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Twitter is testing new ways to fight misinformation — including a community-based points system    NBC News Twitter is considering putting a big bright warning label on misleading tweets from politicians like Bernie S…    Vox.com Twitter experimenting with new tool to label lies and misinformation | TheHill    The Hill Twitter tests labels, community moderation for lies by public figures    Reuters Twitter testing feature where users help flag politicians' lies - Business Insider    Business Insider View Full Coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2vMo17j via Technology

Researchers say delaying climate change action risks "potentially catastrophic outcomes". from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/37OecD8 via Online Shopping

Around two billion paper £20 notes will be replaced with polymer notes in the next few months. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/38LfjoD via Online Shopping

The Galaxy Z Flip seems to have exceeded Samsung's sales expectations, at least in some parts of the world including the US. It remains to be seen if it's going to manage to be as successful in India, but we'll soon find out. Today the Korean company officially introduced its second foldable smartphone in the subcontinent. Like elsewhere, there's only one version of the Z Flip, with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. It's priced at INR 1,09,999, which right now translates into $1,525 or €1,422. That means it's more expensive in India than in the US, but cheaper than in the EU.... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles https://ift.tt/3a2yVov via IFTTT

His wife, a Microsoft business program manager, was reported missing Tuesday while the Seattle couple was vacationing in Hawaii. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32cu8Op via Latest News

Critics of Donald Trump applauded a three-year prison sentence for his longtime pal and political adviser Roger Stone, with a top House Democrat saying a pardon would be a "breathtaking act of corruption."A federal judge sentenced the longtime GOP political operative to 40 months behind bars on Thursday for lying to Congress and obstructing Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Russia election meddling probe. During a lengthy statement she read before handing down the sentence, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said bluntly that Mr Stone was convicted of "covering up for the president." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Papmf6 via Latest News

Michael Bloomberg attacked Sen. Bernie Sanders at Wednesday’s debate in Las Vegas, with the billionaire former New York City mayor claiming the self-described democratic socialist’s ownership of multiple homes makes him a hypocrite. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T5rJRE via Latest News

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday cautioned African nations against allowing too much influence from China, saying an economic partnership with the U.S. would better serve the nations."Be wary of authoritarian regimes and their empty promises," Pompeo said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in a reference to China. Pompeo asserted cooperation with the U.S. represented a path toward "true liberation."The comments come days after China expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters from the country in response to an opinion column in the paper that labeled China "the sick man of Asia."Pompeo's remarks capped a three-day trip to Ethiopia, Senegal and Angola, during which the secretary of state pushed for economic liberalization and the support of American businesses including Citibank, Chevron and Coca-Cola.The U.S.'s top diplomat also criticized the "failed socialist experiments of years past" that were attempted in some African nations.Howe...

(Bloomberg) -- Afghanistan’s incumbent president, Ashraf Ghani, has been declared the winner of a disputed presidential vote that’s been tainted by accusations of vote-rigging.Ghani led the poll with 50.64% of the 1.8 million votes cast, defeating his top rival Abdullah Abdullah, who obtained 39.52% in the bitterly contested poll that began on Sept. 28, Hawa Alam Nuristani, the chairwoman of the election commission, said on Tuesday evening.Abdullah, who’s the chief executive of the war-torn country and shares power with the incumbent, accused Ghani of rigging about 300,000 votes in his favor. On Tuesday Abdullah rejected the outcome and said he considers the results “unlawful.”“The results of the elections is the result of an election-rigging, a coup over democracy and betrayal over people’s will, and we consider the results as unlawful,” Abdullah, who declared himself the victor, told supporters a few hours after the announcement of the results.Despite Abdullah’s concerns, the electio...

The president also attacked the jury forewoman in Stone's criminal case, calling her "totally tainted." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3bYReg6 via Latest News

Fighting words last night at the MSNBC debate: “So, I'd like to talk about who we're running against, a billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians.’ And, no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg,” Warren said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/38PyBck via Latest News

Dramatic video shows a Kentucky man allegedly attempting to rob a Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers in Louisville. Then, two off-duty cops stepped in. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SHRKHJ via Latest News

The only way to get to Miami's exclusive Fisher Island is by a seven minute ferry, and two women inexplicably fell off it and died last night. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37I8MK3 via Latest News

Ethiopia's government on Thursday assumed custody of a priceless 18th-century crown that a former refugee had kept hidden in his apartment in the Netherlands for two decades. The handover took place at a ceremony in the capital, Addis Ababa, attended by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation. Sirak Asfaw, the one-time refugee who is now a Dutch citizen, fled Ethiopia during the late 1970s during the so-called "Red Terror" purges. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39RdhU2 via Latest News

Johan Hassel, the international secretary for Sweden's ruling Social Democrats, visited Iowa before the caucuses, and he wasn't impressed with America's standard bearer for democratic socialism, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). "We were at a Sanders event, and it was like being at a Left Party meeting," he told Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, according to one translation. "It was a mixture of very young people and old Marxists, who think they were right all along. There were no ordinary people there, simply."Hassel was most "impressed" with Pete Buttigieg, though he also liked Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Eric Kleefeld, assiduous student of foreign politics, provides some context on Sweden's Social Democrats:> Some more context: The “Left Party” he talks about in there is the old Communist Party back home in Sweden. (They changed their name around 1990 or so — wonder why.)> > The Left/Comm...

Two women died after the car they were in rolled off a ferry and sank between Miami Beach, Florida, and the exclusive enclave of Fisher Island.It is unclear how the blue 2019 Mercedes-Benz came to fall from the ferry at approximately 5pm on Tuesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/38IkpBO via Latest News

Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Trump and a self-described political dirty trickster, is set to be sentenced on Thursday for his attempts to sabotage a congressional investigation that posed a political threat to the president. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VjrLYT via Latest News

The Smith and Fay families, who were vacationing together, were driving Tuesday night when a pickup rear-ended their vehicle, causing it to roll over. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2vNoSEK via Latest News

Junaid Hafeez, a university lecturer in Pakistan, had been imprisoned for six years when he was sentenced to death in December 2019. The charge: blasphemy, specifically insulting Prophet Muhammad on Facebook. Pakistan has the world’s second strictest blasphemy laws after Iran, according to U.S. Commision on International Religious Freedom.Hafeez, whose death sentence is under appeal, is one of about 1,500 Pakistanis charged with blasphemy, or sacrilegious speech, over the last three decades. No executions have taken place. But since 1990 70 people have been murdered by mobs and vigilantes who accused them of insulting Islam. Several people who defend the accused have been killed, too, including one of Hafeez’s lawyers and two high-level politicians who publicly opposed the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted for verbally insulting Prophet Muhammad. Though Bibi was acquitted in 2019, she fled Pakistan. Blasphemy and apostasyOf 71 countries that criminalize blasphemy...

The Rock Space Wi-Fi Range Extender sets up quickly and is now 30% off. from CNET https://ift.tt/2PcSuCq via Mobiles

Apple is considering letting users change default email, browser, music apps in iOS    Ars Technica View Full Coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/37QneQh via Technology

Asus announces next-gen ROG phone will come with Stadia preinstalled    Android Police Xiaomi Mi 10 vs ZTE Axon 10s Pro vs Asus ROG Phone 2: Specs Comparison    gizmochina Google Stadia will come pre-loaded on the next ASUS ROG Phone    9to5Google View Full Coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2V95JrC via Technology

SpaceX alumni are helping build LA's startup ecosystem    TechCrunch from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2uhZMh1 via Technology