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As a gathering of world leaders continued Saturday, Russia's prime minister made some pretty significant comments. (VO_Getty Images / Lennart Preiss) << 1 >>Dmitry Medvedev told the crowd at the Munic
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As a gathering of world leaders continued Saturday, Russia's prime minister made some pretty significant comments.

(VO_Getty Images / Lennart Preiss) << 1 >>

Dmitry Medvedev told the crowd at the Munich Security Conference, “We are rapidly rolling into a period of a new cold war.”

(VO_Russian Ministry of Defense)

Medvedev also denied that Russia is attacking civilians with airstrikes in Syria as it helps Bashar al-Assad regain control of the country.

(VO_Munich Security Conference) << at :16 >>

The security conference is scheduled to end Sunday.

(AOC)

And score another one for women in tech.

(VO_Videoblocks 1)

A study that’s awaiting peer review suggests women are better than men at coding, arguably one of the most important skills in today’s modern workforce.

(VO_Code.org)

The study analyzed the open-source program-sharing service GitHub and found women’s suggested code changes were accepted roughly 4 percentage points more often than men’s.

(VO_Cruz for President)

We have to give it to the Ted Cruz campaign. The day after an embarrassing gaffe — airing an ad featuring an actress with a long career in softcore porn — they came out with another ad that’s already going viral. The ad spoofs the popular scene from Office Space with Geto Boys’ “Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta” in a very obvious jab at Hillary Clinton’s email server scandal. Get ready, the gloves are off in South Carolina.