Wednesday, March 20, 2019

20 March - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM


  WIRED



  • Older Android devices—of which there are over 100 million still in use—will remain exposed.
  • The latest penalty---stemming from how Google previously displayed search results on other websites---probably won't act as a deterrent, and critics want more...

    • Stanford professor and former Google employee Fei-Fei Li is the force behind the new Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

  • Indonesian investigators described the sounds emanating from the cockpit as the flight crew fought to take control of a plane that seemed almost magnetically propelled toward earth...
  • A software system suspected of playing a role in two deadly crashes involving the same jet, the Boeing 737 Max, did not raise red flags during the approval process...

    • The Federal Reserve updated its 2019 economic projections on Wednesday and telegraphed where it sees interest rates heading.

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



  • A London court on Wednesday rejected the bail application of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi and termed him a flight risk after he was arrested a day earlier from a bank here...
  • Nirav Modi knew an arrest warrant had been issued against him and wanted to be arrested in a less dramatic manner. He had, through his lawyer Anand Doobay, set up an appointment at 9am...

    • Social media firms, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, have committed to a three-hour time limit to comply with legal requests and orders of the Election Commission for taking...

  • The EU indicates a short extension beyond the Brexit date of 29 March is possible but only if MPs back agreement.
  • A British man tells how he survived the Christchurch attack and cradled a young woman shot dead.

    • Alice Cutter is accused of entering the pageant while part of the far-right National Action group.


      Reuters: World News





  • In a fresh blow to the embattled government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a legislator quit his ruling Liberal Party to sit as an independent on Wednesday after defending...
  • The European Parliament's main center-right grouping voted on Wednesday to suspend Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz Party until further notice amid concerns...

    • Iran will expand its ties with nations equally tired of "bullying" by the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday, as Iranians mark the end of a year...



  • A new documentary, "Apollo 11," includes a trove of unseen film footage of the July 1969 launch that brought two humans to the surface of the moon.
  • China's 2019 blockbuster movie "The Wandering Earth" takes audiences on a epic journey outward through the solar system.

    • NASA scientists cooked up an alien atmosphere in their lab to solve the puzzle of "hot Jupiters."

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