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Qualcomm’s new chipset for wireless earbuds promises improved noise cancellation, all-day battery life

There are now so many wireless earbuds, it’s hard to keep track, but one of the reasons why we’ve seen this explosion in new and existing manufacturers entering this bu

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AWS launches CloudShell, a web-based shell for command-line access to AWS

AWS today launched CloudShell, a new, fully-featured web-based shell environment, based on Amazon Linux 2, for developers who want to be able to use some of their favorite command-line tools —

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Amazon’s Zoox unveils electric robotaxi that can travel up to 75 mph

Six years ago, Zoox launched quietly with a mighty mission: build and commercialize just about every aspect of a robotaxi service from the self-driving software stack and on-demand ride-sharing app to

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APD | Biden may change Free and Open Indo-Pacific initiative

By APD writer AliceThere are signs showing that US President-elect Joe Biden would change the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) initiative.Recently there has been a vie

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Multiple claimants battle for a share of Maradona's fortune

A balloon with a banner showing Maradona's figure and words "Goodbye Prince of Football" is seen during the Kolkata Fanush Festival, in Kolkata, India, December 6, 2020. /CFP Lawyers are geari

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Google, Intel, Zoom and others launch a new alliance to get enterprises to use more Chrome

A group of industry heavyweights, including Google, Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Intel, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMware and Zoom, today announced the launch of the Modern Computing Alliance.The mis

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Google to add Covid-19 vaccine information panels to Search

Google announced today it’s introducing a new search feature that will surface a list of authorized vaccines in users’ location, as well as informational panels about each individual vacci

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UserLeap raises $16 million to bring better qualitative data to PMs

Product managers can only be successful if they can make effective use of both quantitative and qualitative data. But mapping the former to the latter, and collecting high-quality data, is a huge chal

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Survey: Americans think Big Tech isn’t so bad after all

In government, there’s rare bipartisan consensus on taking down Big Tech .Capping a 16-month investigation, a Democratic-controlled House committee recently identified Amazon, Apple, Facebook and G

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Interview with 'Balloon' cast: Human experiences in Tibetan context

In a Tibetan family struggling to make ends meet, the mother of three finds herself pregnant with a fourth child. What should she do? The dilemma of keeping the baby and risking deeper poverty or

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Twitch updates its hateful content and harassment policy after company called out for its own abuses

Following several reports of a toxic workplace and abuse this year, Twitch today announced the introduction of a new hateful content and harassment policy for its streamer community that will go into

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Coronavirus, election results, Kobe Bryant and Zoom among Google’s top 2020 search trends in U.S. and world

The coronavirus outbreak, elections, and Zoom meetings were on U.S. consumers minds’ this year, according to Google’s list of the U.S. top trending searches in 2020, released this morning.

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myInterview raises $5 million for its video-based job recruitment platform

Creating a resume is one of the most frustrating parts of job hunting. Though ubiquitous on social media, videos are still rare on job platforms, even though it’s difficult to capture your perso

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Chinese officials set to convene over future of post-pandemic economy

Chinese government officials are set to convene and discuss the country's economic performance at this year's Central Economic Work Conference, an annual meeting expected to be held in Beijing thi

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Making masks, baking bread, and Carole Baskin: The top Google searches of 2020 revealed

Coronavirus dominated our lives this year, and Google data shows how it dominated what we were thinking about too.

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Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol

Engineers at Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will shore up one of the biggest holes in internet privacy that many don’t know even exists. Dubbed Ob

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Zuckerberg 'threatened to pull UK investment amid regulation row'

Previously secret minutes reveal what was said during a discussion between Matt Hancock and Mark Zuckerberg in 2018.