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Facebook to Build Housing in Silicon Valley for First Time

SAN FRANCISCO — The shortage of housing in California's Silicon Valley has gotten so severe that Facebook Inc. on Friday proposed taking homebuilding into its own hands for the first time...

Pence Vows: ‘American Boots on the Face of Mars’

  U.S. Vice President Mike Pence pledged to usher in a “new era” of American leadership in space during a tour of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday. “Our nation will return...

UN Survey Finds Cybersecurity Gaps Everywhere Except Singapore

GENEVA — Singapore has a near-perfect approach to cybersecurity, but many other rich countries have holes in their defenses and some poorer countries are showing them how it should be done, a...

Facebook Drone Could One Day Provide Global Internet Access

YUMA, ARIZONA — A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook that could one day provide worldwide internet access has quietly completed a test flight in Arizona after an earlier attempt ended with...

Tech Founders Around the World Attend Startup School

https://av.voanews.com/Videoroot/Pangeavideo/2017/06/5/53/5343f293-6478-41d1-be42-f0d520e1b724.mp4   MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — When Goktug Yilmaz, a game developer in Ankara, Turkey, wanted help with his business, he turned to Y Combinator, a prestigious startup accelerator firm in Mountain View, California. Yilmaz...

Facebook to reduce “low-quality” links in News Feed to filter out fake news

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1 -- Facebook Inc. said Friday it has made an update available to help "reduce low-quality links in News Feed". The update, apparently an effort to filter out spam...

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