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North Korea 'Suspends' Plan To Fire Missiles On US Territory Of Guam
The former top intelligence official in the Obama administration said denuclearization was a "nonstarter" for the North Korean government, which he said viewed its nuclear weapons program as its "ticket to survival". North Korea's "grave threat" demands a "concerted effort" from the USA and its global allies, a top American security official said today as he warned that the two countries were closer to war than they were a decade ago.
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Google Allo is finally available on the web… sort of
If the app isn't running on your phone or your phone isn't connected to the internet, you can't use Allo through the web app. Those who have already received the update can confirm that the side bar has been updated with a new Allo for Web, which all but confirms Google is ready to make the feature available for users.
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Middle-Earth Shadow of War's Endgame Explained
If the addition of microtransactions hasn't put you off completely, completing Shadow of War will open an end-game mission type named Shadow Wars, according to Eurogamer . Fail, however, and it will revert back to Sauron's control. As soon as all goals of Shadow Wars are reached, the players will be able to see the real ending.
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Pyongyang challenge: Should US shoot Kim's missiles down?
This weekend, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel urged the United States and South Korea to make their planned joint military exercise "as unprovocative as possible". South Korean citizens and the media have been less shy about ripping into both Trump, for his threat, and the government of President Moon Jae-in, for not taking the US president to task for evoking a potential war that would likely result in tens of thousands of Korean deaths.
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Hulu Hooks Up With AWS for Live TV
The service will be expanded to support other AWS data stores later in the year, Amazon announced . "AWS's scalable, reliable cloud storage, combined with our broad range of analytics services make it easier than ever for customers to collect, store, analyze, and share data", said Raju Gulabani, Vice President, Databases, Analytics, and AI, Amazon Web Services .
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How to Tell if Your Eclipse Glasses are Safe
Wardell recommends that you purchase solar eclipse glasses from a source you trust. He says that holds true whether those lenses are on glasses, cameras, telescopes or binoculars. Amazon says it has emailed those who purchased the glasses. Where can you buy real solar eclipse glasses? According to the Science Spectrum, the eclipse will begin at 11:30 a.m.
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Google Pays Rp40 Trillion to Apple, What For?
He believes the world's most popular search engine might decide not to pay if it felt confident that Apple would set it as default regardless of payment. The 3D recognition sensor is also called facial recognition sensor, with this new feature, users can unlock their smartphones by letting the device scan their faces.
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Google Pays Apple Billions To Remain The Default iOS Search Engine
That's a hefty sum, but it certainly stands to reason that the price Apple charges has gone up considerably since the $ 1 billion figure Google paid in 2014. Some tech enthusiasts claim that the facial recognition sensor is more secure compared to the fingerprint sensors . But to Apple's chief designer Jony Ive, the App Store icon may need to be redesigned because it harkens back to the operating system's skeuomorphic days, when apps were made to look like the physical objects they ...
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Aetna customers to get discounted Apple Watches
The growing divide between Apple and Fitbit's numbers may become more sharply defined if Apple comes to an agreement with Aetna . Aetna already offers its 50,000 employees free Apple Watches as part of its corporate wellness program .
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Never Mind, Everybody, It's Called 'Battle.net' Again
The new Blizzard Battle.net caters to the veterans as well as new players. Blizzard , which, in addition to World of Warcraft , makes the hugely popular team shooter Overwatch and a number of the world's most beloved strategy games, announced last fall that it was moving away from the Battle.net name.
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Uber shareholders feud over investor's lawsuit
Benchmark wrote, "Kalanick knew Benchmark never would have approved the.Voting Agreement as to the three new Board seats if Benchmark had known the truth about Kalanick's prior conduct". According to the lawsuit, its $27 million investment has translated into a 13 percent stake of the company, last valued at almost $70 billion, as well as 20 percent of its voting rights.
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WannaCry Hero, Marcus Hutchins, Pleads "Not Guilty" to Kronos Banking Malware Charges
Hutchins, 23, achieved fame as the "accidental hero" who helped to halt the spread of the WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled the UK's National Health Service and many other companies around the world. Hutchins was originally denied access to a computer and the internet but his defense asked for the restriction to be lifted. Hutchins, a British citizen, will now be allowed to move around the USA freely and relocate to Los Angeles as he awaits his trial, which is set to begin on ...
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Call of Duty: WWII Gets an Explosive New Private Multiplayer Beta Trailer
The beta begins August 25 on PlayStation 4 and September 1 on Xbox One. Beta testers will also have the opportunity to experience Divisions , which serve as the replacement for the Pick 10 customization system that Call of Duty games have been using for years.
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Happy Janmashtami! Here is how Bollywood celebs are celebrating Lord Krishna's birthday
According to the Hindu lunar calendar, Lord Shri Krishna was born on "Ashtami" or the "eighth day" at midnight in the holy month of Shravana. The ideals of Lord Krishna's life are of universal relevance. In addition to Raas Lila, a night vigil or Jagarana, fasting (upavasa) and Dahi-Handi Mahotsav are also celebrated across the country. The devotees offer "chappan bhog" on the following day known as "Nanda Utsav" and prepare a list of 56 dishes to offer to the god.
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Antarctic Volcanic Region: Land of Fire Under Ice?
The identified volcanoes range from 328 feet (100 meters) to just over 12600 feet (3850 meters) in height, with cones that ranging from about two miles to just under 40 miles in diameter. The findings could have "major implications for our understanding of the region and the massive ice sheet that covers it", the site says. "The most volcanism that is going in the world at present is in regions that have only recently lost their glacier covering - after the end of the last ice age", Bingham ...
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Shonda Rhimes Leaves ABC For Netflix; What Happens To 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'HTGAWM'?
Betsy Beers , Rhimes's producing partner at Shondaland , is also moving to Netflix. It's a dramatic arc worthy of Olivia Pope , and a surprising decision given Rhimes's inimitable primetime power over at ABC, where she has free reign the likes of which precious few showrunners have ever seen.
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Japan deploys missile defense over North Korea's Guam threat
If past precedent is any guide, the answer is no. At the time North Korea said it was launching a telecommunications satellite, but Washington , Seoul and Tokyo believed Pyongyang was testing an intercontinental ballistic missile. Key Pyongyang ally Beijing, meanwhile, has pleaded with Trump to tone down his rhetoric to prevent tensions from boiling over. Guam elects a delegate to the U.S.
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Exciting news and the future of SoundCloud
SoundCloud founder and former CEO Alexander Ljung has agreed to step aside to become chairman of the board, it said. In its blog post, the decade-old, Berlin-based company said that at current sales levels, it was on track to more than double its revenue to US$100mil over the next 12 months.
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Nokia 5 to be Sold Offline in India Starting from 15 August
Launch offers on the Nokia 5 include 5GB data per month for Vodafone customers at Rs 149 and Rs 2,500 worth coupons on MakeMyTrip. HMD Global , the company that manufactures Nokia smartphones, in June launched the Nokia 6 , Nokia 5 and the Nokia 3 in India.
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IL senate schedules rare Sunday session to address school funding
It was unclear if the chamber would be able to muster the 71 votes required for an override. The governor's changes, which came in a veto of a newly devised school-funding model, stripped Chicago schools of hundreds of millions of dollars. Rauner called it a "bailout" for Chicago and made significant changes. The first payment from the state for schools is already past due. Many public school districts are scheduled to open this week or next week.
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Amazon recalls solar eclipse glasses
Solar eclipse glasses are flying off the shelves. If customers choose the Amazon route, it is important make sure the glasses will ship in time. At 2:05 a.m. Out of an abundance of caution, we have proactively reached out to customers and provided refunds for eclipse glasses that may not comply with industry standards.
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Google CEO's Speech Was Canceled Due To Online Harassment Threats
It began last weekend after engineer James Damore circulated a memo that claimed biological gender differences helped explain why women are underrepresented at the company. A Blind survey found that a majority of employees at Google , Uber, Yahoo, Airbnb, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon thought that Damore should not have been fired.
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Amber Heard And Elon Musk Set The Record Straight On Their Breakup
Tesla Inc., the American automaker is working on a backup plan if its long-standing promise to bring "Full Self-Driving Capability" onto roads falls short to meet the market demands, claimed the latest report, and published by Electrek .
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August 21 solar eclipse requires safe viewing
It's a big one because our neck of the woods is close to the path where it will be a total eclipse , which hasn't occurred here in a long time. The last to make any sort of landfall in the United States happened on February 26, 1979. It is right in the path and likely will not be obscured by clouds. Do you know about the diamond ring effect? Where are viewing events happening in New York City? Already bought your glasses to see the solar eclipse? Packs of eclipse glasses are ...
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'Eclipsemania' building for rare event
The landscape around you will be changing as the sun passes behind the moon, which will create cool shadows and a great opportunity for awesome pictures or a time-lapse video . A solar eclipse party being held by the City of Lubbock at the Patterson Branch Library , located at 1836 Parkway Drive in Lubbock. And there's another warning: Counterfeit eclipse glasses that look like the real thing, but may not protect your eyes properly.
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Facebook allows Moments-like app to be launched in China
Previously, the Chinese government blocked a number of products from Facebook, Inc.by dint of its Nazi internet policy. In a bid to explore the high-potential Chinese online market, Facebook has authorised the release of a new app here that does not carry its name.
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Dota 2-Playing Robot Beats the Pros at The International
OpenAI , the non-profit organization co-founded by Elon Musk in 2015 with a mission to build safe AGI, and ensure AGI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible; has recently developed a bot that could beat the best in the popular cult game Dota 2 in one on one matches under standard tournament rules.
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In phone call, Trump assures Guam of safety - and fame
The mayor of Guam recorded the candid, 3-minute phone conversation with Trump and posted it to his Facebook page . A video shows Gov. Eddie Baza Calvo laughing and joking with the president as they discuss everything from the readiness of the United States military to tourism.
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When the sun goes dark: 5 questions answered about the solar eclipse
The Great American Eclipse of August 21 is fast approaching and so this seems like a good time to discuss safe viewing options. On Aug. 21, the first total eclipse of the sun in the US since 1979 will sweep across the country from OR to SC, with the rest of the country witnessing a partial eclipse.
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OnePlus 3 and 3T to get Android O as final software update
In addition, Oliver also said that OnePlus will also end the Open Beta Program for the 3/3T after Android O update is released. The first question starts off by asking why the OnePlus 5 has received more updates since it was released than the OP3/3T has had during that same time frame.
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Earth's Doomsday Predicted On This Month's Solar Eclipse by Mysterious Planet "Nibiru"
Nibiru, or Planet X, was first mentioned in 1976 by Zecharia Sitchin in his cult book "The 12th Planet". The prediction has been wandering around us since decades but the Nibiru prediction of it colliding with earth has definitely caught the attention of many.
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Shia board moves SC for ownership of Babri Masjid
During the 100-minute long hearing, the Muslim litigant argued against early hearing in the case holding the translation of documents from Persian and Urdu as important for the hearing to progress. The Centre sought a "larger debate" on Article 35A , as advocate general K K Venugopal suggested in court, and the matter is with a three-judge bench with possible disposal by September first week.
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Microsoft introduces Coco Framework, makes blockchain networks enterprise ready
Our mission is to help companies thrive in this new era of secure multi-party computation by delivering open, scalable platforms and services that any company-from ledger startups to retailers to health providers to global banks-can use to improved shared business processes.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) SVP Sells $5000861.25 in Stock
Allegion PLC (ALLE) has risen 17.63% since August 10, 2016 and is uptrending. It has underperformed by 28.96% the S&P500. (GOOGL) by 3.45% based on its latest 2016Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. (NASDAQ:AAPL) or 32,942 shares. Pineno Levin & Ford Asset reported 5,545 shares. $2.51 million worth of Apple Inc . (NASDAQ:AAPL) by 0.9% during the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC.
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Acura Unveils a Redesigned RLX for 2018
The version of the RLX this new model replaces was often chided for its close affiliation to the Honda Accord sedan it's based upon, which was clearly apparent in the grille and rear quarter. The 310-horsepower RLX with Precision All-Wheel Steer is now mated to a new 10-speed Automatic Transmission (10AT) delivering a more refined driving experience, as well as improved acceleration and passing times.