TOP HEADLINES- The World Health Organisation's Michael Ryan has said the COVID-19 pandemic may "not necessarily the big one,"because of its relatively low case fatality rate compared to other emergin
Edinson Cavani (L) of Manchester United celebrates with teammates during the League Cup quarter-final match against Everton in Liverpool, UK, December 23, 2020. /CFP Edinson Cavani and Anthon
An election systems worker driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump s campaign two of its lawyers and some cons
An Israeli soldier wearing a protective face mask walks past a billboard depicting Benjamin "Benny" Gantz (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, together with the number of unemp
Content moderation has been a thorny topic in 2020. And when I say “thorny,” I mean in the sense of having multiple congressional hearings on the subject. Twitter and Facebook in particular have been
StepZen, a new startup from the crew who gave you Apigee (which was sold to Google in 2016 for $625 million) had a different vision for their latest company. They are building a single API that pulls
The earliest sign that candidate Joe Biden would veer leftward and cave before his party’s liberal wing was his abrupt flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment. That provision i
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04:52 Chejiawo Village is located on the edge of the Horqin sandy land in Horqin Left Wing Rear Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Due to the lack
U.S. former Vice President Joe Biden (L) and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate at Las Vegas, Nevada, February 19, 2020. /Ge
Brazil's Supreme Court on Sunday gave the country's health minister 48 hours to fix the starting date for a national vaccination program to fight the world's second-deadliest outbreak of COVID-19
Charles Oliveira (R) of Brazil reacts after the conclusion of his lightweight bout against Tony Ferguson (C) of the U.S. in the UFC 256 event at UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 12, 2020.
U.S. National Guardsmen stand guard around City Hall fearing the potential for Right-Wing Violence in response to the election results in Philadelphia, U.S., November 7, 2020. /Getty Editor's
General Lloyd Austin listens as Dr. Jill Biden speaks about care packages for military families for the holiday season in Washington, D.C., December 10, 2020. /Getty Editor's note:Thomas O. Fa
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General Lloyd Austin listens as Dr. Jill Biden speaks about care packages for military families for the holiday season in Washington, D.C., December 10, 2020. /Getty Editor's note:Thomas O. Fa
It’s official. Boston Dynamics is becoming part of the Hyundai family (pending regulatory approval, naturally). The Waltham, Massachusetts-based robot maker confirmed that the South Korean technology