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Photo: Cliff Owen (AP) Jeff Bezos, the richest man in modern history, finally announced the first recipients of his charitable Day One Fund. The initial round of grants total $97.5 million, representing about 1/20th of his proposed investment in the fund, and about 0.0006 percent of his net worth. The Day One Fund, named after…

The team of photo service Instagram unveiled a new community guidelines and use. Now artificial likes, subscriptions and comments from accounts that use third party cheats, will be removed as violating the rules of Instagram. According to the developers, they created the tools of moderation with the system of machine learning that will help to…

In the network appeared new details about the upcoming release of the flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S10 Galaxy F and folding with a flexible display, which had not yet been officially presented by the manufacturer. Information shared relevant resource SamMobile. According to the source, now you can confirm the color options Galaxy S10 and some…

In the network appeared information about the plans of Microsoft to release the next new version of Xbox One without optical drive Blu-Ray. This was reported resource Thurrott, which is Thurrott Paul (Paul Thurrott), a well-known techno-journalist specializing in Microsoft products, citing sources “familiar with the plans of the company.” We are not talking about…

Team social network Vkontakte has launched a new opportunity. Users will now be able to download the data of your profile. This was reported by Andrey Rogozov, managing Director of Vkontakte. The user can make extended upload copies of their data in files to get the complete and clear idea of what data is stored…

November 20, 1985, released Windows 1.0 is the debut version of the famous operating system of Microsoft. Being in essence a graphical addition to the already released “OSes” MS-DOS, it was wildly voracious for its time (graphics card, mouse system requirements and installation of two floppy disks in the 1980s was serious luxury!), but still…

Photo: Jan Hennop (Getty) A sleuth famous in the art world for tracking down works of art thought to be lost or destroyed has delivered one of his greatest finds yet—a Byzantine-era mosaic of Saint Marks that was stolen from a Cyprus church after the Turkish invasion in 1974. Arthur Brand is a Dutch art…

Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais (AP) A White House “examination” of Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump’s online habits has concluded she used a personal email address for official correspondence hundreds of times, in many cases in “violation of federal records rules,” the Washington Post reported on Monday. According to the Post, White House…

On Friday, niche blogging platform Tumblr became suddenly and inexplicably unavailable on Apple’s app store, and since then users posting adult-themed content have claimed their blogs are being deleted by the site without warning despite no official statement from either Tumblr, it’s parent company Oath, or Apple. The reason, as some had grimly suggested, was…

The John Hancock Center, seen here in 2007.Photo: M. Spencer Green (AP) An express elevator in a Chicago building formerly called the John Hancock Center until earlier this year, the 100-story tower at 875 North Michigan Avenue that is the fourth-tallest skyscraper in the city, fell from the Signature Room restaurant on its 95th floor…