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(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos sold shares worth $3.1 billion in the e-commerce company in recent days, regulatory filings showed on Wednesday. The stock sale comes at a time when the company’s shares have surged more than 73% this year. During the first two working days of August, Bezos sold 1 million shares as part […]
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Bundesliga top scorer Robert Lewandowski has agreed to invest in a Polish company set up to produce sports-related video games, whose popularity has grown during the coronavirus lockdown. Low labour costs, a young educated workforce and a gaming tradition rooted in the Communist era had helped to make Poland a leading video game exporter even before lockdown […]
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A new fossil discovery shows how ancient ‘hell ants’ hunted with metal headgear and vertically-grasping pincers. The 99-million-year-old amber fossil has pristinely preserved the hellish predator as it embraced its unsuspecting final victim, an ancient relative of the cockroach. The ancient encounter recovered from Myanmar, offers a detailed glimpse at how the prehistoric hell ants once used their killer features […]
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Thousands of BT customers across the UK have been left unable to send or receive emails due to a colossal outage. The issue, which appears to only impact BT Mail at the moment – phonelines and broadband connections seem to be working as expected, also means BT users are unable to login to their account. The latest issue impacts customers […]
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(Reuters) – Advanced driver assistance technology that automates steering and braking in a growing number of vehicles is not providing reliable safety benefits, a new study by the American Automobile Association showed on Thursday. Researchers at AAA, a federation of North American motor clubs, found that the systems recorded disruptions and disengaged roughly every eight miles, encountering situations they were […]
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Sezzle Inc is testing its buy-now-pay-later service in India for a potential launch at the end of the year, its chief executive officer said, capitalising on rapid global growth in online shopping as competition intensifies in the sector. Moving into India would mark an ambitious plan for the firm as the second-most populous country gravitates more toward […]
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Apple is reportedly exploring how it can make its iPhone more unique, as a patent has been filed that looks into developing a convex display. As reported by Apple Insider, the patent was granted on August 4 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is titled “Electronic devices with convex displays.” The patent suggests that the screen would be […]
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Popular short-video app TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, said on Thursday it plans to open its first European data centre in Ireland with an investment of about 420 million euros ($499 million). Under fire from U.S. President Donald Trump over national security risks, TikTok is in talks with Microsoft about selling its U.S. operations. Trump said he […]
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(Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Wednesday took down a post by U.S. President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus. The post contained a video clip, from an interview with Fox & Friends earlier in the day, in which Trump claimed that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19. “This video includes […]
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd on Thursday reported a 428% jump in first-quarter profit, driven by ongoing demand for the Switch console and hit title Animal Crossing: New Horizons as the coronavirus outbreak boosts the games industry. Operating profit for April-June was 144.7 billion yen ($1.37 billion). That compared with an average estimate of 71 billion yen from […]
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