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Samsung soups up for car race of the future
HONG KONG - Samsung Electronics will soon soup up its engine for the car race of the future. The tech behemoth faces slowing growth in its core smartphone and chips products at the same time as it's distracted by a leadership crisis. Revving up its automotive offering, as strategy chief Young Sohn...
Bitcoins.com: How Andragnes Started The Project In 1998 With A 2000 Domain Name
Nine years prior to bitcoins founding by Satoshi Nakamoto, the domain name bitcoins.com was registered in 2000, Domain Gang reported Wednesday. Surprisingly, the Bitcoins project started in 1998, when eventual co-founder of Bitcoin Argentina Rodolfo Andragnes, decided to create a digital currency,...
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World's Wealthiest Became $1 Trillion Richer in 2017
And Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whom Chicago is wooing with a $2.25 billion incentive package in hopes of winning the e-tailer's second HQ, now ranks as the world's richest person. ......
South Korean Regulators Conduct Onsite Inspections Of Exchanges
After Korean exchange Youbit was hacked earlier this month, South Korean authorities have begun conducting onsite inspections of domestic bitcoin exchanges, Cryptocoinsnews reported Wednesday. An update published following one such onsite visit shows inspectors were not pleased by what they found,...
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Sugary drinks could be banned from hospitals
Sugary drinks will be banned from hospital canteens, shops and vending machines if trusts fail to take action to reduce sales (Picture: PA) Sugary drinks could be banned from hospitals if sales are not reduced. NHS England has threatened to remove beverages from hospital canteens, shops and vending...
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Scholars call for release of detained Maoist in China
Hundreds of Chinese scholars, students and journalists have signed a petition calling for a leftist intellectual to be released from police custody in a case that shows how Beijing's crackdown on civil society extends across the political spectrum. Zhang Yunfan, a recent graduate...
High school students prepare gifts for children's hospital
Instead of sleeping in or watching television during the first Friday of their Christmas break, more than 60 students from the greater Toledo region opted to wrap Christmas presents from their regional toy drive donated to ProMedica Toledo Children’s Hospital. ......
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Victoria Azarenka to miss ASB Classic in Auckland due to ongoing custody dispute
A continuing custody dispute has prevented two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka from resuming her tennis career at the ASB Classic in...
Legendary sportscaster Dick Enberg dies at 82
Dick Enberg, whose 60-plus year Emmy Award winning career as a sports broadcaster included a long run with the Angels and Rams in the 1960s and ’70s, died of an apparent heart attack at his home Thursday morning in La Jolla. He was 82. The San Diego Union Tribune confirmed Enberg’s death...
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2018 World Cup chief Mutko quits; still involved in planning
MOSCOW Vitaly Mutko bowed to mounting pressure and stepped down as chairman of the 2018 World Cup organizing committee on Wednesday after being dogged by investigations that highlighted his role in a state-backed doping program. Alexei Sorokin, the chief executive of the committee, will also assume...
Premier League: Liverpool crush Swansea 5-0 as Roberto Firmino strikes twice
Roberto Firmino scored twice as Liverpool eased to a 5-0 win over bottom club Swansea City on Tuesday to remain fourth in the Premier League table....
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Bosnia's 'Mistress of Life and Death' Sentenced To 14 Years For War Crimes
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Excessive Video Gaming Will be Recognized As Official Disorder By WHO
Excessive Video Gaming Will be Recognized As Official Disorder By WHO
The World Health Organization is prepared to classify "gaming disorder" as a mental health problem for its upcoming 2018 update to the International Classification of Diseases, according to CBS News. "How serious is the...
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Bosnia's 'Mistress of Life and Death' Sentenced To 14 Years For War Crimes
Bosnia's 'Mistress of Life and Death' Sentenced To 14 Years For War Crimes
The female former Croat soldier Azra Basic, now 58, was convicted on Wednesday for torturing ethnic Serbs in 1992 and was sentenced to 14 years in jail after previously being extradited from the United States last year...
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US Coalition: Less Than 1,000 Islamic State Fighters Remain in Iraq, Syria
US Coalition: Less Than 1,000 Islamic State Fighters Remain in Iraq, Syria
The United States-led international coalition fighting against the Islamic State said that there were fewer than 1,000 remaining in Iraq and Syria for the hardline Sunni militant group, a third less than the estimated...
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Man Behind Horse Manure Delivery To Mnuchin Says It Was a Protest Against GOP Tax Bill
Man Behind Horse Manure Delivery To Mnuchin Says It Was a Protest Against GOP Tax Bill
The psychologist claiming to be behind delivering a gift-wrapped Christmas parcel that was full of horse manure to the Los Angeles home of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that his actions were a political...
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IRS Says Taxpayers Can Deduct Prepaid Property Levy Only If They've Already Been Billed
IRS Says Taxpayers Can Deduct Prepaid Property Levy Only If They've Already Been Billed
Many Americans have rushed to prepay their 2018 property taxes and save on their federal taxes, hoping to take advantage of a tax deduction that will be scaled back in the new tax law passed by Republicans last week, The...
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Trump Legal Team Reportedly Considering Casting Michael Flynn As 'Liar': Report
Trump Legal Team Reportedly Considering Casting Michael Flynn As 'Liar': Report
Sources tell the Washington Post lawyers representing U.S. President Donald Trump plan to cast former national security adviser Michael Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior...
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Kiev, Pro-Russia Separatists Exchange Hundreds of Prisoners in Ukraine
Kiev, Pro-Russia Separatists Exchange Hundreds of Prisoners in Ukraine
Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatist rebels fighting in Eastern Ukraine were able to carry out the largest exchange of prisoners on Wednesday since the conflict first broke out in 2014, according to Reuters. Hundreds...
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Children Increasingly Used As Weapons Of Warfare, Unicef Says
Children Increasingly Used As Weapons Of Warfare, Unicef Says
Children caught in war zones are increasingly being used as weapons of war – recruited to fight, forced to act as suicide bombers, and used as human shields –...
Bomb Scare In Seattle Turns Out To Be Misplaced Fruitcake
Bomb Scare In Seattle Turns Out To Be Misplaced Fruitcake
The Washington State Ferries' Colman Dock terminal was evacuated on Tuesday and shut down for almost an hour on Tuesday after someone mistakenly left a...
Greek Urban Guerrilla Group Claims Responsibility For Courthouse Blast
Greek Urban Guerrilla Group Claims Responsibility For Courthouse Blast
A Greek urban guerrilla group claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a blast at an Athens courthouse on Dec. 22, accusing the judiciary of acting as a proxy...
Puerto Rican Police Officers Calling In Sick To Protest Unpaid Overtime After Hurricane
Puerto Rican Police Officers Calling In Sick To Protest Unpaid Overtime After Hurricane
Thousands of police officers are calling in sick every day in Puerto Rico, partly to press demands for unpaid overtime pay for hurricane recovery efforts as...
Chess Tournament In Saudi Arabia Draws Fire From Israeli, Female Players
Chess Tournament In Saudi Arabia Draws Fire From Israeli, Female Players
The World Chess Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have become the focus of debates this week on Israeli-Saudi relations and women's rights in the country,...
'Homemade Explosive' Injures At Least 10 At Russian Supermarket
'Homemade Explosive' Injures At Least 10 At Russian Supermarket
A homemade bomb blast at a supermarket in the Russian city of Saint Petersburginjured 10 people Wednesday, officials said, sparking a probe into attempted...
Trump will fail against Iran like 'more powerful and smarter' Reagan: Ayatollah Khamenei
Trump will fail against Iran like 'more powerful and smarter' Reagan: Ayatollah Khamenei
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump would fail in his hardened stance towards Iran, saying Tehran was...
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Opioid, public safety, health, compassion, common good
Opioid, public safety, health, compassion, common good
2017 was the worst. This should be a shocking opening line and yet, somehow, it has become...
Trump stigmatizes Haitians with AIDS comment
Trump stigmatizes Haitians with AIDS comment
The forced emigration of almost 60,000 Haitians triggered by the termination of temporary protected...
Penang is not the only state reclaiming land
Penang is not the only state reclaiming land
LETTER | Wan Junaidi says reclamation bad for the environment, is this not also true of Johor and...
2017 launched our addiction to outrage
2017 launched our addiction to outrage
Our distant cousins will ask: “What were they so angry about?” and “Did they ever dance?” ......
