Facebook Deletes Hundreds of Pages, Accounts for Spreading Fake News

Facebook Deletes Hundreds of Pages, Accounts for Spreading Fake News

Facebook announced Thursday that it had deleted over 800 mostly U.S.-based pages and accounts that were posting politically oriented spam...

Musk Rejects Report on Succession at Tesla

Musk Rejects Report on Succession at Tesla

Elon Musk replied with a tweet saying “This is incorrect” after the Financial Times reported that outgoing Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. Chief...

WHO Cracks Down on Illicit Sale of Tobacco

WHO Cracks Down on Illicit Sale of Tobacco

Parties to a new global treaty to combat the illicit sale of tobacco products have taken the first steps toward...

Top Trump Economic Adviser Denies President Is Pressuring Fed

Top Trump Economic Adviser Denies President Is Pressuring Fed

One of Donald Trump’s top economic advisers says the president is not trying to improperly influence the U.S. central bank. The director...

Singapore Airlines Launches Longest Commercial Flight

Singapore Airlines Launches Longest Commercial Flight

The world’s longest commercial flight, a 19-hour journey from Singapore to New York, took off Thursday from Changi Airport. The...

Trump Says Won’t Fire Fed Chief, Just Disappointed

Trump Says Won’t Fire Fed Chief, Just Disappointed

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is not going to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, but is...

Zimbabwe Arrests Protest Organizers as Economy Plunges

Zimbabwe Arrests Protest Organizers as Economy Plunges

Lawyers say police in Zimbabwe arrested dozens of trade union members ahead of a planned protest in the capital Thursday...

For the Next Big Thing in Tech, Look to … Africa?

For the Next Big Thing in Tech, Look to … Africa?

From a young age, Phatwa Senene knew he wanted to be an inventor. He got his start at age 11,...

For the Next Big Thing in Tech, Look to Africa?

For the Next Big Thing in Tech, Look to Africa?

The next big advance in technology could well come from Africa. At least, that is the hope of several new...

Reagan Back on Campaign Trail — as Hologram

Reagan Back on Campaign Trail — as Hologram

A characteristic twinkle in his eye, Ronald Reagan waves to a crowd from aboard a rail car in a hologram...

Canada Prepares for Legalized Marijuana

Canada Prepares for Legalized Marijuana

Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses of southern British Columbia and joke about how...

Dow Drops 800-Plus Points as US Stocks Dip Sharply

Dow Drops 800-Plus Points as US Stocks Dip Sharply

U.S. stocks posted their worst loss since February on Wednesday, the Dow Jones industrial average finishing the day down more than...

Google’s Waze Expands Carpooling Service Throughout US

Google’s Waze Expands Carpooling Service Throughout US

Google will begin offering its pay-to-carpool service throughout the U.S., an effort to reduce the commute-time congestion that its popular...

US Treasury Issues New Rules on Foreign Investments

US Treasury Issues New Rules on Foreign Investments

The Treasury Department has issued new rules on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power...

Zimbabwe’s Dingy Trains Mirror Economic Decline

Zimbabwe’s Dingy Trains Mirror Economic Decline

Dark, dirty and slow, Zimbabwe’s trains, like much else in the impoverished southern African country, have seen better days. Once...

Robots Invade Campus to Deliver Burritos

Robots Invade Campus to Deliver Burritos

Companies race to make self driving automobiles, but there’s another race going on to create robots that can roam through...

US Prosecutors: China Corruption Case Grows Stronger

US Prosecutors: China Corruption Case Grows Stronger

Last month, Patrick Ho, a former Hong Kong official fighting foreign bribery charges in New York, thought he had finally...

Ireland Boosts Budget Spending as Brexit Looms

Ireland Boosts Budget Spending as Brexit Looms

Ireland’s finance minister boosted budget day spending for the second year in a row as the government warned of economic...

‘War’ on Food Waste Can Save Money and Boost Profits, Tech Firm Says

‘War’ on Food Waste Can Save Money and Boost Profits, Tech Firm Says

Wasteless, an Israeli firm seeking to reduce food waste and save consumers money, won $2 million in funding Tuesday, as...

Facebook Seeing Growth in Business Network Workplace

Facebook Seeing Growth in Business Network Workplace

Facebook on Tuesday hosted its first global summit spotlighting a growing Workplace platform launched two years ago as a private...

YouTube Driving Global Consumption of Music

YouTube Driving Global Consumption of Music

If you are listening to music, chances are you’re on YouTube. A music consumer report by the industry’s global body...

Popularity of Electric Scooters Creates Jobs for ‘Juicers’

Popularity of Electric Scooters Creates Jobs for ‘Juicers’

You see them everywhere in U.S. cities — young and old riding rented electric-powered scooters. When they are done, they...