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GitHub defies RIAA takedown notice, restoring YouTube-dl and starting $1M defense fund

GitHub has restored the code of a project that the RIAA demanded it take down last month after finding that the group’s DMCA complaint was meritless. YouTube-dl, a tool that lets videos from th

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Declaration that COVID-19 has ended was 'poorly worded:' Alyssa Farah

White House communications director Alyssa Farah said Wednesday that declared "ending the COVID-19 pandemic" as a key administration achievement in Tuesday's press release was "poorly worded.""No abs

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APD | US arms sale to Taiwan to further harm Sino-US ties

Editor's Note: The writer, Mr. I. Hussain Janjua is a senior media professional and analyst having experience of research & broadcast journalism in different organisati

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APD | US arms sale to Taiwan to further harm Sino-US ties

Editor's Note: The writer, Mr. I. Hussain Janjua is a senior media professional and analyst having experience of research & broadcast journalism in different organisati

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Europe telecoms lobby group 'denounces' banning Chinese suppliers

A customer browses mobile handsets on display inside a Telefonica SA store in Madrid, Spain. /CFP A business group representing challenger telecoms operators in Europe warned on Friday against

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Haiti moves closer to constitutional referendum, elections

Haitian President Jovenel Moise has appointed nine members to a provisional electoral council tasked with preparing a constitutional referendum and organizing local, mu

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SEC to investigate short seller’s claims against Nikola, report says

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly looking into claims that Nikola Corp. is involved in an alleged “intricate fraud,” the latest development in a controversy that er

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Election 2020: Is 'fake news' back for another election?

/AP Social media companies are taking steps to curb online disinformation and fake news on their platforms ahead of the U.S. elections in November when the stakes couldn't be higher.Last week,

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Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox probed over ‘unfair’ T&Cs in Italy

Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into cloud storage services operated by Apple, Dropbox and Google, in response to a number of complaints alleging unfair commercial pra

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Tick tock, TikTok: Trump issues order for US ban in 45 days

The president says that the US "must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to prevent our national security".

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Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump's wrath

After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, in a carefully worded policy that doesn't mention the word ban or that specific flag.Sign

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Lemonade launches pet insurance

Lemonade today launched pet insurance, marking its entry into a new vertical of insurance for the first time since it launched its renters/home owners insurance in 2016.Lemonade CEO Daniel Schreiber

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Tokyo Olympics thrown into sharper focus as JOC chief lists challenges

A monument featuring the five Olympic rings in Tokyo Bay, Japan, March 24, 2020. /VCG "We are slowly stepping out to restart our social lives, balancing preventative measures for COVID-19 with

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Elon Musk rails against German court decision on Tesla Autopilot terminology

Tesla CEO Elon Musk disputed a German court ruling issued today that bans the company from using terms like Autopilot or “full potential for autonomous driving” on its website or other ad

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With student gathering, Trump gets a more boisterous crowd

It wasn’t quite one of his signature big-stadium rallies.But President Donald Trump drew something closer to the jam-packed audience of political supporters he’s been c

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UK testing data 'far from complete and comprehensible,' says watchdog

00:39 The head of the UK's statistics regulator has strongly criticized the government's COVID-19 testing data, saying they were "far from complete and comprehensible."The UK governmen

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US Ambassador Expresses Confidence in Australian Telecoms Security Following Pompeo Threats

The US appears to be ramping up its pressure campaign against Beijing through various diplomatic and economic means. One method the Trump administration appears to have