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Venezuela is shutting down its border to combat currency smuggling
Venezuela is shutting down its western border with Colombia for 72 hours in order combat currency smuggling, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday evening. On Sunday, the Venezuelan government gave...
View ArticleTrump says he will announce his secretary of state pick on Tuesday
President-elect Donald Trump said he will announce his pick for his administration’s secretary of state Tuesday morning. “I will be making my announcement on the next Secretary of State tomorrow...
View ArticleMilitary plane circles low over Manhattan, prompts brief widespread confusion
A military plane that flew over Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon briefly caused widespread confusion as New Yorkers wondered why the aircraft was circling so low over the city. A spokesman for the FAA...
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Astronomers found evidence for a ‘dark’ gravitational force that might fix...
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts so much about the universe at large, including the existence of gravitational lenses or “Einstein rings.” At the same time, however, Einstein’s...
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Ethics experts say Trump’s latest move to distance himself from his business...
President-elect Donald Trump promised this week that he will both relinquish control over his business empire and that “no new deals” will occur while he serves in the White House, but ethics experts...
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Peruvian president: Here’s the first thing I’ll tell Trump when I meet him
During President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign, he laid blame for a number of issues facing the US at the feet of Latin America, criticizing migrants and inveighing against free-trade polices embraced...
View ArticleThis is the tangled future of tech and transportation
When Didi Chuxing merged with Uber China in a $35 billion mega-merger last August, it created a partnership between the two biggest ride-hailing companies in the world. But it also further complicated...
View ArticlePOLL: Joe Biden is the early 2020 Democratic frontrunner
Vice President Joe Biden is the early 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner, a Tuesday poll from left-leaning Public Policy Polling found. The Delaware Democrat garnered 31% support in the poll,...
View ArticleHere are the friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s innermost circle, according to his...
As the year draws to a close, Facebook is creating personalized highlight reels for each of its 1.8 billion users to “look back at some moments from 2016.” Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
View ArticleGoogle stopt zelfrijdende auto in een apart bedrijf: Waymo
Google verzelfstandigt zijn inspanningen op het gebied van zelfrijdende auto’s en zet deze voort binnen een apart bedrijf. Dat krijgt de naam Waymo en zal eveneens onder moederbedrijf Alphabet vallen....
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Google search results promote a lot of debunked conspiracy theories
Since the election, Facebook and Google have been rocked by criticism that they are promoting “fake news” on their platforms. Both have pledged to try and stop this type of content from spreading, but...
View ArticleSalesforce just bought a startup called Twin Prime, adding to its $5 billion...
Salesforce just bought another startup called Twin Prime, adding to its $5 billion acquisition spree this year. Twin Prime is a five-year old startup that helps mobile apps perform better. Its CEO...
View ArticleThis beautiful photo shows the snow-covered Midwest moonlit from space
A series of snowstorms have swept across the Midwest in the past week, making a mess of roads and trailing freezing temperatures across the region. It’s not much fun to trudge through, but it sure is...
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The tech leaders who just met with Trump are harbingers of an automated future
President-elect Donald Trump met with the tech industry’s top executives on Wednesday, and photos from the meeting made it readily apparent how uneasy the visitors to Trump Tower were about the...
View ArticleVideo shows a self-driving Uber running a red light on the day of its launch...
A cab driver in San Francisco appears to have caught a self-driving Uber on film running a red light on the first day that the autonomous cars are shuttling passengers around town. As the San...
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Mark Zuckerberg was noticeably absent from Trump’s meeting with the biggest...
On Wednesday, the most influential people in the tech industry gathered at Trump Tower in Manhattan for a conversation with president-elect Donald Trump. CEOs from the largest companies in tech,...
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California DMV gives Uber an ultimatum: Park your self-driving cars or face...
The California DMV sent Uber a letter on Wednesday afternoon, telling the ride-hailing company to stop the launch of its self-driving car pilot or face legal action. “Had Uber obtained an autonomous...
View ArticleFormer Republican presidential candidate says Russia hacked his accounts,...
Sen. Lindsey Graham accused Russian hackers of targeting his campaign accounts in an interview on CNN Wednesday. Graham, a former Republican presidential candidate, said the vendor that administered...
View ArticleYahoo ontdekt opnieuw een megahack – meer dan een miljard gebruikers zijn...
Yahoo heeft woensdag bekendgemaakt opnieuw een inbraak te hebben vastgesteld op zijn computersystemen. Deze cyberaanval dateert uit augustus 2013 en trof meer dan een miljard accounts. Gegevens van...
View ArticleWhite House spokesman suggests Trump knew of Russia’s alleged hacking before...
White House press secretary Josh Earnest suggested that President-elect Donald Trump had advance knowledge of Russia’s alleged interference in the US presidential election before Election Day. Earnest...
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