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Maria Ressa, journalist and CEO of the Rappler news website. File picture: Gonzalo Fuentes/ReutersBy Reuters Oct 8, 2021 By Nerijus Adomaitis and Victoria Klesty Oslo - Two journalists whose work has angered the authorities in Russia and the Philippines were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, honouring the right…

A bipartisan push on Capitol Hill to force the White House to expel hundreds of Russian diplomats has backed President Biden into a corner, fueling doubts about his promise to get tough on the Kremlin and raising questions about whether the U.S. has squandered leverage to Russian President Vladimir Putin.…

Todd Pruzan, HBR Welcome to the HBR Video Quick Take. I’m Todd Pruzan, senior editor for research and special projects at Harvard Business Review. And today I’m joined by Emma McGuigan, global lead for intelligent platform services at Accenture and chair of the board of Avanade, the company’s joint venture…

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Roadmap with a fork in it — In addition to its standard roadmap, D-Wave will try building gate-based systems. John Timmer - Oct 5, 2021 10:45 pm UTC Enlarge / The current generation of hardware. Because quantum computing has been attempted via multiple approaches, those approaches can be a bit…

Russia announced on Monday that it had launched a hypersonic missile from a nuclear submarine for the first time – one of the Zircon class missiles President Vladimir Putin and his military officers see as potential game-changers.  It is pitch black in the video when, suddenly, after about ten seconds,…

Like an aging rock star seeking to reach a new audience, Microsoft is betting Windows 11 will help it connect with a new generation. Why it matters: Microsoft could once count on a huge portion of the computing market automatically choosing Windows because their business demanded it or they needed…

Organisations letting employees work from home due to the Covid pandemic has triggered a massive shift towards cloud computing. Businesses and organisations have been forced to go for digital transformation in order to make their products and services available on the go. “With more and more services being delivered online…

The same journalism organization that leaked the Panama Papers has uncovered a new trove of 11.9 million documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, that contain explosive details about how global elites and billionaires hide their assets. Revelations from the leak included that a woman who gave birth to a child reportedly…

The secret deals and hidden assets of the world’s most powerful politicians and billionaires have been revealed in the biggest leak of financial offshore data in history. More than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials’ undercover dealings have been exposed in a joint investigation by BBC Panorama…