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[ad_1] Enlarge / The Snapdragon 888, housed in the world’s largest ARM motherboard. Google and Qualcomm have teamed up to allow a longer support window for flagship Android smartphones. Qualcomm, with the help of Google, will now support its chipsets for three years of major operating system updates and four …

[ad_1] A capsule from the Chinese lunar spacecraft has returned to Earth with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the Moon in more than 40 years. The newly collected rocks are believed to be billions of years younger than previously obtained by the US and the former …

[ad_1] Apple is in talks to acquire the rights to two animated films from Skydance Animation, which is directed by John Lasseter, reports Variety. Lasseter is the former creative director of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, but has been with Skydance Animation since 2019. Before joining Skydance Animation, Lasseter …

[ad_1] Issued on: 12/16/2020 – 23:12Modified: 12/16/2020 – 23:10 United Nations (United States) (AFP) Humanitarian convoys have started arriving in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, a United Nations spokesman said on Wednesday, after the area was cut off in early November by a government military offensive. Fighting has raged since Prime …

[ad_1] Twitter announced Wednesday that it will remove tweets that make false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines. Any tweet that claims that vaccines “intentionally harm control populations” or invoke conspiracy theories will be subject to removal, according to the Twitter blog post. Tweets that falsely suggest that COVID-19 does …

[ad_1] Rebecca Haile, Co-Founder and CEO of the U.S.-based nonprofit Ethiopia Education Initiatives, Inc., has been elected Chairperson of the Board of Directors of EMILY’s List, one of the largest women’s associations in the United States. (Photo: Rebecca Haile speaking at the opening ceremony and luncheon of the Haile-Manas Academy …

[ad_1] The value of bitcoin, the world’s best-known cryptocurrency, has reached an all-time high of more than $ 20,000. The cryptocurrency surged by more than 6% to hit $ 20,632 (£ 15,283) against the US dollar, extending a winning streak this year amid growing interest among large investment companies attracted …

[ad_1] ANKARA Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday accused Saudi authorities of holding hundreds of migrants in inhumane conditions amid no proceedings to protect them from the coronavirus pandemic. According to a report released by the US-based HRW, the migrants were held in small overcrowded rooms for long periods of …

[ad_1] This story was co-reported by a journalist in Addis Ababa whose name is withheld for security reasons. The fighting between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) came as no surprise to the Tigrayans living in Addis Ababa – they had seen it coming for …

[ad_1] An electron micrograph of the measles virus. Credit: CDC / Courtesy of Cynthia S. Goldsmith While the world witnessed impressive progress in vaccinating children against measles between 2000 and 2010, in the past 10 years these efforts have stalled in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new scientific …