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LONDON: Twitter is going to start getting rid of inactive accounts. The company has already sent warning emails to users who haven’t been using their accounts. If you want to keep your handle, all you have to do is to login by December 11 and follow the on-screen steps – ...

CAIRO: The chief Executive of the Egyptian Space Agency, Mohamed al-Qousy announced on Saturday that the launch of the first Egyptian communication satellite TIBA-1 has been postponed indefinitely due to “technical reasons.” Speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Qousy said that no new date was set for the launch, but there was ...

PARIS: French luxury group LVMH was hoping to clinch a deal to acquire US jewellers Tiffany after bidding more than $16 billion, according to a source close to the deal, confirming press reports. The deal would cost more than $16.65 billion once debt has been factored in, said the source, ...

WASHINGTON: US president Donald Trump declared that talks with China on the first phase of a trade deal were near completion after negotiators from both sides spoke by phone, signalling progress on an accord in the works for nearly two years. “We’re in the final throes of a very important ...

l(AP) – The next time you get sick, your care may involve a form of the technology people use to navigate road trips or pick the right vacuum cleaner online. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts ...

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk indicated in a tweet that the electric carmaker received 200,000 orders for its electric pickup truck within three days of its launch. Musk, who has been regularly tweeting about the Cybertruck’s features since its launch late Thursday, has also been updating his followers ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The data-collection business model fueling Facebook and Google represents a threat to human rights around the world, Amnesty International said in a report. The organization argued that offering people free online services and then using information about them to target money-making ads imperils a gamut of ...

NEW YORK: Amazon Web Services has filed a lawsuit contesting the Pentagon’s decision to award a cloud computing contract to rival Microsoft in late October. A spokesperson for the company told CBS News the evaluation process for awarding the $10 billion contract “contained clear deficiencies, errors, and unmistakable bias.” “[Amazon ...

Fitch Ratings has upgraded Armenia’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘BB-‘ from ‘B+’. The Outlook is stable. The upgrade of Armenia’s IDRs reflects the following key rating drivers and their relative weights: Armenia’s institutions have facilitated a peaceful and orderly political transition and could strengthen further through ...

A Spanish court has called budget airline Ryanair’s policy of charging a fee for hand luggage “excessive” after a passenger was fined for taking a carry-on bag without a special ticket, the BBC reports. The passenger was forced to pay a €20 fine to bring her 10kg luggage on board. ...