped from up to six feet, without a any sign of damage. As far as when (or, rather, if) Samsung’s new flexible OLED tech will actually appear in devices, that

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BRICS Nations Pledge Trade Unity

JOHANNESBURG — Five of the biggest emerging economies Thursday stood by the multilateral system and vowed to strengthen economic cooperation in the face of U.S. tariff threats and unilateralism.The heads of the BRICS group — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — met in Johannesburg for an annual summit dominated by the risk of a U.S.-led trade war, although leaders did not publicly

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Democrat Senator Confirms Russia Tried to Hack Computers

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri says Russian hackers tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate her Senate computer network, raising questions about the extent to which Russia will try to interfere in the 2018 elections.McCaskill, who is up for re-election this year, confirmed the attempted hack after The Daily Beast website reported that Russia’s GRU intelligence agency tried

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Pentagon: Coalition Airstrikes in Afghanistan on Record Pace in '18

WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan is on pace this year to drop a record number of bombs, according to Pentagon data.Through the first six months of 2018, the U.S. and its allies dropped 2,911 weapons on Afghanistan, according to data from the U.S. Air Force Central Command. ​That is nearly twice the number of bombs dropped on Afghanistan in the same period last year, and over 700

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Facebook also removes 4 Infowars videos, including one it previously cleared

Days after defending its decision to give a voice to conspiracy theory peddler Alex Jones and his Infowars site, Facebook has removed four of his videos for violating its community standards. But one of the four had already been allowed to slip through the firm’s review system. A source within Facebook told TechCrunch that one of the videos had previously been flagged for review in June but,

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US Releases Aid to Egypt Withheld Because of Rights Record

The Trump administration has released $195 million in military aid to Egypt that had been withheld because of concerns about the country’s human rights record.A State Department spokesman said Wednesday that the move recognized steps Egypt had taken over the last year in response to U.S. concerns and sought to further strengthen the countries’ partnership. He did not specify what steps Egypt

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Demaci, 'Kosovo's Mandela,' Dies at 82

PRISTINA, KOSOVO — Adem Demaci, a former long-term political prisoner known to ethnic Albanians as the “Mandela of Kosovo” for his resistance to Serb rule, died Thursday at age 82, officials said.Demaci spent 28 years in Serb jails during Yugoslav times and was considered a symbol for Kosovo’s majority ethnic Albanians in their struggle with communist Yugoslavia and later Serbia for greater

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Tech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting today

On Thursday, the Pentagon opened bidding for a huge cloud computing contract that could be worth as much as $10 billion. Given its size, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI, is alluring for major cloud computing companies that might not normally do much business with the Department of Defense. Announced in March, JEDI is structured as a winner-take-all contract

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Russia Calls Woman Held in US as Agent 'Political Prisoner'

MOSCOW — Russia’s Foreign Ministry says a woman who was detained in the United States on charges of being a Russian agent is a political prisoner and must be released promptly.The Russian government previously objected to Maria Butina’s arrest this month, but its characterization of her as a political prisoner on Thursday raises the level of complaint.The 29-year-old Butina has been accused of

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House Republicans Move to Impeach Deputy Attorney General

A group of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives launched an effort Wednesday to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, accusing him of misconduct and failing to adequately share information related to the special counsel probe of Russian influence in the 2016 U.S. election.Rosenstein has overseen the investigation since his boss at the Department of Justice, Attorney General

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Chinese Give Europe's "Dying Cities" New Lease of Life

CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO, ITALY — At first it was just a trickle of mainly Chinese tourists arriving to make their way to the dying city’ of Civita di Bagnoregio. Then it became a flood.Civita, which dates back to Etruscan times and is perched on a small plateau of progressively eroding volcanic stone, will likely be visited this year by 800,000 tourists — a large number of them Chinese. When the

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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 to support Samsung DeX without DeX Pad or DeX Station

Samsung launched Samsung DeX with the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. It was what Samsung believed to be the future of the mobile workstation, but it was pretty much a flop. Not very many people used DeX because the station was too expensive and inconvenient. Samsung is looking to make up for that with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. Our source is saying that you will be able to use DeX without a

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Android P Final Beta Version Released By Google

Android P Final Beta Version Released By GoogleGoogle releases Android P Beta 4. Android P is next version of OREO. To test your apps and publish updates, to make sure you offer a great experience for users transitioning to Android P said, Google.In the developer blog, VP of Engineering, Dave Burke said,Today’s Beta 4 update includes a release candidate build with final system behaviors and the

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With hacking of US utilities, Russia could move from cyberespionage toward cyberwar

Even before the revelation on July 23 that Russian government hackers had penetrated the computer systems of U.S. electric utilities and could have caused blackouts, government agencies and electricity industry leaders were working to protect U.S. customers and society as a whole. These developments, alarming as they might seem, are not new. But they highlight an important distinction of conflict

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FBI And Cyber Experts Officially Warns Internet Users To Protect their Routers From VPNFilter Malware

FBI and Cyber Experts officially warns Internet users to protect their routers from VPNFilter Malware.Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity experts warn Internet users to protect their office and home routers from a Cyber attack by Russian Hackers.More than 50 countries of routers were infected by VPNFilter Malware. Belkin International’s Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear Inc, TP-Link

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Daimler’s car2go car sharing service adds its first U.S. city in four years

Car2go, the free-floating car-sharing service owned by Daimler, launched in Chicago this week—the company’s 25th market globally. The car-sharing company, which lets customers rent out vehicles on a short-term basis, has been steadily expanding in the past several years, adding to and changing up its fleet beyond the diminutive Smart cars that were once the lone option for customers. This launch

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In First US Visit, Ethiopian Prime Minister Seeks Bridges to Diaspora

WASHINGTON — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will make his first trip to the United States on Thursday when he visits the diaspora community in Washington.The visit comes at a high point in Ahmed’s brief but eventful tenure as Ethiopia’s head of government.Earlier this year, Ethiopia faced widespread unrest and violent protests against a government that appeared unresponsive and entrenched.In

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Pompeo Declines to Reveal What Trump and Putin Discussed

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came under pressure from Republican and Democratic lawmakers to defend U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and disclose what happened during Trump’s one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, the White House announced the Trump-Putin summit would be next year, and Pompeo issued a Crimea Declaration, saying the U.S. would never

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Heat Wave, Wildfires Sweep Over Europe

Europeans are coping with scorching heat, with temperatures rising still Thursday and Friday. Deadly fires have devastated coastal villages in Greece and claimed more than 80 lives. Even northern countries such as Sweden and Latvia are fighting forest fires. VOA’s Zlatica Hoke reports some European capitals are experiencing a hotter July than what they are accustomed to.

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LG Mobile’s losses continue but now sales are falling too

Korean electronics giant LG is soaring to new heights, but its mobile division continues to lag well behind the rest of the company and the signs aren’t promising. LG’s latest financials released today recorded another quarter of success with operating profit jumping 16 percent year-on-year to hit KRW 771 billion ($715.1 million) as overall sales rose 3.2 percent across the group. LG said its

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Kentucky Drug Overdose Deaths up 11.5 Percent in 2017

FRANKFORT, KY. — Since 2011, a year when Kentucky was flooded with 371 million doses of opioid painkillers, state officials have cracked down on pain clinics, sued pharmaceutical companies and limited how many pills doctors can prescribe.The result is nearly 100 million fewer opioid prescriptions in 2017 — and an 11.5 percent increase in drug overdose deaths.That’s the sobering findings of a new

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Trump Re-Election Flags Ordered Early, May Avoid Tariffs on China

FUYANG, CHINA — The red, white and blue banners for U.S. President Donald Trump’s second-term campaign are ready to ship, emblazoned with the words “Keep America Great!”But they are made in eastern China and soon could be hit by punitive tariffs of Trump’s own making as he ratchets up a rancorous trade dispute with Beijing.At the Jiahao Flag Co Ltd in Anhui province, women operate sewing machines

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Belgium Approved Euthanasia of 3 Minors, Report Finds

Belgian doctors have euthanized three minors in the past two years, according to a report from the nation’s chief euthanasia regulatory body released earlier this month.The report, produced by Belgium’s Federal Commission for Euthanasia Control and Evaluation, said these three minors were the first to be euthanized since the country’s parliament voted to lift age restrictions on euthanasia in the

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Samsung creates “unbreakable” flexible OLED display for smartphones & tablets

Samsung’s Display division has announced that its recently-developed unbreakable and flexible OLED panel has been certified by Underwriters Laboratories, an official testing company for OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) under the US Department of Labor. The unbreakable display developed by Samsung Display passed the rigorous real-time durability test that is based on military

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Artificial intelligence outperforms the repetitive animal tests in identifying toxic chemicals

Most consumers would be dismayed with how little we know about the majority of chemicals. Only 3 percent of industrial chemicals – mostly drugs and pesticides – are comprehensively tested. Most of the 80,000 to 140,000 chemicals in consumer products have not been tested at all or just examined superficially to see what harm they may do locally, at the site of contact and at extremely high doses.I

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XFLTReaT- A Python Based Tunneling Framework

XFLTReaT A Python Based Tunneling FrameworkThis is just one thing of many things that was missing from the Internet. If you got tired of trying several tunneling tools for each protocols, this must be your tool framework.IntroductionThis project is an open-source Python based tunneling framework that helps you to create a tunnel between two (or more) computers on different channels/protocols.

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Lawmakers: DHS Chief Says Family Reunifications on Track

WASHINGTON — The chief of the Homeland Security Department has told members of Congress that the government is “on track” to meet Thursday’s court-ordered deadline of reuniting hundreds of migrant children with their families, lawmakers who met privately with her said.Wednesday’s assertion by Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was greeted with open disbelief and anger, according to many of the roughly 20

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US, France Sanction Entities Tied to Syrian Chemical Weapons

The United States and France have imposed sanctions upon groups and individuals with links to Syria’s chemical weapons program, the U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday.“Syria’s horrific use of chemical weapons, including attacks against innocent women and children, remains deeply embedded in our minds,” said Sigal Mandelker, treasury undersecretary for terrorism, said in a statement. “Today,

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Korean hotel firm Yanolja moves into Southeast Asia with $15M investment in Zen Rooms

Zen Rooms, the budget hotel network startup founded by Rocket Internet, had faced the deadpool earlier this year after a prospective funding deal collapsed, but now the business appears to have found a home. Korea’s Yanolja, a popular motel brand that has branched out into app-based hotel bookings, has made a strategic investment that could see it fully acquire the business. Ten-year-old Yanolja 

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Essential Phone now receiving latest Android P Beta build

Smartphone companies that are on top of their software update game are far and few between. We have companies like Samsung who took over a year to push out Android Oreo to the U.S. unlocked Galaxy S7. Then there are companies like Motorola who promise updates and then fail to do so. However, on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have diamonds in the rough who not only take OTA updates seriously

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White House Delays Next Trump-Putin Summit Until 2019

The White House said Wednesday that President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not hold a second summit until next year.National Security Adviser John Bolton said Trump wants to wait until after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is completed.“The President believes that the next bilateral meeting

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Ankara's Rising Balkan Influence Rattles Allies

ISTANBUL — Turkey is expanding its economic and cultural influence over the Balkans, and analysts say the strategy, which targets the region’s large Muslim minorities, is worrying some of its Western allies.The Balkan region was the center of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. That historical legacy has made the area a priority for Turkey’s ruling AKP under recently re-elected President Recep Tayyip

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Georgia Lawmaker Who Used Racial Slurs on Prank Show Resigns

A Georgia state lawmaker who yelled racial slurs and dropped his pants on a prank cable TV show after being told it would intimidate terrorists offered a terse resignation letter to the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives late Tuesday.Fellow Republicans had called on state Representative Jason Spencer to resign after his appearance on shock comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who is America

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Inter-Korean Cooperation Continues As Nuclear Talks Stall

SEOUL — South Korea is taking small steps to try to keep the North Korea peace process alive, but significant economic engagement remains out of reach until significant denuclearization progress with the U.S. is reached. During the inter-Korean summit in April, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to improve relations, in addition to jointly confirming the

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2.5 billion people use at least one of Facebook’s apps

Facebook is hiding that users are leaving its main app but sticking with Instagram and WhatsApp by publicizing a new metric. Facebook today for the first time announced that in June, 2.5 billion people used at least one of its apps: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger. That’s a helpful number because it counts real people, rather than accounts, since people can have multiple accounts on a

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Google announces Titan Security Key for enhanced online security

Technology has evolved so quickly and has become so integral in our daily lives that it can be incredibly difficult to keep up with it all. Whether it’s a malware-ridden thumb drive, an email phishing scam that tricks a naive employee, or even a security hold in the hardware or software itself. There are many ways for hackers to get your data and use it or sell it on the dark web. Google has

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Make Your Own Logo with Easy-to- Use DesignEvo

Make Your Own Logo with Easy-to- Use DesignEvoHave you ever encountered a situation in which you need a business card or a campaign logo when you are establishing a website or a small company? Previously you can only hire a professional visual designer, but you can easily create your own logo now after reading this article.DesignEvo is a free online logo maker that you can use to customize a

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Natural selection in action: Hurricanes Irma and Maria affected island lizards

The Turks and Caicos anole is a small brown lizard found running through the undergrowth in the Turks and Caicos Islands. It’s an endemic species, meaning these few islands are the only place to find Anolis scriptus anywhere in the world. Despite the species being fairly common there, scientists know relatively little about its behavior, diet, detailed physical appearance or habitat

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Only a few hours left on early-bird prices for Disrupt SF 2018

Today’s the day, people. The door slams shut on early-bird pricing for Disrupt San Francisco 2018 as of midnight PST tonight. It’s time to stop procrastinating, time to dust off your credit card and time to invest in your professional future — at the best possible price. Magical connections can happen at Disrupt events, and you never know who you’ll meet. Don’t miss the opportunities. Buy your

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Trump, Lawyer Discuss Potential Payment for Model's Story in Secret Tape

U.S. cable news networks broadcast an audio recording Tuesday in which President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen discuss a potential payment for the rights to a model’s story about her alleged affair with Trump.Cohen secretly recorded the conversation in September 2016 when Trump was running for president. Cohen’s own attorney, Lanny Davis, made the recording available to

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Sergio Marchionne, Who Saved Fiat and Chrysler, Has Died

MILAN — Sergio Marchionne, a charismatic and demanding leader who engineered two long-shot corporate turnarounds to save both Fiat and Chrysler from near-certain failure, died Wednesday. He was 66.The holding company of Fiat’s founders, the Agnelli family, announced in a statement Marchionne’s death after complications from surgery in Zurich.“Unfortunately what we feared has come to pass,” Fiat

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Trump to Host EU Head After Tweeting 'Tariffs Are Great!'

President Donald Trump hosts European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker Wednesday after Trump threatened more tariffs on U.S trading partners.“Tariffs are the greatest!” Trump tweeted Tuesday. “Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with tariffs. It’s as simple as that.”Trump again complained the world uses the United

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Democrats' Newest Star Meets with Lawmakers at US Capitol

WASHINGTON — The Democratic party’s newest star, New York City congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, visited the Capitol Tuesday to meet with lawmakers who may soon be colleagues.The 28-year-old former bartender, who defeated one of the most powerful House Democrats last month, had lunch with California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and met with several members of the Congressional

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Kredivo raises $30M to build a digital credit card for Southeast Asia

FinAccel, a Southeast Asia-based startup that offers a digital credit card service in Indonesia, has closed a $30 million Series B round as it begins to consider overseas expansion. The company launched its ‘Kredivo’ service two years ago to help consumers pay online in Southeast Asia, where credit card penetration is typically low, and it is essentially the combination of a digital credit card

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US Envoy on Helsinki: No 'Gifts to Russia at Ukraine's Expense'

The top U.S. official for Ukraine negotiations doubled down on recent assurances from the State Department and White House that President Donald Trump did not reach any agreements on Ukraine during last week’s two-hour private meeting with his Russian counterpart in Helsinki, Finland.Russian President Vladimir Putin last week told a gathering of diplomats in Moscow that he and Trump discussed the

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Harley-Davidson: No US Sales Hit From Offshoring Dustup

NEW YORK — Harley-Davidson executives said Tuesday they had seen no U.S. sales hit so far over its decision to relocate some American manufacturing overseas as it navigates amid trade conflicts.“We’ve actually done quite a lot of consumer research… and we see no discernible shift in the sales patterns” or to brand favorability, chief executive Matt Levatich said on an analyst conference call.

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Trump: Russia Will Support Democrats in US Congressional Elections

U.S. President Donald Trump contended on Twitter Tuesday that Russia “will be pushing very hard for the Democrats” in November’s congressional elections, against his favored Republican candidates.Trump’s claim that Moscow would favor Democrats in the November 6 congressional contests — when the entire 435-member House of Representatives and a third of the Senate is up for election — is at odds

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Wildfires Kill Dozens in Greece

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Segway’s whacky new roller shoes will cost $399

Did you know Segway is making a pair of self-balancing roller shoes? It is! The company has been tinkering with all sorts of new form factors since it was acquired by Ninebot in 2015, from half-sized Segways to kick scooters. Next up: inline… shoe… platform things. Called the Segway Drift W1s, they sorta look like what would happen if you took a hoverboard (as in the trendy 2016

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Google Chrome 68 begins labeling HTTP Sites as “Not Secure”

Google is pretty serious about securing its users. As you may already know, SSL is a certificate that encrypts the connection between the website’s server and the client’s browser, so it’s as secure as it gets. They started calling out non-SSL sites nearly two years ago. Websites with SSL certificates show up in the URL with “HTTPS,” while non-SSL sites have “HTTP.” As announced earlier this year

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Lending a helping paw: Dogs will aid their crying human

From Lassie to Balto, pop culture loves stories of a dog coming to a person’s rescue. Anecdotally, people experience their dogs coming to their aid every day, like when one of us found herself “trapped” by her children under a pile of pillows only to be “rescued” by her noble collie, Athos. But is there any scientific evidence behind these sorts of tales?Researchers know that dogs respond to

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North Korea Nuclear War Scenario Plays Out in New Book

SEOUL — A new book speculates about how war could begin again on the Korean peninsula. The central plot of the book talks about how renewed tensions involving North Korea and a deadly border incident could quickly escalate into nuclear war, due to political miscalculation, miscommunication and brinksmanship.The new novel is titled, “The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks

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US Judge Allows Lawsuit Over End of Immigrant Protections to Proceed

BOSTON — A federal judge in Boston on Monday rejected a bid by the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its decisions to end temporary protections for immigrants in the United States from Honduras, Haiti and El Salvador were racially motivated.U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston ruled that a group of immigrants and two organizations could move forward with a lawsuit

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Russian Spies Hide in Plain Sight

LONDON — In the pre-Internet era, spies faced more challenges than now when trying to infiltrate Western political circles in order to gather information, identify potential recruits, enlist the assistance of sympathizers and mount active operations, like meddling in a foreign country’s election.Now they have the benefit of Facebook and LinkedIn and other social-media networking sites to expand

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Blockchain startup Tron closes BitTorrent acquisition

BitTorrent is now officially a part of Tron, the file sharing service confirmed in a blog post today. The news confirms rumors that have been floating around since the middle of last month. BitTorrent didn’t confirm any specifics, but Tron, a relatively new entrant in the wild world of blockchain startups, was said to have paid around $126 million in cash for company. BitTorrent, of course, is no

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Xiaomi goes after global markets with two new Android One phones

Xiaomi gave Google’s well-intentioned but somewhat-stalled Android One project a major boost last year when it unveiled its first device under the program, Mi A1. That’s now joined by not one but two sequel devices, after the Chinese phone maker unveiled the Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite at an event in Spain today. Xiaomi in Spain? Yes, that’s right. International growth is a major part of the Xiaomi

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Trump Reviews 'Made in America' Products at White House

Checking out a speedboat, a fighter jet and a giant industrial magnet parked on the White House driveway, President Donald Trump showcased an array of “Made in America” products Monday as his administration pushes back aggressively against critics who say his punishing tariffs on imported goods threaten to harm the U.S. economy.Trump’s event with a smorgasbord of American goods came at the start

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Prosecutors Have at Least 12 Recordings by Trump Lawyer Cohen

NEW YORK — Twelve audio recordings seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were turned over to federal prosecutors on Friday, according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday.They include a recording of a conversation between Cohen and Trump two months before the November 2016 election, whose existence was made public last week, in which

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Xiaomi goes after global markets with two new Android One phones

Xiaomi gave Google’s well-intentioned but somewhat-stalled Android One project a major boost last year when it unveiled its first device under the program, Mi A1. That’s now joined by not one but two sequel devices, after the Chinese phone maker unveiled the Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite at an event in Spain today. Xiaomi in Spain? Yes, that’s right. International growth is a major part of the Xiaomi

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Xiaomi Mi A2 & Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite are the latest Android One phones from Xiaomi

Xiaomi made headlines last year when they announced the Xiaomi Mi A1. The device was a rebranded Xiaomi Mi 5X, a decent midrange phone, but the actual software running on it was a strong departure from Xiaomi’s MIUI. The Xiaomi Mi A1 was Xiaomi’s first device in the Android One program which meant the device ran a bloatware-free, no-frills stock Android experience. Now, the company has unveiled

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Material Theme redesign teased for Gmail, Google Photos, and more

Material Design is undergoing a lot of changes with the release of Android P, and Google wants to show off some of it. Adam Grabowski and Nicolo Bianchino have worked together to create a video for the Google Material Design team. It showcases some of the new and upcoming changes that we can expect to see with Material Design 2. Even better, it teases some changes to Gmail, Google Photos, Google

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Sony Introducing IMX586 Smartphone With Stacked CMOS Image Sensor And 48 Megapixels Camera

Sony Introducing IMX586 1/2-type (8.0 mm diagonal) 48 effective MegaPixel stacked CMOS image sensor. It has 48 Megapixel Camera quality.It will arriving as from September 2018The IMX586 implements the Quad Bayer 2×2 pixel array.Sony release the Press statement as follow:Tokyo, Japan— Sony Corporation today announced the upcoming release of the IMX586 stacked CMOS image sensor for smartphone

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As emerging economies bring their citizens online, global trust in internet media is changing

Digital technology was dreamed of as the ultimate connector and leveler, the ideal destroyer of borders and boundaries. The digital community that assembled itself around this summer’s FIFA World Cup shows one example of a true global village, in which people share the same obsessions on the digital planet. That’s a significant contrast to the online communities leaning toward nativism and

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ezCater acquires GoCater to expand beyond the US

Catering marketplace company ezCater is already putting its big $100 million funding round to good use. The company is acquiring GoCater, a European marketplace that operates in the same field. This is ezCater’s first international expansion move. If you’re in charge of ordering catered lunch at your office, you probably have heard about ezCater. The company lets you order breakfast, lunch or

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Turkey's Economy Faces Test as Erdogan's Powers Expand

ISTANBUL — International investors are looking to Tuesday’s meeting of the Turkish central bank as a critical test of whether the bank can remain independent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his increasing powers, and what some criticize as his Islamist agenda.The Turkish currency has fallen sharply as concerns mount on whether he will impose unorthodox economic policies on the bank.Erdogan,

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UK Report: UK To Hand Over Jihadists To US Without Death Penalty Assurances

A report in a British newspaper says the British government has “secretly abandoned its blanket opposition to the death penalty and Guantanamo Bay” so that two jihadists — members of the so-called Beatles group of Islamic State terrorists — can face criminal prosecution in the United States. In a report posted on The Telegraph’s website late Sunday, the paper said it had seen documents that the

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US Senators Push Sanctions to Send Putin Election Meddling Warning

WASHINGTON — A pair of prominent Republican U.S. senators said on Sunday that the United States must move promptly to prepare new sanctions against Russia to discourage interference in upcoming elections.Senator Lindsey Graham said additional sanctions needed to be teed up before President Donald Trump holds a second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin after the U.S. leader came under

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Pokémon GO gets ‘Lucky’ Pokémon obtainable only by trading

Pokémon GO just got a little surprise update, complete with a curious new feature: “Lucky” Pokémon. Most things in Pokémon GO are adapted from things that already exist in the Pokémon universe. Items like incense, lucky eggs and the like all exist in the main Pokémon series (though what these items actually do tends to be a bit different in GO). Lucky Pokémon, as far as I know, is a new concept

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Get 65 Hours of Salesforce Training with This Bundle

Salesforce has made a name for itself by creating the world’s number one customer relationship management (CRM) platform, and they’ve gotten to where they are largely due to their innovative and unique business strategies.The Salesforce Trailblazer Certification Training Bundle will teach you how to utilize the most important aspects of Salesforce’s revolutionary approach to business, customer

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Industrial robots startup Gideon Brothers raises $765K led by TransferWise co-founder

Gideon Brothers, an ambitious startup out of Croatia that is building autonomous robots to put to work in warehouses and other industrial logistics, has quietly raised $765,000 in funding. The round is led by TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, who has become an increasingly active investor, recently backing fintech Cleo, legal tech startup Juro, and satellite company Open Cosmos. Ex-Wired

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Commission: EU's Juncker Will not Bring Offer to Trump Trade Talks

BRUSSELS — European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will not arrive in the United States for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump with a specific trade offer, the Commission said on Monday.Juncker will travel to Washington on Wednesday for talks focused on trade tensions after the U.S. imposition of tariffs on EU steel and aluminum and Trump’s threats to extend those measures to

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Pompeo to Urge Iranians Abroad to 'Support' Anti-Regime Protests

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans on Sunday to urge members of the Iranian diaspora to “support” protesters in Iran, as the Trump administration hints at a desire for regime change in Tehran after turning its back on the Iranian nuclear accord.President Donald Trump – who has made the Islamic republic a favorite target since his unexpected rapprochement with North Korea –

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Democratic Socialism Rising in the Age of Trump

PORTLAND, MAINE — A week ago, Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein wasn’t quite ready to consider himself a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, even if he appreciated the organization’s values and endorsement in his bid to become a U.S. senator.Three days later, he told The Associated Press it was time to join up. He’s now the only major-party Senate candidate in the nation to be a

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Italy's Molinari Wins Golf's British Open

Professional golfer Francesco Molinari won his first major championship Sunday, defeating an array of the sport’s top stars at the British Open in Carnoustie, Scotland.The 35-year-old Molinari became the first Italian to capture one of golf’s four major annual titles, shooting a final round 2-under-par 69. He completed a bogey-free round with a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole and then waited

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BeRoot- A Post Exploitation Tool To Check Common Misconfigurations For Windows Linux And Mac OS

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Founders Factory signs Marks & Spencer as exclusive UK retail investor

The model of building vertical market-specific accelerators is now well known, but in the UK, Founders Factory, which has emerged from Lastminute founder Brent Hoberman’s stable of projects, is poised to take it to another level. Today it launches Founders Factory Retail, a joint venture with UK retail giant Marks & Spencer’s, focused on investing and growing start-ups. M&S will become Founders

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Chinese technology giant Huawei and its sub-brand Honor have been slowly garnering more respect among the Android enthusiast community in the past year. With timely software updates, commitments to supporting custom development, and widespread Project Treble adoption for all devices they have updated to Android Oreo, it’s not hard to see why Huawei and Honor smartphones were starting to become

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Tall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefit

For the nearly 20 percent of Americans who experience severe online harassment, there’s a new company launching in the latest batch of Y Combinator called Tall Poppy that’s giving them the tools to fight back. Co-founded by Leigh Honeywell and Logan Dean, Tall Poppy grew out of the work that Honeywell, a security specialist, had been doing to hunt down trolls in online communities since at least

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AP Fact Check: Trump’s Week of Claims on Russia, NATO

WASHINGTON — It was a week of bewilderment over what President Donald Trump really thinks about Russian interference in the U.S. election and what he and Russia’s Vladimir Putin told each other in their private meeting. The confusion was fed by Trump’s vacillating statements about the summit.On other fronts, Trump inaccurately claimed Queen Elizabeth II bestowed upon him an honor that she had

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Iran's Rouhani Warns Trump About 'Mother of All Wars'

DUBAI — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday cautioned U.S. President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying “America should know… war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” but he did not rule out peace between the two countries, either.Iran faces increased U.S. pressure and looming sanctions after Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from a 2015

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Every year it seems OnePlus launches their flagship device with promises of even better real-world performance than before, and a renewed focus on camera performance. Fortunately for OnePlus and for us, they seem to fulfill these promises by delivering, indeed, a better camera and performance than the prior year… But that is to be expected, and by itself is not necessarily “enough”. The entire

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There was a time not so long ago when nine-figure venture capital rounds weren’t a near-daily feature of tech business news. But now funding rounds of $100 million or more cross the wires with stunning frequency. The era of supergiant rounds is now the new normal. This is attributable, in part, to billions of dollars flowing into new venture capital funds — the largest of which are raised by the

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Trump Tweets it Looks Like his Campaign Spied Upon Illegally

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday it was looking more and more like his campaign for the 2016 presidential election had been illegally spied upon.Trump issued the tweet after saying documents about his former presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed with little doubt that the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation had misled the courts.The FBI

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Poll: British Reject May's Brexit plan, Some turn to Boris, Far Right

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll.May’s political vulnerability was exposed by the survey which found voters would prefer Boris Johnson, who quit as her foreign minister two

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Kavanaugh: Court’s Watergate Tapes Ruling May Have Been Wrong

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.Kavanaugh was taking part in a roundtable discussion with other lawyers when he said at three different points that the decision in U.S.

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Administration Releases Wiretap Documents on Ex-Trump Adviser

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Saturday released a set of documents once deemed top secret relating to the wiretapping of a onetime adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.The New York Times reported that the documents involving former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page were released to the Times and several other media organizations that had filed Freedom of Information Act

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Fiat Chrysler Names Jeep Boss to Replace Stricken CEO

MILAN / PARIS — Fiat Chrysler named on Saturday its Jeep division boss, Mike Manley, to take over immediately for Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne, who is seriously ill after suffering major complications following surgery.The carmaker said British-born Manley, who also takes responsibility for the North America region, will push ahead with the midterm strategy outlined last month by Marchionne,

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The quantum meltdown of encryption

Shlomi Dolev Contributor Shlomi Dolev is the Chair Professor and founder of the Computer Science department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Self-Stabilization. Shlomi also is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief scientist of Secret Double Octopus. More posts by this contributor The quantum computing apocalypse is imminent The world stands at

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Oppo F9 and Oppo F9 Pro receive Bluetooth certification, may launch soon

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Expliot - Internet of Things Exploitation Framework

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Propelling deep space flight with a new fuel source, Momentus prepares for liftoff

Mikhail Kokorich, the founder of Momentus, a new Y Combinator-backed propulsion technology developer for space flight, hadn’t always dreamed of going to the moon. A physicist who graduated from Russia’s top-ranked Novosibirsk University, Kokorich was a serial entrepreneur in who grew up in Siberia and made his name and his first fortunes in the years after the fall of the Soviet Union. The heart

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Revelations of US Cardinal Sex Abuse Will Force Pope’s Hand

VATICAN CITY — Revelations that one of the most respected U.S. cardinals allegedly sexually abused both boys and adult seminarians have raised questions about who in the Catholic Church hierarchy knew — and what Pope Francis is going to do about it.If the accusations against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick bear out — including a new case reported Friday involving an 11-year-old boy — will Francis

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Trump Claims ex-Lawyer's Phone-taping Is 'Perhaps Illegal'

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Donald Trump said Saturday that his personal lawyer’s taping of their private phone conversations is “totally unheard of & perhaps illegal.”Trump was responding to the revelation that former attorney Michael Cohen, weeks before the 2016 election, secretly recorded their discussion of a potential payment for a former Playboy model’s account of having an affair with

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Iran Leader Backs Suggestion to Block Gulf Oil Exports if Own Sales Stopped

DUBAI — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday backed President Hassan Rouhani’s suggestion that Iran may block Gulf oil exports if its own exports are stopped and said negotiations with the United States would be an “obvious mistake.”Rouhani’s apparent threat earlier this month to disrupt oil shipments from neighboring countries came in reaction to looming U.S. sanctions and

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Warner Bros. unveils the first trailers for ‘Aquaman’ and ‘Shazam’

Today at Comic-Con, Warner Bros. gave fans a peek at the first DC Comics films post-Justice League. Warner Bros. and DC had a bumpy 2017. There was the astonishing critical and commercial success of Wonder Woman, followed by the box office disappointment of Justice League — leading to an executive shakeup and a general rethinking of its movie strategy. Will Aquaman, which stars Jason Momoa as the

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Samsung Wireless Charger Duo charges both the Galaxy Note 9 & Galaxy Watch

Samsung introduced wireless charging to its smartphones starting with the Samsung Galaxy S6 in 2015. Since then, the company has opted to stick with the feature in its newer phones even though other device makers such as Google have dropped it. Wireless charging still isn’t a widespread feature in Android smartphones, although we are starting to see more and more premium smartphones come with

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Questions, Answers About Seeking Asylum in US

Federal law allows people from other countries to seek asylum in the United States if they fear persecution at home. Here’s a look at how the system works:What qualifies people for asylum?To be granted asylum, applicants must meet three requirements, laid out by the U.N. Convention on Refugees in 1951 and adopted by the United States. Applicants must prove:1) They have a “reasonable fear” of

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US Senators Drop Efforts to Cripple China's ZTE

U.S. Republican lawmakers have dropped their efforts to reimpose a crippling ban on exports to the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE. The move Friday gives a victory to U.S. President Donald Trump who has championed for ZTE to stay in business. Republican senators Friday dropped legislation that would block ZTE from buying component parts from the United States. Senators had included the

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Putin Says Russia Could Bid to Host Another Olympics

MOSCOW — After hosting the World Cup, President Vladimir Putin says the country could bid for a future Summer Olympics.Asked about hosting a Summer Olympics in Russia for the first time since 1980, Putin says feasibility studies need to be conducted “but obviously we will organize major international competitions here,” in comments reported by state news agency RIA Novosti.Russia held the 2014

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CowryWise micro-savings service opens high-yield government bonds to everyday Nigerians

In emerging market countries where economic volatility is a way of life, there aren’t a lot of relatively safe options for members of the burgeoning middle class to park their money. For instance, countries like Nigeria have experienced a tremendous growth in the number of citizens entering the middle class, which now accounts for about 23 percent of the population (it’s around 50 percent in the

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This 8-Course Bundle Introduces You to Python and Machine Learning

There are hundreds of programming languages in the world, and if you’re interested in working as an engineer or developer, choosing which one to focus on can be a daunting task.Python is one of the most dynamic and scaleable programming languages on the planet, and its versatility makes it a popular first language for many aspiring techies. The Total Python Machine Learning Bundle will teach you

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Metateta Automated Tool For Scanning And Exploiting Network Protocols Using Metasploit

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Data breach exposes trade secrets of carmakers GM, Ford, Tesla, Toyota

Security researcher UpGuard Cyber Risk disclosed Friday that sensitive documents from more than 100 manufacturing companies, including GM, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Tesla, Toyota, ThyssenKrupp, and VW were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics. The exposure via Level One Robotics, which provides industrial automation services, came through rsync, a common file

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Indie gem Stardew Valley will get multiplayer on August 1st

Stardew Valley, the popular indie farming simulator (it’s more fun than “farming simulator” makes it sound, I promise) is quite possibly the chillest game of all time. But, without any multiplayer aspect, it can get … a bit lonely. From farming, to fishing, to exploring mines, it’s always felt like a game that would be better with friends. We’ll soon find out if that’s true. After about year of

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Trump's ex-Lawyer Cohen and Rev. Al Sharpton Meet 'n Tweet

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen and the Rev. Al Sharpton have met to renew a long acquaintance – and they’ve made a point of letting the public know.Both tweeted about their get-together Friday.Longtime Sharpton spokeswoman Rachel Noerdlinger says Cohen recently contacted the civil rights activist, and they met at a Manhattan hotel for about an hour.Cohen is facing

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White House: Russia Call for Ukraine Referendum Illegitimate

The White House said Friday it “is not considering supporting” a Vladimir-Putin-backed call for a referendum in eastern Ukraine in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Russian president.Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, revealed Friday that the two leaders had discussed the possibility of a referendum in separatist-leaning eastern Ukraine during their

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A Hairy Issue: Sailors Tell the US Navy, ‘We Want Beards’

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND — Now that women in the Navy can wear ponytails, men want beards.The Navy said last week that servicewomen could sport ponytails, lock hairstyles, or ropelike strands, and wider hair buns, reversing a policy that long forbade females from letting their hair down.Servicemen immediately chimed in on social media, asking the Navy if they could grow beards. A sailor’s

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Google joins Microsoft and others to make it easy to transfer data between services

Transferring your data between services can prove difficult, and that’s why the Data Transfer Project has been founded. Created by Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook, the service tries to make it easy for you to transfer your files between different services. You could import your photos from Microsoft OneDrive to Google Photos, for example. It’s not just Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and

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One Plus 6 India Launch: Check offers, deals, how to pre-book and much more

One Plus 6 India Launch: Check offers, deals, how to pre-book and much moreThe launch of One Plus 6, one amongst the much awaited smartphone of the leading brand OnePlus, has been announced at an international launch event in London held on May 16. However, the smartphone will make an entry in India on May 17 with the sale kicking off from May 21 in an exclusive sale on the e-commerce website,

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Pathogens attack plants like hackers, so my lab thinks about crop protection like cybersecurity

Plants feed us. Without them we’re goners. Through thousands of years of genetic modification by selective breeding, humans have developed the crops that keep us alive. We have large kernels of grains, plump fruits and nutritious, toxin-free vegetables. These forms would never be found in nature, but were bred by people to keep us healthy and happy. Unfortunately, microbes find our wonderfully

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Niantic explains how and why it bans players in Pokémon GO

Getting banned for cheating is nothing new in Pokémon GO. There’ve been big ol’ ban waves every few weeks for ages now. The policies have never been totally set in stone, however — at least not publicly. Like many of the game’s mechanics, the player base has had to share info amongst themselves to figure out the offenses and their relative punishments, from slaps on the wrist to lifetime bans. At

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Abdul Seeks to Become Michigan's First Muslim American Governor

TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN — It’s standing room only in the large ballroom of this northern Michigan resort as people eagerly await the arrival of a young, well-spoken, charismatic Rhodes scholar seeking to reach Michigan’s highest elected office.“When I graduated college, Bill Clinton asked me why I was going to med school, and he asked me if I ever considered running for office. And at that time,

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Trump Invites Putin to a Summit in US

U.S. President Donald Trump is inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to a second summit meeting. The announcement came as the storm of criticism and confusion that followed the first summit is still making headlines and getting the attention of the U.S. Congress. Here to explain is VOA’s Carolyn Presutti at the White House.

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Autonomous Boats Can Offer Help on the Water

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Pompeo: US Won't Send Any Americans to Russia for Questioning

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will not send Americans to Russia for questioning. Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to let U.S. investigators question officials in Moscow about Russia’s interference in U.S. 2016 elections if Russian investigators are allowed to question American officials. U.S. President Donald Trump called Putin’s proposal an “incredible offer.

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Spain Becomes Top EU Migrant Destination; Italy Accused of Causing Deaths at Sea

Italy has rejected criticism of its hard-line policy on immigration, after protesters marched on the Italian Interior Ministry, accusing it of being responsible for the deaths of migrants at sea. Rome has banned nongovernmental organization, or NGO, charity boats from disembarking migrants in Italian ports. As Henry Ridgwell reports, just-released figures show Italy’s crackdown is having an

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Blavity raises $6.5 million Series A round led by GV

Blavity, the digital lifestyle media company geared toward black millennials, recently closed a $6.5 million Series A round led by GV with participation from Comcast Ventures, Plexo Capital and Baron Davis Enterprises. As part of the investment, GV Partner John Lyman is joining Blavity’s board of directors. As the media landscape continues to change, with some businesses up for sale, a prominent

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Canalys: Samsung and Xiaomi each ship 9.9 million smartphones in India in Q2 2018

According to Canalys, Samsung and Xiaomi each shipped 9.9 million smartphones in India in Q2 2018. This means that Samsung has caught up to Xiaomi this quarter. To recap, Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor in India in Q4 2017, and held on to its first position in Q1 2018. Now, the two competitors are neck-and-neck in the Indian smartphone market.Canalys states that

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Who owns the moon? A space lawyer answers

Most likely, this is the best-known picture of a flag ever taken: Buzz Aldrin standing next to the first U.S. flag planted on the Moon. For those who knew their world history, it also rang some alarm bells. Only less than a century ago, back on Earth, planting a national flag in another part of the world still amounted to claiming that territory for the fatherland. Did the Stars and Stripes on

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Watchdog: EPA Must Bolster Oversight After Flint Water Crisis

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must strengthen its oversight of state drinking water systems in the wake of the lead crisis in Flint, Michigan.The EPA’s Office of Inspector General said in a report released Thursday that slow response from the agency exposed residents to lead-tainted water for far too long.Flint’s water was tainted for at least 18 months after the city switched its

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Pompeo to VOA: China on Wrong Side of Religious Freedom

STATE DEPARTMENT — Days ahead of the first-ever ministerial talks hosted by the State Department to advance religious freedom around the world, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with VOA State Department correspondent Nike Ching on Thursday, addressing pressing issues including the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya, the repression of Uighurs Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists in China, and

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AnyVision AI startup locks in $28M for its body and facial recognition tech

As image recognition advances continue to accelerate, startups with a mind towards security applications are seeing some major interest to turn surveillance systems more intelligent. AnyVision is working on face, body and object recognition tech and the underlying system infrastructure to help companies deploy smart cameras for various purposes. The tech works when deployed on most types of

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US Seen Receiving Frosty Reception at G-20 Meeting

WASHINGTON / BUENOS AIRES — The financial leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies meet in Buenos Aires this weekend for the first time since long-simmering trade tensions burst into the open when China and the United States put tariffs on $34 billion of each other’s goods.The United States will seek to persuade Japan and the European Union to join it in taking a more aggressive stance against

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Jido Maps is building a ‘save button’ for persistent AR worlds

Augmented reality tech is in this incredibly weird position where it has the world’s biggest tech companies cheerleading consumer-facing products highlighting it but there are some very base issues that haven’t been solved yet. Jido Maps, which just graduated from Y Combinator’s most recent class, is another startup aiming to deliver the backend technologies needed to give a great fundamental AR

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Trump Looks Forward to More Putin Talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday blamed political forces within the U.S. for attempting to undermine his summit with President Donald Trump in Helsinki, while the American leader called the meeting “a great success” and looked forward to seeing him again.Putin, in his first public comments on his meeting Monday with Trump, told Russian diplomats, “We see that there are forces in the

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Android Dev Summit will take place November 7-8

Google I/O is likely the companies most popular developer conference, but the Mountain View tech giant is working with developers in a lot of different fields. The team will be hosting Google Cloud Next next week, the Chrome Dev Summit scheduled a few months later in November, and then they have others for AMP, TensorFlow, Dart, Firebase, and more. A couple of weeks before the Chrome Dev Summit,

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Finally First Flying Car Would Be On Sale in 2019

Finally First Flying Car Would Be On Sale in 2019The company Terrafugia, Inc. announced,  a two-seat auto and aircraft, including updates to the interior, safety systems, motor, and flight instrumentation. The latest features and systems will be incorporated and verified in the next test vehicles. Company announced that, the first production vehicles will come to market in 2019.Terrafugia’s

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US health care companies begin exploring blockchain technologies

The sprawling U.S. health care industry has trouble managing patient information: Every doctor, medical office, hospital, pharmacy, therapist and insurance company needs different pieces of data to properly care for patients. These records are scattered all over on each business’s computers – and some no doubt in filing cabinets too. They’re not all kept up to date with current information, as a

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US Intelligence Chief is Tough on Russia, at Odds with Trump

ASPEN, COLO — National Intelligence Director Dan Coats’ drumbeat of criticism against Russia is clashing loudly with President Donald Trump’s pro-Kremlin remarks, leaving the soft-spoken spy chief in an uncomfortable – and perhaps perilous – seat in the administration.Trump’s remarks after Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, where he appeared to deny the longtime U.S. foe was still targeting American

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Video Emerges of Macron Bodyguard Beating Protester in Paris

PARIS — A video showing one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s security chiefs beating a student demonstrator, until now cloaked in secrecy, is drawing a fierce public backlash over what is seen as mild punishment and a possible cover-up.The video of the May 1 event in Paris, revealed by Le Monde on Wednesday evening, shows Alexandre Benalla in a helmet with police markings, and surrounded by

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Malta paves the way for a decentralized stock exchange

Malta AKA “Blockchain Island” has been making waves lately in the world of cryptocurrency and governance. Their latest move involves the crypto exchange Binance and the ICO builders at Neufund. The plan is simple: Neufund will help MSX, the Malta Stock Exchange’s skunkworks, create tokenized securities. Binance has agreed to carry these securities on its own exchange, essentially creating a

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Artist Captures War as Seen by Children — Toys Included

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Presidential Power Key Issue in Court Confirmation Fight

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, federal judge Brett Kavanaugh, can expect tough questions on a range of issues when he faces a Senate confirmation hearing sometime in the next few months.Democrats are likely to pepper Kavanaugh with questions about his stance on abortion, gay rights and affirmative action. But another key area of interest is Kavanaugh’s expansive view

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Report: British ID Suspects in Nerve Agent Attack

LONDON — British police have identified several Russians who they believe were behind the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, the Press Association reported Thursday, citing a source close to the investigation.Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of agents to Britain’s MI6 foreign spy service, and his daughter Yulia,

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White House, State Differ Over Putin Interview Offer

WASHINGTON — The White House and the State Department are at odds over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer to allow the U.S. access to Russians accused of election meddling in return for interviews of Americans accused by the Kremlin of unspecified crimes.Even as the White House said the offer, made by Putin to President Donald Trump at their summit in Helsinki on Monday, was under

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Scope of Presidential Power Key Issue in Court Confirmation Fight

President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, can expect a range of tough questions when he faces a Senate confirmation hearing in the coming weeks. One area where Kavanaugh is likely to be pressed is on his view of the scope of presidential power, which he believes is quite broad. It is an area opposition Democrats are expected to highlight in connection with the ongoing

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Trump Demands Release of US Pastor Imprisoned in Turkey

ISTANBUL — U.S. President Donald Trump is calling on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to release an American pastor who has been in prison for two years awaiting trial on terrorism charges.A Turkish court Wednesday ordered Andrew Brunson to remain in jail until his next hearing on October 12. Brunson was arrested in 2016 and charged with supporting followers of U.S.-based Turkish cleric

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India’s BookMyShow pulls in $100M to grow its online ticketing business

BookMyShow, an online ticketing service for cinemas, theatres and sports in India, has pulled in $100 million in new capital for growth. The Series D round was led by private investment firm TPG Growth and it included participation from undisclosed existing investors. BookMyShow, which is headquartered in Mumbai, has now raised a total of $225 million from a range of backers that include Accel,

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US Senate Bill Threatens to Penalize Nicaraguans Responsible for Violence

A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators introduced a bill Wednesday threatening sanctions against officials responsible for the violence in Nicaragua. The bill targets those behind the deaths of anti-government protesters, human rights violations and corruption. It also calls for early elections and a negotiated settlement.“What started as legitimate peaceful protests has turned into a months-long

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US Lawmakers Still Seething Over Trump-Putin Summit

CAPITOL HILL — President Donald Trump’s defense of the Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin did nothing to quell furor on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on Wednesday demanded answers from the administration and pressed punitive legislation aimed at Moscow.“Americans and the members of this committee deserve to know what the president and foreign autocrats are agreeing to behind

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Poll: 49% of Americans Link Defense of NATO to Allies' Spending

WASHINGTON — Nearly half of Americans believe that the United States should not be required to defend NATO allies from attack if they do not spend more on defense, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after U.S. PresidentDonald Trump’s trip to Europe.America’s NATO allies have been shaken by Trump’s harangue against them in Brussels over their underspending on defense, and his unrestrained

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Android Messages 3.4 has a working Dark Theme and preps Chromebook pairing

Android Messages, Google’s default messaging app on Android, has a long way to go before it overtakes other chat apps, but recent feature updates have made the app a more compelling offering. The best new feature is the recent integration with web browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox. Other upcoming features we’re on the lookout for are the Material Theme redesign and the Chrome OS integration

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Why I teach math through knitting

One snowy January day, I asked a classroom of college students to tell me the first word that came to mind when they thought about mathematics. The top two words were “calculation” and “equation.” When I asked a room of professional mathematicians the same question, neither of those words were mentioned; instead, they offered phrases like “critical thinking” and “problem-solving.”This is

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Android P Restricts Network Activity Monitoring Apps

Android P Restricts Network Activity Monitoring AppsWhenever we download Apps from Play Store, we give full access to the apps and they can monitor your full network activity.They can sniff your incoming and outgoing connection via TCP/UDP to determine if you are connecting to a server. Collective information of user data can be then sell to Advertisers.xda-developers explains,A new commit has

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Worried about a slowdown? It already happened in 2016, says one new venture study

In today’s market, it’s hard to make sense of what’s what. Deals have grown incestuous for the first time, with outfits like GV investing alongside Uber last week — just months after its parent company, Alphabet, was at Uber’s throat. A $10 million-plus round of seed funding is no longer a joke. Venture firms continue to raise record-breaking amounts of money, despite what feels like creeping

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Las Vegas Hotel Sues 2017 Mass Shooting Victims

The owners of the Las Vegas hotel that was the scene of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history is counter-suing victims who are suing the hotel for negligence. Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds wounded when Stephen Paddock fired on a concert from his room at the Mandalay Bay hotel in October. Paddock killed himself as police moved in.Hundreds of victims have filed suit against MGM

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