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Minecraft: Education Edition comes to Chromebooks

Microsoft today announced that Minecraft: Education Edition is now available on Chromebooks.Now, if you were hoping that this means that the standard Minecraft game is now available on Chromebooks, t

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Ten killed after fire breaks out in Czechia apartment block

Ten people have died after a fire broke out in an apartment block in the eastern town of Bohumin, Czechia, on Saturday afternoon.The fire began on the eleventh floor of the building in the town close

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7 die in fire at another COVID-19 hotel facility in India

Rescue workers look for survivors at a hotel used as a COVID-19 facility in Andhra Pradesh, India, August 9, 2020. /Reuters At least seven people died after a massive fire broke out at a hotel

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Brazil COVID-19 deaths reach 100,000

Brazil's death toll from COVID-19 is expected to hit 100,000 on Saturday and continue to climb as most Brazilian cities reopen shops. /REUTERS Brazil's death toll from COVID-19 is expected to

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Samsung unveils new products - including phone that can stream Xbox games

In a partnership with Microsoft, the Korean company is offering consumers a lot of integration with Windows 10 computers.

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One Australian among dead in "horrific" Beirut explosion: PM

CANBERRA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- One Australian has been killed by the explosions happened in Beirut on Tuesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed. The explosion

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Equity Monday: Could Satya and TikTok make Bytedance investors happy enough to dance?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big ne

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Trump says federal agents to stay in Portland until police 'cleanup'

00:48 U.S. federal officers will stay in the protest-wracked city of Portland until local law enforcement officials finish a "cleanup of anarchists and agitators," President Donald Tru

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Microsoft weighs TikTok purchase as ad business flattens out

Microsoft could re-energize its advertising business with a huge supply of video if it follows through on acquiring TikTok's U.S. operations from ByteDance.Microsoft is in deal talks as the U.S. g

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Google is making autofill on Chrome for mobile more secure

Google today announced a new autofill experience for Chrome on mobile that will use biometric authentication for credit card transactions, as well as an updated built-in password manager that will ma

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Microsoft’s new Family Safety app offers parental controls across phones, PCs and Xbox

Microsoft’s new screen time and parental controls app, Microsoft Family Safety, is today launching publicly on iOS and Android, following a preview of the experience which had arrived earlier t

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Take a first look inside Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft for private astronauts

As part of its continued preparations to begin its commercial passenger spaceflight operations, Virgin Galactic has revealed the final design the interior cabin of its VSS Unity spacecraft. The compan

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Microsoft sees growth amid pandemic computing demands

VCG Microsoft on Wednesday reported rising revenues in the past quarter amid strong demand for cloud computing services from pandemic-hit businesses and consumers and big gains in its Xbox gam

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Slack has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft Teams in the EU

Workplace instant messaging platform Slack has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union accusing the tech giant of unfairly bundling its rival Teams product with its cloud

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What is a Mars launch window?

01:56 2020 is called the year of Mars as there are three missions poised to launch toward the red planet, including NASA's Perseverance, the United Arab Emirates' first-ever interplane

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Fire at France's Nantes Cathedral sparks criminal investigation

01:08 A fire at a 15th-centurycathedral inthe French city of Nantes is being treated as a criminal act,prosecutors say.The fire, which started on Saturday morning atthe cathedral of St

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Merkel: 2nd summit may be needed to forge EU stimulus deal

“Bridges still need to be built” between European Union countries at odds over plans for a massive stimulus package to help the bloc's economies recover from the corona