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Calculating the gender gap in the technology sector
Users can input data on their employers to see how long it would take for women to make up half…
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Naps during pregnancy may be linked with healthier birth weight
Pregnant women who nap regularly may reduce their baby's risk of low birth weight, a study from China suggests.
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WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features
Messaging service WhatsApp rolled out new group-chat features on Tuesday, including more controls for administrators as well as regular group…
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Popular encrypted email standards are unsafe – researchers
European researchers have found that the popular PGP and S/MIME email encryption standards are vulnerable to being hacked and they…
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Afghan girl coders design games to fight opium and inequality
More than 20 young women in the western city of Heart have established themselves as computer experts, building apps and…
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Booming tourism emits 8 percent of greenhouse gases, study shows
Tourism is responsible for a twelfth of world greenhouse gas emissions, and a vacation boom is complicating a global drive…
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China installs cruise missiles on South China Sea outposts – CNBC report
China has installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three of its outposts in the South China Sea,…
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‘Umbrella in a hurricane’: U.N. says climate funding far too low
Worldwide investments in limiting climate change are far too low and as flimsy as using an umbrella in a hurricane,…
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Wider Image: Tequila boom rooted in traditional farming techniques
A growing thirst for tequila from New York to Tokyo has made the sale of the drink into a multibillion-dollar…
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Trickle of ‘caravan’ migrants starts to enter U.S. soil
U.S. immigration officials began processing a trickle of asylum applications on Tuesday from a caravan of Central American migrants camped…
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