Transcript: ‘Russian Troll Hunter’ on Unmasking Phony Online Profiles

Transcript: ‘Russian Troll Hunter’ on Unmasking Phony Online Profiles

Josh Russell works as a systems analyst and programmer at Indiana University, has two daughters, and exposes Russian internet trolls...

East Africa Gets Easy Money Transfer System

East Africa Gets Easy Money Transfer System

An international money transfer company has launched an online service for East Africans to send and receive money more easily....

Facebook, Twitter Executives Testify on Capitol Hill; Google Absent

Facebook, Twitter Executives Testify on Capitol Hill; Google Absent

Facebook and Twitter executives are insisting at two congressional hearings Wednesday they are aggressively trying to identify foreign actors who...

Collapsing Emerging-Market Currencies Spark Concerns

Collapsing Emerging-Market Currencies Spark Concerns

First it was Argentina, quickly followed by Turkey. Now anxious investors and policy-makers are watching with alarm the plummeting currencies...

Transcript: Target in Latest Hack says Journalist, Researcher Attacks ‘More Widespread than People Realize’

Transcript: Target in Latest Hack says Journalist, Researcher Attacks ‘More Widespread than People Realize’

Ben Judah is the author of This Is London and Fragile Empire, a contributing writer at Politico, and an expert...

Amazon Eyes Chilean Skies as It Seeks to Datamine Stars

Amazon Eyes Chilean Skies as It Seeks to Datamine Stars

Amazon.com is in talks with Chile to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by the country’s giant telescopes,...

Alaska Village Experiences Boom in Polar Bear Tourism 

Alaska Village Experiences Boom in Polar Bear Tourism 

A tiny Alaska Native village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time...

Cars Now Cruising Down the Monthly Subscription Highway

Cars Now Cruising Down the Monthly Subscription Highway

If you already subscribe to digital services like Netflix to binge on TV shows and Spotify to groove to an...

US Factory Activity Hits 14-Year High; Supply Constraints Rising

US Factory Activity Hits 14-Year High; Supply Constraints Rising

U.S. manufacturing activity accelerated to more than a 14-year high in August, boosted by a surge in new orders, but increasing...

Twitter CEO Says Company Isn’t Biased, Wants Healthy Debate

Twitter CEO Says Company Isn’t Biased, Wants Healthy Debate

Twitter’s CEO says the company is not biased against Republicans or Democrats and is working on ways to ensure that...

Russia Warns Google Against Election Meddling

Russia Warns Google Against Election Meddling

Russia on Tuesday said it has officially warned US internet giant Google against meddling in next Sunday’s local elections by...

Turkish Inflation Soars, Fueling Fears of  Economic Crisis

Turkish Inflation Soars, Fueling Fears of Economic Crisis

Turkey saw the inflation rate rise to nearly 18 percent in August, a 15-year high fueled by a collapse in...

NASA Offers Challenge with $750,000 Reward to Further Mars Goal

NASA Offers Challenge with $750,000 Reward to Further Mars Goal

The U.S. space agency NASA is offering a public challenge, with a lofty $750,000 reward, to anyone who can find...

Yemen to Give Civil Servants Raises; Protests Rage Against Economy

Yemen to Give Civil Servants Raises; Protests Rage Against Economy

Yemen’s government says it is giving civil servants and pensioners pay raises, after protests against the country’s woeful economy nearly...

Trump’s Pollution Rules Rollback to Hit Coal Country Hard

Trump’s Pollution Rules Rollback to Hit Coal Country Hard

It’s coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country. So it was no surprise that...

Group: US, Russia Block Consensus at ‘Killer Robots’ Meeting

Group: US, Russia Block Consensus at ‘Killer Robots’ Meeting

A key opponent of high-tech, automated weapons known as “killer robots” is blaming countries like the U.S. and Russia for...

Cybersecurity Becoming Major Concern for Vietnamese Businesses

Cybersecurity Becoming Major Concern for Vietnamese Businesses

At one of An Nguyen’s old jobs in Hanoi, she had a daily ritual: When she wanted to log in...

Hope, Caution as Kim Jong Un Shifts to North Korea’s Economy

Hope, Caution as Kim Jong Un Shifts to North Korea’s Economy

Tanned and wearing a swimsuit, So Myong Il walks to the barbecue pit and throws on some clams.   He...

Facebook Adds Alaska’s Inupiaq as Language Option

Facebook Adds Alaska’s Inupiaq as Language Option

Britt’Nee Brower grew up in a largely Inupiat Eskimo town in Alaska’s far north, but English was the only language...

IOM: Returning Nigerian Migrants Benefit from Business Training Skills

IOM: Returning Nigerian Migrants Benefit from Business Training Skills

The International Organization for Migration reports more than 270 Nigerian migrants who recently returned from Libya have completed a skills...

Bankers Seek Consolation Prizes After Shelved Aramco IPO

Bankers Seek Consolation Prizes After Shelved Aramco IPO

Investment banks which lost out on big payouts for the work on the shelved listing of oil giant Aramco are...

Time May Be Running Out for Millions of Clocks

Time May Be Running Out for Millions of Clocks

President Donald Trump’s administration wants to shut down U.S. government radio stations that announce official time, a service in operation...