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Elon Musk threatens to break up with Trump over Paris climate deal
Tesla CEO Elon Musk today threatened to leave Donald Trump’s advisory council if the administration withdraws from the ...
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PornHub penetrates political discourse with banned corruption documentary
After courts ordered a filmmaker to delete a documentary detailing corruption in the Russian government, he did what anyone would do: uploaded it to PornHub instead. The documentary film, "He Is Not Dimon to You," sparked controversy in Russian after alleging its subject, Prime ...
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Europe will grace over 8000 towns and villages with free public Wi-Fi
Free wireless for all: The European Commission has reached political agreement to launch internet hotspots in public spaces ...
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Nearly half of Trump's Twitter followers are fake. SAD!
President Trump has a thing for Twitter. After using the platform to gain a massive following of so-called 'deplorables,' ...
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Rumors spread on WhatsApp lead to mob violence and death in India
Mobs in the Indian state of Jharkhand killed seven people in two violent attacks, apparently spurred into action by rumors circulating on WhatsApp. A rumor that spread last week via the popular messaging app said strangers were abducting children. Mobs of over 500 people descended ...
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Sweden lists all of its free public spaces on Airbnb
Sweden has listed its public parks and beaches on Airbnb to promote its national policy on free-roaming. In a collaboration with VisitSweden, the country's official tourism site, Airbnb has listed "the entire country" on a separate portion of its site, "to make this home available ...
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Foursquare data suggests tourism to US is plummeting
Foursquare today released data suggesting international tourism numbers to the United States are in freefall. The data comes from 13 million of Foursquare's users, spread out over 150 countries, and charts travel patterns from July 2016 through March 2017. According to the charts ...
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Start-ups can help Africa meet its energy needs. But they need to be encouraged
Energy access remains a huge problem for most people living on the African continent. More than 600 million out of a population of about 1.3 billion people in sub-Saharan Africa don’t have reliable electricity access. Although sub-Saharan Africa has about 13% of the world’s ...
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Using AI and drones to combat elephant and rhino poaching
A new collaboration project between Neurala and the Lindbergh Foundation's AirShepherd program has been announced and it ...
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How Europe’s biggest economy is uniting its tech hubs to dethrone Silicon Valley
TNW contacted Germany's Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy to find out how the European superpower plans to stimulate ...
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Sweden's Twitter account blocked and unblocked 14,000 people
The official Twitter account of Sweden was at the center of controversy after the person using it blocked 14k people en masse. Sweden ...
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France fines Facebook 0.002% of revenue for breaking privacy law
Facebook has been fined €150,000 by a European data protection watchdog for not protecting private information from advertisers. The ...
