Posts by Newsmaker

Robotics Company Creates an All Purpose Robot ‘Platform’

Robotics Company Creates an All Purpose Robot ‘Platform’

A robotics company hopes to bring a robot into every home and business, using a proprietary robotic platform—that can be...

In End of 20th Century Fox, a New Era Dawns for Hollywood

In End of 20th Century Fox, a New Era Dawns for Hollywood

The Fox Studio backlot, first built in 1926 on a Culver City ranch in Los Angeles, was enormous. Before much...

Goodbye Console? Google Launches Game-streaming Platform

Goodbye Console? Google Launches Game-streaming Platform

Google on Tuesday unveiled a video-game streaming platform called Stadia, positioning itself to take on the traditional video-game business. The...

High-Stakes Boeing Inquiry Hinges on Ethiopia Black Box Secrets

High-Stakes Boeing Inquiry Hinges on Ethiopia Black Box Secrets

The investigation into the final minutes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 turned on Tuesday to the secrets in the cockpit...

Warner Bros.’ Chief Tsujihara Steps Down Following Scandal

Warner Bros.’ Chief Tsujihara Steps Down Following Scandal

Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara, one of the highest ranking Hollywood executives to be felled by sexual misconduct allegations, stepped...

AP Source: Justice Dept. Probing Development of Boeing Jets

AP Source: Justice Dept. Probing Development of Boeing Jets

U.S. prosecutors are looking into the development of Boeing’s 737 Max jets, a person briefed on the matter revealed Monday,...

In Thai Election, New ‘War Room’ Polices Social Media

In Thai Election, New ‘War Room’ Polices Social Media

In Thailand’s election “war room,” authorities scroll through thousands of social media posts, looking for violations of laws restricting political...

Tech Consortium Flags More Than 800 Versions of New Zealand Attack Video

Tech Consortium Flags More Than 800 Versions of New Zealand Attack Video

A consortium of global technology firms has shared on its collective database the digital fingerprints of more than 800 versions...

S. Korea Alert System Warns ‘Smartphone Zombies’ of Traffic

S. Korea Alert System Warns ‘Smartphone Zombies’ of Traffic

A city in South Korea, which has the world’s highest smartphone penetration rate, has installed flickering lights and laser beams...

Facebook Says Service Hindered by Lack of Local News

Facebook Says Service Hindered by Lack of Local News

Facebook’s effort to establish a service that provides its users with local news and information is being hindered by the...

US Wages Wide-Ranging Campaign to Block Huawei

US Wages Wide-Ranging Campaign to Block Huawei

VOA’s Xu Ning contributed to this report. Over the past several weeks, the U.S. government has launched a seemingly unprecedented campaign...

Trump Attacks General Motors for Laying Off Auto Workers

Trump Attacks General Motors for Laying Off Auto Workers

U.S. President Donald Trump is attacking General Motors, the country’s biggest automaker, for costing 5,400 factory workers their jobs when...

OPEC Scraps April Meeting but Keeps Oil Cuts in Place

OPEC Scraps April Meeting but Keeps Oil Cuts in Place

Oil producer group OPEC on Monday scrapped its planned meeting in April and will decide instead whether to extend output...

France Starts New Chapter in National Debate Aimed to End Yellow-Vest Crisis

France Starts New Chapter in National Debate Aimed to End Yellow-Vest Crisis

After wrapping up thousands of town hall meetings, France starts a new chapter of its “great debate,” aimed to address...

Facebook Still Working to Remove All Videos of New Zealand Terrorist Attack

Facebook Still Working to Remove All Videos of New Zealand Terrorist Attack

Facebook is continuing to work to remove all video of the mass shooting in New Zealand which the perpetrator livestreamed...

UK Leader to Lawmakers: Back my Deal or Face Lengthy Delay

UK Leader to Lawmakers: Back my Deal or Face Lengthy Delay

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned Sunday that it would be “a potent symbol of Parliament’s collective political failure” if...

Brazil Reportedly Weighing Import Quota for US Wheat

Brazil Reportedly Weighing Import Quota for US Wheat

Brazil is considering granting an import quota of 750,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat per year without tariffs in exchange for other trade...

Iran’s Oil Minister Blames US for Market Tensions 

Iran’s Oil Minister Blames US for Market Tensions 

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Saturday that frequent U.S. comments about oil prices had created market tensions, the ministry’s news...

Social Media Scramble to Remove New Zealand Suspect’s Video

Social Media Scramble to Remove New Zealand Suspect’s Video

They built their services for sharing, allowing users to reach others around the world. Now they want people to hold...

Facebook Product Chief Cox to Leave in Latest Executive Exit

Facebook Product Chief Cox to Leave in Latest Executive Exit

Facebook Inc said on Thursday Chief Product Officer Chris Cox will leave the social media network after 13 years, adding...

US General: Google’s Work in China Benefiting China’s Military

US General: Google’s Work in China Benefiting China’s Military

The United States’ top general said on Thursday that the Chinese military was benefiting from the work Alphabet Inc’s Google...

Brexit: What Now?

Brexit: What Now?

Veteran Conservative lawmaker Nigel Evans has been in Britain’s House of Commons for more than a quarter-of-a-century and, like most...