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Shannon Gormley: Both men may exalt imperialism and racism as examples of the only moral virtue they recognize—domination—but the most important thing for both is that their political ventures pay A riddle: which president in the last half-decade sought the company of well-turned-out women who sought the company of well-to-do…

Change in leadership looms as the chief executive at the dominant player in cloud computing prepares to lead parent company. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will step away from his CEO post in the third quarter and make room for Andy Jassy as his successor, raising questions about what direction the…

Recent developments from IBM and Microsoft suggest that cloud-based enterprise computing may become mainstream in just a few years By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 04 Feb 2021 11:37 According to IBM, by 2025, frictionless quantum computing will become a reality. The company has fleshed out its roadmap, originally unveiled…

The final outcome was surely preordained, but that didn’t make the proceeding any less dramatic. A little after eight in the evening in Moscow on Tuesday, Alexey Navalny was sentenced to two years and eight months in a Russian penal colony. His ostensible crime was violating the conditions of a…

A transcript of Episode 24 of The Politics of Everything, “The Case of the Sick Spies” Tim Weiner: The building that houses American diplomats and spies in Havana is a heavily fortified compound, a big cube, and it sits right off of the main drag of the Malecon, by the ocean. Jack…

by Craig Snow , posted 1 day ago / 2,928 Views The last few decades have brought with them some amazing developments in computing technology. One aspect that is always pushed, no matter what, is the processing power and speed of these computers. What drives this demand? Is it an…

media captionAlexei Navalny says the latest case against him was fabricatedA Moscow court has jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny for three-and-a-half years for violating the conditions of a suspended sentence. He has been in detention since returning to Russia last month. He was treated in Germany for a near-fatal nerve…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) boss Andy Jassy — who is ultimately responsible for blacking Parler — will take over as the CEO of Amazon when Jeff Bezos steps down from the role. Jassy will become the new CEO of Amazon later this year. The incoming CEO is currently the head of…

Tens of thousands protested across Russia on Sunday, chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin and demanding that authorities free Navalny Navalny’s allies have called for another demonstration in Moscow on Tuesday, when a court is expected to hear a motion to imprison him for up to 3.5 years Topic |   Russia…

On New Year’s Eve of 2015, the government of Adjara, an administrative region in the southwest corner of Georgia, issued a decree granting a company called Zimo Ltd. permission to unearth two swamp cypresses and a 650-ton, 135-year-old tulip tree from the Black Sea coast. For a fee of 6,200…