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In a clear critique of the state of press freedom around the world, Time magazine has named “the Guardians” — a group of killed, imprisoned, or targeted journalists — as its 2018 Person of the Year. According to Time, the…
Another week, another host of privacy concerns that somehow sound both utterly horrifying and totally obvious. Amazon announced Monday that its voice assistant Alexa can now be set up to perform location-based tasks: reminding you to do certain things when…
There are plenty of reasons to be worried about Google — its plans to launch a search engine in China, its use of mobile location data, allegations of anticompetitive practices it undertakes. At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday,…
Pity the television critics. Every year, everything changes. One year you’ve got discs, then streaming, then apps on your phone, then, probably, next year, chips behind our ears. Honestly, I shouldn’t complain, but it’s been a headache to keep up…
Shaktikanta Das, a former finance ministry official, will take charge as the next governor of the Indian Reserve Bank for the next three years. The Indian government has chosen Shaktikanta Das, the man who implemented the much-debated demonetization process in 2016,…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Companies that work in Russia’s energy pipeline sector are risking US sanctions, and Washington is considering possible actions against the Nord Stream-2 project, Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Francis Fannon told reporters on Tuesday. “The…
