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Russian President Putin yet to congratulate Biden

01:27 Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to send his congratulations to the projected winner of the U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden. He said consistently that Russia will w

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Commissary Club wants to help formerly incarcerated people find community

Y Combinator-backed employment platform 70 Million Jobs is launching a new social network geared toward helping formerly incarcerated individuals connect with each other. While 70 Million Jobs focuses

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SoftBank’s $100 million diversity and inclusion fund makes its first bet … in health Vitable Health

SoftBank’s Opportunity Growth Fund has made the health insurance startup Vitable Health the first commitment from its $100 million fund dedicated to investing in startups founded by entrepreneur

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Google research lets sign language switch ‘active speaker’ in video calls

An aspect of video calls that many of us take for granted is the way they can switch between feeds to highlight whoever’s speaking. Great — if speaking is how you communicate. Silent speech like

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Modi pledges to use India vaccine-production capacity to help 'all humanity'

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged at the United Nations on Saturday that his country’s vaccine production capacity would be made available globally to fight t

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Israel toughens second lockdown as virus cases surge

The Israeli government decided on Thursday to tighten the ongoing three-week anti-coronavirus lockdown as the nation's daily infections rage on.The new restrictions, de

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Biden calls Trump's U.S. Supreme Court push 'abuse of power'

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden urged Senate Republicans not to vote on any candidate nominated to the Supreme Court as the November election approaches, calling his rival Donald Trump's

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Unity Software has strong opening, gaining 31% after pricing above its raised range

Whoever said you can’t make money playing video games clearly hasn’t taken a look at Unity Software’s stock price.On its first official day of trading, the company rose more than 31%

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Contestants will compete for a SpaceX trip to the International Space Station in new reality TV show

There’s a reality TV competition show in the works that will feature a 2023 trip to the International Space Station as the grand prize, Deadline reports. The production company behind the show,

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Here’s what’s happening today on day 1 of Disrupt 2020

Welcome to Day One of Disrupt 2020, our biggest Disrupt ever! Over the next five days (cue Star Trek theme), you’ll explore strange new technology, seek out new opportunities and new collaborations. Y

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Trump: Deadline for TikTok sale won't be extended - and app could be banned

TikTok is currently suing the US administration to prevent the forced sale and claims it will never share data with Beijing.

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AT&T customers can now make and receive calls via Alexa

Amazon this morning announced it’s teaming up with ATT on a new feature that will allow some ATT customers to make and receive phone calls through their Alexa-enabled devices, like an Amazon Ech

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Turkey begins military exercises in Northern Cyprus

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, September 4, 2020. /Reuters Turkey's armed forces on Sunday began annual exercises in the republic of No

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Germany ups pressure on Russia in Navalny poisoning probe

Germany on Sunday increased pressure on Russia over the poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, warning that a lack of support by Moscow in the inves

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Iran's friends should have defied U.S. sanctions during pandemic: President Rouhani

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani bemoaned Iran’s friends on Saturday for not standing up to the United States and breaking crippling sanctions during the coronavirus pa

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APD | Chinese projects in the Philippines to continue despite the US State Department sanctions

By APD writer Melo M. AcuñaChinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian said while the US State Department imposed sanctions on some Chinese companies and citizen

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Iran hails support for nuclear deal against US

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday hailed the show of unity by parties to a 2015 nuclear deal, after they defeated US efforts to restore international sanctio