Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday offered to help with the United States' efforts involving the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a letter addressed to President Joe Biden, seen by Reuters.

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U.S. distributor Valve Corp, owner of the world's largest video game distribution platform Steam, and 5 video game publishers received a 7.8-million-euro ($9.45 million) EU antitrust fine on Wednesday for blocking cross-border sales in Europe.

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EPFL scientists have developed a metamaterial whose mechanical properties can be reprogrammed on demand and whose internal structure can be modified by applying a magnetic field.

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There are so many sales happening right now at Amazon, including dozens of deals on some of Apple's best-selling products.Examples include AirPods 2 for $227, AirPods Pro for $262, iPads starting at $139, and up to $60 off the hot new Apple Watch Series 5!Here, we'll show you five awesome Apple device deals that you really won't want to miss.Apple products have so, so many advantages over similar offerings from rival consumer tech companies. In …

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PALO ALTO - Social media companies are under close scrutiny over their handling of misinformation and threats of violence tied to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday, amid conflicting signals in far-right forums about possible attacks. The companies have sought to distance themselves from the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of outgoing U.S.

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Connecting the controllers works as you’d expect: Turn on the Shield’s Bluetooth discovery mode, and then either press the pairing button on your Xbox controller, or the PlayStation and Share/Clip buttons on the DualSense.  It’s surprising it took so long for NVIDIA to add support for these new gamepads, considering that they already support PC pairing.  In addition to the usual bug fixes, NVIDIA says that the Shield update also adds the Decembe…

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Netflix's milestone cements its dominance, hastened by the pandemic after more than a decade of preparation for a streaming-first world.

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Iran's judiciary released the country's telecom minister on bail Wednesday after he was summoned for prosecution by Iran's general prosecutor, state TV reported.  The state media outlet quoted Jamal Hadian, a spokesman for the telecommunications ministry, as saying Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi appeared before a prosecutor Wednesday, was released and had already returned to his office.  The office of the general prosecutor had 

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Former Facebook executive Alex Stamos likened Republicans in Congress to ISIS supporters and argued that conservative voices such as OANN and Newsmax must be quieted to return Americans to "consensual reality."

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Ex-Facebook exec calls for de-platforming OANN and Newsmax, laments that some conservatives have BIGGER AUDIENCES than CNN

Parler, a social-media website popular with U.S. right-wing groups, has partially returned online with the apparent help of a Russian-based technology company, according to reports on January 18.

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