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Image: Memobottle While a product designed with women in mind isn’t inherently bad, one that explicitly targets women by simply shrinking it down to fit in a purse is dumb. Hardware like smartwatches and smartphones could stand to scale down to better fit all gender preferences, but simply marketing something as cute and clutch-sized and…

Photo: Getty Uber has agreed to implement a “comprehensive privacy program” as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged that the ride-hailing company stored data in an unsecured cloud service and didn’t monitor how often its employees looked at user data. The FTC’s complaint stems from activity at Uber in 2014,…

ERBIL – Iraq has begun with a luchtbombardement on Tal Afar, a city west of Mosul that are still under the control of terrorist group Islamic State (IS). An attack with ground forces in order to take the city, will begin when the air campaign is over, said a spokesman of the Iraqi ministry of…

LONDON/BRUSSELS – After leaving the European Union (EU) in march 2019, it wants the United Kingdom, a temporary customs union with the EU. That plan has the British government announced. Last weekend, wrote two ministers already in an op-ed that the United Kingdom a transitional period wants after the brexit, so no chaos ensues and…

JOHANNESBURG – The wife of the Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has Tuesday, indicated the South African police. Grace Mugabe, the potential successor, and second wife of the 93-year-old president, would last weekend, a woman in Johannesburg have been abused. According to tv station eNCA hit the woman on her head injured. The alleged abuse took…

The name DeLorean is associated mainly with the wonderful trilogy of science fiction films directed by Robert Zemeckis “Back to the future”. According to the scenario of an eccentric scientist assembled from model car DeLorean DMC-12 time machine and went to her in the past, and then in the future. After visiting the future, by…

Siberian city of Tomsk is not only rich in various architectural monuments, but also quite rightly considered one of the most scientific cities of Russia. On relatively small territory there are 15 research institutes, 9 major universities 6 business incubators and the special economic zone of technical innovation type. Tomsk scientists regularly make discoveries in…

Photo: AP This weekend, at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a horde of Nazis, white supremacists, neo-Confederate militiamen and other members of the so-called alt-right ran rampant, brawling in the streets and toting a veritable arsenal of weaponry. One alleged member of a neo-Nazi group called Vanguard America, James Alex Fields Jr.,…

Photo: AP Weeks after the US Army told personnel to immediately shelve all drones made by Chinese manufacturer DJI, citing unspecified “cyber vulnerabilities associated with DJI products,” the company has introduced a new “local data mode” for its apps. “We are creating local data mode to address the needs of our enterprise customers, including public…

PARIS – UPDATE 23.45 pm – In a suburb of Paris, is a car drove down on the terrace of a pizzeria. A girl (12) is in the accident. Five others were seriously wounded. A further eight people were light injuries. The driver, a man of 32, is held. According to the authorities, there is…