Yesterday morning, the European Space Agency hoped to become the second entity in history to operate a robot on Mars. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. ESA's Schiaparelli rover is on the surface of Mars, but all signs point to a hard landing and a broken robot. The good news, however, is that Schiaparelli was only one part of ESA's ExoMars mission. Schiaparelli,… Read More
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The WikiLeaks dump of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta's emails has revealed the broad extent of behind-the-scenes collaboration with Haim Saban, the Hollywood billionaire who controls Univision, the country's largest Spanish-language TV network.
Mr. Saban is not just one of the top moneymen behind Hillary Clinton's run, the Univision chairman ...
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Robots are taking over factories and warehouses, but their next stop might be your desktop or kitchen counter. These tiny "Zooids" work together at high speed to act as tools, display information, or move things around like little ants. Read More 
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NEW YORK (AP) - A 44-year-old woman has been charged in Brooklyn with stealing $160,000 in cash and gold jewelry from two Chinese immigrants in an elaborate scam by convincing them there was a curse on their families.
Prosecutors say Xuekun Su (SHWAY'-koon SOO'), of China, was arraigned Thursday on ...
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Those of us interested in marketplace lending have recently observed many pejorative headlines about P2P lending platforms, which mostly reported on Lending Club's recent difficulties, but also criticized other platforms and the P2P lending model more broadly. Very few people anticipated this kind of a problem less than a year ago as investors were competing for allocations on platforms. Read More 
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A leading gun control group included adults in death statistics used in a media campaign about toddlers.
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President Obama attacked Republican Sen. Marco Rubio almost as often as he blistered Donald Trump Thursday at a campaign stop in Florida, accusing the lawmaker of supporting the presidential nominee only to save his own job.
At a rally for Hillary Clinton near Miami, Mr. Obama reminded the audience of ...
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A telehealth startup called Opternative filed a suit against South Carolina today over a state's law that bars consumers there from getting a prescription for new glasses or contacts there with an online eye exam. Technically, the lawsuit is a constitutional challenge to the state's statute. As TechCrunch has previously reported, Opternative's app generally allows users to… Read More 
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DETROIT (AP) - A federal agent and a suburban Detroit attorney have been charged with bribery, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 48-year-old Clifton Divers used his position as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Homeland Security Investigations agent to obtain ...
The President just made a joke about Samsung's ongoing exploding-phone problem during a speech. If this isn't peak Note 7, I don't know what is. Read More 
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LAS VEGAS—I don't know what I will be doing with my time four years from now. Maybe I'll be in a house on the shore of Lake Superior writing a book that will sell modestly but receive glowing reviews. Maybe I will be playing pedal steel in a country-rock band. Maybe my family will move to Kenya. It is hard to say. Whatever it is, I hope it doesn't include standing awkwardly in a loud and crowded room trying to ask people I dislike questions I know they can't answer.
My first target—oops, does that sound too weaponized?—in the spin room at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Wednesday night was Cecile Richards, the CEO of what is ostensibly a nonprofit corporation, one whose business concerns include the abortion of children and the sale of their body parts. Richards was there acting as a surrogate for Hillary Clinton. As it happens, I had a paperback copy of Stephen King's IT in my backpack.
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NEW YORK (AP) - An appeals court has upheld the bribery conviction and seven-year prison sentence of a former New York state senator.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan Thursday rejected the appeals arguments of Malcolm Smith. The Democrat was convicted of trying to pay off local ...
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Florida Democrat Patrick Murphy's political coordination with a wealthy Saudi Arabian, who has been accused of orchestrating an illegal straw donor scheme in support of Murphy, began prior to Murphy's official entrance into the political realm.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump again blasted the Obama administration for telegraphing Washington's military plans to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State, saying Wednesday the approach allowed top leaders within the terror group slip away.
"If you think that going into Mosul after we let the ...
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Apple is betting on the "digital you" coming to augmented reality. But has Tim told us the whole story? Read More 
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Billboards were erected in Phoenix this week to thank Department of Veterans' Affairs for "keep[ing] veterans strong," after the agency's watchdog exposed continued care delays and misconduct at the troubled hospital there.
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During the Democratic presidential primary, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman urged aides to slam the spending proposals of Sen. Bernard Sanders as raising taxes as high as Sweden.
In an email titled "One thought on democratic socialism math," campaign Chairman John Podesta suggested that aides find a different way to characterize ...
Slack is still growing fast, about 33% in daily users and paid seats in the last 5 months. But not as fast as before, when it saw 50% DAU growth and 63% paid seat growth in the 5.5 months from December 15th to May 25th. This aligns with rumors TechCrunch has heard about a slight dip in customer retention at Slack, as the casual, GIF-filled workplace chat app can get noisy and distracting… Read More 
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