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Tag: fades
Star that never fades – Soviet ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov would have turned 70 today
Soviet ice hockey idol Valeri Kharlamov, the World and Olympic Champion still considered one of the best players ever to put on skates, would have turned 70 on January 14 if not for his tragic passing in a car crash 36 years ago. During his glittering sports career spanning 13 years, Kharlamov won two Olympic […]
Bitcoin tops $11,000, but fades after sharp rally
(Reuters) — Bitcoin zoomed past $ 11,000 to hit a record high for the sixth day in a row on Wednesday after gaining more than $ 1,000 in just 12 hours, stoking concerns that a rapidly swelling bubble could be set to burst in spectacular fashion. After soaring more than 1,000 percent since the start […]
Nokia launches new digital health products as Withings name fades
Nokia is ready to be a consumer brand again. Of course, to many, it never stopped. Even as its phone business changed hands to Microsoft and then to HMD Global, the Nokia brand never really died. So much so that HMD Global’s latest line of phones still bear the Nokia name, despite having nothing to […]
Hope fades for Sri Lanka missing, garbage toll hits 21
AFP Lakruwan Wanniarachchi Colombo (AFP) – Hopes of finding anyone alive under a collapsed mountain of garbage in Sri Lanka’s capital faded Sunday as the death toll reached 21, police said. Hundreds of soldiers were digging through the rubbish and the wreckage of some 145 homes that were destroyed when a side of the 300-foot […]
Hope fades for cheap TV-over-Internet as FilmOn loses copyright fight [Updated]
Enlarge / FilmOn CEO Alkiviades “Alki” David at an event in Los Angeles in 2015. (credit: Vivien Killilea / WireImage) Remember the startup Aereo? That’s the Boston-based outfit that tried to sell TV over the Internet for $ 8 a month before it was stymied by the TV networks. The networks argued that Aereo’s system […]
