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US President Donald Trump's fondness for Twitter has forced the social media platform to create special rules for people just like him. According to Gizmodo, Twitter has a 'world leader' exemption that means that leader can post pretty much what he or she wants, without being banned. Instead of removing the post or banning the politician, Twitter slaps a warning on the post, saying it's in the public interest for the tweet to remain. However, Twitter says the exemption only lasts for the length of time the incumbent is holding office. So if Joe Biden wins the general election, Trump may fall from Twitter's good graces on January 21st, 2021.
President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach wants ‘clean’ Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag at the 2018 PyeonChang Winter Olympic Games he said at a press conference in Lausanne on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the IOC banned Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics, following an investigation into allegations of state-sponsored doping at Sochi in 2014. The Russian Olympic Committee denies the allegations.
Figure Skating Trainer Tatyana Tarasova was visibly distressed as she reacted to the IOC's decision to ban the Russian team from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Moscow on Tuesday. The International Olympic Committee has found Russia guilty of state-sponsored doping and has banned the Russian Olympic Committee from competing. Clean athletes will be allowed to compete in the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, although not under the Russian flag.
Russian winter athletes, including skeleton racer Olga Potylitsina, European skeleton champion Elena Nikitina, Skeleton racer Alexsandr Tretyakov, and cross-country skier Alexei Petukohv reacted to the news. On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in a press conference in Lausanne it would ban Russia from participating at the next Winter Olympics 2018, allowing clean Russian athletes to compete under a neutral flag.
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova shared her happiness at returning to the sport, Wednesday, after beating Roberta Vinci in the first round of the Stuttgart Open in Germany, her first match since the end of her doping ban. Sharapova came back to the court for the first time in 15 months, after failing a drug test at the Australian Open in 2016. She had been taking the drug ‘Meldonium,' which had been given to her by her family doctor for the past 10 years and was not on the banned substances list for that period. Meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances on Jan. 1, 2016. It is used medically to treat ischemia, or a lack of blood flow.
Seeing through walls was once considered a super power reserved for the most powerful heroes, but one Russian company is making the feat look a bit less God-like with the use of technology. Logis-Geotech is developing this technology to help soldiers and spies see through walls. Logis-Geotech showed off two of their detection devices to Ruptly in Moscow on Friday. The radars are said to be extremely sensitive and can detect a person breathing even if he remains still and does not move at all. It could prove very useful in combat Apart from the two radars, the company is reportedly developing a similar detector for EMERCOM, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, which is set to use the device to help locate victims in disaster areas. Logis-Geotech assures that the device is well-suited for search and rescue operations taking place in decimated buildings. Is this the Rescue, or Spy, Tech of the Future?
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