Development of Electric-Powered Planes

Development of Electric-Powered Planes

As electric-powered cars are rapidly gaining popularity, the last frontier in private transportation is also opening up to alternative, eco-friendly...

GM More Than Doubles Self-Driving Car Test Fleet in California

GM More Than Doubles Self-Driving Car Test Fleet in California

General Motors’s self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, has more than doubled the size of its test fleet of robot cars in...

Drought-hit and Hungry, Sri Lankans Struggle for a Harvest — or Work

Drought-hit and Hungry, Sri Lankans Struggle for a Harvest — or Work

At 52 years old, with two grown children, Newton Gunathileka thought he should be working less by this point. Instead...

Archaeologists Put Greek Resort Step Closer to Reality

Archaeologists Put Greek Resort Step Closer to Reality

Greece welcomed Wednesday a decision by senior archaeologists to conditionally permit a major tourism project in Athens, saying it cleared...

Horses to Power Helsinki Horse Show, With Droppings

Horses to Power Helsinki Horse Show, With Droppings

Horse manure will generate electricity for an international horse show in Finland this month in a new form of alternative...

Yellen: Fed Committed to Easing Regulations on Smaller Banks

Yellen: Fed Committed to Easing Regulations on Smaller Banks

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday that the Fed is committed to making sure that the regulations it imposes...

US Business Groups Say WTO Unable to Curb Many Chinese Trade Practices

US Business Groups Say WTO Unable to Curb Many Chinese Trade Practices

U.S. business groups expressed frustration on Wednesday with what they said are China’s efforts to tilt the economic playing field...

Tourists Trickle Back to Tunisia After 2015 Militant Attacks

Tourists Trickle Back to Tunisia After 2015 Militant Attacks

Dozens of tourists pack beach chairs at a Tunisian luxury hotel, where everything from the swimming pool to the wall...

Will Your Job Be Automated? 70 Percent of Americans Say No

Will Your Job Be Automated? 70 Percent of Americans Say No

Most Americans believe their jobs are safe from the spread of automation and robotics, at least during their lifetimes, and...

Cambodian Virtual Reality Helps Train Bomb-disposal Techs

Cambodian Virtual Reality Helps Train Bomb-disposal Techs

A lab in Cambodia is using cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning, swarm robotics and 3-D...

Senate Bill to Clear Obstacles to Self-driving Cars Advances

Senate Bill to Clear Obstacles to Self-driving Cars Advances

Legislation that could help usher in a new era of self-driving cars advanced in Congress on Wednesday after the bill’s...

Yahoo Says All 3 Billion Accounts Hacked in 2013 Data Theft

Yahoo Says All 3 Billion Accounts Hacked in 2013 Data Theft

Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its...

Ford Plans $14B in Cost Cuts as Part of New CEO’s Strategy

Ford Plans $14B in Cost Cuts as Part of New CEO’s Strategy

Ford Motor Co.’s new CEO plans to cut $14 billion in costs, drop some car models and focus the company’s...

North Korea Accuses US of Imposing ‘Economic Blockade’

North Korea Accuses US of Imposing ‘Economic Blockade’

North Korea’s U.N. ambassador accused the United States on Tuesday of imposing “an economic blockade” on his country and deploying...

UN Says Recovery of Eastern Caribbean Could Cost $1 Billion

UN Says Recovery of Eastern Caribbean Could Cost $1 Billion

The recovery of eastern Caribbean islands hardest hit by recent hurricanes, including Dominica, Barbuda, Turks and Caicos, the British Virgin...

Study: Las Vegas Shooting Was Twitter’s Saddest Day Ever

Study: Las Vegas Shooting Was Twitter’s Saddest Day Ever

The mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which at least 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured, was...

European Court Asked to Rule on Facebook Data Transfers

European Court Asked to Rule on Facebook Data Transfers

The European Court of Justice has been asked to consider whether Facebook’s Dublin-based subsidiary can legally transfer users’ personal data...

India’s Economy Hits Bump, Grows at Slowest Pace in 3 Years

India’s Economy Hits Bump, Grows at Slowest Pace in 3 Years

After several years of struggling to make a living doing odd jobs in and around his village, 26-year-old Pushkar Singh...

To Get Customers Back In Stores, NYC Pop-Up Shop Goes Digital

To Get Customers Back In Stores, NYC Pop-Up Shop Goes Digital

With more and more consumers shopping online, do brick-and-mortar stores stand a chance? At least for one pop-up shop in...

Google Spikes Free-article Requirements on Publishers

Google Spikes Free-article Requirements on Publishers

Google is ending a decade-old policy that required publishers to provide some free stories to Google users — though it’s...

Facebook to Hire 1,000 People to Review Ads After Russian Buys

Facebook to Hire 1,000 People to Review Ads After Russian Buys

Facebook Inc plans to hire 1,000 more people to review ads and ensure they meet its terms, as part of...

US Manufacturing Activity Hits 13-year High

US Manufacturing Activity Hits 13-year High

U.S. factory activity surged to a more than 13-year high in September amid strong gains in new orders and raw...