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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...

WWW Foundation: In Africa, Offline Gender Inequalities Being Replicated Online

WWW Foundation: In Africa, Offline Gender Inequalities Being Replicated Online

In most of the world, more men are connected to the internet than women. But in Africa, this gender gap...

US Supreme Court Rejects Samsung Appeal in Warranty Dispute

US Supreme Court Rejects Samsung Appeal in Warranty Dispute

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a bid by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. to force customers who...

Facebook to Turn Over to Congress Russia-linked Ads

Facebook to Turn Over to Congress Russia-linked Ads

Social media giant Facebook is expected to provide Congress on Monday with more than 3,000 ads that ran around the...

Zuckerberg Seeks Forgiveness for Division Caused by His Work

Zuckerberg Seeks Forgiveness for Division Caused by His Work

Facebook Inc founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg asked for forgiveness for ways his work was used to divide people...

Despite Typhoons, Macau Casino Revenue up 16 Percent in One Month

Despite Typhoons, Macau Casino Revenue up 16 Percent in One Month

Casinos in the world’s biggest casino hub of Macau extended a 14-month winning streak in September with revenue up 16.1...

China Manufacturing Expands at Fastest Pace in 5 Years

China Manufacturing Expands at Fastest Pace in 5 Years

An official survey released Saturday said that China’s factory activity expanded in September at the fastest pace in five years,...

Smart Windows Let Heat in During Winter, Keep It Out During Summer

Smart Windows Let Heat in During Winter, Keep It Out During Summer

Solar power is definitely the wave of the future. But in the future instead of a roof covered with solar...