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Twitter bans President Trump permanently

Published 8th January 2020

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By Brian Fung, CNN Business

(CNN)Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening.”After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said.”In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action.”

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WORLD – Iraqi judge issues arrest warrant for Donald Trump

Published 8 January 2021

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SOURCE: CNN – A judge in Baghdad’s investigative court has issued an arrest warrant for outgoing US President Donald Trump, over the killing of an Iraqi paramilitary leader during the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last year.

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View: Private sector should be an ally in India’s big vaccine push

Published 5 January 2021

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By Mihir Sharma, BloombergLast Updated: Jan 05, 2021, 09:58 AM IST

Synopsis

The vaccine rollout is already off to a shaky start. The government last week announced emergency approval for two vaccines. The first, a joint effort from AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University, is being produced by the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer. The other has been developed by the Indian company Bharat Biotech International Ltd.

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Fingerprint authentication moves from phones to payment cards

Published 3rd January 2020

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Fingerprint authentication moves from phones to payment cards

Visa pilot in the U.S. and Europe enables fingerprints on cards to authenticate transactions.

Payment cards are gaining new capabilities as Visa has launched a pilot of a new dual-interface (chip- and contactless-enabled) biometric payment card with Mountain America Credit Union and Bank of Cyprus. This will be the first pilot in the U.S. to test an on-card biometric sensor for contactless payments.

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George Lucas Explains His “Very, Very Painful” Decision to Sell Lucasfilm to Disney

Published 28 December 2020

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In 2012, George Lucas gave up his baby. The man behind Star Wars, a space opera series you might have heard of, sold Lucasfilm and all of its assets, including that same space opera series, to Disney, a company you might have heard of. Lucas had been a chief architect of two separate Star Wars trilogies and was starting to look at a third — until this decision was made, and we got the ending to the Skywalker Saga that we got. What prompted this decision? Why wouldn’t he want to see how his brainchild ended?