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A disillusioned former member of Islamic State has passed a stolen memory stick of documents identifying 22,000 supporters in over 50 countries to a British journalist, a leak that could help the West target Islamist fighters planning attacks. Leaks of such detailed information about Islamic State are

President Bashar al-Assad’s government has said its delegates will attend peace talks on the Syrian conflict due to start in Geneva next week, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Friday. Damascus has yet to publicly confirm it will be taking part in the talks. Asked whether Russia, a

Islamic State has greatly expanded its control over territory in Libya, and the militants are claiming to be the key defense for the North African state against foreign military intervention, according to United Nations sanctions monitors. In their annual report to the UN security council, which was

Opera has pulled the wraps off the latest addition to its browser: native ad blocking. This move makes Opera the first big-ticket web browser to introduce such a feature. “If there were no bloated ads, some top websites would load up to 90 percent faster,” said Krystian

Google provided developers with a “work in progress” build of Android’s “N release” in hopes of getting feedback critical to improving their devices Google on Wednesday let developers have an early look at the next version of Android in a move that could get the software into

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched a ballistic missile launch test and ordered the country to improve its nuclear attack capability by conducting more tests, the official KCNA news agency reported on Friday. The report did not say when the test took place but it was

In this Nov. 12, 2015, file photo, a man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google is previewing the next version of its Android operating system two months ahead of schedule in an effort to get the upgraded …more Google is

Google DeepMind employees are among the first Googlers in the UK to move to Google’s delayed property empire that’s slowly unfolding in King’s Cross.  The artificial intelligence (AI) unit – founded in 2011 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman and acquired by Google last year

Snapchat disclosed yesterday that it was the victim of a phishing scam that led to hackers gaining access to payroll information for some of its employees, including their social security numbers, bank details, and salaries. The L.A.-based social media company explained in a blog post, “One of

By now you probably know that I think there is a conversion factor between social media touches and votes. Just as campaign consultants have their conversion numbers for the number of door knocks, yard signs, handshakes and baby kisses are needed to secure one vote, there is