Netflix Film: Data Is the New Oil So Watch Out for Mass Mining

Netflix Film: Data Is the New Oil So Watch Out for Mass Mining

Big business and politics are mass-mining everyday data — from Facebook ‘likes’ to online subscriptions – for profit and power,...

Facebook Settles for $5 Billion Over Handling of User Data

Facebook Settles for $5 Billion Over Handling of User Data

Facebook has agreed to a $5 billion settlement over allegations that the social media company mishandled user’s personal data.The settlement,...

Futuristic Space Habitat Solves Problems With Human Space Travel

Futuristic Space Habitat Solves Problems With Human Space Travel

Fifty years ago, the first humans landed on the moon.  Many engineers and scientists have been thinking about what the...

Russia Raises Pressure on Georgia as Anger Mounts

Russia Raises Pressure on Georgia as Anger Mounts

It has been more than a month since people in the Republic of Georgia started taking to the streets to...

Russia Says it Will Scrutinize Mueller’s Congressional Testimony

Russia Says it Will Scrutinize Mueller’s Congressional Testimony

Russian government officials are watching former U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress Wednesday while continuing to deny Moscow...

Russia and China Deny Violating South Korean Airspace

Russia and China Deny Violating South Korean Airspace

Both Russia and China are denying their military aircraft violated South Korea’s territorial airspace during a joint air patrol Tuesday.The...

Big Tech Faces Broad US Justice Department Antitrust Probe

Big Tech Faces Broad US Justice Department Antitrust Probe

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it was opening a broad investigation of major digital technology firms into whether...

Navalny Says He Was Detained By Russian Police As He Was Jogging

Navalny Says He Was Detained By Russian Police As He Was Jogging

Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny says he was detained by police in Moscow shortly after he left his apartment for...

UN Nuclear Watchdog to Start Search for New Chief

UN Nuclear Watchdog to Start Search for New Chief

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has announced it will meet Thursday to start the hunt for a new director general to...

Virtual Reality Art Show Transports Visitors Into Alternate Realities

Virtual Reality Art Show Transports Visitors Into Alternate Realities

Virtual reality, or VR, is not just a medium for software engineers who can code. Artists and filmmakers are exploring...

France Stresses Need for Iran to Respect Nuclear Accord

France Stresses Need for Iran to Respect Nuclear Accord

French authorities in a meeting Tuesday with an Iranian envoy stressed the need for Tehran to quickly respect the 2015...

Spain’s Sanchez Loses First Bid to Be Confirmed as PM, Eyes Thursday Vote

Spain’s Sanchez Loses First Bid to Be Confirmed as PM, Eyes Thursday Vote

Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez failed on Tuesday in a first attempt to get parliament’s backing to form a government,...

Kosovo Former PM Set to Be Grilled by War Crimes Court

Kosovo Former PM Set to Be Grilled by War Crimes Court

Kosovo’s outgoing prime minister and wartime guerrilla commander Ramush Haradinaj, left Tuesday for the Hague to be interrogated by a...

Slain Russian LGBT Activist Reportedly Had Been Threatened

Slain Russian LGBT Activist Reportedly Had Been Threatened

Russian activists confirmed Tuesday that a woman found dead of stab wounds in Saint Petersburg earlier this week was a...

Ross: US Will Deal With Huawei Waiver Applications Within Weeks

Ross: US Will Deal With Huawei Waiver Applications Within Weeks

The Trump administration plans to handle applications from tech companies seeking waivers over Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s blacklisting within the...

Russian Boxer Maxim Dadashev Dies After Fight

Russian Boxer Maxim Dadashev Dies After Fight

Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev has died from injuries sustained in a fight in Maryland, the Russian boxing federation announced Tuesday. “Maxim...

US Attorney General Says Encryption Creates Security Risk

US Attorney General Says Encryption Creates Security Risk

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps...

Boris Johnson: Britain’s ‘Do or Die’ Prime Minister

Boris Johnson: Britain’s ‘Do or Die’ Prime Minister

Boris Johnson was announced Tuesday as the winner of a weeks-long Conservative leadership race to replace Theresa May as party...

Pope Gives West Virginia Diocese New Leader After Scandal

Pope Gives West Virginia Diocese New Leader After Scandal

Pope Francis named Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Mark Brennan to lead West Virginia’s Catholics on Tuesday following a scandal over the...

Facebook-Style App Launches in Vietnam Amid Tightening Internet Rules

Facebook-Style App Launches in Vietnam Amid Tightening Internet Rules

A Facebook-style social network was launched in Vietnam on Tuesday, Gapo, a mobile app that lets users create personal profiles...

Boris Johnson to Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister

Boris Johnson to Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister

Britain’s Conservative Party announced Tuesday that Boris Johnson has won the election to be its new leader and become the...

Moroccan Lawmakers Vote to Bolster French in Education System

Moroccan Lawmakers Vote to Bolster French in Education System

Moroccan lawmakers passed a draft law on Monday evening that would pave the way for strengthening the place of French...