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20 July 2017 • 10:23 AMT
Apple granted patent on wireless charging

The patent, officially for a “Smart dock for activating a voice recognition mode of a portable electronic device,” is pretty broad.

20 July 2017 • 09:54 AMT
Living healthily, learning new things could cut dementia cases by a third

In a wide-ranging analysis of the risk factors behind dementia, the researchers highlighted nine as particularly important.

20 July 2017 • 09:38 AMT
No response from North Korea over Seoul-proposed talks

“There is no deadline,” by which Pyongyang has to respond, a South Korea unification ministry official told Yonhap news agency.

20 July 2017 • 09:30 AMT
“The Walking Dead” season 8 gets premiere date

Along with the premiere date announcement, a Comic-Con key art for the show is released ahead of the convention, which will run on July 20-23.

20 July 2017 • 09:19 AMT
U.S., China fail to agree on trade issues

The annual economic dialogue session in Washington ended with canceled news conferences, no joint statement and no new announcements.

20 July 2017 • 08:53 AMT
“GOT” creators’ new drama stirs uproar over slavery theme

Should HBO move forward with the plan to make “Confederate”, it will mark Benioff and Weiss’ first series after they conclude “Game of Thrones”.

20 July 2017 • 08:41 AMT
Baku court gives 3 years to Russian-Israeli blogger over Karabakh visit

“I categorically reject the accusations against me and plead not guilty,” Lapshin once again rejected the charges against him.

20 July 2017 • 08:36 AMT
Sandra Bullock to lead post-apocalyptic thriller “Bird Box”

The story is set in the near future, where a mother and her children are among a group of survivors after an alien force has driven the world’s population to deadly violence.

20 July 2017 • 08:28 AMT
SpaceX might not land its Dragon capsule on Mars after all

“There was a time when I thought that the Dragon approach to landing on Mars… would be the right way to land on Mars,” Musk said.

20 July 2017 • 08:09 AMT
Google’s safeguard against rogue Android apps now available

The company says that it’s rolling out its Play Protect home screen to every Android device running Google Mobile Services 11 or newer.

20 July 2017 • 08:08 AMT
Trump regrets picking Sessions as attorney general: NY Times

Trump complained that Sessions’s decision ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel that should not have happened.

20 July 2017 • 07:46 AMT
Lenovo rolls out AR headset and other ambitious AI concepts

Lenovo says it sees cooking up concepts as an important part of its R&D process, because it lets the company explore and push boundaries.

20 July 2017 • 07:44 AMT
Billions of tons of plastic trash accumulating on Earth: report

The report in the journal Science Advances is described as “the first global analysis of all mass-produced plastics.”

20 July 2017 • 07:34 AMT
Top Armenian officials congratulate newly-elected Karabakh president

The Armenian president and prime minister sent congratulatory messages to Bako Sahakyan on being elected as president of Artsakh.

20 July 2017 • 07:25 AMT
Netanyahu slams EU’s policy towards Israel

His comments, made during a closed-session meeting in the Hungarian capital Budapest, were accidentally broadcast to reporters.

20 July 2017 • 07:14 AMT
Supreme Court says grandparents, grandkids exempted from travel ban

Judge Derrick Watson’s wider definition includes grandparents, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins of people living in the U.S.

20 July 2017 • 07:12 AMT
Trump’s son, aides to testify in Senate about Russia

Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort will be questioned about their links to Russian officials.

20 July 2017 • 07:07 AMT
British foreign secretary in Japan for talks on security and trade

Johnson will meet with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, to discuss an increased foreign and security cooperation.

20 July 2017 • 06:58 AMT
Brazilian judge orders ex-president Lula’s assets to be frozen

Lula denies corruption charges, saying they are politically motivated. He intends to stand for election next year.

20 July 2017 • 06:44 AMT
North Korea tourism agency tries to woo foreigners

It does not allow users to book tours directly and does not list the handful of foreign agencies that arrange trips to the isolated state.

20 July 2017 • 06:41 AMT
Russia, U.S. duel at UN over N. Korea’s long-range missile

Russia’s contention that North Korea did not fire an ICBM hinders Washington’s push for the Security Council to impose stronger sanctions on North Korea.

20 July 2017 • 06:27 AMT
Trump ends CIA arms support for Syria rebels: officials

The U.S. decision, said one of the officials, is part of an effort by the administration to improve relations with Russia.

19 July 2017 • 14:37 AMT
EU threatens Poland with sanctions over court reforms

If article seven of the EU treaty is activated Poland could see its voting rights suspended in the council of ministers.

19 July 2017 • 14:32 AMT
“Deadpool 2”: T.J. Miller promises “Funnier” story

Slated to be released on June 1, 2018, the sequel will also see the return of Morena Baccarin as Reynolds’ on-screen fiancee Vanessa.

19 July 2017 • 14:17 AMT
Sarajevo Fest debuts Berlinale winner Semih Kaplanoglu’s “Grain”

“Grain” is a dystopian tale set in a society dominated by global corporations in which a genetic crisis leads to massive crop failure.

19 July 2017 • 14:13 AMT
Rouhani says new U.S. sanctions violate Iran nuclear accord

“One of the plots of the Americans is to act in such a way that would make Iran say that it is not following its commitments,” he said.

19 July 2017 • 14:04 AMT
Ben Affleck exits Netflix thriller “Triple Frontier”

Affleck had been circling a starring role earlier this year after Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.

19 July 2017 • 13:57 AMT
Switzerland confirms identity of couple found on glacier

“The remains recovered on the glacier have been formally identified,” police in Switzerland’s Valais canton said in a statement.

19 July 2017 • 13:50 AMT
Tate to host “Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile”

The “EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London” will look at French painters’ keen observations of British culture and social life.

19 July 2017 • 13:34 AMT
Paris show of Impressionist masterpieces never seen in West

The rich Moscow industrialists Mikhail and Ivan Morozov gathered a staggering trove of paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir and Monet before the Russian revolution.