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Poisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny has been detained by police following his return to Russia. The dissident flew back from Germany where he had been recovering after being exposed to the Soviet-era novichok nerve agent in August. Sky producer Alina Droyshevskaia was on the Sunday flight and said as passengers…

Venture CapitalInvestmentTech By China Money AI - January 16, 2021 — 08:38 Quantum precision measuring instrument company CIQTEK has completed a series B financing worth several hundred million yuan. Hillhouse Ventures led the investment. Cowin Capital, Cornerstone Capital, China Merchants Securities also participated. UNLOCK DATA Subscribe & Access the Best…

Russia will pull out of a longstanding accord that allows countries to conduct fly-over military operations across territories, following in the United States' footsteps after President Trump left the treaty last year, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced Friday. Why it matters: Russia's exit from the Open Skies Treaty could escalate…

CES session presented possibilities that might be unlocked if these evolving technologies are put to work on urgent challenges. Dario Gil, senior vice president and director of IBM Research, gave a talk this week at the online CES 2021 conference where he discussed the acceleration of resolving challenges through quantum…

VMware COO Sanjay Poonen VMware This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. With the news that VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is stepping down to become Intel's new CEO in February, the company is in search of a replacement.  Multiple analysts told…

Nuvia never announced a product, but was widely suspected to be working on a server-class CPU that Qualcomm could adapt to PCs and smartphones. Ann Singer Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors Qualcomm said Wednesday that it plans to…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday tasked officials with launching mass coronavirus vaccinations from next week, touting Russia's homemade jab as the world's best. "I ask you to begin the mass vaccination of the entire population next week," Putin told officials at a televised government meeting. "The Russian vaccine is…

As more organizations adopt edge computing, they are also confronting new challenges. Among them are IoT and edge integration, security, support, durability and bandwidth. Image: arrow - stock.adobe.com Initially, organizations were just strategizing on how to deploy the Internet of Things to the edge and manage it. Now, edge is…

PESHAWAR: Usman Khan lives in an impoverished region of Pakistan that has witnessed decades of suicide attacks, explosions and threats from hardline militant groups. Now, the stand-up comedian wants to make people smile. Performing across Peshawar, the provincial capital of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Khan dons Charlie Chaplin’s trademark…

/ Europe Issued on: 12/01/2021 - 04:42 Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attend a news conference in Moscow, Russia January 11, 2021. © Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday brought together the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan…