Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Source: Reuters; Call President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order ordering U.S. companies to stop doing business with popular Chinese apps TikTok, owned by ByteDance, and WeChat, owned by Tencent. This comes after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier in the week …
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With a newly released contract extension in the back, an inspired Valtteri Bottas got the bit between his teeth to beat Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton to pole position as super-sub Nico Hulkenberg took a remarkable third for the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone. The Finn set the pace in …
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WASHINGTON – If he were still running casinos in the rough and tumble Atlantic City, NJ, President Trump’s question about Microsoft’s possible acquisition of TikTok would be translated this way: I want a piece of the action. In exchange for blessing Microsoft’s purchase of the Chinese-owned social media platform, Mr. …
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Former Health Minister Jair Bolsonaro has accused the Brazilian president of not offering “one word of comfort” to the families of the 100,000 Brazilians who lost their lives to Covid-19. In an interview, the latest Covid-19 milestone from Brazil, utter Luiz Henrique Mandetta – who was fired in April after …
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A giant wave of toxic gas has been detected by Venus in an event never seen before in the solar system. The planet-wide cloud travels at 200 mph through the upper atmosphere of Venus and was hidden for 35 years. Described as an ‘atmospheric disturbance’ by the international team that …
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