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U.S. protests in pictures

Protesters demonstrate outside of a burning fast food restaurant, early Friday, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis. In many U.S. cities, protesters have set police cars ablaze, smashed windows of b

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Protests over George Floyd death overwhelm US authorities again

Fires burned unchecked and thousands protesting the police killing of George Floyd ignored a curfew as unrest overwhelmed authorities for another night in Minneapolis,

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How to upgrade your at-home videoconference setup: Lighting edition

In this instalment of our ongoing series around making the most of your at-home video setup, we’re going to focus on one of the most important, but least well understood or implemented parts of

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Latin America's slums facing losing battle against virus spread

A woman wearing a protective face mask and disposable gloves as a measure to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, waits outside a soup kitchen, in Caracas' Petare slum in Venezuela, Thursday,

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Protests over George Floyd's death turn violent in Minneapolis, spread to other U.S. cities

Video: The online snippet recorded by a bystander in Minneapolis, the biggest city in the Midwest state of Minnesota, on May 25, 2020, shows a white police officer holding George Floyd down with a kne

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Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise

In a surprise move, Mirantis acquired Docker’s Enterprise platform business at the end of last year and while Docker itself is refocusing on developers, Mirantis kept the Docker Enterprise name

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Violence again rocks Minneapolis after man's death; 1 killed

A man was shot to death as violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody rocked Minneapolis for a second straight night on Wednesday, with protesters looting stores near a police p

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NASA postpones SpaceX launch over lightning risk

A tornado warning and a tropical storm have forced NASA to stand down the launch due to the risk to the astronauts.

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Video shows Bolsonaro potentially implicating himself in interference

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he was unwilling to see his family get "screwed" because of his inability to change law enforcement officials, according to a video released on Friday set to d

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Facebook, YouTube, Netflix and more get eye-tracking apps from Tobii

Modern apps and services are a mixed bag when it comes to accessibility, and people with conditions that prevent them from using the usual smartphone or mouse and keyboard don’t often have good

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Microsoft Edge gets a Pinterest integration, sidebar search and automatic profile switching

Microsoft’s Edge browser is getting a bunch of new features soon. Some of these are for casual users while others are aimed at business users, IT admins and developers, but they all demonstrate

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Azure Arc, Microsoft’s service for managing cloud resources anywhere, is now in public preview

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Azure Arc, its service for managing cloud resources anywhere, including competing clouds like AWS and GCP and platforms like Red Hat&

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Gremlin brings chaos engineering to Windows platform

Chaos engineering is about helping companies set up worst case scenarios and testing them to see what causes the operating system to fall over, but up until now, it has mostly been for teams running L

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What you need to know about Microsoft's new dual-screen smartphone

It can make phone calls and send SMS texts, but Microsoft is not calling the Surface Duo a phone in its internal communications.

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Second Brazil health minister quits in a month

Brazil lost its second health minister in a month on Friday after President Jair Bolsonaro demanded wider use of unproven anti-malarial drugs to fight the coronavirus outbreak, adding to turmoil i

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Uber to require face masks for drivers, riders

People walk across a street near the Treasury Department in Washington D.C., the United States, May 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)A new technology will verify if the driver

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Smart glass manufacturer Click Materials inks major deal to challenge $1 billion-backed View Inc.

Click Materials, a Vancouver-based developer of “smart glass” has inked a major partnership with one fo the largest manufacturers of windows for the home, Cardinal Glass, as it looks to ch