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Netanyahu’s future still uncertain after Israeli election

With 93% of the votes counted, preliminary official results showed that the Likud and its religious and nationalist allies had 59 of 120 seats in parliament, two seats short of the hoped-for majority.

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Hulu with Live TV belatedly arrives on PlayStation 4

Hulu’s Live TV service, which allows users to watch both live and on-demand programming, including Hulu Originals, has finally arrived on the PlayStation 4 — close to three years after the service first debuted. The launch closes a significant hole

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Daily Crunch: Waymo raises $2.5B

Alphabet’s self-driving car company raises its first outside investment, Robinhood goes down and Pixel phones get new gesture controls. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 3, 2020. 1. Waymo brings in $2.25B from outside investors, Alphabet This is the company’s

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‘The Fed’s Tools Are Imperfect.’ Why the Surprise Interest Rate Cut Can’t Fully Prevent a Coronavirus Downturn

(Bloomberg Opinion) — The Federal Reserve’s strategy to combat the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on financial markets and the longest U.S. economic expansion in history turned out to be nothing short of shock and awe. In the central bank’s

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Donald Trump absolutely loves this deeply misleading 2016 electoral map – CNN

Donald Trump absolutely loves this deeply misleading 2016 electoral map  CNN

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Boston Dynamics unveils OTTO Motors collaboration to bring our robot overlords to the warehouse

Boston Dynamics, the undisputed heavyweight of technical robotics wizardry, unveiled a new collaboration with the warehouse autonomous material handling and transportation technology developer, OTTO Motors. Over the past year Boston Dynamics has moved from building the stuff or robotic uprising

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U.S. stocks fall after surprise rate cut from Fed

After popping to a 1.5% gain shortly after the Fed’s announcement, the S&P 500 swung between modest gains and losses for about an hour before turning decisively lower in the late morning.

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Coronavirus: How Twitter could more effectively ease its impact

Twitter has gained recognition as a tool that can assist in the disaster or crisis management process, allowing individuals to search specific hashtags through linking algorithms.

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The future of gig work could involve unions and co-ops

The classification of gig workers for companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash and Postmates has long been a topic of debate. Since California worker-protection bill AB 5 became law, some companies have gone to great lengths to continue classifying workers

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Trump Is Turning Coronavirus Into a Useful Enemy – POLITICO

Trump Is Turning Coronavirus Into a Useful Enemy  POLITICO Donald Trump defends coronavirus plan, denigrates Democrats  USA TODAY Trump goes after Dems in Super Tuesday eve rally  POLITICO ‘We like to troll’: Trump tries to steal spotlight on eve of Super Tuesday  The Guardian

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