Yearly Archives: 2018

Hands-on: Hitman 2’s murderous puzzle sandbox lets you wield fish as a weapon

I am a machine. I am efficient. I am a loaded gun, a live weapon. I use the tools I’ve been given, even if that means no tools at all. I am years and years of training, the perfect assassin, a shadow even in the light of the noonday sun. I am an agent of targeted destruction, a demon sent …

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What this puppy chatbot says about the friendly future of fintech for consumers

This puppy chatbot is the most adorable example yet of the promise of fintech. Fintech is a blanket term for financial technologies. Fintech ranges from the payment and banking apps many of us already use, to the AI and machine-learning applications that crunch transactional data for financial companies, to cryptocurrency, blockchain, and other complete re-imaginings of how money works. At …

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Hodeidah: What the assault means for Yemen’s civilians and the aid effort

After months of diplomatic wrangling and despite repeated warnings of humanitarian catastrophe, the long-threatened assault on Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah is now underway.   Forces backed by the United Arab Emirates and their Yemeni partners – part of a Saudi Arabian-led coalition that has been fighting Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen since March 2015 – …

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Avoid overheating with this six-fan adjustable laptop cooling pad for under $12

When you’re crunching numbers or playing games on your laptop, you’ve got to keep that notebook cool. Right now, Amazon’s got a great deal to keep your laptop from overheating. You can get a six-fan cooling pad for 15.6- and 17-inch gaming laptops for $11.70 with the checkout code ANPALG78. To read this article in full, please click here

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Tech Tip: Coming Down From iCloud

Apple’s cloud service is intertwined with its operating systems, but you can move many of your files to a new online home.

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Is there Gender Parity & Reverse Sexual Harassment at UN?

By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jun 14 2018 (IPS) Faced with growing allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in the UN system, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last year announced a “zero-tolerance” policy to fight harassment in the world body. But UN Women, which was created in July 2010 and dedicated to gender empowerment, has moved one step further– and appointed an …

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