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When founder Somdip Dey was a computer science masters student at the University of Manchester, his parents got in a terrible car accident. He sent all of his money back to his parents in India to help with their medical bills, but then he faced a problem familiar to too many: If he wasn’t going […]

Twitter’s slate of new product announcements is not slowing down. The company today introduced a number of new initiatives aimed at better serving the conversations and community using its platform, including support for tipping with crypto, NFT authentication, and plans for other experiments designed to provide more context about a conversation to those just joining […]

Andrew Tarantola Contributor Share on Twitter Andrew Tarantola is a senior editor at Engadget. A host of features are being added to Google’s Android Auto experience, and the company’s Automotive OS will come to more cars including, for the first time, Honda vehicles from 2022 onwards. Google introduced its Android Auto app in 2015, enabling […]

Steve Dent Contributor Steve Dent is an associate editor at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Netflix is acquiring the rights to Roald Dahl’s books Rolls-Royce’s all-electric aircraft completes 15-minute maiden voyage Researchers have created a winged microchip around the size of a sand grain that may be the smallest flying device yet made, Vice […]

A lot has changed for Duolingo. The language learning company launched nearly a decade ago on the Disrupt stage with no monetization plans. Today, that scrappy app has matured into a well-known consumer brand and a business that makes a ton of money. This growth fueled the startup’s recent decision to go public, which is […]

September 23, 2021 (Reuters) -U.S. health insurer Cigna Corp on Thursday named company veteran Eric Palmer as president and chief executive officer of its Evernorth health services unit that primarily houses its pharmacy benefit management business. The appointment comes as the health services unit, which was rebranded last September to Evernorth, has shown resilient growth […]

September 23, 2021 By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday and chief executives of several U.S. companies, including Qualcomm and Blackstone, two sources said. At the White House meeting with Harris, Modi is expected to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, greater cooperation in technology, […]

September 23, 2021 By Siphiwe Sibeko JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Jubilant South African Airways (SAA) staff at the country’s biggest airport broke into song and dance on Thursday as the airline took to the skies for the first time in around a year. State-owned SAA’s longstanding financial woes were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and it […]

September 23, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The two top Democrats in the U.S. Congress announced a revenue deal on Thursday that they said would pay for President Joe Biden’s social spending agenda, marking a major step forward in their effort to enact sweeping legislation. “The White House, the House and the Senate have reached agreement on […]

Audio startup Syng has been building on quite a bit more hype than the average fresh hardware startup, largely because of the team behind it. Founder and CEO Chris Stringer was Jony Ive’s first hire at Apple and worked at the company for 21 years. In an interview, Stringer referred to the first time he […]

September 23, 2021 ROME (Reuters) – All roads lead to Rome, or at least so it seems for wild boar. Sightings of boars trotting along the streets have become so commonplace in some neighbourhoods of the Italian capital that the problem has spilt over into campaigning for Rome’s mayoral election. The animals have been increasingly […]

September 23, 2021 (Corrects Sept 22 article to add dropped word “not” in quote in paragraph 5) WINDHOEK (Reuters) – During a heated parliamentary debate, Namibian opposition lawmakers on Wednesday criticised a 1.1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) compensation offer from Germany for its 1904-1908 genocide in the southwest African country and called on the government […]

September 23, 2021 By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is poised to command wide support for a second term as head of the World Health Organisation, formally nominated by more than 12 European Union members and also backed by countries in other regions, diplomats said on Thursday. Tedros, a former health and […]

September 23, 2021 ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey’s ties with the United States were not healthy and that Washington needed to “sort out” issues over Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 defence systems, according to broadcaster Haberturk. Ties between the NATO allies struck a low point earlier this year […]

September 23, 2021 By Tom Kaeckenhoff DUISBURG, Germany (Reuters) -German Social Democrat (SPD) candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz promised on Thursday to help the steel industry convert to climate-friendly production if his party, clinging to a narrow lead in polls, wins Sunday’s federal election. Trying to shore up support in the industrial heartland of the […]

September 23, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) -French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday it would take “time and actions” to restore confidence in relations after a crisis triggered by Australia’s cancellation of a submarine contract with Paris. France was incensed by Australia’s decision last week to opt instead […]

September 23, 2021 By Daina Beth Solomon and Doina Chiacu CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest on Thursday in a letter that blasted the Biden administration for deporting hundreds of migrants back to the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation from a camp on the U.S.-Mexican border in recent days. Daniel […]

The U.S. Treasury is wading into the fight against ransomware by sanctioning virtual cryptocurrency exchange Suex for its role in facilitating ransomware payments. The sanctions are the first of its kind against a cryptocurrency exchange, and prohibit Americans from doing business with the company. It’s the latest action as part of a U.S. government-wide effort […]

September 23, 2021 By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) – A coalition of defeated parliamentary candidates in Moscow who allege they were cheated of victory in a parliamentary election by a crooked online voting system said on Thursday they would try to overturn the results via lawsuits and public pressure. Some of the defeated candidates, most […]

September 23, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The window is still open to reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal but Tehran has yet to indicate whether it is willing to resume talks in Vienna or whether it would do so on the basis of where they left off in June, a senior U.S. official said on […]