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U.S. appeals court orders judge to dismiss case against Trump's former national security adviser

Combo photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump (in large photo) and his first national security adviser Michael Flynn on different occasions. (Xinhua) "In this case, the district court's actions will

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Olympus plans to sell its struggling camera division

Olympus cameras have fallen. After three straight years of operating losses, one of the world’s foremost camera makers in giving up the ghost. The Japanese tech giant this week announced its intention

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Suse launches version 2.0 of its Cloud Foundry-based Cloud Application Platform

Suse, the well-known German open-source company that went through more corporate owners than anybody can remember until it finally became independent again in 2019, has long been a champion of Cloud F

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A comprehensive response to the British Embassy

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

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Antitrust case against Facebook’s ‘super profiling’ back on track after German federal court ruling

A landmark regulatory intervention that seeks to apply structural antitrust remedies to cut big (ad)tech’s rights-hostile surveillance business models down to size has

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Trump vs. Bolton: The fireworks have only just begun

John Bolton, then national security adviser, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Washington, August 16, 2018. /AP Donald Trump is a man who kn

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US attorney who oversaw cases of Trump allies is resigning

The U.S. attorney who oversaw key prosecutions of allies of President Donald Trump and an investigation into Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani abruptly left his pos

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French court slaps down Google’s appeal against $57M GDPR fine

France’s top court for administrative law has dismissed Google’s appeal against a $57M fine issued by the data watchdog last year for not making it clear enough to Android users how it pr

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French constitutional authority rejects law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech content

French regulation on hate speech on online platforms has been widely deemed as unconstitutional by France’s Constitutional Council, the top authority in charge of ruling whether a new law complies wit

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Mapillary, the crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook

Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company

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Who’s writing first checks into startups?

Over the past two decades, the venture capital industry has exploded beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations.What began as a sleepy industry in Boston and Menlo Park has now expanded to dozens of cities

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UK gives up on centralized coronavirus contacts tracing app — will “likely” to switch to model backed by Apple and Google

The UK has given up building a centralized coronavirus contacts tracing app and will instead switch to a decentralized app architecture, the BBC has reported. This sugg

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Why is the DPRK breaking away from the peace process?

Officials from South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) unveil the joint liaison office in DPRK's border town of Kaesong, September 14, 2018. /Xinhua Editor's note:Tom

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Fly Ventures raises new €53M fund to back seed-stage enterprise and deep tech startups in Europe

Fly Ventures, the Berlin-based VC that invests in seed-stage European startups within enterprise and deep tech, has raised a new €53 million fund. The firm writes initial cheques of between €500,000 a

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China-Africa COVID-19 summit to strengthen ties between countries

The Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19 in Beijing, China, June 17, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analys

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China-Africa COVID-19 summit to strengthen ties between countries

The Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19 in Beijing, China, June 17, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analys

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Google lays out a spate of changes designed to diversify its management, its products, and startups

As the world awakens to the ubiquity of longstanding police violence against Black people and the many other ways that people of color are systematically discriminated against, companies whose future