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• JetBlue Airways announces flights to London from New York, Boston: 5 things to know

  10-04-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The airline plans to begin service between New York and Boston and London in 2021. Several airlines already offer flights on the route.
  
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• Lyft shares hit new low as Uber IPO chatter revs up

  10-04-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Shares of recently listed Lyft Inc fell to a fresh low and closed the day down almost 11 percent on Wednesday on news that rival Uber Technologies Inc was close to filing its own initial public offering.In ride-hailing company Lyft's ninth day of trading its shares clocked their lowest closing price since going public on March 29.Reuters reported late Tuesday that rival Uber would seek to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in an IPO, and file the offering with regulators as soon as Thursday.
  
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• What We Want in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

  10-04-2019 23:42
  Since its bizarre reveal at E3 2018, we’ve heard very little about Respawn’s upcoming Jedi: Fallen Order - until earlier this week. We know we’ll be getting more details this weekend at Star Wars Celebration, but in the meantime, it’s got us here at IGN thinking about what we’d like to see out of the next game set in the Star Wars universe.
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• What's actually going on in that cryptic black hole photo?

  10-04-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  "We have now seen the unseeable."These were the words spoken by astrophysicist Avery Broderick on Wednesday morning, one of some 200 scientists of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration who captured humanity's first image of a black hole -- a zone in space so gravitationally powerful that whatever light falls in can't possibly escape. "Black holes are gravity run amok," said Broderick.Yet, we now have a picture of "the unseeable."More precisely, we can see a prominent ring of super-heated gas
  
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• Yahoo to pay $117.5M in latest settlement of massive breach

  10-04-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly 200 million people who had sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts will receive two years of free credit-monitoring services and other potential restitution in a legal settlement valued at $117.5 million.
  
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• Trump news: President admits he has not even read Mueller report, as key aide branded a 'scumbag'

  10-04-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has told reporters he had not seen or read a report produced by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Speaking on the White House lawn before departing for a trip to Texas, the president told media “I won” while claiming he did not care to read the conclusion from the special counsel’s findings. His comments arrived as Attorney General William Barr arrived on Capitol Hill for another day of testimony in
  
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• Barr Sounds More and More Like Trump’s Roy Cohn

  10-04-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/ShutterstockAttorney General William Barr’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday highlighted the inherent contradiction in his letter about Robert Mueller’s investigation. The problem is not that Mueller did not make a charging decision about obstruction. The real problem is that Mueller did make a charging decision about conspiracy.Barr was asked questions about Mueller’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia rel
  
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• Owe the IRS? Here Are Your Options.

  10-04-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s never good news to find out you owe taxes to Uncle Sam. It’s even worse to find out you can’t afford to make the payment. Tax experts say that the most important thing to do if you owe the I...
  
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• Ford Recalls Trucks Over Faulty Engine Block Heater

  10-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford Recalls Trucks Again Over Faulty Engine-Block HeaterFord is recalling more than 130,000 pickup trucks to repair components that could have been broken as the result of another recent recal...
  
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• Sanders unveils 'Medicare For All' bill backed by 2020 rivals

  10-04-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  US Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled his updated "Medicare for all" plan Wednesday with several rival Democratic presidential hopefuls jumping onboard, spotlighting his 2020 campaign call for a national health insurance program."The American people want -- and we are going to deliver -- a Medicare for all, single-payer system," Sanders said at a Capitol Hill press conference."Together we are going to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America, our great country, being the
  
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• Sanders relaunches 'Medicare for All' with Dems divided

  10-04-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a revamped "Medicare for All" plan on Wednesday, highlighting a divide among Democrats over one of their bedrock 2020 campaign issues — the future of health care in America.
  
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• States pushing near-bans on abortion, targeting Roe v. Wade

  10-04-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Emboldened by the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, anti-abortion lawmakers and activists in numerous states are pushing near-total bans on the procedure in a deliberate frontal attack on Roe v. Wade.
  
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• Netanyahu win gives US peace plan 'better chance:' Trump

  10-04-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election victory improved the chances of a forthcoming US peace plan, despite deep skepticism from the Palestinians.Trump, who had enthusiastically backed the right-wing premier's bid for a fifth mandate, said that he telephoned Netanyahu to offer congratulations as results gave Netanyahu a narrow parliamentary majority."The fact that Bibi won, I think we'll see some pretty good action in terms of peace," Trum
  
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• Pennsylvania lawmakers honor victims of synagogue massacre

  10-04-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers solemnly remembered Wednesday the 11 worshippers killed in an anti-Semitic attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue last fall, expressing horror at what one speaker called "unimaginable evil," and two rabbis recited prayers in English and Hebrew.
  
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• Republicans falsely claim Ilhan Omar denied 9/11 attackers were terrorists

  10-04-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  US representative Dan Crenshaw fuels wave of abuse picked up by GOP chair and Fox News hostIlhan Omar called the attacks against her ‘dangerous incitement’. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA Republican congressman has spread false allegations that the US representative Ilhan Omar denied the September 11 hijackers were terrorists, as part of a new wave of abuse directed at her by some conservatives.Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas shared a tweet falsely reporting that Oma
  
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• April's Inside Xbox to Tease Microsoft's E3 Plans

  10-04-2019 21:35
  Inside Xbox, Microsoft's monthly Xbox livestream showcase, returns next week with a look at what the gaming giant has planned for E3 2019.
  Additionally, Gears 5 developer The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson will be on-hand with some details that could be concerning Gears 5 or Gears Tactics, but will likely be related to the Gears Pro Circuit.
  The one-hour episode will stream live on Tuesday, April 16, at 2pm Pacific with new details on the Sea of Thieves anniversary, which is turning Rare's
  
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• Barr says U.S. intel spied on Trump's 2016 campaign, Democrats push back

  10-04-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr, who was appointed by Trump, is already facing criticism by congressional Democrats for how he has handled the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into the Russia probe and his comments about surveillance brought more derision from Democratic senators.Earlier on Wednesday, Trump levied a harsh attack on the launch of the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which he described as "an attempted coup" and treason.
  
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• Amid DHS Chaos, Ron Johnson Pleads for Honest, Policy-Focused Immigration Debate

  10-04-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  With Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s departure from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week, the future of the Trump administration’s immigration policy has been thrown into uncertainty, even as the situation at the southern border becomes increasingly unstable.According to a New York Times report, Nielsen’s relationship with the president worsened in recent months as he repeatedly blamed her for the ongoing surge in apprehensions at the border. The breaking point appa
  
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• Bernie Sanders's Bold Health Plan Puts Democrats in a Bind

  10-04-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders, an early front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, had initially called for phasing out America’s employer-based insurance system in favor of universal government coverage that’s free for patients (that is, outside of the higher taxes they’d pay to finance it).
  
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• Mnuchin Says He Didn’t Recommend ‘Wrong Person’ in Fed’s Powell

  10-04-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was right to recommend Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman despite President Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of the central bank leader.“I don’t feel like I picked the wrong person,” Mnuchin said Wednesday in an interview on CNBC.The Fed’s interest rate increases in 2018 outraged the president, who went so far as to discuss firing Powell with his advisers late in the year.
  
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• Worst day of fighting as rebel army advances on Tripoli

  10-04-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Fighting in Tripoli intensified drastically on Wednesday as rival armies brought tanks and multiple rocket-launch systems to bear in the deadly struggle for control of the Libyan capital. The escalation came as Fayez al-Sarraj, the prime minister of the internationally recognised Government of National Accord, issued an address to the nation urging Libyans to defend the capital city from renegade general Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army.  In an address distribute
  
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• The 2019 Audi TT RS Gets Some New Colors and Air Scoops, Starts at $67,895

  10-04-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Minor exterior and interior updates for the world's only five-cylinder sports car in production.
  
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• Sudanese woman who became symbol of revolution says women at heart of protest

  10-04-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Sudanese woman who became an emblem of the uprising against the rule of Omar Bashir has said women are likely to play the decisive role in the outcome of the country's protest movement.  Alaa Saleh, a 22 year old architecture student, shot to fame when she was photographed standing on a car in a long white dress and addressing a vast crowd of demonstrators earlier this week.  "Sudanese women have always participated in revolutions in this country. If you see Sudan's history, all ou
  
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• Fox News Hosts Back Mnuchin in His Testy Exchange With Maxine Waters

  10-04-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin engaged in a tense and fiery exchange with House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Fox News hosts Pete Hegseth and Katie Pavlich wholeheartedly backed the Trump cabinet official and called for a law limiting the length of congressional hearings.During a Monday committee hearing in which he was grilled over Democrats’ demand for President Trump’s tax returns, Mnuchin bickered with Waters over time constraints, c
  
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• US government 'spied' on Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, attorney general says

  10-04-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign was spied on by the US government, the country’s attorney general said on Wednesday, as he vowed to investigate whether rules were broken in the process.  William Barr, who took up the job in February, said he would look at how the FBI and US intelligence agencies set up the Trump-Russia probe before the 2016 presidential election.  “Spying did occur”, Mr Barr said during a hearing on Capitol Hill, noting at a
  
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• Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu headed for record 5th term as Benny Gantz concedes

  10-04-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a record fifth term after a neck-and-neck finish in parliamentary elections.
  
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• Factbox: The F-35 - stealthy, numerous and expensive

  10-04-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  By Gerry Doyle (Reuters) - The F-35 Lightning II that crashed on Tuesday was one of a growing global fleet of advanced 'stealth' aircraft sold to U.S. allies, and the first to be assembled in Japan. There are already about twice as many copies of the F-35 flying as there are of its older brethren, the F-22 Raptor, and many times more than non-Western competitors such as the Russian Su-57 and China's J-31 and J-20. The plane is designed to be fast, but not the fastest; nimble, but not the most ni
  
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• Netanyahu Remains Israel’s Indispensable Man

  10-04-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Can a national leader win re-election despite voter fatigue with his long tenure and with corruption indictments hanging over him? The answer for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Tuesday’s election was a resounding yes. The reasons for this have as much to do with a sea change in Israeli politics that has transformed the country in the last 20 years as they do with Netanyahu’s accomplishments in office.But his problem is that, although he is the beneficiary of a strong
  
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• Barr backs off explosive claim about FBI 'spying' on Trump campaign

  10-04-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. attorney general briefly touched off a firestorm during a hearing on Capitol Hill, saying he believes “spying did occur” in the federal investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu begins forming coalition as US hails prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace

  10-04-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday began negotiations to form a new Right-wing coalition after seeing off a centrist challenger in a close election and securing a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister.  Mr Netanyahu’s Likud party won the same number of seats as Blue & White, a centrist coalition led by former general Benny Gantz, but the victory of other Right-wing parties gave the prime minister a clear path to a majority government.  “I already began talks with the le
  
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• SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket poised for first commercial launch

  10-04-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket is poised for its first commercial space launch Wednesday, carrying a Saudi satellite operated by Arabsat, a year after sending founder Elon Musk's red Tesla roadster into orbit as a test.The Falcon Heavy is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space center in Florida at 6:36 pm (2236 GMT) and place the six-ton Arabsat-6A satellite into geostationary orbit some 22,500 miles (36,000 kilometers) above the Earth.SpaceX has two operational rockets: the Falcon 9, which
  
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• Donald Trump's liking for 'acting' senior officials alarms experts and allies

  10-04-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  * 15 leadership posts unfilled, including defense and interior * Congress bypassed but ‘It gives me more flexibility’ – TrumpDonald Trump speaks in Calexico, California, while the then homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, watches flanked by her acting successor, Kevin McAleenan. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/ReutersDonald Trump has surrounded himself with an increasing number of temporary officials in his cabinet, raising fresh concerns over the president’s influen
  
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• Need a new Wi-Fi router for your apartment? This one’s only $19.99

  10-04-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  If you live in a massive house, investing a few hundred dollars in a high-end home Wi-Fi system is a must. But if you live in an apartment, mesh systems are definitely a waste of money. You can enjoy great coverage and fast Wi-Fi speeds at the fraction of the cost of a mesh solution. In fact, the TP-Link TL-WR841N Wireless Router is on sale right now on Amazon for only $19.99!Here's more info from the product page:* Wireless N speed up to 300Mbps ideal applications for video streaming, online ga
  
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• Ilhan Omar Calls Out Fox News and GOP for ‘Dangerous Incitement’ Over Her 9/11 Comments

  10-04-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstRep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday called the conservative attacks lobbed against her “dangerous incitement” after Republicans and Fox News insinuated she was downplaying the 9/11 terror attack.Omar, a Democrat and Somali-American from Minnesota, is under fire by the right for comments she made last month. At a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles, Omar said, in part, that “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recogn
  
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• American Airlines flight attendant 'mortified' after spilling drinks on the airline's CEO

  10-04-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  An American Airlines flight attendant accidentally spilled drinks on a passenger − and that passenger turned out to be American CEO Doug Parker.
  
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• New York Is Trying to Release Trump's State Tax Returns. Here's Why That Might Not Work

  10-04-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  "It’s just not as useful as I think people are hoping"
  
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• Indian election authorities stop release of Modi's fawning Bollywood biopic as polls open

  10-04-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  India’s Election Commission has prohibited the release of a Bollywood biopic on Narendra Modi, the prime minister, a day before its scheduled release, claiming it would tip the balance of the general elections in his favour.   The Commission, which oversees India’s parliamentary and provincial elections, on Wednesday ruled that releasing PM Narendra Modi would give an “unfair advantage” to Mr Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that
  
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• Hezbollah warns U.S. over sanctions against Iran and allies

  10-04-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's Hezbollah raised the prospect of retaliation by Iran and its allies over U.S. sanctions, saying on Wednesday that all options were on the table were Washington to take steps that "threaten our nation".Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the heavily armed Iranian-backed Shi'ite group, said the United States' move this week to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization reflected a failure of U.S. policy in the Middle East.Iran and its allies, which include Hezbollah
  
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• Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre honored in Capitol

  10-04-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Offering prayers and making speeches, Pennsylvania lawmakers came together in an unusual joint session Wednesday to commemorate the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 people last year.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu ‘the Magician’ Is Re-Elected Israel’s Prime Minister—but at What Price?

  10-04-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Sebastian Scheiner/GettyTEL AVIV–At exactly 2:00 a.m. in the deep dark before dawn on Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu finally strode on stage at a half-filled sports arena outside Tel Aviv and the crowd of supporters erupted in raucous cheers. “He’s a magician! He’s a magician! He’s a magician!” they chanted. The Israeli premier had done it again–securing a fourth straight term as prime minister (and fifth overall dating back to the 1990s), overcoming thre
  
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• Twitter CEO reveals secret to running two companies: daily meditation and eating just one meal a day

  10-04-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey has revealed he takes daily ice baths and eats only one meal a day in an in-depth interview about his extreme fitness routine. Appearing on a fitness podcast, the billionaire said the "biggest impact" on his mental health has been meditation but said he also does weekend-long fasts to give him the focus and energy to run two companies.  The 42-year-old has been meditating for 20 years and spends an hour each morning and evening on the spiritual practice
  
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• Ubisoft CEO Says Longer Game Lifespans Isn’t Just About Making Money

  10-04-2019 18:00
  These days, more and more big budget games are turning into what’s called “games-as-a-service,” lengthening their lifespans and introducing new content on a regular basis in order to keep players enticed for more than just its first week. Think Destiny, Fortnite, and now Ubisoft’s The Division 2. While the growth of games-as-a-service hasn’t always been a favorite trend among gaming audiences, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot thinks it’s about way more than dollar s
  
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• Bodies Found in Dominican Republic Believed to be Missing NY Couple, Police Say

  10-04-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Dominican Republic authorities believe two unidentified bodies are those of a missing New York couple, according to National Police.
  
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• US attorney general: FBI 'spied' on Trump campaign

  10-04-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The US attorney general told Congress Wednesday he believes the FBI spied on President Donald Trump's election campaign and said he is opening an investigation into whether it was justified.Amid fresh charges by Trump that he was the target of an "attempted coup," Bill Barr told lawmakers the FBI may have gone too far in opening a counterintelligence probe into Trump's 2016 operation."Spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr told the Senate Appropriations Committee.
  
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• Ford Again Recalls F-150 and Super Duty Pickup Trucks for Second Repair over Engine-Block Fire Risk

  10-04-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The new recall will bring back more than 130,000 U.S.-market trucks for another fix; more than 400,000 pickups in the U.S. alone have been affected by the recall.
  
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• Pentagon Admits Plan to Launch 1,300 Satellites Might Not Prevent Chinese or Russian Attacks

  10-04-2019 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyA new Pentagon space agency wants to launch nearly 1,300 small satellites and, in the process, totally reinvent the way the military operates in orbit.The goal: to help the U.S. satellite constellation survive a sneak-attack by China or Russia. With hundreds of satellites in orbit, no single satellite is critically important, or so the thinking goes. If the Chinese or Russians were to knock out one or even dozens of satellites, scores mor
  
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• AG William Barr: ‘I Think Spying Did Occur’ on Trump Campaign

  10-04-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Andrew Harrer/GettyAttorney General William Barr believes the Obama administration spied on the Trump 2016 campaign. The comment came after reports that Barr will create an internal Department of Justice team to investigate “controversial counterintelligence decisions” made by the DOJ and the FBI in the Russia probe, including those made by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) questioned Barr on his decision to convene such a team. “News just b
  
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• Samsung’s Galaxy A80 has one of the wildest all-screen designs we’ve ever seen

  10-04-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  After the initial wave of iPhone X copycats, Android smartphone makers realized there are other ways to make all-screen phones without replicating the notch. Chinese companies came up with smartphone designs that featured a slide-out selfie camera or a sliding rear panel that allowed them to remove the camera from the top bezels. Others added an extra display that served the same purpose, with the second screen to be used in selfie mode.Samsung stayed out of the notch race and avoided slider pho
  
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• Company veterans promoted to set a course for the future of Ford

  10-04-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Hinrichs and Jim Farley will lead the automotive and strategic units.
  
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• Samsung announces Galaxy A80 with sliding and rotating camera

  10-04-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Samsung has unveiled the mid-range Galaxy A80 whose shining feature is a slide-up camera mechanism that can also rotate the set of three lenses to the front of the device.When a user activates selfie mode within the native camera app, the three rear cameras slide up via a mechanism similar to Oppo's Find X and then rotate towards the front.The 48MP main camera has been optimized to capture vivid pictures both in bright and dark settings.
  
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