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India's Prime Minister Modi wraps up official visit to United States

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is winding down his official visit to the United States on Friday, meeting with U.S. and Indian business leaders in Washington D.C.

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Supreme Court allows Alabama election map over black vote dilution claims

The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated Alabama's new GOP-drawn congressional map over the objection of civil rights groups and decisions of two lower courts finding that

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Guaidó closer to control of Venezuela gold reserves after UK Supreme Court recognizes him, not Maduro, as President

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is one step closer to securing control of more than $1 billion dollars in gold reserves stored at the Bank of England, after Br

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Facebook ends facial recognition over privacy fears

Scandal-hit Facebook is shutting down its long-criticized facial recognition system and deleting scan data on a billion people, it said Tuesday in a shock response to p

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National security state's basic instinct for war

A U.S. plane is seen taking off a day after explosions hit crowds outside the Kabul airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 27, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: John Gong is a professor at the Univer

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The Gist: The 2022 Winter Olympics

01:44 The Tokyo 2020 Games may be winding down, but things are already gearing up in China, which is now in the final stages of preparations for the Winter Olympics happening in six mon

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Do bronze medals ever make sense for unicorns?

Last week, Deliveroo made news when it announced it was preparing to leave the Spanish market. The recently listed Deliveroo couched its explanation in market terms, noting its market position in Span

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Fleet your last Fleet — the Twitter feature vanishes today

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.After a fittingly fleeting time in the wild, Twitter is banishing its ephemeral stories feature known as Fleets, which debuted in

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Pegasus spyware owner to be dissolved after internal bust-up

The London-headquartered private equity firm is to be wound up following a months-long dispute between its three principals and controversy over its ownership of the surveillance technology provider NSO Group, Sky News learns.

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After a decade, Congress might finally bring 911 into the internet age

When it comes to user-interface design, 911 is about as good as it gets. It’s the “most recognized number in the United States,” Steve Souder, a prominent 911 leader, points out. Simple, fast, and it

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Robert E. Lee statue removal underway in Charlottesville

Work has begun Saturday morning to take down a Confederate monument that helped spark a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, nearly four years

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Edge Delta raises $15M Series A to take on Splunk

Seattle-based Edge Delta, a startup that is building a modern distributed monitoring stack that is competing directly with industry heavyweights like Splunk, New Relic and Datadog, today announced tha

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Dictionaries offer final word on buildings

Three volumes examine Chinese and Western architecture in detail.Beijing hosts a number of architectural styles from soaring skyscrapers to ancient buildings. It has married the modern with the tradit

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Europe has passed turning point but still needs ECB support: Schnabel

The euro zone economy has reached a turning point and the recent rise in borrowing costs reflects improved fundamentals, European Central Bank board member Isabel Schna

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EU bodies’ use of US cloud services from AWS, Microsoft being probed by bloc’s privacy chief

Europe’s lead data protection regulator has opened two investigations into EU institutions’ use of cloud services from U.S. cloud giants, Amazon and Microsoft, under so called Cloud II con

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Investors cheer as Lyft’s Q1 revenue didn’t fall as much as expected

Investors gave Lyft’s value a small bump Tuesday after the American ride-hailing company reported results that weren’t quite as bad as the company, and Wall Street had expected. Shares of

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Twitter acquires distraction-free reading service Scroll to beef up its subscription product

Twitter this morning announced it’s acquiring Scroll, a subscription service that offers readers a better way to read through long-form content on the web, by removing ads and other website clut