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Even Skype is copying Snapchat

Engadget | 2017-06-01

Despite its smaller-than-expected user-base, everyone keeps trying to ape Snapchat. The latest in that trend is none other than Skype. Yes, the VOIP and chat app is trying its hand at being an ephemeral social network. Microsoft is calling its Storie... ......

Microsoft to pay users if they search with Bing

The Siasat Daily | 2017-06-01

London: In a push to make people switch to its Bing search engine, Microsoft will now pay users in Britain to use Bing over competitors like...

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Sensex, Nifty hit lifetime highs on global cues, better growth prospects

Hindustan Times | 2017-06-02

Indian shares rose to record levels in intra-day trade on Friday on positive global cues and as foreign funds continue to bet on Asia’s third largest economy after the government asserted that growth rate will bounce back from 6.1% recorded in March quarter. A raft of reform such as...

About 17.5% power capacity in India is renewables

DNA India | 2017-06-02

With an increase in thrust towards renewable energy, about 17.5% of total power capacity in India is through green energy sources. In the years to come, the ratio is only going to rise, but investment remains among the top concerns for the increasing electricity generation from cleaner sources....

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French astronaut Pesquet to return to Earth after marathon space mission

France24 | 2017-06-02

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet is due to land back on Earth on Friday after a marathon 196-day trip that will fall just shy of a record space mission for a European. ......

Study Identifies the Likely Genetic Mutation Responsible for Smooshed-Faced Dogs

Gizmodo | 2017-05-29

A new study has gone a long way towards finding the answer and could have implications for the health of these beleaguered canines. ......

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Reading for pleasure falls after primary school years

BBC News | 2017-06-01

Overall though, pleasure in reading appears to be rising steadily among UK children. The NLT survey of 41,334 children aged eight to 16, carried out at the end of 2016, found nearly six children...

How can schools recruit, and keep, more teachers?

BBC News | 2017-05-30

In the last few weeks you'll have heard that it's funding, or the kind of school, or...

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French Open: Andy Murray, Juan Martin Del Potro set up blockbuster clash

Deccan Chronicle | 2017-06-02

Paris: World number one Andy Murray set up a French Open blockbuster against Juan Martin del Potro on Thursday, the latest chapter in what has developed into an epic rivalry. Murray, the 2016 runner-up, reached the third round with a bruising 6-7 (3/7), 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7/3) win over Martin Klizan of...

Bothered by wrist, 12th-seeded Keys of US loses in Paris

PARISMadison Keys started to feel something wrong in her surgically repaired left wrist late in the first set of her second-round match at the French Open. Facing a qualifier ranked only 290th, Keys could not overcome the problems with her...

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The Associated Press | 2017-06-02

Police anti-profiling measure OK'd, viewed as national model

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island&aposs; largest city has approved final passage of a police accountability measure proponents say could be a national model...

The Associated Press | 2017-06-02

LA tunnel diggers find bone of ancient giant sloth

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Crews digging a tunnel for a new Los Angeles train line have found the remains of an ancient giant sloth....

WorldNews.com | 2017-06-02

The Next Particle Collider Could Be 7 Times More Powerful Than The LHC

An international collaboration of scientists has started its many decades' worth of work to build a worthy successor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), IFL...

WorldNews.com | 2017-06-02

Ex-Captive Of Islamic State Sheds Tears On Return To Her Northern Iraq Village

Nadia Murad made an emotional return on Thursday to the Yazidi village in northern Iraq where she was captured and sold as a slave by Islamic State three years...

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Al Jazeera | 2017-06-02

Has Katie Hopkins committed a hate crime?

The far-right British columnist and her hate filled anti-Muslim rhetoric is the symptom of a more...

The Los Angeles Times | 2017-06-02

Stop starving California's recycling program

By one important measure, California’s 30-year-old Beverage Container Recycling program has been a...