Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A Cray supercomputer is used by the Met Office for weather forecasting. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Cray Inc, maker of some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Cray Inc’s machines are capable of processing trillions of calculations per second and have been used by the UK’s […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has intervened in an ongoing row over a new church in Yekaterinburg. He said the Russian Orthodox Church “should unite people, not divide them”, and called for the plans to build a church in a park to be put to a poll. His intervention follows four days of protests by thousands
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The world has a newly named country, North Macedonia. And that is good news for regional relations and travelers, who are visiting the southeastern corner of Europe in growing numbers. In February, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” — as the United Nations referred to the Balkan country during its admittance in 1993 — officially
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BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including; President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to protect US computer networks from “foreign adversaries” WhatsApp has confirmed that a security flaw in the app let attackers install spy software on their targets’ smartphones Nasa has announced plans to send
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The Latest on the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black on Friday (all times local): 12:15 p.m. One day after besting Bethpage Black, Danny Lee saw the beast the course can be. The New Zealander was alone in second place, one stroke behind defending champion Brooks Koepka, after a 64 on Thursday. He finished that round
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The announcement Friday said that an investigation by the Department of Commerce had found that imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts threatened to impair the national security of the United States. “United States defense and military superiority depend on the competitiveness of our automobile industry and the research and development that industry generates,” the
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That is below the rate at which a generation can replace itself, a deficit that has occurred every year for the last 10 years and has become almost expected in the United States since 1971. The report calculated the replacement level as 2,100 births per 1,000 women. The long-term decline in both the birth and
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Democrats pushed legislation buttressing the 2010 health care law and curbing prescription drug prices through the House Thursday, advancing a bill that has no chance of surviving in the Senate or getting President Donald Trump’s signature and seemed engineered with next year’s elections in mind. The measure forced Republicans into the uncomfortable political position of
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Image caption SuRie – full name Susanna Marie Cork – finished 24th last year On Saturday night, acts from 26 different countries will take to the stage in Tel Aviv for the final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. One of them will be 21-year-old Michael Rice, who will be flying the flag for the
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Image copyright Getty Images The pound has sunk to a four-month low against the dollar after cross-party Brexit talks between the Conservatives and Labour collapsed. By midday, the pound was 0.33% lower against the dollar at $1.2756 and on track for its worst week in a year. The pound is 1.85% lower this week, its
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