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Amazon is batting 0-3 with its 2017 comedy pilots: The streamer has passed on its entire half-hour pilot slate, including Glenn Close’s Sea Oak, Bridget Everett’s Love You More and Diarra Kilpatrick’s The Climb. As noted by Deadline, which first reported the news of the trio’s demise, the quasi-canecllations come just weeks after the male execs who […]
Published time: 15 Dec, 2017 01:56 The Italian Senate has adopted a bill allowing severely ill patients to state whether they want to receive treatment that would keep them alive, including whether they wish to be fed or hydrated, in a move welcomed by right-to-die activists. Following an eight-month debate, the bill, opposed from right-wing […]
The Senate passed the Republican tax bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on Friday. The TCJA passed by a vote of 51-49, with Sen. Bob Corker being the only Republican to vote against it. The bill can either be passed as is by the House — or the two chambers will go to a […]
Late into the night, the Senate passed the Republican bill to rewrite the American tax code. This marks the last major hurdle before the bill becomes law. Democrats complained they weren’t able to read the bill, as Republicans added handwritten amendments. The bill is expected to become law before the end of the year, which […]
MOST money these days is electronic—a series of ones and zeros on a computer. So it is rather neat that bitcoin, a privately created electronic currency, has lurched from $ 1,000 to above $ 10,000 this year (see chart), an epic journey to add an extra zero. On the way, the currency has been controversial. […]
After a longer wait than usual, Apple today finally released the first official numbers for iOS 11. The various figures and estimates released by marketing and research firms are no longer relevant, as we now know for certain that iOS 11 has passed the 50 percent mark in less than two months. In other words, […]
The US is now the third largest smartphone market in the world, according to a new report by global technology market analyst firm Canalys. The number of smartphone shipments to India grew 23 percent in the third quarter of this year, reaching just over 40 million units shipped. That makes India the second largest smartphone […]
Published time: 25 Oct, 2017 06:45 House lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed the “harshest sanctions ever” targeting Pyongyang’s access to global financial markets. The bill was named after US student Otto Warmbier, who died in June following his release from custody in North Korea. The Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act was passed in the […]
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A few years ago, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) started developing what they eventually dubbed the “world’s most rapid” allergy test. Now, that test has received the FDA’s approval and will start telling you what you’re allergic to in as fast as five minutes next year. Abionic, the EPFL […]
