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After Trump's explosive accusation Saturday - for which the White House has still not provided any evidence - Comey privately asked the Justice Department to ...

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Top 10 richest Chinese on Hurun's list 2017

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IBM Research says that modern hard drives utilize roughly 100,000 atoms to store a single bit, so shrinking things down to the size of just one atom is obviousl...

OPPO to release F3 and F3 Plus with dual selfie camera feature

Oppo has today sent out media invites featuring a silhouette of a dual camera module, suggesting that the smartphone could come with the dual camera setup for p...

Tech Companies Respond to Alleged CIA Hacking Tools

The document, and subsequent analysis on the Wikileaks press release , claims the CIA's hacking arsenal had grown to more than a thousand programmes by the ...

Myrtle Beach woman gives birth to baby boy, beating April the Giraffe

Dietrich based her parody off of April the giraffe , the pregnant giraffe at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y. "He is flawless, healthy and just hand...

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When oil is spilled into the ocean, clean up efforts can focus on the surface, where much of it gathers. This gave the foam a new surface chemistry, so they cou...

The Division to Receive Two Free Expansions in Year 2

In celebration of the game's one year anniversary, players who log into The Division over the week will receive a new emote, 200 premium credits, and in-game ev...

White Supremacists Make 'Unprecedented' Push On Campus - Hit 107 Colleges

White supremacist groups across the country are targeting college campuses for recruitment efforts in what observers are calling an "unprecedented" campaign t...

H-1B Visa Holders' Spouses are the New Target

Thousands of Indian spouses (holding H-4 visa) come in this category. Save Jobs USA then filed its initial brief once Trump took charge, and this time around,...

Nintendo sorta cares about getting Netflix on the Switch

Would you buy a Nintendo Switch if it packed streaming services? With the somewhat small line-up of launch titles (something that happens with every console t...

United Kingdom growth forecast for 2017 revised up

In particular, the OBR highlighted changes in timing to corporation tax return and European Union contributions as well as evidence of greater income shifting t...

Key Liverpool duo miss training ahead of Burnley clash

Henderson and Sturridge are now running out of time to get themselves back in training and in contention for the visit of Burnley to Anfield on Sunday afternoon...

Logitech Introduces G Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Logitech boasts this keyboard is the fastest they have made so far. Logitech's G Pro mechanical keyboard has a TenKeyLess design, which means it doesn't have ...

Brokerage Firm Target Review on Noble Energy Inc. (NYSE:NBL)

Jefferies Group has a "Hold" rating and a $48.00 price objective on the stock. Finally, Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Devon Energy Corp from a "bu...

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Amid suggestions that Trump met Sergey Kislyak on April 27 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington , the White House said it had "no recollection" who Trump sho...

Facebook Launches 360 Content App On Gear VR

There are already more than one million 360-degree videos and 25 million 360 photos to view on the platform. Vimeo's creator community is known for pioneeri...

57 jobs lost as Budgens stores close in Newport and Ludlow

No other Budgens stores were owned by Food Retailer Group and they are unaffected by the decision. Nearly 70 Scots jobs will be among 800 to go as food store ...

Android Closing Global Internet Usage Gap With Windows

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A new all-electric hypercar powered by Formula E-tech: Vanda's Dendrobium

The company partnered with Williams Advanced Engineering, one of the main companies that developed the powertrain of the Formula E's first vehicles, to build th...

Saudi oil minister says crude market fundamentals improving on output cuts

USA shale oil production will compose the bulk of new supplies, dependent heavily on price. The project is expected to create some 45,000 jobs and CEO Darren Wo...

Suzuki Swift revealed in Geneva

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'Zelda: Breath of the Wild': Nintendo Switch's best sponsor

Gaming companies tend to launch their big consoles and games shortly before Christmas, using the summer's video game symposium E3 to drum up interest in t...

Amazon's Blue Origin rockets rekindle space race (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Blue Origin has finished its big rocket. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has finally revealed how its upcoming New Glenn rocket will launch and then reuse a rocket...

Brazil's recession worst in country's history: GDP figures

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Malta's Famed 'Azure Window' Collapses into Sea During Storms

Prime Minister Muscat said the famous Mediterranean landmark had always faced destruction because of natural corrosion. "That sad day arrived", Muscat said in a...

Microsoft's Windows Server OS runs on ARM chips, with help from Qualcomm

The two companies must have worked together to ensure that Windows programs work across the board on Qualcomm's chips, which include both the consumer and the...

AMD reveals first details of its Zen-based Naples processors

We already know that AMD's Ryzen 7 desktop processors, complete with 8 cores and 16 threads, are powerful and highly competitive with Intel's 8-core parts in ...