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NASA's DART Project Testing Ways To Deflect Asteroids Away From Earth

DART would impact only the smaller of the two bodies, Didymos B . "DART would be NASA's first mission to demonstrate what's known as the kinetic impactor tec...

GST Effect : Asus Zenfone 3 Phone Price Slashed By Rs 3000

Though the company has once slashed the pricing of the Zenfone 3-series, the new price cut might be seen as an effect of GST. So talking about the first smart...

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Indian shares ended with substantial gains on Monday after the goods and services tax (GST) kicked in on July 1, helping raise expectations that the biggest t...

Leak: Photos Of Microsoft's Canceled Surface Mini Show What Could Have Been

But the device never saw the light of day because, firstly, it didn't offer much variation from other smaller tablets available in 2014, and secondly, the table...

LG releases lightest LTE tablet PC

LG has introduced the G Pad IV 8.0 FHD LTE tablet in Korea. According to LG, the 8-inch display makes it easier for users to carry the product in hand bags an...

Can the Toronto Maple Leafs get a deal done with Patrick Marleau?

He deserves some time to make up his mind, of course, but I would be surprised if it drags on much longer. It was announced on Saturday that Thornton will re...

INLD backs NDA's President pick

He will meet former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam-led AIADMK faction at the Russian Cultural Centre, according to BJP sources. Followers of party Deputy Ge...

Gulf reconciliation meeting to be held in Washington

He further added Qatar will have to decide if it wishes to extend its support to extremism and terrorism in the region. Two days ago, authorities in Qatar hir...

Waymo strikes deal for Avis to manage autonomous cars fleet

A widely held view among investors is that the auto rental industry business model will be fundamentally challenged with the arrival of autonomous vehicles (AV)...

Modi's India to Unveil Largest Tax Reform

The one national GST unifies the countrys Dollars 2 trillion economy and 1.3 billion people into a common market, an exercise that took 17 tumultuous years. 2...

Senate Health Care Reform Bill Just as "Mean" as the House Version

It does that, though, by cutting Medicaid and leaving millions more uninsured. The deficit would be reduced $321 billion by 2026, the CBO found, compar...

Tier Project Fi Phone Said To Be Lenovo's Moto X4

In the end, this potentially being a Project Fi device is a big deal. Responding to a query from a Project Fi user regarding affordable devices on the network...

West bank: a Palestinian shoots at israeli soldiers, is shot and killed

Earlier Wednesday, the israeli police said that security forces had arrested a palestinian woman who was with a knife at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Bethle...

Furious Tillerson Explodes Over Staffing Woes, Leaks in Trump Admin.

Tillerson lashed out at DeStefano - the head of presidential personnel office - after the White House blocked the secretary of state's choices for senior State...

Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (HTZ) is down on 100 DMA

The stock, after opening at $92.34, closed at $91.15 by scoring 1.48%. HTZ has been the topic of Many brokerage reports. Credit Suisse "Downgrades" Hertz Gl...

De Blasio to Bill NYC Taxpayers for Fundraising Legal Defense

Republican and Democratic lawmakers deadlocked over whether Mayor Bill de Blasio's authority over the nation's largest school system should be linked to an incr...

Iridium satellites prepped for Falcon 9 flight

EDT/2025 GMT). SpaceX launched a Bulgarian communications satellite into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Friday afternoon. The backup two-hou...

Motorola Moto M Android 7.0 Nougat update released in India

The update includes Android 7.0, the May 1st, 2017 Android security patch, video chatting app Duo and some improvements to the stability of the phone. Motorol...

Trump Wants to Repeal Obamacare Even Without a Replacement

Trump must have been watching because the president quickly tweeted: " If Republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immed...

Leaked - Porsche 911 GT2 RS in first official images

Photos of the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS have leaked online via Porsche forum Rennlist. Porsche just took the wraps off its most powerful 911 street vehicle ...

Revised version of GOP's healthcare bill expected today

According to the CPO report , the revised health care bill would reduce the federal deficit by $321 billion between the years of 2017 and 2026. Approximate...

Fidget spinners the latest hot gadget to start exploding

After being on its charger for less than 30 minutes, it caught on fire. The issue isn't limited to just Bluetooth fidget spinners , as we've seen in the past -...

StarCraft Remastered launches in August for $15/£13

Preorders are now open, and the game will live in the Blizzard app's ecosystem. KitGuru Says: StarCraft is one of the all-time greats when it comes to RTS, ...

Rio Tinto Recommends Yancoal Offer For Coal & Allied

Yancoal then matched the offer, before Glencore returned to the table with a $2.68bn all-cash deal and a promise to pay $225m if regulators blocked the acqui...

Beware new ransomware Petya: CERT

It is looking that Petya might have been a wolf in wolf's clothing which brings an interesting new wrinkle to the surface in all of this ransomware nons...

Okja review: Netflix's tale of super-sized friendship and compassion

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Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy Seemingly Outed For Xbox One By Retailer

Your feelings towards them will depend nearly entirely on your existing history with the series. In Crash Bandicoot 3: "Warped , I couldn't stop staring at the...

First iPhone sold 10 years ago today - Western Mass News - WGGB/WSHM

The iPhone 5 in 2012, which broke sales records, was the year that the number of apps in the App Store really took off - a wake-up call to companies getti...

European Union fines Google €2.42 billion for antitrust violation

Google has already expressed its disappointment and its intention to appeal this decision. The Commission found that Google had leveraged its dominance in ...

Sony Music to start pressing records after almost 30-year hiatus

Vinyl sales surpassed downloads in the United Kingdom past year. Sony hasn't produced records since 1989 when it stopped in-house manufacturing to focus on CD...

What were those colorful lights in the sky over Virginia?

As barium, strontium, and cupric-oxide interacts with the atmosphere, the vapour creates clouds of blue-green and red. Announcing the successful launch on Tw...

'Cash me ousside' girl pleads guilty to felony charges in Florida

Since Bregoli found fame in 2016, after she muttered three now-iconic words in her southern drawl, "cash me ousside" ('catch me outside') to audience members of...

Canon 6D Mark II Announced - First Impressions

It's time to start wowing us again. Canon has opted to have the mode dial recessed into the top plate itself, and has also gone with a new power control that al...

Family Of Alton Sterling Sues His Killers & City Of Baton Rouge

Published within the AP's report , the suit states the death of Sterling "fit a pattern of racist behavior and excessive force by its police force". "We ca...

Ford Just Issued Another Recall for Over 400000 Vehicles

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