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Canadian wildfire evacuees monitor situation, while some restrictions lifted

Thousands of people in Canada remain on evacuation orders as hundreds of fires burn across the country.Many evacuees continue to wait and monitor the news for updates o

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German police examine device after claim of plot against Russian media

Berlin criminal investigators and prosecutors are studying a device found and destroyed at a residential building housing Russian news agency staff in the city's Stegl

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Microsoft Windows: First update in six years

02:55 MicrosoftWindows is getting a long overdue makeover with the release of Windows 11.Those dreaded Windows updates won’t take as long now as they’ll be 40 percent smaller and run in

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Ford reveals three new details about its officially named F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck

Ford confirmed Monday that its all-electric pickup truck will be named the F-150 Lightning, resurrecting a name that once donned the SVT F-150 in the 1990s.The company hasn’t said much about the

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Google says Google Earth is getting its biggest update since 2017

Google Earth now features a timelapse mode that brings together 24 million satellite photos from the last 37 years. And… that’s it. Google says it’s the biggest update to Google Eart

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Microsoft outage knocks sites and services offline

Microsoft is experiencing a major outage.Besides its homepage, Microsoft services are down, log-in pages aren’t loading, and even the company’s status pages were down. Worse, MicrosoftR

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'Koo' is it? India finds Twitter's replacement

Twitter logo (L), Koo logo (R) Indian ministers, lawmakers, officials and their staunch supporters are moving to the home-made, largely-obscured Koo app in droves to counter Twitter after the

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Zambia reports highest COVID-19 deaths in single day

VCG Zambia on Tuesday reported the highest COVID-19 deaths in a single day as the second wave of the pandemic takes a toll on the southern African nation.The country recorded 14 deaths in the

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Get 90% off an annual DocSend plan with Extra Crunch

Extra Crunch is excited to announce we’re renewing our Partner Perk with DocSend. Annual and two-year members of Extra Crunch that are new to DocSend can get up to 90% off an annual plan. DocSend is a

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GitHub gets a dark mode

It’s GitHub Universe week and unsurprisingly, the ubiquitous code management service is announcing a slew of updates. Companies can now become GitHub Sponsors and invest in open-source projects

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COVID vaccine will be ready in 3-4 months: Union Health Minister

The University of Oxford confirmed that the COVID-19 vaccine it's developing with AstraZeneca Plc produced strong immune responses in older adults in an early study, with pivotal findings from th

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Qumulo update adds NvME caching for more efficient use of flash storage

Qumulo, the Seattle-based data storage startup, announced a bunch of updates today including support for NvME caching, an approach that should enable customers to access faster flash storage at a lowe

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As Blizzard sunsets StarCraft II, some of its key creators raise cash for a new gaming studio

Even as Blizzard pulls the plug on new updates for its StarCraft II game, nearly a decade after its launch, gaming investors are financing the next new thing coming from key members of the game’

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Despite a rough year for digital media, Blavity and The Shade Room are thriving

Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt, TechCrunch media and advertising reporter Anthony Ha sat down with Blavity CEO Morgan DeBaun and The Shade Room CEO Angelica Nwandu to chat about their respective medi

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JFrog and Snowflake’s aggressive IPO pricing point to strong demand for cloud shares

After raising their IPO price ranges, both JFrog and Snowflake priced above their refreshed intervals last night. At their final IPO prices, the two debuts are aggressively valued, showing continued

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Live COVID-19 Updates: U.S. COVID-19 cases surpass 5.6 million

The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - NEW YORK -- The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 5.6 million on Friday, accord

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Latest count of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide at 0000 GMT, Aug. 22

The following are the latest updates on the COVID-19 global confirmed cases in hardest-hit countries by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University at 0000 GMT, Aug.