SpaceX successfully launched a GPS III satellite for the U.S. Space Force today. The Space Force took over the U.S. in-space GPS assets from the Air Force when it became its own dedicated wing of th
In a new letter to Mark Zuckerberg, three Democratic lawmakers pressed the Facebook chief executive for accountability on his company’s role in amplifying white supremacy and allowing violent e
There’s a lot of complexity around managing data lakes in the cloud that often requires expensive engineering expertise. Upsolver, an early stage startup, wants to simplify all of that, so that
French President Emmanuel Macron, who once declared “Make The Planet Great Again” but whose climate agenda got knocked off course by persistent street protests, is unde
Donald Trump points to a question as he speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 11, 2020. /AP Editor's note:The COVID-19 pandemic has p
With a record low turnout, French voters on Sunday credited the country's environmentalists to manage their local affairs in the final round of municipal elections, while President Emmanuel Macron's
The Pakistan army said Sunday evening that it had shot down an Indian spying quadcopter along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region. Pakistan army t
Poles voted in a presidential election Sunday that was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic and was taking place amid deep cultural and political divisions in the Europe
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was facing calls Thursday to fire his housing minister over allegations that the official rushed through the approval of a contenti
Since its launch in 1998 Illumina and its genetic analysis toolkits and services have become an essential component of the new biological manufacturing and therapeutic development industries which hav
U.S. President Donald Trump said that U.S. troops being withdrawn from Germany will "probably" be sent to Poland, as he hosted Polish leader Andrzej Duda at the White House just four days ahead of
Acknowledging the role that misleadingly edited or out-of-context images play in seeding the internet with misinformation, Google is introducing fact-checking labels for some Google image searches. T
Facebook on Thursday said it removed ads by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that contained a symbol used in Nazi Germany for political prisoners. "We don't allow symbols that represent
Australia's unemployment rate hit its highest level in two decades last month, official data showed Thursday, as hundreds-of-thousands more people lost their jobs because of pandemic-induced shutd
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. May 27, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: The following article is taken from the Chinese-language opinion column "The Real Point."According to reports
Facebook adds a personal off switch for political ads, T-Mobile lays off hundreds of Sprint employees and a content management platform raises $80 million.Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 17,
Google is booting online far-right website The Federalist from its ad platform for publishing content about the ongoing protests against police brutality that violated the company’s rules aroun