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SpaceX successfully launches GPS III space vehicle on behalf of the U.S. Space Force

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

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With advertiser boycott growing, lawmakers press Facebook on white supremacy

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

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Upsolver announces $13M Series A to ease management of cloud data lakes

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

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As French Greens notch gains, Macron renews his green agenda

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

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Washington's 'narrative warfare' on Beijing

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

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Exit polls show Greens make big success, ruling centrists on back foot in local run-off

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

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Pakistan shoots down Indian quadcopter along LoC: Pakistan army

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

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A divided Poland holds presidential vote delayed by pandemic

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

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UK housing minister under fire over influence-peddling claim

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

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Illumina’s accelerator has an impressive 93 percent follow-on funding rate — here’re its latest picks

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

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Trump says troops withdrawn from Germany will 'probably' go to Poland

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

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Google adds contextual fact-checking for some image search results

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

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Facebook pulls Trump ads over Nazi symbol

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

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Australian unemployment hits two-decade high

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

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Why is the U.S. criticizing its mouthpiece?

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

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Daily Crunch: Facebook will let you turn off political ads

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,

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Google kicks The Federalist and ZeroHedge off its ad platform for racist protest content

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