Thursday, November 08, 2018

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  • Our in-house Know-It-Alls answer questions about your interactions with technology.
  • Microsoft’s ultralight PC is back with faster processing and longer, 10-hour battery life.

    • Researchers found that they could compromise DJI's single sign-on tokens, similar to the issue behind Facebook's massive breach this September.

  • Mr. Sessions was the first senator to endorse Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign. But his recusal as attorney general from the Russia inquiry proved to be his undoing...
  • The acting attorney general, Matthew G. Whitaker, is seen as loyal to President Trump. He now oversees the special counsel’s inquiry.

    • The police said the assailant, who has not been identified, was also dead after the shooting at a country and western dance hall near Los Angeles.

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti



  • Naidu, who is on a 'sampark for samarthan’ on his own, meeting opposition leaders across the country in his bid to stitch an alliance (mahagatbandhan) to take on BJP ahead of the Lok...


    • The vice-chiefs will now be able to make decisions up to a limit of Rs 500 crore as the “competent financial authorities” under this greater delegation of financial powers. Defence...

  • But the ex-Brexit secretary thinks that could prompt a better deal being negotiated by the UK and EU.
  • Joanne D'Onofrio says she is "at the end of the road" and in urgent need of a kidney.

    • "I'm not that stupid" - the Prince of Wales says he would stop campaigning if he was monarch.


      National Geographic News




  • The practice wasn’t new in 1812. But a map in a newspaper gave it a name that stuck.
  • A pioneering lawsuit against the U.S. government has won the right to a trial, overcoming the Trump administration's efforts to cancel it in court.

    • The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.


  • The European Union wants Britain to stick to the bloc's rules on state aid, environment and workers' rights after Brexit to prevent it from gaining unfair access to the single market...
  • Three million Venezuelans have fled economic and political crisis in their homeland, most since 2015, the United Nations said on Thursday.

    • Spoof billboards celebrating Russian President Vladimir Putin's "contribution" to Brexit have been put up in London by a satirical group which says it wants to secure recognition...


  • The bull is hard to miss as it charges through the northern winter sky. It's one of the most prominent and visible of all of the constellations.
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  • The Canadarm2 robotic arm outside the International Space Station released a Japanese cargo spacecraft above the Pacific Ocean yesterday (Nov. 7).

    • Astronomers think they have identified a star they believe to be about 13.5 billion years old, which would place its birth just after the Big Bang — and it's surprisingly close to...

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