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TORTURE dungeons where victims are mutilated with surgical tools, beaten with hammers and shocked with electricity are being run by Putin's thugs in war-torn Ukraine, civil rights groups claim. Chilling photographs allegedly show the dank basements used as secret prisons for those who are held captive by Russia-backed rebels and…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Belarus raided homes and offices of journalists and human rights activists Tuesday in the latest move to squelch protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Police searched the offices of the Belarusian Association of Journalists and the Viasna human rights center as well as the…

MongoDB colleagues Garaudy Etienne and Marcus Eagan are among a growing wave of IT pros leading the difficult work of eradicating racist language such as ‘master/slave’ from tech tools and open-source projects. MongoDB Garaudy Etienne had known the computing concept of “master branch” before starting as a product manager at…

Home News Appliances (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung Electronics today said that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) processor-embedded high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip that boasts low energy consumption and enhanced performance. The new processing-in-memory (PIM) technology will help bring powerful AI computing capabilities inside high-performance memory. The chip, christened…

© Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with government members outside Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that a proposal by Elon Musk for Russian President Vladimir Putin to join social networking app Clubhouse was interesting, but that it needed to see more details first.…

        | Published: Monday, February 15, 2021, 14:49 Microsoft Windows is one of the leading computing platforms available in the market today. You will see a major chunk of computing devices such a PCs/ laptops running on the Windows OS. The company has updated the Windows OS…

Amazon on Friday sued New York Attorney General Letitia James to prevent her office from bringing legal action that would punish the behemoth computing biz for alleged worker health and safety violations. The lawsuit follows from a year of rancorous disputes with Amazon warehouse workers who claim the company hasn't…

Confined in a glass box in a Moscow courtroom, Alexei Navalny berated the judge, mocked a prison official and sparred with the prosecutor. Then, at the end of a long day in court, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critic showed his softer side, smiling at his wife Yulia and drawing a…

Parents staring down the barrel of half term or computer fans with a fondness for the good old days, rejoice! The National Museum of Computing is marking the 40th anniversary of the BBC Micro with a week of retro gaming, including Chuckie Egg and Elite. Yes, we know we have…

The Kremlin critic is accused of defaming a second world war veteran who took part in a promotional video backing Russia’s constitutional reforms At the hearing, the grandson of the veteran asked Navalny for a public apology, prompting the 44-year-old to refuse Topic |   Russia E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635 Published: 12:41pm, 12 Feb, 2021…