Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it has won a deal to sell the U.S. Army augmented reality headsets based on its HoloLens product and backed by Azure cloud computing services. The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years, a Microsoft spokesman said. Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked with… Read More Microsoft wins $2.19billion control to supply U.S. Army with AR headsets
New York’s legalization of recreational marijuana could generate $5 billion in sales for the first year and raises pressure on other states to follow the 16 that have now approved the plant for everyday use, the head of one of the country’s biggest producers said on Wednesday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed… Read More New York governor Andrew Cuomo signs legalization bill for recreational marijuana
Google, BMW, Volvo and Samsung SDI are the first global companies to have signed up to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining, the WWF said on Wednesday. In backing the call, the companies commit not to source any minerals from the seabed, to exclude such minerals from their supply… Read More Google, BMW, Volvo and Samsung SDI sign up to WWF call for temporary ban on deep-sea mining
Messaging platform Discord Inc on Wednesday launched a new feature for people to hold live audio events for audiences, similar to the rapidly growing app Clubhouse. Discord, which offers voice, video and text chat, was popularized by videogamers and has spread to other groups since its launch in 2015. Its new “Stage Channels” will allow… Read More Messaging platform Discord introduces Clubhouse-style audio feature
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 23 civilians in an overnight raid on a village near Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the provincial governor’s office said on Wednesday. The death toll was still provisional as the search for bodies continued in Manyama-Moliso, north of the city of Beni, the North Kivu governor’s office… Read More At least twenty-three dead as suspected Islamist militants attack village in eastern Congo
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny declared a hunger strike on Wednesday in an attempt to force the prison holding him outside Moscow to provide him with proper medical care for what he said was acute pain in his back and both legs. The fate of Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics, is… Read More Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny begins hunger strike over denial to medical care
A military unit tried to seize the presidential palace in Niger’s capital Niamey overnight in an attempted coup but order has been restored, the government said on Wednesday, days before the country’s first democratic handover of power. The assailants, from a nearby air base, fled after the presidential guard met their attack with heavy shelling… Read More Niger foils coup attempt days before presidential transition
Gunmen killed 30 people in an attack on a village in the west of the Ethiopian region of Oromiya late on Tuesday, witnesses said. Clashes between ethnic groups have become a major challenge to the government in the country, which took its present form from territorial expansions of the 19th century. Regional officials in Oromiya… Read More Thirty dead following attack on village in western Ethiopia
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