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The government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew while troop reinforcements were used to back police patrols. In the capital Colombo too, Muslim-owned businesses remained closed. Holidaymakers have been urged to avoid the hill resort, which is home to Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist shrine, the Temple of the Tooth Relic. The Muslim representatives said that legal action must be taken against the individuals who are engaging in such anti-social acts without considering their ...

Customers disabling their Echo speakers to stop hearing nightmare-inducing laughs doesn't reflect well on Amazon , which is why the company has now announced that it's aware of the problem and is working on a fix. Amazon says Alexa will only respond to a follow-up commands if she's "confident" that it is a legitimate request and not just background noise. Amazon has changed the phrase necessary to make Alexa laugh to, "Alexa, can you laugh?", which should be less likely to generate false ...

Meanwhile, these posts can be re-shared with convenient social media buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Google +, email and of course a direct link. Googles Blog post featured the following artists: Lorde , Steve Aoki , Sia , Son Litte, Sofi Tukker , Shakira , and Kygo .

However, while we have plenty of CaSiO3 supply, it had never been seen by humans in its natural environment. Knowing more about them would help inform our understanding of how soluble radioactive particles flow beneath the crust, which in turn would affect how we calculate the transfer of heat from the core to the surface.

About 4.20 million shares traded. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS ), today announced an innovative plan to dedicate more than $100 million in company resources, including cash, products and services , to reinvent the patient and family experience in children's hospitals across the globe.

Every time Nintendo holds one of its online game announcement streams, fans have waited with baited breath to see if they would announce a single, blockbuster fighting game. For the month of May, Nintendo is releasing " Little Nightmares: Complete Edition " and " Hyrule Warrior: Definitive Edition " on May 18, while a new " Dark Souls " Amiibo figure will be available on May 25.

Following the sale, the vice president now owns 1,248 shares in the company, valued at approximately $441,168. "It was told that Eric Branderiz left the company" for personal reasons", Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA ) said in a filing that did not specify an interim controller, nor outlined a search for his replacement.

We know that the game will be launching on the 12th of October, with announced platforms being PC, Xbox One and PS4. Judging by the teaser video in the tweet above, the game will be set in either modern times or the slight future, which lines up with previous rumors .

McLaren made exactly 106 F1s back in the day and that's exactly how many BP23s they will make as well. BP23 is, unsurprisingly, not the car's final name - like the Senna , Senna GTR , P1, and P1 GTR before it, BP23 will come with a suitable name to reflect its capabilities.

So, as Waymo said , be sure to keep a beady eye out for the self-driving trucks if you're a resident of Atlanta. So far, the focus has mostly been on people; last fall we put the world's first fleet of fully self-driving cars on public roads in the Phoenix area.

So that's sort of good news. Valve used to be one of gaming's most acclaimed developers, shipping series like Half-Life and Portal on PlayStation. Don't even get us started on another Portal , though the graphic novel did very well in regards to satiating that fan thirst. When Miyamoto is sitting down thinking about the next version of Zelda or Mario , he's thinking what is the controller going to look like, what sort of graphics and other capabilities [will the platform have].

For about half a minute, the two birds chirp and cock their heads inquisitively at the screen, before perking up and shaking their heads repeatedly, as captured in the video. Being naturally inquisitive animals, the two penguins can be seen leaning in to investigate the alien object having knocked it onto its back. At the time, Slater had been visiting the Tangkoko-Batuangus Nature Reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to shadow a troupe of macaques.

Bank of Canada officials unveiled the crisp purple paper at a ceremony Thursday in Halifax, where the businesswoman was from. Now, 72 years later, Desmond has become the first Black person and the first non-royal woman to be on a regularly-circulated Canada bill.

Passive euthanasia will be applicable to only a terminally ill person with no hope for recovery, the court said. Three other judges - Justices A K Sikri, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan - wrote separate but concurring judgements and agreed with the directives and safeguards penned by the CJI.

This is according to a new report by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has backtracked on his earlier position and is now claiming Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 9 smartphone probably won't have an under-the-display fingerprint scanner. He claims that it is "key for full-screen designs" and that facial recognition - as seen in the iPhone X - can not fully replace fingerprint scanning.

It contains lots of new features, such as support for an iPhone X-style notch , and developer preview images are already available for the Pixel , Pixel XL , Pixel 2 , and Pixel 2 XL . Google seems to be firmly focusing on its AI and Machine learning by introducing this Lens feature to all the Android phones via Google Photos app.

The 2018 report underlines how the company previous year made efforts to empower women through health education at supplier facilities in India and China . The Factory Line Leader Program bridges the gap between skills and employment by providing practical vocational skills and guaranteed internships with an Apple supplier, as well as long-term, full-time employment opportunities.

Nigeria was suspended past year from the Egmont Group following the non-establishment of the NFIU as an autonomous body. While the Senate domiciled the unit at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the House wanted it to be retained at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The study published Thursday is more wide-ranging: A team of researchers at MIT tracked falsehoods and truths using a database of every tweet written from 2006 to 2017. In a statistical model that kept variables like Twitter followers and account age equal, falsehoods were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than the truth.

He further said that he felt privileged to work with powerful persons of color throughout his career & its Outlier's mission to continue to create for talented persons moving forward. The idea of the inclusion rider was first suggested by Stacy L. Smith , associate professor of communication at the USC Annenberg school for Communication and Journalism, when she proposed the idea of an "equity rider" in an op-ed for the Hollywood Reporter in 2014.