Posts by Newsmaker

FBI Task Force Sharing Information About Online Trolls 

FBI Task Force Sharing Information About Online Trolls 

The FBI’s new foreign influence task force is sharing information about online trolls with technology companies as part of the...

VR Transports Students Back to the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Attack

VR Transports Students Back to the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Attack

Modern technology is transporting students back to the 20th century, to the exact moment during World War II when an...

Trump’s Twitter Attacks May Overshadow Economic Message

Trump’s Twitter Attacks May Overshadow Economic Message

President Donald Trump has been busy on the congressional campaign trail lately, eager to tout the strong U.S. economy on...

Facebook, Apple, YouTube Drop Alt-Right Conspiracy Outlet InfoWars

Facebook, Apple, YouTube Drop Alt-Right Conspiracy Outlet InfoWars

Several major media outlets announced Monday that they would be removing content from InfoWars, a far-right, conspiracy-peddling media source. On...

Facebook Removes Alex Jones Pages for Hate, Bullying

Facebook Removes Alex Jones Pages for Hate, Bullying

Facebook says it has taken down four pages belonging to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for violating its hate speech and...

China Lashes Out as Retaliatory Moves Fail to Stop Trump Trade Actions

China Lashes Out as Retaliatory Moves Fail to Stop Trump Trade Actions

Chinese state media are reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade actions against China in diverse ways. While denouncing the...

Longtime PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is Stepping Down

Longtime PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is Stepping Down

Longtime PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi will step down as the top executive and the world’s second-largest food and beverage company....

Report: Russia Set Up Clandestine Network For N. Korea Oil Shipments

Report: Russia Set Up Clandestine Network For N. Korea Oil Shipments

Russia engaged in more extensive oil exports to North Korea than had been previously reported, by setting up an illicit...

Apple iPhone Chip Supplier Says Virus Will Delay Shipments

Apple iPhone Chip Supplier Says Virus Will Delay Shipments

A company that makes semiconductors for Apple iPhones says it is recovering from a virus outbreak but expects the incident...

US-China Trade Battle Escalates

US-China Trade Battle Escalates

Washington is observing the latest escalation in tensions between the United States and its trading partners, with China threatening to...

Palestinian Girls Will Pitch Their App to Silicon Valley 

Palestinian Girls Will Pitch Their App to Silicon Valley 

Four Palestinian high school friends are heading to California this week to pitch their mobile app about fire prevention to...

UK Trade Minister: EU Is Pushing Britain to No-deal Brexit

UK Trade Minister: EU Is Pushing Britain to No-deal Brexit

British Trade Minister Liam Fox said “intransigence” from the European Union was pushing Britain toward a no-deal Brexit, in an interview...

Election Crackdown Runs Into Speed-tweeting Human ‘Bots’

Election Crackdown Runs Into Speed-tweeting Human ‘Bots’

Nina Tomasieski logs on to Twitter before the sun rises. Seated at her dining room table with a nearby TV...

New Era in Space: NASA Astronauts Fly Commercial Spacecraft

New Era in Space: NASA Astronauts Fly Commercial Spacecraft

A new era in American spaceflight was unveiled Friday, with NASA presenting the flight crews that will carry out the...

Polish Beekeepers Concerned When Banned Chemicals Temporarily Approved

Polish Beekeepers Concerned When Banned Chemicals Temporarily Approved

Honeybees are essential to our food supply, but bee colonies around the world are declining. Among the main culprits are...

Chinese Proposed Tariffs Aim at US Energy Dominance Agenda

Chinese Proposed Tariffs Aim at US Energy Dominance Agenda

China’s targeting of U.S. liquefied natural gas and crude oil exports opens a new front in the trade war between...

African Small Businesses, Farmers Get Protection with Micro-Insurance

African Small Businesses, Farmers Get Protection with Micro-Insurance

George Kamau Githome uses a feather duster to clean off hardware and bootleg movies displayed for sale at his kiosk...

From Cancers to Obesity, Small Implant May Replace Life-Saving Drugs

From Cancers to Obesity, Small Implant May Replace Life-Saving Drugs

Remembering to take medications can be challenging for some people. But one day an implant may replace medications that need...

US Unemployment Drops Slightly; Job Growth Slows

US Unemployment Drops Slightly; Job Growth Slows

The U.S. unemployment rate dropped slightly in July, while job gains were lower than many analysts predicted. Friday’s report from...

Pakistani Engineer Turns Straw Waste Into Fuel

Pakistani Engineer Turns Straw Waste Into Fuel

A Pakistani engineer has designed a system to help developing countries avoid fuel imports by making ethanol with the millions...

US Objects to China’s Internet Restrictions

US Objects to China’s Internet Restrictions

The U.S. “remains deeply concerned with China’s long-standing restrictions on freedom of expression online,” a State Department official said Thursday,...

Apple is 1st Public US Company to be Valued at $1 Trillion

Apple is 1st Public US Company to be Valued at $1 Trillion

Apple made history Thursday when it became the first publicly listed U.S. company to be valued at $1 trillion. The...