BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Co-founder and chief executive of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has his own account on the service briefly hacked A British inventor delivers a letter from the UK mainland to the Isle of Wight using a jet-powered suit Conductor and programmer Sam Battle […]
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To open its celebration of its 100th season, the NFL got a throwback to, well, the 1920s. You know, one of those knock-down, dragged-out defensive confrontations that ends up 10-3. That’s the score the Green Bay Packers beat the Chicago Bears by on Thursday night. And while it was ugly on offense, likely in great
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Howard Schultz, the former chief executive of Starbucks who took steps earlier this year to prepare to run for president as an independent, announced Friday that he was abandoning those plans. In a letter to supporters, Mr. Schultz said he had concluded that an independent bid would pose too great a risk of helping President
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But consumers should take care to avoid fraudulent contractors who prey on disaster victims. Legitimate contractors will not demand cash upfront, the office of Florida’s chief financial officer warned in a Hurricane Dorian advisory. The office also alerted consumers to beware of impostors who claim to be representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and
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Idris Elba is familiar with the chaos, joy and laughter that infuse life with kids. The “Wire” actor has a daughter, Isan, and son, Winston. Over the years, he’s shared snippets of his life as a dad, from his parenting style to his kids’ taste in music. In honor of his Sept. 6 birthday, here
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The northern Afghan city of Kunduz is not the kind of place you’d expect to find a radio station run by women, promoting women’s rights. But this is precisely what Radio Roshani is, and it’s broadcasting today despite several attempts by the Taliban to kill its founder and editor, Sediqa Sherzai. Radio Roshani broadcasts to
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Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled its latest advanced chipset Friday ahead of the upcoming launch of its latest flagship smartphone, even as uncertainty hangs over whether the device can use Google’s Android. Huawei’s consumer business CEO, Richard Yu, showed off the Kirin 990 chipset at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin on Friday. Optimized
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The basketball World Cup has turned into a championship of Europe and the Americas — with Australia thrown in from the Oceania region. Of the original 32-team field, the largest ever in a World Cup, not a single team from Asia or Africa advanced to the 16-team second round. They all landed in the consolation
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One voter told Prime Minister Boris Johnson “please leave my town” while another said “you should be in Brussels” during a walkabout in Morley in Leeds. But other people he met backed Mr Johnson’s plan to leave the European Union on 31 October. During the visit to West Yorkshire, the prime minister also gave a
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BEIJING — Beijing has called on banks to open the lending spigots as China’s trade war with the United States rages and its economic slowdown shows little sign of abating. The People’s Bank of China on Friday lowered the amount of cash that Chinese banks are required to hold in their coffers, freeing up $126
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