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Enlarge (credit: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Every major cryptocurrency was down sharply on Monday morning, with many hitting levels not seen since 2017. Bitcoin fell below $ 5,100, a low not seen since October 2017. Ethereum’s currency, ether, fell below $ 155—down 25 percent over the last week. Ether’s value hasn’t been this […]
Google has long been criticised for the long delays between Android upgrades. While iPhone users are merrily chowing down on regular OS updates, Android users have to wait for long intervals, with lower cost handsets never seeing an update at all during their lifespans. Google’s update framework, Project Treble, seeks to rectify this, and the […]
Two Hamilton paramedics have been charged in the 2017 death of a 19-year-old Good Samaritan who police say was killed after trying to stop an altercation.
Russian border guards discovered over 1,400 suspects linked to terrorism in 2017, a high-ranking federal security general told RIA. The Russian Border Service is marking its 100th anniversary on Monday. “Militants pressured out of conflict zones are trying to use international transport channels to get into Russia… the Border Service and the local security services […]
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ABC News/LVMPD Las Vegas police released some video of law enforcement officers responding to the Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 people in 2017. The footage did not show what the first officer through the door saw because he didn’t activate his body-worn camera. The Associated Press and other media outlets sued to obtain videos, […]
Doctors issued more than 4,000 prescriptions for the abortion pill Mifegymiso to Canadian women in 2017 — the first year it was available in Canada.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/JSC China’s Tiangong-1 space station recently crashed to Earth as a giant chunk of space junk. But there are millions of small, hard-to-track bits of orbital debris that can collide with satellites. In 2017, the US government logged 308,984 close calls with space junk and issued 655 “emergency-reportable” alerts to satellite […]
Facebook Facebook spent $ 7.3 million on security for CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. The cost was up 50% on the year before, and came as he flew all over the US on a mission to visit every US State. Meanwhile, the social network spent more than $ 1.5 million on private jet costs for […]
Enlarge / WUHAN, CHINA – APRIL 27: Workers from Wuhan Guangsheng Photovoltaic Company install solar panels on the roof of a building on April 27, 2017 in Wuhan, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) To say 2017 was a good year for solar panels is a bit of an understatement. According to […]
