Posts by Newsmaker

Congress Passes Bill Forcing Tech Companies To Disclose Foreign Software Probes

Congress Passes Bill Forcing Tech Companies To Disclose Foreign Software Probes

The U.S. Congress is sending President Donald Trump legislation that would force technology companies to disclose if they allowed countries...

British Businesses Told to Do More to Close ‘Obscene’ Gender Pay Gap

British Businesses Told to Do More to Close ‘Obscene’ Gender Pay Gap

More British businesses should be made to report the difference in how much they pay male and female staff, lawmakers...

Dispute Over 3D-Printed Guns Raises Many Legal Issues

Dispute Over 3D-Printed Guns Raises Many Legal Issues

A little-known dispute over 3D-printed guns has morphed into a national legal debate in the last week, drawing attention to...

US Confirms Plan to Raise China Import Tariff to 25 Percent

US Confirms Plan to Raise China Import Tariff to 25 Percent

U.S. President Donald Trump sought to ratchet up pressure on China for trade concessions by proposing a higher 25 percent tariff on...

Fed Keeps Key Rate Unchanged While Signaling Future Hikes

Fed Keeps Key Rate Unchanged While Signaling Future Hikes

The Federal Reserve is leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged while signaling further gradual rate hikes in the months ahead...

China Warns of Retaliation if US Takes More Trade Steps

China Warns of Retaliation if US Takes More Trade Steps

China’s government has warned it will retaliate if Washington imposes new trade penalties following a report the Trump administration will...

A Special Type of 3D Printing

A Special Type of 3D Printing

3D printers are being used extensively in industry, research, teaching and hobbies, printing with metal, plastic and even edible material...

Judge Blocks Plans to Post Gun Blueprints on Internet

Judge Blocks Plans to Post Gun Blueprints on Internet

A U.S. federal judge has blocked a Texas man from putting plans on the internet showing people how to make...

Saltwater Treatment Plant Brings ‘Tasty Tea’ to Indian Island

Saltwater Treatment Plant Brings ‘Tasty Tea’ to Indian Island

Each morning, Kamarunisa Poovummada sips her cup of tea while watching waves from the Arabian Sea crash around a water...

Shell, Petrobras Units Probed for Brazil Price-fixing

Shell, Petrobras Units Probed for Brazil Price-fixing

Brazil’s three largest fuel distribution companies are under investigation for fixing prices at the pump, police said on Tuesday, reigniting...

Robotic Hand Can Juggle Cube — With Lots of Training

Robotic Hand Can Juggle Cube — With Lots of Training

How long does it take a robotic hand to learn to juggle a cube? About 100 years, give or take....

Tehran: Trump Wrong to Expect Saudis to Cover Loss of Iran Oil Supply

Tehran: Trump Wrong to Expect Saudis to Cover Loss of Iran Oil Supply

Iran said on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump was mistaken to expect Saudi Arabia and other oil producers to compensate...

From Homeless to Employment in Silicon Valley

From Homeless to Employment in Silicon Valley

As tech giants expand in San Francisco, homelessness and job displacement for locals continues to rise. Deana Mitchell explores one...

With Drones and Satellites, India Gets to Know its Slums

With Drones and Satellites, India Gets to Know its Slums

Satellites and drones are driving efforts by Indian states to map informal settlements in order to speed up the process...

50 Years on, McDonald’s and Fast-Food Evolve Around Big Mac

50 Years on, McDonald’s and Fast-Food Evolve Around Big Mac

McDonald’s is fighting to hold onto customers as the Big Mac turns 50, but it isn’t changing the makings of...

Accusations Fly as US Firms Seek to Avoid Trump’s Steel Tariff

Accusations Fly as US Firms Seek to Avoid Trump’s Steel Tariff

U.S. companies seeking to be exempted from President Donald Trump’s tariff on imported steel are accusing American steel manufacturers of...

Lopez Obrador Looks to Tree Planting to Create Mexico Jobs

Lopez Obrador Looks to Tree Planting to Create Mexico Jobs

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he wants to create 400,000 jobs by planting 1 million hectares (2.47 million...

Impact of Trade Tariffs on European Companies

Impact of Trade Tariffs on European Companies

Some European companies are rethinking their strategies to cushion the impact of trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies,...

Taxi Strike Targeting Uber Brings Chaos to Spanish Cities

Taxi Strike Targeting Uber Brings Chaos to Spanish Cities

Spanish taxi drivers blocked major city streets including Barcelona’s Gran Via and Madrid’s Castellana on Monday in a protest to...

NASA Marks 60 Years Since Legal Inception

NASA Marks 60 Years Since Legal Inception

America’s dream of space exploration took its first official step 60 years ago Sunday when President Dwight Eisenhower signed a...

White House Economic Adviser Sees Sustainable US Growth

White House Economic Adviser Sees Sustainable US Growth

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday he believes the 4.1 percent growth the U.S. recorded in the last...

G-20 Ag Ministers Slam Protectionism, Pledge WTO Reforms

G-20 Ag Ministers Slam Protectionism, Pledge WTO Reforms

Agriculture ministers from the G-20 countries criticized protectionism in a joint statement Saturday and vowed to reform World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, but...