California Senators Reach Agreement on Net Neutrality Bill
Key California lawmakers said Thursday they’ve reached an agreement on legislation to enshrine net neutrality provisions in state law after...
Kenya’s Digital Taxi Services Paralyzed, Strike Enters 4th Day
Drivers of Kenya’s digital taxis shut down operations Monday in protest of what they term as exploitative corporate practices. They...
New Treatments Give Hope to People With Brain Tumors
Republican Senator John McCain is perhaps the best known person who has brain cancer. His is a glioblastoma, the most...
Illegal Cigarette Trade Costing S. Africa $510 mln a Year
South Africa has become one of the biggest markets for illegal cigarette sales and is losing out on 7 billion...
Russian Search Engine Alerts Google to Possible Data Problem
The Russian Internet company Yandex said Thursday that its public search engine has been turning up dozens of Google documents...
Ford Says No Plans for Now to Hike China Prices
U.S. car maker Ford Motor Co said on Thursday it has no plans currently to hike retail prices of its...
Scientists Harvest Drinking Water from Desert Air
Scientists have developed a way to harvest water from dry desert air and the only power the device needs is...
Investors Nervous Ahead of July 6 Deadline for US Tariffs Against China
Trade rhetoric is spilling into the real world of jobs and consumer goods. The United States is set to impose...
3D Printing Used to Make Synthetic Bones for Grafts
Orthopedic surgery can be tricky. So, researchers at Northwestern University are engineering new materials to make 3D printed bones that...
US Offers German Automakers Solution to Trade Spat, Report Says
United States Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell reportedly told German auto makers Wednesday the U.S. would back off threats of...
Europe Could Suffer Collateral Damage in US-China Trade War
European businesses are unsettled as they watch the U.S. and China collide over trade. And for good reason: the nascent...
China Presses Europe for Anti-US Alliance on Trade
China is putting pressure on the European Union to issue a strong joint statement against President Donald Trump’s trade policies at...
AI Robot Sophia Wows at Ethiopia ICT Expo
Sophia, one of the world’s most advanced and perhaps most famous artificial intelligence (AI) humanoid robot, was a big hit...
Fears Mounting Over Possible Trade War
President Donald Trump continues to turn up the heat on trade, a tactic that he insists will result in better...
Ex-Brazil Tycoon Batista Handed 30-Year Sentence for Corruption
Eike Batista, the former mining and oil magnate who was once Brazil’s richest man, was convicted and sentenced to 30...
How Much Artificial Intelligence Surveillance Is Too Much?
When a CIA-backed venture capital fund took an interest in Rana el Kaliouby’s face-scanning technology for detecting emotions, the computer...
India Demands Facebook Curb Spread of False Information on WhatsApp
India has asked Facebook to prevent the spread of false texts on its WhatsApp messaging application, saying the content has...
Over 40 Countries Object at WTO to US Car Tariff Plan
Major U.S. trading partners including the European Union, China and Japan voiced deep concern at the World Trade Organization (WTO)...
Small Shop Owners Protest Walmart Entry to India’s Online Market
Worried that Walmart’s $16 billion deal to takeover India’s biggest e-commerce company will force millions of mom and pop stores...
With Refrigerated ATMs, Camel Milk Business Thrives in Kenya
Halima Sheikh Ali is the proud owner of one of the few ATMs in Wajir town in northeast Kenya. But...
Portuguese Tech Firm Uncorks a Smartphone Made Using Cork
A Portuguese tech firm is uncorking an Android smartphone whose case is made from cork, a natural and renewable material...
I Never Said That! High-tech Deception of ‘Deepfake’ Videos
Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being...
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